Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-04-27
VERMONT NOTES

land high school, whose reSIgnatlO
has just been accepted, has accepted Z
Fellowship in Economics in the Grad
uate School of Arts and Sciences al
| Harvard University. His home is il
Richford and he was graduated from
! Middlebury in 1920.
Franklin county maple sugar pro.
ducers are finding it impossible tc
market their commodity at more thar
60 to rs cents a gallon in barrel lots
The Weldon National Bank of ST. AL
bans is offering financial assistance
to the farmers in carrying thei, syr-
up until a suitable market can be
found.
Richmond was visited early on the
morning if the 21st, who broke into
the drug store of E. w. Freeman and
the clothing store of A. B. Rugg, tax
ing from both places goods valued at
more than $780, The robbers at
tempted to gain entrance to the post
office, located next to the Rugg store.
Leary's drugstore and the Central
Vermont railway station were also
visited but nothing was missed.
John E. Weeks, commissioner of
state institutions, has been given au-
thority by the board of control to Sc
cure plans for the constructions of a
service building at the home for fee
ble-minded in Brandon, for which
100000 was appropriated. He was
also given authority to complete dor
mitory G, the work upon which was
held up last fall for lack of funds
Temporarily the properties of the
state at Castleton and Johnson have
been placed In his supervision.
The building committee of the State
Board of Charities and Probation met
last week with Secretary w. HI. JEFF
frey to discuss the matter. Of loca-
ton, style of building and estimates
of construction of the shelter home
authorized by the last general assem-
bly,. The board has propositions from
six cities and towns which desire the
home to be located in their midst. The
appropriation is $4,000. In order to
put the entire amount to useful ad-
vantage the site would probably have
to be donated by the town securing the
location.
The 1919 production of potatoes in
Vermont was worth $5,O1O,252, from
24,182 acres, according to federal sta
tistics just issued. The total yield of
potatoes was 2,277,387 bushels. 9th
er principal vegetables produce for
sale were as follows:
Acres Value
Beans (greenJ. ....... 80 1854
CdODage Ida oS,9U4
Unions ..... .SI 3U,Ol4
Peas (green). .46 S,211
sweet corn Il ,lZ3 1913
IOmdTOoS 90 IL 1904
Governor Hardness on Saturday re-
ceived medal at exercises held in
the city of Philadelphia for notable
service in the field of engineering.
The medal is presented from trust
fund created about century ago and
placed in the hands of the city of
Philadelphia. Governor Hardness gets
the honor because of the invention of
the fiat turret lathe and other inven-
tions. Edwin R. Fellows, also Of
Springfield, received similar medal
II years ago. A few other persons,
besides Governor Hardness, will re-
ceive the medals Saturday.
D. S. Taylor, of Swanton, and Gray
R. Erskine of Roxbury, were instant
ly killed Saturday at the new marble
quarry being operated by the Vermont
Marble Co., about one-half mile above
StOckbridge Common near Bethel. The
two men were in the engine house
and some five rods away were five 9th :.
er men. An explosion occurred in the
engine house blowing the two men
to pieces, and destroying the build
ing. A piece of boiler, weighing
about ton was blown at distance
of several rods. The men outside the
building were uninjuned. The cause
of the accident is not known. 1t
might have been due to dynamite or
the boiler may have exploded.