Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-01-04
WORLD ITEMS

New York, New haven q Hart
ford Railroad stock was quoted at
1919 cents Saturday.
New York City has 927,742 males
over Fl years of age of foreign birth,
and 87O,140 females.
American exports to Europe declin-
ed $43,000,000 in November, as COM
pared with the previous month.
The Italian Red Cross has estab-
lished Is food medical stations in the
famine area of southern Russia.
Refined sugar dropped below five
cents on the New York market for
the first time since before the war.
The Ohio state basketball team de-
feated Dartmouth at Columbus, Ohio,
Friday night by score of "a to %.
Quincy, Mass, visited by a $4,000
fire Friday morning, which started
on Hancock street. 1t was the first
big fire in the city since 1874.
McGilI university, Montreal an
nounced Saturday that it had receiv-
ed a gift of 100000 from the Rock
Teller foundation promised it a few
months ago.
By the will of Alexander Montgom-
cry of Newton, Mass, who died De-
cember oath, various Methodist
churches and societies in Massachu-
sets and Maine are given total of
$4,000.
Jesse Martin, farmer living near
Tiffin, Ohio, in dressing two hogs
found a $3.50 diamond ring in the
stomach of one and a gold signet
ring in the stomach of the other.
Irving S. Chandler of Presque Isle.
Me-, boy of Is, raised 181 barrels of
potatoes on an acre of land and has
been honored by the state agricultur-
al college.
Louie and Frank Hatfield of Bloom
ington, Ind, brothers, after wedding
sisters on the same day and living to-
gether in the same house for a num-
Der of years, both applied for divorce
on the same grounds.
Postage from Petrograd to New
York is 10000 rubles, was shown last
week when a resident of that city re-
ceived a letter bearing 101 900 ruble
stamps. The value of ruble at pre-
war exchange was 81 " cents.
Ambassador Harvey to the Court of
ST. James is in France, where he will
act as observer for the United States
at the conference of the supreme
council which will meet at Cannes,
January a.
The efforts of Germany to fulfill
her peace obligations during 1921
having failed. she now petitions for
a revision of the Versailles treaty,
making it possible for her to procure
foreign credits and the restitution of
the German colonies, or at least a
mandate over them.
Leon Belanger, "a, A. Lemieux, 32,
and George Tednault 35, of West
brook, Me-, were killed and James
Golden was painfully injured when
blazing oil in the roundhouse of the
S: D. Warren Co., caught fire Friday
trapped inside tender tank, where
they were making repairs, and were
suffocated
Women from many parts of the
United States met in New York last
week to attend lunch commemorate
ing the 65th birthday anniversary of
ex-President Wilson, and to plan
part in raising the $1,00O,0OO Wilson
foundation to endow periodic awards
for "meritorious service to democra-
cy, public welfare, liberal thought or
peace through justice"
Taking the air from Roosevelt field,
Mineola. N. Y, Thursday and flying
without a stop for 26 hours and 20
minutes, part of the time in a snow
storm, the remainder through gales
so cold that the air pump of their
Larsen monoplane quit working and
finally forced them to land, Edward
Stinson of San Antonio, Tex, and
Lloyd Bertrand of San Francisco, set
a new world record for a continuous
fight in heavier than air machine
They landed within few feet of
where they started.