Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-04-12

corresponding period last year. The
total registration to April is 17,703
Almost 1000 more cars were regis
tered In March this year than in the
same month in 1921. The figures for
operators and chauffeurs' licenses
are also ahead of last year at the
same date. The total amount of fees
received so far is $500, 149.44, or
about $4,000 more than last year.
Royal A. Egg1eston of Canaan, N.
T., was Saturday awarded in United
States court at Montpelier a verdict
OF $4,000 from DIR. r. III. Ross of st.
Johnsbury and DIR. ID. r. Brown of
Lyndonville, in malpractice suit for
$4,000, in which the plaintiff alleg-
ed negligence on the part of the doc
tors because sponge was left in
Eggleston's abdomen after an oper-
alton for septic gall bladder.
A special committee of the Great
er Vermont association to make a
thorough survey of the state and it's
needs has met. The COMMITTEE is
made up of the following men: Benjaa
min Williams, Proctor; William 4.
Bush, Benson; John T. Cushing, st.
Adams; Prof. X. r. B. Flint, North
field; Howard Rice, Brattleboro; C.
A. Stuart, Lyndonville. Those mem
bers of the committee who could not
attend were Frank w. Agan, Ludlow;
E. B. Cornwall, Burlington; C. M.
Jones, Waitsield; Howard E. Shaw.
Stowe; James P. Taylor of Burling-
ton.
The state of Minnesota expects to
remodel its deer laws on the plan of
Vermont laws. The Itasca Iron
News of Coleraine, Mimi, states that
Vermont has given the buck law the
longest test of any state in the I'm
ion and is the only state today which
complains, with reason, of having too
many deer. In proportion to it's hunt
ing area it is stated, more deer are
killed under the buck law in Vermont
than under any kind of law in any
other state. The deer are also said
to be the heaviest and finest speci-
mems of the Virginia deer to be found
in the United States. Hunting acct
dents in this state are referred to as
Enthusiastically infrequent, and the
kind of accidents in which man is
shot at by mistake for a deer is al
most unknown.
Enjoying one of his favorite hikes
over the high places of Barnet the
other day, the Rev. A. E. Gregg found
the remains of an abandoned wire
less outfit on top of the highest noun
tain in that viinity. The outfit was
finely camouf1aged in the tallest tree
on the mountain from which a view
is obtained of all the surrounding
country. The discovery of the power
full apparatus has started again the
stories of the days of the World war
when it was believed by many that a
summer camp in the town was the
habitat of German sympathizers;
several times airplanes passed over
the town during the war, with no one
knowing of their starting point or
destination and the whole affair was
woven into a musical extravaganza
which was staged the following
spring by the st. Johnsbury United
Commercial Travellers at their annual
minstrel show.
AS a result of the sale of Christ
mas seals of the Vermont Tuberculo- |
sis association in 1921, three banners
will be awarded for the highest per /
,apita sale. Class A banner for
owns of over 5000 population goes
20 Montpelier. Glass B banner for |
owns of less than 5000 but over
200 population goes to Hartford and |
lass G. banner for towns of less than
700 goes to Athens. The total sales
# the seals after all expenses are
aid will give the Vermont Tubercu-
osis association, the Preventorium