Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1920-11-17
VERMONT NOTES

1t is expected that Brattlehoro,s
new steel bridge, to take the Mace of
the one carried off its foundations ON
march 70, by the flood, will be in place
IN January. 1t is supposed to arrive
from the makers about the middle of
december and a month will be re-
qulred to erect it.
Granite firms of Barre are enlaro-
ing, not less than four BUILDING neT-
mlts being granted last week by the
aldermen. In addition to granite
buildings, permit has been granted
the interstate Amusement companv
TO erect It's proposed house, permits
sion having been held up because of
unsatisfactory arrangements for exits
and fire escapes.
Arrowhead Inn, formerly the Ver-
mont Inn, at Malletts Bay on Lake
Champlain has been bought by New
York corporation known as Hotel
Loysette, Inc. Julian G. Van Vert.
OF New York City, president of the
company, who completed the purchase
OF this property, announces that his
company is capitalized for $4,000,
and that it is the intention of the
company to spend $4,000 to $4,000
on improvements to the building next
spring.
A meeting of the state educational
service committee of the Y. M. G. A
was held at Burlington recently, at
which it was announced that a fur
Their appropriation of $4,000 had been
made to Vermont by the national or
ganization of the Y. M. G.. A, the
money to be used before next July for
scholarships to worthy ex-service men
for collegiate and general courses.
This makes total of $4,000 which
has been appropriated by the Y. M.
G. A. for work of this nature in Yer
mont.
Col George C. Richards of the gen.
eral staff of the War department was
} n conference recently with III. L.
Johnson, adjutant general, relative to
Vermontt's allotment of troops under
the national defense act. This is
drawn on a five-year basis, and if the
program is carried out, Vermont will
have 5000 soldiers in different organ
izations at peace strength. The in
| fantry organization is well under way
and the quota, unless changed, pro-
: vides for an artillery, the brigade
! ammunition train and ambulance or
ganization and other detachments.
Potato rot, due mainly TO the warm
weather in October, is generally re-
ported throughout Vermont, Maine
, and New Hampshire, according to the
7 report of the bureau of crop esti-
mates of the u. S. department of ag-
riculture Just released. What effect
! the cooler November will have is yet
to be shown. The New England po-
. tato crop is put at 1880, 900 bushels
which is lower than the October estl-
mate but slightly in excess of the five
G@,~ = akaI mi
ted States is put at 421, 252,O0O bush
els, considerably above the five-year
average.
The dead body of James l.. Miller,
St. Adams carpenter, was found
Saturday morning lying in brook
in the right rear of the Van Camp
plant on South Main street, about
half way between the plant and the
tracks of the Central Vermont Rail-
way Co. 1t is the opinion of the po-
lice that the man had been murdered
but later developments shake this
belief. 1t was found he had beer
drinking and it is now Thought ne
died of some kind of an alcohollc Mt
The annual solder boys" conference
will be held in st. Johnsbury In Jan.
uary. Over 400 boys are expected
: from all over Vermont.
IT C. Chung arrived in Springfield
last week from Pekin, China, to take
+he cooperative course in the mgr
school and the Jones and Lamsor
e nlant. He was selected by the chi
nese government to come to Amerlca
and study American machine SHOP
practice and teaching methods. Oh
the recommendation of the Vocation
al board at Washington, ID. u, tnis
school was honored as being cnoSeI
as the best place for him to get tnal
training. After passing three years
in Springfield, Mr.. Chung expects te
return TO China and introduce there
our methods of industrial education
He is a graduate of the Pekln Hlgnel
Normal college and has taught In tne
Chinese schools.
In the United States district cour
in Rutland, a jury awarded William
S. Mayo of Albany, N. Y, travelling
salesman, a verdict of $12,75O dam
age against the Rutland Railroad
company. Mr.. Mayo sued for SzO'
. 600 because of injuries he receive
at Bellows Falls on March Ia, 1SZ.
when the Rutland's Green Mountal
FLYER on which he was passenger
met head-on, a freight train OF a
loaded cars, going 80 miles an hou
and 10 persons were killed. MIR. Ma
yo claims that he was reduced to
n nervous wreck from shock. III
M railroad had admitted liability IN tn
III in the case.
~ Members and officers of the We
mont League of Women Voters held
- conference last week at the Hot
II Vermont, Burlington, with Unite
IL States Senator William P. Dillins
ham and Congressman Porter ID: Dial
in relation to pending legislation
the coming session of congress. Twel
ty-six women from different parts, .
the state were present. The first 81
taken up was the so-called Shepart
Towner infancy and maternity bl
and the discussion which followed tn
line was most Illuminating, certa.
facts being brought out that shou
make the people of this state consldt
well the problems that are confron
ing them in the immediate futur
The famous and much dlscusse
Smith-Towner bill was next taken u
This bill provides for a federal bl
reau or department of education VIII
a secretary of education at its hea
who shall be one of the president
cabinet.