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PAGE 2 ORLEANS COUNTY MONITOR, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1 9 14 ORLEANS COUNTY MONITOR WALLACE H. GILPIN, Publisher, Barton, Vt. Published every Wednesday afternoon. Entered at the Post-office at Barton, Vt., as second-class matter. TERMS Six months, 75c . Invariably in ad- Oaayair, $1.50. Two months, 25c. vance - When your subscription expires the paper stops. Is Judge L. P. Slack so much more ''impartial" in his treatment of attor neys and does he carry himself with so much greater "dignified bearing" than the other justices that it becomes noticeable in the sessions of court over which he presides? At a banquet in Middlebury last week where 100 men were present Governor Fletcher, who was the guest of honor, asked for a vote on the special session question and report states that every man present voted against the special session. This causes the Rutland News to remark that anyone who is opposed to the extra session is a "numbskull." The Monitor wonders if this includes the Governor. From the two-column pronouncement of the St. Johnsbury Caledonian of two weeks ago we judge the Monitor credited the following paragraph to the wrong St. Johnsbury paper last week. Speaking the language of the college campus and catalog there are prospects for a big freshman class in Congress next term. With at least thirty-two vacancies to be filled in the senate, Charles A. Prouty will hardly feel lonesome in his new surroundings. Then again, the graduating class is an unusually large and promising one, and the congressional alumni association is growing larger all the time. Brother Walter doubts if the para- graph would own the Caledonian as its sponsor if it had anything to say about it. WHAT THE PAPERS SAY. The Monitor believes 'there is more truth than poetry in the statement of B. F. Thompson, a prominent Progres sive of Massachusetts, when he said in announcing his return to the Republi can fold, that the Republican party now "is actually more progressive than the party now masquerading as progressive." Locally we believe that to be absolutely true, and there are unmistakeable signs of a movement back tJ the Republican party. How far the movement will go is difficult to say. The Monitor is informed upon good authority that the price paid the farm er for butter is from six to ten cents per pound higher in and about Sher- brooke than here. Why this difference? The Monitor took ' pains last week to ascertain the price paid for butterfat by several creameries in this neighbor hood and found a considerable varia tion in prices, but the Canadian farmer was receiving several cents more per pound for his product than any cream ery paid here. Has anyone the answer. The remedy proposed by former Commissioner Prouty is to give the United States government power to revise the issue of securities of the great interstate public utilities, and thereby protect both the stockholders and the patrons of the road who ultimately pay the bills. . In the not distant future the people of the United States will do precisely what Mr. Prouty has recommended and the era of the juggling of the money of widows and orphans as well as stockholders in general by "frenzied financiers" of the Mellen brand will end. When that time comes public service companies will take their true place as a public service in which the interests or stockholders and patron are recognized as one. Burlington Free Press. After telling something of the detail of how many millions were lost to the New Haven stockholders, the Free Press editorially makes the above comment. What better thing could Vermont possibly do than to put Mr. Prouty into the United States senate where he might trame and have imme diate charge of such a bill. His first hand knowledge and experience would make his work invaluable. These great public service corporation questions are bound to face Congress soon and Mr. Prouty would immediately be rec ognized as authority upon them. Some Brattleboro Measurements. Paying its respects to United States Attorney Alexander Dunnett as a possible candidate for congress, the Brattleboro Reformer compares him with Haskins, Tyler, Grout- and Poland and concludes, that his standing in congress would not measure up to theirs. Will the Reformer kindly apply the same measurements to Messrs. Graham, Dale, Gordon and Gibson and report the results. Wind sor Journal. On the Right Track. On the front Dasre of the Bristol Herald 13 this display advertisement of the Bristol hiprh school. "The agri cultural class of the school is prepared to do a limited amount of spraying. Saws, pruning shears and a barrel spray-pump have been added to its equipment," etc. - That represents educational enter prise and progress., In this practical way these students are learning the subject and teaching the community. Incidentally they are getting back to the land and will stay there. May the good work spread. The Advance. The "Interests" and the Congressional