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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-02-08
"Stod" Bates.
(Rutland Herald)

Several friends of "Stod" Bates,
prospective senator from Orleans
county, have FASTENED to deny that he
had any intention of running away
with the state government or organ
izing raid on the treasury.
The Herald, of course, has neither
said, nor intimated anything like
that, 1t has called attention to the
fact that Mr.. Bates would probably
be a member of the next state SEN
ate, that he would be ION the side of
the farmers" against the present
road system and probably against
cutting down appropriations very
much. Time will show whether such
premonitions are well founded.
Meanwhile, The Herald has no OBJ
lection to saying that Mr.. Bates, as
state highway commissioner was an
honest and economical officer so far
as personal and state expenses were
concerned and that he did the job ap-
parently fully as well as the present
outfit at a good deal less. money.
Whether the influence of Mr.. Bates
is toward reaction or progress, to-
ward economy or carrying on with
the present overhead load of cost,
The Herald is satisfied that his mo-
tives will be honest and will be die
tated by honest convictions.
Furthermore, it seems likely that
there will be lot of men like Stod
Bates in the next legislature.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-02-08
Bidding Self Goodbye

(By E. L. Hunt of Newport)
Dear Self. Our friendship long has
been,
In pain and joy and strife. S
Thou hast been a welcome guest.
The idol of my life.
But there will come a time when
friends,
Joined by the strongest tie,
Will have to break the cords that
bind,
So now, dear Self, goodbye.
I've been waiting long for thee
To show thy better part,
search, and in vain have / found
The secrets of your heart.
L dare not trust thee longer here,
Or when | come to die,
My soul shall seek an anchor fast:
SO now, proud Self. goodbye.
Ny better years are draped in black,
For chances that are lost,
Thy counsel has been given free
But | must pay the cost.
l see the read as it divides,
1t brings no parting sigh,
Pm only glad to bid farewell,
l say to thee, goodbye!
Go on thy way and linger not,
l ne'er will lonesome be,
l have the cross to fill thy place,
A cross that's made for me.
1 see vision far away
And now it's drawing nigh,
At last the truth has been revealed,
Since bidding Self goodbye.
May those who care to read these
lines,
Enfold them to their breast:
Read at the breaking of each day,
And when they pause to rest.
Those empty pews and cruel wars.
Soon from this world will fly,
When men will cease to worship Self,
And say to him, goodbye!
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-02-08

The st. Adams Messenger says,
"One reason, and the main one from
the health standpoint, why we spend
100000 on cows is to protect the chill
dren from tuberculosis infection from
milk" Will the Messenger answer
an honest inquiry? If milk from tu-
bercular cows is infected, why not
test the milk for germs instead of
injecting serum into the animal and
depend upon temperature, or some
other reaction, for determining the
cows condition? Why not test the
blood, the milk or the body excre-
lions and find the germ itself as in
the case of human beings, instead of
the indirect, indefinite and many be-
lieve, injurious method of serum in
lection and reaction? This is not a
critical question but a question aris-
ing from an honest doubt, or per-
haps ignorance. Will the Messenger
give us light?
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-02-08

Z Special sessions OF the Probate Court will
be held at the office of z. w. BALDWIN, In
BARTON, on the second and fourth Fridays
of each month in the afternoon and at the
Office of K. A. COOK, n ORLEANS, In
the afternoon of the third Friday OF each
month. Parties desiring to transact Probate
business at Barton or Orleans should notify
the Judge in advance, that he may take the
necessary papers.
The Probate office at NEWPORT will be
open every day, except Sundays and holt
days; but those coming from distance, as
far as possible should make special appoint
ments with the Court in advance.
K. j. SMITH Judge.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-02-08
Waterproof Gravel.
(Rutland Herald).

