Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1920-12-08
VERMONT NOTES

Twenty-eight cloudy DAYS. two
partly cloudy days and not one day
OF sunshine Is the weather record for
November IN Mortified, according TO
the summary compiled BY W. A.
shaw, meteorologist, In charge of the
local station of the United States
weather bureau
Peter Lenge, one of the four men
under arrest for the murder of Owen
Hayes at Fair Haven October 6, has
confessed that he killed Hayes for the
money he carried and has declared
that the other accused men were not
with him. according to q statement
by county officers.
Mrs Isrnay Clarity of Wilder, who
eomezzled money from the postoffice
IN Inat town, was fined S1,0e4.SS in
u y court at Montpelier. This
amount she took from the postofhce.
She IS mother of a son in the regular
army and IS A years old. Another
charge against her was mol pressed.
Products of the farms and gardens
OF the four institutions. the state
hospital, the state prison, the indus
tr1al school and the school for feeble
minded. for the 1920 season aggregat-
cd S1Zf ,2o4.4S N value, according to
the report just released of John E.
| Weeks, director of the state institu-
tons The valuation is based on the
market price of the products in the
towns in which the institutions are
located.
An important meeting of the dairy
interest of western Vermont was held
IN Burlington last week, and a plan
was adopted whereby eight coopera-
tive creameries in that section of the
S~ n \
selling 1t is the plan of this organ
lZauon TO collect at some central
point, quite likely Essex Junction,
dairy products, including milk, butter
and cheese, and from all of the
icreameries interested, and store these
products until such time as proper
markets may be found for them. AS
few creameries have storage faciii-
ties for keeping their products any
length of time it is thought this plan
will earn many thousands of dollars
each year for those interested. 1t is
also planned 10 make the surplus skim
med milk from those creameries dur
ing the flush milk months into skim
med milk powder for which there Is
good market. Other cooperative
creameries. of which there are % il
the state, viii be invited to take ad-
vantage Of the falicities of the new
organization.
The Vermont state commission
which has been working for several
months on the matter of suggestions
for proposals for changes in the con-
stitution, has let it be known that
the members are not agreed as to
some OF the proposals that viii be
made TO the coming legislature. These
include a majority and minority re-
port on the matter of changing the
general election back TO September.
Three viii set up reasons why they
should not change back, while the re-
mainder sign a majority report. 9th
er suggestions that viii be made are
that the constitution be made to con-
cur with the 18th amendment to the
federal constitution; some changes
relative to assistant judges; item We
to in the budget of state finances;
filing a vavancy by the legislation in
the office of town representative
changing the powers of the public
service commission, giving it a better
status; compulsory voting; changing
the constitution so that the legisla-
ure viii have power TO designate
where deeds and other papers shall
be filed.