Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-05-14
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY



Up in the northern part of Yer
mont Canadians are picking up YER
mont farms and settling on them IN
ever increasing numbers IL denotes
a period Of increased prosperity for
the state because most Of the Can
adams who become thus interested
IN Vermont are good farmers and
tend TO develop the value Of the land
IL would be a fine thing if more Can
adams could be induced to come INTO
Vermont and take up some OF the
idle land or the land which Is not
worked to the limit Of its capacity
Barre Times.
How Long, o Lord"
The telephone operators struck for
more pay.
Their request was granted, for
/ they were undoubtedly entitled 10 It.
Then the company raised its rates
10 subscribers and the lOng-sutf erlng
public viii proceed to pay the bills.
! More than this:
I Now the company restricts its free
( service area and, IN spite Of the rul-
/ ing Of the public service commission,
Z proceeds to inaugurate local toll
I rate that is exorbitant and excessive
B
/ lutely prohibitive to local business
in many instances.
Under the new order of things, q
I great many people have decided to
/ get along without the telephone.
This diminishes its usefulness and
restricts its service to those who stay
in.
All in all, the Telephone, as locally
! administered, is ceaslng to be q con-
venience and household and business
necessity, and is fast becoming an
exaggerated and extravagant nui-
sance.
The line is busy. Hang up!-St.
Johnsbury Republican.
Heard on the Street.
That conditions are now perfectly
normal in Turkey, as the Turks are
massacring Armenians again.
That no wonder Congress is anx-
iOus TO begin its work again with the
baseball season opening IN Washing
ton.
That prominent among the requis-
tie garden tools are plentiful supply
Of rocks 10 throw at your neighbors
hens.
That under daylight saving the
sports have 10 get up and 90 to work
by clock time, but they stay up al
night by sun time.
That the road to Chateau Thierry
may have been strewn with dead sol
dlers, but II had nothing on the road
TO Wilder.
That TO cheer up, as il is reported
that day before yesterday the peace
conference agreed on two commas
and one semicOlOn.
That the latest Is that the farmers
are going on strike for a 12-hour
cay but the eight-hour folks in the
cities say there is nothing to arbi-
trate
That instead of ordering a ship to
take him home President Wilson
would have shown better judgment tt
nave sent for his summer clothes.
That il Is proposed to relax on the
college entrance requirements, but
good southpaw and spitbal pitcher:
nave not been complaining much
about them
That in spite of the fact that in.
variably at this time of year the
peach crop is killed off by the news.
papers, some reckless and IMPROVE
| dent people will continue to plant
peach trees.
That the kaiser placed on trial
viii give thrilling and heart-moving
account of how 10000, 900 Teuton:
. were attacked by 1000 900 Belgian.
and compelled to fight against their
, viii 10 save themselves.
, That II is said that those discon.
, tented fellows, the ministers, after
spending Is years educating them.
selves, are going 10 demand as much
pay as the grammar school graduate
who has learned to drive a nail or Lay
, a brick
, That the impression still prevails
among some employers that the hon.
or Of sitting for half an hour in 2
stuffed Office chair and smoking one
Of the boss 25 cent cigars. is a suf.
tlclent compensation to the soldie,
{ Tor the loss of his job.-White River
, Junction Landmark.