Speaking at the mid-winter meet
ing of the Newport Chamber of Com
merce, Stoddard B. Bates, former
highway commissioner and probable
senator from Orleans county, touched
on subject that is especially inter-
esting at this time.
The Express and Standard reports
it as follows:
While in his remarks he did not
champion any particular form of con-
struction, he did say that a gravel
road after two or three years wear
covered with cement proved satisfac-
tory for incessant travel, and cited
an example near Burlington to sus-
tain the statement.
This does not make it entirely clear
as to what the former commissioner
means, but it is true that old gravel
roads, well packed and hardened by
traffic, have been treated with bitumi-
nous compounds and made water
proof, dust-proof and fairly good ira
Yelling surfaces.
There is a stretch of gravel road in
the village of Barton, which, accord
ing to Representative Barrows of
that town, has been in use for about
20 years. 1t is merely high-turn-
piked, deep-ditched and waterproofed
gravel and could not have cost more
than six or seven thousand dollars
per mile.
Mr.. Bates calls attention to a strip
Of road in Irasburg, two miles and
three-tenths in length, where, under
unfavorable conditions, with a long
haul and bad grades, last years bid
for gravel resurfacing was Sill ,715,
while cement roads in Bennington
and Rutland counties were costing
around $4,000 a mile.
There is some difference between
$4,000 and $4,000 mile, and if, as
has been claimed. well-built gravel
road can be surfaced with bituminous
or heavy oil for an additional 81 900
a mile, and if such road will stand up
for number of years under fairly
heavy traffic. then the conclusion is
inevitable that it will pay the present
highway department to do some ex-
Fermentation with an attempt to wa
ar~~oof hard gravel road.
Mr.. Dix states at Lake Bomoseen
LIST summer that this was not prac-
ticAl. but if there are roads in Yer
mont that prove the contrary, then
certainly the experiment of water
proofng old gravel or hard-packed
gravel might be tried with some pro-
fit. Mr.. Dix also stated on that oc-
casion that the Vermont road problem
was largely a matter of material
available, and certainly there is
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-02-08

A circular bearing no evidence
whatsoever of it's origin or source,
except that it purports to be copied
from the Montreal Gazette of Janu-
airy IL, is a splendid piece of insidu-
Gus "wet" propaganda. The envelope
in which it was mailed is postmarked
Hudson Terminal, New York, m. Y"
In the article DR.. Conroy of St. AIMS
is quoted as saying in the Canadian
legislative assembly that, Outbreaks
of lawlessness and violence are un-
known in the province of Quebec" He
also spoke of "the good works which
could be accomplished because of the
revenue from the liquor law" of Que
bee. III Fortier of Beauce is also
quoted as speaking in favor Of the
Quebec way Of handling the liquor
business. Mr.. Fortier is quoted as
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-02-08

AS usual, the National Life In
surance Company of Montpelier, is
the first of the great life insurance
companies to publish the results of
the past year. 1t features the fact
that the company is composed of
1O4,1 individual policyholders, who
have combined for the purpose of
their own protection, and for the
protection of their families, to an
amount aggregating 1888, 1894, 264. 80
The policyholders of this company
have accumulated $78,292, 849.69 Of
funds immediately available to meet
every liability, computed upon stand
ards more exacting than required by
the laws of any state, and after pro-
viding for such liabilities, hold an ex-
cess of assets (surplus) as an addi-
tlonal guaranty to meet all contin-
gencies and to contribute to future
earnings of the company of So, 49,
420.64.
1t is from these earnings that the
dividends to policyholders are aug
mented, and the net cost of their in
surance reduced.
These results are attained notwith-
standing the fact that the bond in
vestments are valued on the basis at
which they would have sold on De-
cember 81, 1921, not on the basis of
a book value, cost value, or modi-
fled average value, as permitted by
most of the insurance departments.
These results attained by a Yer
mont institution, conducted upon a
purely mutual basis, exemplify thrift,
nsutudtprotectaon, independence IN old
age, and represent the result of sew
enty-two years of satisfactory SER
wee to policyholders.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-02-08
Commissioners Notice.
Estate of Melissa w. HYDE

THE UNDERSIGNED, having been ap-
pointed by the Honorable Probate Court for
the District of Orleans, 90 ISSIONERS
to receive, examine and adjust the claims
anddemands of all persons against the estate
of Melissa w. Hyde late of Westmore in
said district deceased. and all claims ex-
hibited in offset thereto, hereby give no.
tice that we will meet for the purpose afore-
in the town of Westmore in said
dist riot on the 10th day of February, 1922
and 9th day of June next frorr ~ O'Clock
q. m. until 3 O'Clock d. M. on each of said
days and that six months from the 9th day
of Dec. A. ID. 1921 is the time limited by said
court for said creditors to present their
claims to us for examination and allowance.
Dated at Westmore this 26th day of
Dec. A. ID. 1921. GEO. @. MYERS
A. E. FRENCH
4-6 Commissioners
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-02-08
Ten Things About New Eng
land Farms

