Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-03-16

anu nlgnC, WIN express CdTIOdQS OIL
cloth being shipped to the large cities.
The annual midwinter meeting of
the Vermont Press association was
held in Hotel Barre Friday afternoon
and evening with about IS members
attending. Officers elected were:
President, Frank E. Howe of Benning-
ton; secretary and treasurer. H. S.
Thayer of Essex Junction. 1t plan
ned to have a summer outing. At the
banquet in the evening Governor
Hardness, Congressman Frank l..
Greene and John w. Gordon spoke.
Mrs Sarah M. Willard of Burling-
ton was horribly burned one morning
last week and died in the Marv Flet-
cher hospital that afternoon. The fire
apparatus responding to telephone
message. found Mrs. Willard sitting
in a chair with her clothing in flames.
A blanket was wrapped about her and
the firemen actually had to pour water
on her back to extinguish the blaze.
Before she lost consciousness she stat
ed that she had heen SOLDERING door,
knob with red-hot poker. This nnk
or became stuck in bottle of 9s"fd
which exploded and set the room and
c1othino on fire.
The Tauber, Upton & Co. shirt fac
torv in Barre has started operations
under the same management as at
the time of business suspension last
November when Manager J. B. Thia-
vile was forced to turn off his help
and close the factory because of no
orders. Some help is again employed
End within two weeks a full force of
30 or 35 girls will be needed. More
help will he added each dav until the
quota is filed out In place of the
night robe manufacture. which the
factory was ENGAGED in last Noven-
her, the cor,nanv has started a new
,nnt,1rn. and nnen's dress shirts. ex-
o'usivelv will he made in the future.
Announcement of a revision down
| ward of the rates of pay of certain
classes of employees was made last
week at the general offices of the Cen.
tra Vermont Railway Co., in st. AL
bans. The Central Vermont is TAX
ing this step only after having ex-
hausted every other line of economy
and in so doing is simply following
| the same course as other roads of the
country. The revised rates are to
take effect April 16 and affect all en-
p,oyees of the mechanical department,
maintenance of way department,
transportation department, stores de-
partment, and clerks.
The price of potatoes has reached
| the lowest level in many years in Rut-
land. Not for several years before
the war were they sold for 80 cents a
bushel as at present. The highest fl
CURE they commanded during the
period of high cost of living was $3.50
a bushel. Farmers are said to have
vast quantities in their cellars, having
held them last fall expecting the mar
ket would be firmer. Some cars have
been loaded in the vicinity of Rutland
at SO cents a bushel. Certain growers
they have to stock rather than to sell
them at less than a dollar for four
pecks.
During the month of January, Yer
mont shipped to the Boston market,
alone, 42S,666 pounds of butter and
12O,962 pounds of cheese. Vermont's
shipments to Boston of these dairy
products are exceeded by Illinois
which exclleed in the shipments of
butter and Wisconsin which shipped
more cheese. The encouraging part
of the dairy industry in Vermont Is
that new creamerieS are constantly
being erected and most of them are of
the most approved design. The farm
ers of Mortified and vicinity have
completed their creamery and are now
Operating it. The creamery is located
on the railroad and has side track
1t is equipped with the latest machin-
cry, including refrigeration plant
The farmers in the Brattleboro Sec
ton expect to begin operating their
new creamery April LIST. The farm
ers in the Bellows Falls section are
now engaged in making a thorough
survey with a view to starting CO.
operative creamery.
/ A father and mother and seven chill
dren, with only one bed, one chair, no
sheets, no pillow case, blanket or
quilt, just a soiled old mattress and
a few dirty rags was the description
of case Secretary Jeffrey Of the
State Board of Charities and Proba-
ton gave at a meeting of the board
Wednesday. Suitable provision for
the care of dependent and neglected
children when they first come from
the courts is absolutely necessary f
Vermont is to maintain ard success
| fully operate a placing ont system for
these children" he told the board in
speaking of House bill 800, providing
for shelter home.
In commenting upon the dependent
and neglected children division of the
boards work, Mr.. Jeffrey says:
Since our last meeting there have
been committed to the board &c chill
dren. Thirty-one children have been
placed in free homes by adoption and
one has been returned from free
home and placed upon expense. This
is certainly a very gratifying two
months work in this particular de-
partment. One hunderd and fifteen
visits have been made to our commit
ted children during the two months,
ten children who have been committed
to the board have been given medical
and surgical treatment and IL of the
committed children have been dis
charged from treatment. In addition
to these we have investigated II ply
sically defective children that were
, not committed to the board and ap-
proved IA for hospital treatment. Nine
have been discharged from the hospi-
tai and their bills paid from the So
: called Graham fund"