Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1920-05-12
VERMONT NEWS
fIntended for last weekly

Insurance commissioner, j. G.
Brown of Montpelier warns automo-
bile owners against insuring IN COM
uanies not licensed to business IN Yer
mont. He says many mutual COM
panies are soliciting business by cir
GUAR letter, but that nole OF them
are licensed to do business IN YER
mont.
The construction of Springfield's
new hospital building for which sum
of SIPS 900 is being raised, IS so far
assured that work will begin IN the
near future on the property given
( .wo years 9ro by II. j. Whltcomo,
whose summer cottage, Quaint Quart
ers, was included in the gift as q
nurses home
A large and very enthusiastic au-
dience of Burlington citizens gather
ed at the city hall Burlington to dis
cuss the question of whether OK not
the city will adopt daylight saving.
Sentiment in favor Of the project was
Overwhelming and resolution was
adopted to set the clocks OF the city
ahead one hour at midnight May Co
continue until October 1.
Commissioner of Agriculture Brig
ham has received request frem the
president of the Capital City bank Of
Santa Fe, New Mexico, rs to the pos
sibility of securing in Vermont 500
head of grade and registered Ayshirs
cattle. The commission is making In
vestigations to see If cattle Of this
breed in such quantity can be secured
to fill the order.
John N. Avery, who was appointed
tax commissioner by Gov. Clement
last year, has resigned and will re-
sumo his duties of legislative refer
ence librarian which ONCE he pre-
Iviously held and which has been con-
solidated with the Office of q second
| librarian of the state library. Melvin
G. Morse. who was last year appoint
ed legislative reference librarian to
succeed Mr.. Avery, has been appoint
ed tax commissioner to fill the vacan-
cy These changes result from a
resignation Jof <. Lee Whitney, who
has been assistant librarian in the
state library for several years. 1t
was rumored some weeks since and
| following Mr. Whitney's resignation
that a change in the policy of the
state library was under considera-
ton but nothing authentic could be
secured at that time
Associate Justice Wendell P. Stat
ford of the supreme court of the
District of Columbia, has embraced
the Catholic faith. Cardinal Gibbons
announced Saturday that a few days
before the associate justice. had be-
come a Roman Catholic ut St. Mat
thew's church in Washington. Justice
Stafford is a resident Of st. Johnsbury
and well known from one end of the
state to- the other. He attended the
Congregational church in ST. Johns
bury. Justice Stafford has been pro-
minently spoken Of as candidate for
4 the United States Senate against Sen
ator William P. Dillingham;.
As attest case in two matters which
have come to the attention of the COM
missioner of industries these cases
will go to the supreme court for in
terpretations of the laws The first
lis in the case of Carrie Knight against
the Fellows Gear and Sharper com
ipany of Springfield The commits
sioner holds that, under the statutes
when person gets $1,000 wages 8
COMPENSATION. The other case is P
z. Raska against the National Acme
company of Windsor where the com
missioner holds that claim report
shall be filed with the department al
though compensation is agreed upor
by the praties.
Rutland Manor, better known as the
Johnson castle, at Center Rutland, ha:
been offered by Ira w. Shapiro o.
Boston, who owns the property, tt
President Wilson for a "summel
White House" The place consist
of a most pretentious house, con
structed of red brick with marble
trimmings, which contains "a rooms
foyers, pantries, storerooms and man.
baths. The building is three storie
iol, md l.C 70 nj
feet. The water supply is Furnished
by a $4,000 gallon spring reservoir
located on the hill in the rear of tn
Manor house property, an analysis o
which has proven its medicinal quail
tiles.
The annual meeting of the Ney
England Order of Protection occurre'
in Montpelier last week with larg
5. attendance of the Vermont members
The principal business of the morn
ing was the election of the gram
lodge officers and the following wer
selected for the coming year: Warden
E. w. Crandall of Burlington; vice
warden, A. J. Goss, West Danville
Il secretary, C. A. Spear, Barre; treas
urer, A. w. Taft, Barre; guide, Mrs
Sargent, st. Johnsbury; chaplain
Mrs. Agnes Lavalley, Hardwick
guardian, Mrs. Elmer Clark, Montpel
iier; sentinel, H. Y. Dunlap, Below
Falls. The meeting was called to or
der at 1920 o'clock this morning, W
\ E. Green, the warden, presiding. TIL
records showed that the lodge ha
made lively increase in 1919.
The third annual meeting of tn
Vermont tuberculosis association wa
held in Burlington last week. Pres
ident Thomas Magner of Burlingto
in his annual report said that tn
preventorium at Essex had alread
sent out 60 children on the road t
. health when they were heade
straight for consumptive graves. Tn
D. executive secrotaru H w Slnc,1rr