1. Maine raised practically one
tenth of all the potatoes grown in
the country.
2. In Franklin County, Massa-
chusetts, many farmers in the last
two decades have more than trebled
their production by improved meth
DDS. Similar increases have been
scored in other counties.
3. Connecticut leads the country
in the production of corn and tobacco.
A. New England, both in value
and proportion to her areas, is a
leader for dairy products and We
getables.
5: Maine is one of the three
states In which more people live In
homes free and clear of mortgage
than in rented quarters.
6. New England raises more
crops in proportion to her acres of
improved land than Texas, North
Dakota or South Dakota.
z. Middlesex County, Massachu-
sets, ranks third in the production
of vegetables among all in the coun-
try.
8. Massachusetts. besides being a
leader in raising lettuce, spinach,
celery, cucumbers, onion and espe-
cially cranberries, is experiencing a
revival of fruit growing.
8. Vermont has almost 5000
farms of more than It's acres on
most of which Western methods can
be employed.
10. In 10 years there has been an
increase of 800 percent in the num-
Der of hogs fed On city waste in
New England.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-02-08

Judge Frank L Fish of Vergennes
in speech last fall said, SIN Vermont
there are 400 lawyers, practically all
born there; 625 physicians, of whom
three-fourths were born there, but in
the Methodist church there are 1870
preachers, only one-fourth of whom
were born here; in the Baptist, 80, of
whom one-tenth were born here, and
in the Congregational, for many
years the leading church 14O, of whom
but eight per cent. were born here"
Mr.. Fish then tries to answer the
question as to why Vermont does not
produce more of her own ministers.
He says we are a missionary field
that must be supplied from other
states and countries. "In short" he
says, 1--WE are living on other people
spiritually" He suggests larger sal
aries, church consolidation, less stress
on dogma, and denominationalism
with more freedom for individual
thought and expression, and a train
ing for the ministry gained by great
er contact with men and less from
books. The address is we'll worth
reading.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-02-08
Sugar Makers
Attention!

The following is a quotation
from the speech made by Pres.
C. A. Badger at a meeting of
the Maple Sugar Makers As
ISOLATION of Vermont:
II never saw the outlook
brighter for a good market of
the maple products at a good
price than at this present
time. We have quite a lot
of orders on hand for next sea-
sons crop: We have practi-
cally set the price for maple
syrup for the coming year |:
No. / at $1.75 a GAL; No. 2 at
rs cents a gal, and No. 3 no
price as there is no market for
this class of goods. If you
haven't got an equipment that
you can make a good quality
of syrup with | should advise
you getting one right away and
be sure to get covers for your
buckets as they will save. their
cost the first season."
w are headquarters f o 1
Bellows Falls and Monarch
sugar tools and can give you
attractive prices. We have
some second-handings. Cal
and see us if you are in the
market for Sugar Tools.
f S. WHITCHER'S
Barton, VT,
'The Farmers Store"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-02-08

That Vermont is rich in natural re-
sources is brought out by the recent
ly issued census on mines and quar-
ries. Vermont, which ranks forty
second among the states in size and
forty-fifth in population, ranked thir-
ty-third in mineral production in 1919.
The total value of. products for all
mines and quarries was $8,555, 900,
which was an increase of Al per cent.
over the corresponding amount re-
ported at the census of 1909. The
mining and quarrying industries re-
ported in Vermont were granite, mar
BILE, slate, tale and soapstone, lime
stone, clay and copper. Vermont
ranks first among the states of the
United States in the production of
granite and marble and second in the
production of slate and tale and soap
stone. These principal industries
granite, marble, slate, and tale and
soapstone-accounted for 98.1 per
cent. of the total value of mineral
products and employed 97.6 per cent.
OF all wage earners engaged in the
mines and quarries of Vermont in
1919. Add to her mine and quarry
wealth her agricultural production
and Vermont is a highly valuable
state in the sense of it's production
of wealth. There is vast difference
between production" and "accumu-
latlon." Other states may accumu-
late men and wealth but Vermont
produces both beyond her natural ex-
pectation.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-02-08

