Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1920-01-21
VERMONT NEWS

The eighth annual conference of
the Older Vermont boys is held in
Nortnfleld this week, January 1926.
The Coon Ice Cream company of
burlington has asked permission to
increase n It's capital stock from $500,
600 to 100000
| Vermont produces the largest
amount of tale of any state in the
union, but the output of New, York
IS of greater value.
| The Church street school in Barre
recently repaired at cost of $4,000
is to become the home of the Ameri-
! can Legion post in that city for a
period of ten years at cost of 81 90
per year. The building is owned by
the city.
I Officials of the Vermont National
bank of Brattleboro, announced the
awarding of contracts for rebuilding
practically the whole of the bank
quarters at an expense of many thou
sands of dollars. Boston specialists
have been engaged to design and su-
ner of Brattleboro will do the build
ing work.
The reports in the secretary of
/ States office show total of see, OFT.
! rs was collected from automobile IL
censes in the first fourteen days of
this month against a little over $685.
900 collected in the whole of January
1919. The number of cars registered
to the 14h was commercial 3,812, total
$40; operators licenses 4,057, chauf-
refs 1927, total 1854.
The sawmill of G. D. Griswold, Inc,
of Jeffersonville was burned Friday
evening. The mill had not been run
ming, but large boiler had recently
been set and from the arrangements
to keep the cement work from freez-
ing the fire is supposed to have start
ed. The loss is heavy. Practically
everything was destroyed except the
boiler. c. B. Richards, the watch
man, had narrow escape from being
badly burned
The biggest quarry deal which has
ever occurred in Barre was completed
last week when the Boutwell,, Milne
and Varnum company of Montpelier
and the E. l.. Smith and Co. of Barre,
bought the quarry land holdings of
the James Grazeley estate amount
ing to about $50 acres. The two
companies divided the property in
about equal parts. The purchase
price has not been made public but
goes into many thousand dollars.
The Vermont Silk company of
Brattleboro is the name of the con-
Germ just incorporated with stock
of S25 900. The incorporators are DR..
Leslie S. Edwards, Arthur Simonds
and Mrs. Edwards, all of that place.
Ernest A. Reed of Athol, Mass, a
brother of Mrs. Edwards, formerly of
Vernon, is behind the project. He is
owner of a silk spinning mill in Athol
which employs 40 to so hands and as
the business has outgrown the Athol
plant, he will establish plant there.
About 800 acres of land which in
cludes the peak of Mount Killington
has been bought by Mortimer r.
Proctor will perpetuate the forests
tains two huts of the Green Mountain
Club, situated on the Long Trail. Mr..
Proctor will perpetnate the forest
tract in it's wild condition, although
the lumber on its lower slopes will be
cut off scientifically by the Vermont
Marble company Mr.. Proctor owns
the adjoining peak of Pico, which was
given to him on his 21st birthday by
his grandfather, the late United
States Senator Redfield Proctor.
As a result of the recent state
rnent made by Gov. P. w. Clement
relative to the tax rate increase in the
towns of Vermont and advocated that
economy be persued by the towns in
the next few years John M. Avery,
tax commissioner, has compiled fig
ures showing what the average tax
rate in the PAT towns in Vermont has
been for the last five years. They read
as follows:
! 1919 SZ.94
! 1918 100
1917 S.do
/ 1916 ~
1915 l.95
The secretary of state received in