Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-07-02
VERMONT NEWS

The Eastern States Exposition will
ne held IN Springfield, Mass, Sept. Is
10, -, IL, II, 20. Many Vermonters
exhibit at this exposition.
After over six months of boring at
Camp Winneshewauka, the summer
camp for girls in Lunenburg. water
has been struck in a well 4Ol feet
deep. This is believed to be the deep
est we'll In the north country and the
yield is about six gallons minute of
pure water at temperature of "A
degrees. All but the first II feet of
boring was through rock.
Two squadrons containing a per-
sonnet of approximately $50 officers
and men of the Third United States
cavalry have been ordered to Fort
Ethan Allen for immediate duty and
probably will arrive at the Post some
time around July 10. This informa-
ton comes from the commanding Off
Ger of the Post and is the first au-
thentic bit of news concerning the
occupation of Fort Ethan Allen by
any body of troops this season.
John Barleycorn was officially
counted out in Burlington Saturday
night, the Vermont city being the
first wet place in the United States
to go bone dry under war time pro-
hibition. While it would have gone
dry anyway at 10 o'clock Monday
night, the fact that a circus was
there Monday was responsible for the
Burlington dealers closing their doors
! one day sooner than the other wet
cities of the country, the state law
making saloons close on circus days.
Ill., ,.o,,, s,,r,,,,o,. oo,,o onJ .oIoo1
for boys at Lake Dunmore, on the
Roy w. Bresee property, which was
purchased for the purpose last spring
by Henry Zelenke, of New York City,
was opened July 1st. Twenty
new cottages, 12x15 feet, have been
erected, a wash-house, and two large
dining halls have been built. Besides
the new cottages, and the house and
cottage which were on the property,
% tents have been pitched to make
ample quarters for the $50 boys that
have been booked for the summer.
The Vermont Equal Suffrage as
ISOLATION has begun its campaign for
the ratification of the suffrage
amendment and in letters sent out to
prominent men all over the state,
they are urging that pressure be
brought to bear on the governor to
call a special session of the Vermont
legislature at the close of the har-
vest season this fall. There has been
considerable question whether or
not the women of the state would at
tempt to have the legislature called
of this measure.
The first case of infantile paralysis
reported in Vermont in 1919 is that
of Dowell Donaldson of Grand Island,
the special doctor on infantile paraly-
sis in the state, DR.. Amore, having
confirmed the diagnosis of the local
physician, Doctor Many. The Don
aldson boy, who was injured badly a
few weeks ago, getting his left leg
caught in a harrow, did not get along
as well as he should, and it was then
that the paralysis feature was noted.
The family IS in strict quarantine and
the young man has nearly recovered.
There were several cases of infantile
paralysis in Grand Isle in the past
and two deaths There were no cases
there in 1913.
Harry A. Black, secretary of state,
is at a loss to know what plan to
adopt to stop the large number of au-
tomobile accidents taking place every
day. Each morning finds reports on
his desk of accidents, and each day
there are telephone calls about the
accidents. Last week he received one
of a child being run over by an auto
mobile when the car was going only
four miles an hour. Those who are
we'll acquainted with automobile driv-
ing cannot see how the child escaped
being killed if the car was going as
slow as four miles on hour. Drastic
measures are being used in other
states and it is believed they should
be used here 1t is possible that such
will have to be put in effect to stop
this minor accident report that comes
in each day.
An automobile truck is now oper-
ating regularly up and down Mount
Mansfield, run by w. M. Adams of
Stowe. 1t operates twice daily be-
tween the summit of the mountain
and village of Stowe, carrying both
passengers and freight. The first
trip to the top was made in go min
utes. This mountain is 4,457 feet
above sea level and is accessible by
winding road which has grades as
heavy as 40 per cent, sometimes
half mile in length, rising 5000 feet
in five miles. On the truck for its
first trip there were six bales of hay,
weighing 925 pounds, and eight peo-
pie, making a total load of 1850
pounds. There was no part of the
grade that could be successfully oper-
ated in other than low gear, and por-
tions of it were so steep that the pas
sengers were obliged to cling to the
truck or lose their equilibrium. The
light horse-drawn vehicles have gone
forever on this particular trip. 1t
used to require two and one-half
hours to negotiate this grade with a
pair of horses attached to light
wagon, carrying only four passengers
which made the trip very tedious.
Now, however, a person may alight