telling how the law has abolished
clandestine commerce." and he looks
with longing eyes to the millions
which will come from its operation"
each year and the great good the
government can accomplish with the
money. perhaps soon the great
country at the SOUTH" says the arti-
Gle, swill be inspired by Quebec's ex-
ample" All of which sounds well to
those who are not so near the Que
bee line And who is financing the
spread of such literature in the Unit
ed States and why are they ashamed
to father the propaganda?
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-02-08
MILK PRODUCERS
MEET AT BOSTON

u. A. Harris returned from Bos-
ton Thursday night, where he repre-
sented Orleans county at the annual
meeting of the New England Milk
Producers association. The meet
ings were held at the American
house and opened with a banquet
Tuesday night. The meeting was
the most successful and largest at
tended of any ever held. The attend
ance on the opening day was 600, and
the demand for banquet tickets ex-
ceeded the supply.
On Wednesday the delegation in
creased in numbers and upwards of
1900 dairymen from the New Eng
land states were present. The prin-
cipal speakers we're Milo D. Camp
bell of Coldwater, Mich, president Of
the National Milk Producers FEEDER
alton, who has been spending much
time in Washington in legislativecon-
struction work. Mr.. Campbell was
introduced as the man from Coldwa-
ter who had been in hot water at
Washington.
Harry Hartke of the Queen City
Milk Producers association of Cow
ington, KY, and E. R. Eastman of
the New York Dairymen's League
were other speakers. Mr.. Eastman
explained the New York pooling
plan, which appealed to the New
England dairymen, and committee
of five were appointed to investigate
and formulate pooling plan to be
presented to the delegates at some
future meeting. One feature of the
pooling plan is that all the milk in
New England be pooled, the dairy
men near the markets to ship fluid
milk and those at a distance ship
milk products and the receipts be
divided equally, less the value of the
by-products and differences in
freight CHARGES
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-02-08

George R. Little, president, of the
N. E. M. P A., spoke truth in his
address before that organization in
Boston last week which this paper
has stated repeatedly. Here are his
words: "There is widespread feel
ing that alr business relations can
be improved by taking thought; it is
no longer right for anyone to leave
his destiny largely to chance. Com
pletely surrounded by business organ
ization, from which he must purchase
his necessities and to which he is
likewise compelled to sell his prod
ucts, what chance has the farmer to
survive in business unless he organ
izes?"'
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-02-08
Commissioners Notice
Estate of Calvin Wilson

The undersigned. having been appointed
by the Honorable Probate Court for the
District of Orleans. COM MISSIONERS, to
receive, examine. and adjust the claims and
demands of all persons against the estate of
Calvin Wilson, late of Brownington in said
District, deceased and all claims exhibited
in offset thereto, hereby give notice that we
Will meet for the purpose aforesaid, at the
home of George Burroughs in the Town of
BrowningtOn in said District on thel4th day
OF FEB. and 3rd day OF July next. from
of said days and that six months from the
4th day of JAM, A. d., 1922 is the time linn
tied by said Court for said creditors to pre-
sent their claims to us for examination and
allowance,
Dated at Brownington, this 18th day of
Jan. A. D., 1922.
O. A. BORIGHT,
@. ID. BURROUGHS,
As commissioners.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-02-08
PRESSCLIPPINGS
Do a Little Thinking.
(The American Issue)

Of course the dry law is not 100
per cent effective. Of course it is
being violated. The law against
theft is many, many years old and
yet it is violated every day. In most
law-abiding communities people lock
their doors and put their valuables
in safe places. There is a drastic
law against murder, but in every
newspaper you read of murders.
They are every day occurrences. The
Ten Commandments date from Moses
and yet every one of them is violated
every day. And SO it is with all
laws against crime. The laws are
not repealed because they are vio-
lated. Society retains them for it's
protection. Why should the prohibit
ton law be repealed because it is
violated? Why repeal it at the COM
mand of those responsible for its
violation. The people who believe in
law do not want the dry law repeal
ed. They want it enforced. i.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-02-08
Commissioners Notice
Estate of Charles III. Miller

