Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-10-12
GREAT AGRICULTURAL PROG
RESS
DR.. Clark, formerly of Glover and
Derby, Writes for Publication.

DR.. Ezra w. Clark of Brockton,
Mass, who is native Of Glover and
practiced medicine in Derby some
years ago, was recently in the county
to attend the famous Clark-King
family reunion in Glover. He also
visited other parts of the county and
wrote of his observations for the
Brockton Daily Times. The entire
article appears as follows:
AS interesting story based on his
observations as to industrial and ag-
ricuItural conditions and regarding
Gan effort" he says, is being made to
"enforce the prohibition law" in
northern Vermont, is told by DIR. Ezra
w. Clark, representative from the
10th district in the legislature, who
has returned from a two weeks stay
i'm his native town of Glover, visits
in Derby on the Canadian border
where he formerly practiced med1-
cine, and to the other towns IN Or
leans county.
DIR. Clark was in Orleans county to
attend the 18th reunion of the Clark
and King families. The reunion day
was August 10. The joint reunion is
the result of the removal to that part
of Vermont 103 years ago of DIR.
Clark's grandfather Clark, Keene, N.
H., and a few years later Of his grand
father King to the same locality from
Keene. Four members of the original
Clark family married members of the
King family. DIR. Clark's wife was a
King.
More than $50 members of the two
families were in attendance at the re-
union. which was held in Glover. DR.
Clark had opportunity to renew &C.
ouaintance with many old friends and
relatives and former clients during
tours to the various communities. II
was 26 years ago that DR.. Clark left
Orleans county to come to Brockton
He is a past president of the Clark
and King kindred association.
"Glover, my native town." is Il
miles from the Canadian border" DIR
Clark said. "Derby, where formerly
practiced, is a border town. l alst
visited Newport, which is now a city
One thing l observed as a genera
condition. They are making an eff
fort to enforce the prohibition law
Rum runners from the border are be
ing captured regularly, their auto
confiscated and the offenders are fined
heavy fines, if you please, and give1
penitentiary sentences. One cas-
that has come to my attention show
a.man sentenced 10 months to yea
and fine on top of the Imprisonment.
Strangely, it appears most OF the OF
tenders are men from southern NeN
England.
81 took occasion to STUDY industris
prospects in the northern Vernon
towns, being curious to know JUS
how business is up there, as compare
yofv~ y0f eIf
The large employing interest in tn
northern Vermont towns is the lumbe
mill business. found these immens
mills including the so-called Prouty
Miller plants that supply the Taunto
Lumber Co., of this city, closed down
This of course means hundreds {
lumber mill workers are out of wor
and there is no promise of early n
sumption. There will be little emplo!
ment there this winter"
81 made special observations ar
inquiries about the lumber bushes
because it directly reflects the lack I
building operations in Brockton ar
all over the country. The northe1
Vermont lumber mills saw into finisl
boards, the rough logs that come dow
free from Canada, duty free. The'
Vermont mills supply a vast amour
of the northern lumber to our Sc
ton. Incidentally was informt
that the same idleness is true of tt
lumber mills of Northern New Ham
shire and Maine for the same caus
lack of building operations in our CT
and elsewhere. In the northern We
mont mill yards are acres of finish'
lumber waiting for the call from ma
ket.
"The good, old reliable, Vermo
farmer, however, is on the hustle al
has made decided advances since
was among them more than quart
of a century ago as the family dc
tor to so many in Orleans county: II
present-day farmer up that way is e
terprising and progressive. "
surprised at the considerable numb
of barns in which engines and pow
plants are utilized to operate fan
machinery and generators to ma
electricity for lighting the barns a.
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