Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-10-01
VERMONT NEWS

The new central telephone Office 10
Gated in White River junction is one
of the most up-to-date In the state.
White River junction is the cener
of the toll calls of the state of Yer
mont and is also q junction Tor many
long distance calls from New lamp
shire going south There are 81 toll
circuits going out from the Office. In
addition there are five leased tele-
graph circuits including the Assoclat-
ed Press wire.
H. n. Davis, who has been inspec-
tor in the weights and measures de-
partment for some years, has been
appointed deputy commissioner OF
weights and measures to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation of
Charles Scott, which recently occur
red. 1t is expected that Mr.. Davis
will qualify when he returns to the
Office He was a senator from Or
leans county (then a resident of Glow
err in the senate of 1915 and has been
employed in the Office since that time.
A short time ago he moved to Mont
pelier.
W. S. Teachout of the SECRETARY of
states Office has invented a new num-
Der plate to be used by the state as
temporary plate, which will do away
with the great amount of violations
of the automobile laws relative to
temporary number plates. These are
of cardboard and will stand five days
use, after which they are to be de-
stroyed. There is a stub end, which
the seller of the machine sends to the
secretary of states Office. The new
card will prevent the use of the tenn
porary plate for other purposes, such
as joy riding and drawing of dam
aged automobiles. 1t is possible that
the new plate will be patented.
Ethel Stacey, ID, and Perla Stacey,
daughters of Carroll Stacey of Brat
tleboro, have been missing from their
home since Friday morning when
they started for school. They were
last seen on Elliott street in the af-
ternoon, but their parents have not
seen them since and have asked the
authorities to aid in searching for
them. No reason for the children's
leaving town is given by their par
ents to aid States Attorney Gibson,
to whom their disappearance was re-
ported except that the older girl had
expressed a purpose to go to the
home of her aunt in Chester, Mass,
when she had earned money enough.
Walter F. Scott, state treasurer,
has awarded the issuance of 1,500,-
900 bonds of Az per cent recently
authorized by the legislature to E.
Il. Rollins & Sons and the National
City Co. of Boston, who bid 9S.577,
which was higher than any other bids
on the entire issue. While some of
the Vermont banks bid at par, the
others bid so low that Mr.. Scott did
not want to chance the placing of the
rest of the issue if he awarded those
bonds in small lots to the bids at par
and then wait for the others to be
taken up There were II bidders. The
Rollins & Sons and the National City
Co. bid on a AS per cent basis. Eight
Vermont institutions offered to take
some of the bonds.
A girl about II years old was dis
covered asleep in couch hammock at
215 st. Paul street, Burlington, one
night recently. 1t was found that
she was under the influence of drugs.
The girl was taken to the Mary
Fleacher hospital, where the doctors
worked over her for some time before
she revived. The girl was found to
be May Powers of Island Pond 1t
is apparent that the girl is the vic
tim of foul play if the story she tells
is true. She claims to have arrived
in the city on the $50 o'clock train
and to have accepted an invitation
from two men in an automobile to
ride up to the business part of the
city. She claimed to have had some
rough usage in the car and later to
have become sleepy without knowing
anything further until she awoke in
the hospital the next morning. Sew
eral parts of the girls story are
1n&s al,
suspect that she has not told all she
knows about the matter.
The state grand list is certified to
the treasurer by the commissioner OF
taxes amounts to S2,710, 469 SO, an in
crease of 1929, 047.59 over the grand
list for 1913 which was 81, 581 ,421 .97.
The total appraised value of real es-
tate for 1919 was S187, 007, 799 so, an
increase of approximately $12,000,00O
over the corresponding figures for
1918. The appraised valuation of per-
sonal estate was about $500 900
greater than in 1918, the figures this
year being 500 ,631 ,661. 90. The total
valuation of taxable polls as listed at
$500 each is this year $189, $50, in
dicating an increase of approximately
1000 poll taxpayers over the preced-
ing year. The total grand list of the
state arranged by counties is as fol-
lows:
Addison ........... $159, 491. IA
Bennington ............. 158, 470.77
Caledonia ........... 198, 191. 80
Chlttenden ............. 363, 52S.61
Essex -............. 61,971.87
Franklin ............... 1875, 500 81 |
Grand Isle ........... 20,572. 43 |
Lamollle ............... 81 ,689.71 [
orange ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 12S,3S9. 03 |