Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-01-11
WORLD ITEMS

The Boston and Albany railroad
has re-opened it's Springfield shops,
putting 400 men to work.
Both the National and American
leagues will open the season of 1922
on April IL and close October 1.
DR.. J. C. O'Connor of Manchester,
N. H., former Dartmouth football
coach, is dead, after brief illness.
Soldier patients at three New York
hospitals have had their ration allow
ance cut from $1.10 to 80 cents day.
Chain stores in New York and Bos-
bread on the market, weighing IA
ounces.
The city of Newburyport, Mass,
has reduced water rates 10 per cent.
to meet the reduced earning power of
many of it's residents.
A group of moving picture corpo-
rations have offered Postmaster Cen
eral Hays $15O,OOO year for three
years as general manager.
cannon de Valera, at the session of
the Irish parliament at Dublin Fri
day, announced his resignation as
president of the Irish republic.
Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan
and the United States have agreed
to the proposal to prohibit the use of
submarines against merchant shiDs.
| A Paris court was recently shocked
to learn that a brilliant advocate who
had won four decisions before it was
not a lawyer, but an escaped patient
from an asylum.
Edgar F. Gilmore, a 23-year-old
| Lynn, Mass, bank clerk is missing
with $4,000 cash and negotiable Sc
curities, as well as with a popular
girl of that city.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
West reports there remain in bond a
total of 42,5OO,O00 gallons of spirits
of all kinds, decrease of 100000
gallons for the year.
| President Harding has re-appoint-
ed James H. Walsh postmaster at
Leominster, Mass. Walsh is Dem
ocrat and brother of United States
Senator David I. Walsh.
The worlds record for foul shoot
ing in professional basket ball was
hung up at Niagara Falls last week
when Mike Sweeney shot IA sonsecu-
|
David Wellever, for years active in
the affairs of Hornell, N. Y, cele-
brated his Tooth birthday anniversary
last week in a house he built with
is own hands IL years ago.
The largest crane ever built has
| been placed at the League Island
navy yard in Philadelphia. 1t will
lift million pounds and ten-story
building could be placed under its
| jib.
Boise Penrose, senior U nj t d
States senator from Pennsylvania,
died suddenly in Washington last
Monday. His colleague, Senator
Knox, also died suddenly few weeks
ago.
The Kentucky Trotting Horse
Breeders association at it's annual
meeting last week decided to renew
the Kentucky futurity for foals of
1922 with a guaranteed purse of $780,
| OO(
Prohibition agents Friday raided
Jacks restaurant in New York City
and hauled away nearly 100000
worth of liquor in motor trucks. A
large crowd of shoppers witnessed
the raid.
James Hunter of Bridgewater,
Mass, aged 80, has retired from the
employ of Stanley Iron Works, after
81 years of service as a machinlst.
during which time he was never once
late to work.
Senator Norris, Republican, of Ne
braska, has introduced a resolution
providing for an amendment to the
federal constitution for direct vote
of the people in the election of pres
ident and vice president.
A commission appointed by the
Massachusetts, legislature last spring
has reported showing how $1O,O0O,-
900 can be saved the state by the con-
solidation of numerous boards and the
insistence on reasonable efficiency.
The House of Representatives Fri
day passed it's first annual supply
bill under the budget system, carry
ing among other provisions $9,25O,-
600 for the enforcement of prohibit
ton for fiscal year beginning July 1
The strike in the paper industry
affecting II large independent mills
has been settled through arbitration
BY it's provision unskilled labor is
cut eight cents an hour, but the
scale for skilled men will remain the
same.
The Canadian government begar
minting new fve-cent piece this
week, of the size of an American
nickle. The old Canadian silver five
cent piece has always been criticized
because it was often mistaken for 6