Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1920-03-31
VERMONT NEWS

The selectmen of Brattleboro have
appointed Mrs. Fremont Hamilton
oyerseer of the poor in that town.
Few if any women have ever held TINS
office in Vermont before.
The state Congregational confer
ence is to be held IN Brattleboro April
IL to Ii. The speakers will include
the Rev. Paul d. Moody of the M adj
son avenue Presbyterian church IN
New York, the Rev. Cornelius ii. Pat
ten of Boston, home secretary of the
American Board, and the Rev. DR..
Frank L. Goodspeed of Barre.
The trial of the case of Catherine
Holloran of Montpelier to recover
! 5000 damages from the New Eng
Washington county. The woman
tripped over a wire rope which work
men were using on State street In
Montpelier one day last summer. She
claims she injured her heart and re-
ceived other injuries.
The First Church of Christ, Scien-
fist of Brattleboro has bought house
! and lot on Putney road known as the
A. T. Eddy house, paying therefor
S6,50O Although plans for the use
of the property have not been work
ed out it is probable that Christian
Science church will be erected on the
| lot The scientists here have occu-
pied quarters on the second floor of
the Emerson building on Elliott street
several years.
Mrs. Lillian Olzendam of Wood
stock was given an audience with Gov.
Clement recently in reference to the
special session for ratifying the suf-
frage amendment. She appeared for
the state suffrage league of which she
is chairman. Many protests against
calling a special session have also
been received There is no indication
that the governor has changed his at
titude in regard thereto.
Belvidere has filed the report of its
town meeting held March 23d. The
town on the license question voted yes
IL, no 6, making total of 1876 towns
voting for license. 1t also voted for
first-ciass druggists license by q
vote of z to A, making a total of 124
towns voting for druggists license.
The total yes vote on the license ques-
ton was 16,0S7; no, II, 1903. The to-
tai yes vote on the druggist question
was 1924; no, 1888.
The Brattleboro Lumber Corpora
ton has begun excavation work for
the foundation of a building 80 feet
long and 35 feet wide at its last
block plant in Brattleboro. The
building will contain four dry kilns
for drying lumber to be made into
wood heels for women's shoes. The
company recently decided to expand
its business by making wood heels.
A. F. Halves of Washington, d.
c., former state forester, is in Yer
mont for a few days relative to the
conditions of the forests in Vermont.
He has completed his work in Maine
and New Hampshire and will investi-
gate Vermont. His Investigation in
cludes a report upon the replanting,
the dying trees and the reduction by
cutting, in fact, all the data that can
be gathered in the hurried examina-
ton that must be made.
Linus Leavens, state fish and game
commissioner, says that bears have
been reported in large numbers over
the state. He is of the opinion that
there are several hundreds of them in
all. Addison county, in particular,
seems to have become infested recent
ly. Other fur-bearing animals such
as. the fox seem to have grown fewer
on account of the extensive hunting
and trapping of those who have en-
gagged in the business because of the
high prices.
Corporations including bank insti-
buttons have been paying their annual
and semi-annual fees of late to the
state. The trust companies, savings
banks and insurance companies have
paid their fees to the state treasurer
for the semi-annual period ending
November 1, 1920. The present
The corporations have also paid their
license fees for the period ending
February /, 1920. These were due in
that month, but as usual they drifted
along into March and to the pres
ent time SAL ,296.38 has been paid to
the state treasurer.
The wardrobes of the girls in the
higher classes of the grammar de-
partment of the Rutland public
schools cost 500 to 5000 at the pres
ent time, the former figure being a
very low one. With a view to giving
to girls of II and ID years old,
sense of the value of money through
an object lesson as to the sacrifices
their parents make in clothing them,
Miss Grace Woods, teacher of domes-
tic science, selected the girls of the
ninth grade in one school as a fair
sample, and had them take an inven-
tory of their belongings. All kinds
of wearing apparel was included and
some of the girls lists totaled over
| 5000.
That fishermen on Lake Champlain
are earning between $25 and $50 per
day is the statement of wardens who
nShPrman of a le,csf
week. For two square miles off the
Alburg shore on Lake Champlain.
fishermen dotted the ice so thickly