by the Honorable Probate Court for the
District of Orleans, Commissioners, to re-
ceiye, examine and adjust the claims and
demands of all persons against the estate
of Charles H. Miller late of Greensboro
in said District. deceased, and all
claims exhibited in offset thereto. hereby
give notice that we will meet for the pur-
pose aforesaid, at the home of Bertha NJ
Miller in the town of Greensboro in said Dis
trict. on the 18th day of Feb. and 18th day
of July next, from z O'Clock p. M, until 4
O'Clock D m, on each of said days and that
six months from the 18th. day OF Jau.,
A. d., 1922, is the time limited by said Court
for said creditors to present their claims to
us for examination and allowance.
Dated at Greensboro, VT, this 4th day of
Feb, A. D., 1922.
A f. TOLMAN.
G.. w. TAYLOR.
6-8 Comm issioners.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-02-08

The road between Sheffield and
Lyndonville is being kept open for
automobile traffic this winter, the cost
being borne by private funds, such
funds coming mainly from a cream
cry company which operates trucks
between the places named. Agita-
ton for this work to be done on other
highways is being started and
the question is undoubtedly one
which will grow in Importance. Just
what the person who has heavy haul
ing to do on these roads with sleds
will do after the first thaws is not
plain.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-02-08
Orleans County is Sane.
(Stanstead, P. O., Journal)

Orleans county seems to be con-
stantly in the limelight. 1t is accus-
ed of having bump of egotism be-
yond all, reason, and this distortion
has led it into all kinds of trouble, ac-
cording to some of the occupants of
the sanctums. We are of course the
last thing in road policy and con-
struction, a good stock raising and
farming section. Many of the politi-
cal schemes of the state terminate in
Orleans, even Stoddard B. Bates is
product of the county and an al
most endless catalogue of achieve
ment could be compiled. Evidently
the whole program for the campaign
of 1922 has been Cooked and dried"
right in the county of Orleans, that
is, according to the Free Press. But
seriously, the business men and
farmers of the county are for econ
omy all along the line, and while
few wish to continue the orgie of
spending, 80 per cent. of the voters
are uncompromisingl for the pay-as-
we-go plan in everything. 1t mat
tiers not what New York or Massa-
chusetts are doing. What Vermont
can afford to do, is what interests the
average man. 1t is not a question of
how much the state can borrow, but
how much it can do and pay for with
out too great tax burden. The clam
or for bond issue, of borrowing to
finance the schemes of the non-pro-
ducing dreamers, will fail of support
as it should. Orleans county is not
more for a. sane business administra-
ton of the affairs of the state than
the other Is counties; they all rea-
lie the menace of over borrowing
and spending that is abroad.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-02-08

Commissioner of Education, Demp-
sey urges a program and plan for
each town in it's educational policy.
In most practical way he suggests
that school directors and parents
consider improvements necessary in
school property that the matter of
proper appropriations may be made
at the coming town meeting. He also
urges the early consideration of
teachers. Adequate housing and
equipment and good teachers are nee
essary for the proper education of
our youth.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-02-08
Estate of William Goethe
STATE OF VERMONT

District of Orleans, IS.
The Honorable Probate Court for the
District ofOrleans.
To all persons interested in the estate of
william Goethe, late ofGreensboro, in said
District, deceased.
GREETING:
Alta Probate Court holden at export City
within and for said District on the 26th
day of jan, 1922 an instrument pur-
portingto be the last will and testament of
William Goethe, late of Greens boro,
in said District, deceased was presented
to the Court aforesaid. for probate.
And it is ordere by said Court that the
oath day of February 1929, at f, w. Bald
wins office in Barton, at D. m. be assigned
tor pr owing said instrument; and that no.
tice thereof be given to all persons concern
ed by publishing this order three weeks sue
cessi rely in the Orleans County Monitor a
paper circulating in that vicinity, in
said District, previous to he time appoint
ed.
Therefore. you are hereby notified to APP
pear before said Court, at thefime and place
aforesaid, and contest the probate of said
will if GU have cause.
Given under my hand at Newport City in
said District, this Goth day eff January 1922.
ST e. J.. SMITH. Judge.