Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-11-09
Canadian Comment Of Vermont At
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Lieut.. Gov. Abraham Foote Of
Cornwall, Addison county, seems to
be the only candidate for governor.
Mr.. Foote may lack the polish of
the schools and university, but has
practical common sense and just now
would be an agreeable innovation.
The death of VIM. G.. Elkins, for
over 40 years a resident of North
Troy, removes one of the old-fash-
Toned skilled carpenters and wheel
wrights. There are great many
houses, barns and manufacturing
plants in the Missisquoi valley that
are object lessons of his skill and in
dustry.
Orleans county court was the CEN
ter of attraction for the morbid and
curious last week when a pastor of
the Methodist church was on trial,
the case requiring all the week. The
acquittal. Many thought it case of
frame up" to secure funds, but the
pastor proved a good fighter when SO
much was at stake.
The Barton Golf club recently de-
feated the Hyde Park club at the
Hyde Park course. Orleans county is
coming on fast as a golf county.
Roosevelt chopped wood, Luke p. Po-
land used the saw and buck, and 9TH
ers get their exercise and recreation
out of their everyday vocation, al
ways keeping physically and mental
ly fit, not working by fits and starts"
keeping comfortable and always "get-
ting there" because they avoid haste.
A great deal of publicity has been
given of late to the fact that Barton
has the only wool-carding mill in
northern New England and strange as
if may seem, it has good business.
Evidently the farmers are again rails
ing sheep, and sending the feeces to
the carding mill to be converted into
rolls. We have learned of several
spinning wheels and an occasional
hand loom that are being used for
time methods savors of simplicity and
real comfort, and should be encour-
aged. We were recently shown a
mans suit pattern Of heather shade
homespun that was as handsome as a
Scotch importation.
At the last session of the legisla-
ture a law was passed enabling the
governor to create a highway board
of three members, two besides him
self, doing away with the state high
way commissioner. The governor ap-
pointed a doctor past 70 years of age,
who, himself, says that he hasn't any
knowledge of or experience in road
building; and the former state COM
missioner, S. B. Bates. What is the
result? The governor and the doc
tor out-vote the other member,
Bates. In fact the governor runs the
department as he pleases, the doctor
is simply the governors man "Fri-
day" Bates has tried to check the
increase in salaries, but he is helpless.
The governor appointed man 35
years old at $4,000 a year, and gave
him an assistant SO OF 81 years of
age with a salary of $4,000. Both
had had very little practical expert
ence, and they are expanding $4,000
900 of the peoples money on the
roads of the state.
j. N. Barss, VINO for several years
was the efficient head of the State Re-
/ form school at Vergennes, always de-
| plored the lack of concerted effort to
! raise, the standard of living in the
small, back hamlets, calling it, an un-
reasonable cooperation with the work
of the reform school, in fact, it is
preventive work that is needed. We
were reminded of this attitude of Mr.
Barss when we learned that there was
school district in an Orleans county
! town which possessed a comfortabe
| schoolhouse and the required non1-
her Of pupils, but had no teacher, and
was put off from week to week by the
school directors and superintendent
with the excuse that suitable teach
er wasn't obtainable thus far. This
kind of hing is cooperation to in
crease the INN ate3 of the school a.
Vergennes, and is deplorab1e, if no
criminal, neglect.
We have read Mr. Rossiter's ad
dress given at the Greater Vermont
! Association meetin~ at Rutland, il
| which he covered no decrease of the