Candidate. "Observer" asks for the name of the corporation- with which the man in question is connected and we answer the Boston & Maine, but the support of the corporation itself was not promised as "Observer" would like to have us say. The congressional possibilities with whom favor was sought are Mr. Dunnett and Mr. Graham, both of whom will stand up against insidious influences. When "Observer' speaks of "hostility" to corporations he shows exactly where he stands. We have said I l .11-1 . tm repeatedly tnat tne interests 01 our public service corporations and of our public service are real one, and that the corporations as well as the people and our laws should have fair play. We have said that the railroads were al ready paying taxes high enough, and so on. Burlington Free Press. I)illingham vs Prouty. Gov. F. E. Howe. W. J. Bigelow and H. K. Darling- favored it. At a recent gathering of the Middlebury board of trade there was a unanimous expres sion of opinion against the special ses sion idea, Governor Fletcher himself being present at this meeting. How ever, in spite of this division of opinion there are strong reasons why a special legislative session should be called, among them being the need of revis ing the statutes to conform to the re vised state constitution, the enactment of a direct primary law and the provi sion of a method for electing supreme and superior judges to serve during the interim from Dec. 1 to Jan. 1. In view of these facts the contention of Fuller C. Smith, "that the surest way to de feat the Republican ticket at the next state election is to have a special ses sion of the legislature called , seems hardly worthy of serious consideration. Persjstence in the attitude taken by Mr. Smith will do more to harm the Republican party in Vermont than a score of extra sessions. Brattleboro Reformer. PROBATE COURT Prouty Clubs are Non-partisan. The columns of this paper are open to any candidate of any political party for any announcement, statement, or discussion over their own signature, of any reasonable length, at any time, without money and without price. We make this statement to correct an impression that some people seem to have that because a paper's editorial columns are addressed to certain policies opposed by them that . they cannot get or will not be given space for a hearing. Banish that thought and bring in your statements. The progressive Burlington Clipper calls the conference of Republicans at Burlington a gathering of the "rem nant" of the party. Considering that about 100 members of the party were present and of their own volition and merely with a desire to see tne party support advanced legislation, the des ignation does not apply with particu lar closeness. Barre Times. Perhaps the Clipper will tell us when and where a larger number of ProgreS' sives have met from all parts of Vermont and did more to bring about a better program of things in the interests of the people. George C. Nourse, Brownington. Administrator's inventory filed. Flora Fisher of Irasburg, adjudged mentally incapable of caring for her self or her property. E. A. Pike ap pointed guardian. Myrtie A. Marsh, .Newport. Order issued for commitment to Vermont state hospital for the insane. Lewis Allbee trust estate. Barton. Final account of Central Savings Bank & Trust Company, trustee, allowed, and funds in hands of trustee ordered to be paid over to the administrator of the estate of Willie Eugene Allbee. H. H. Hyde, spendthrift, Barton. Annual account of A. R. Bennett al lowed. L. E. Thayer estate, Newport. Set tlement of administrator s account continued to May 20, at Newport, 10 a. m. Mitchell Hunt, estate, Troy. Will filed for probate. Hearing assigned for May 9, next, at Newport, 2 p. m. Caroline M. Hoyt estate. Craftsbury. Will filed for probate. Hearing, May 11 next, at Newport, 2 p. m. Zophar M. Mansur, estate. Newport. Will allowed. Arthur G. Mansur and D. W. Davis appointed executors ; B. F. Moor and C. A. Bancroft, appraisers and commissioners. Little has been heard of late of the boom of the Hon. Chas. A. Prouty for United States senator from Vermont It is evident, however, that the move ment is making progress, for Senator Dillingham's campaign for re-election has been formally opened. A Dilling ham club has been formed in his home town of Waterbury and other clubs will be organized throughout the state. The contest between Dillingham and Prouty may not be so bitter or absorb ing as was that between Dillingham and Grout, when the present senator was first elected, but it will develop some thrills before it closes. The senator is not a master -of political strategy and has few of the arts of the politician, but a strong political ma chine has been built up for him. The Prouty forces have the benefit of en thusiasm, which may not hold cut, while the Dillingham men have the Are Not Our Elementary Schools Our Finishing Schools. In the May American Magazine a public school teacher speaks his mind about our public schools, following is a part of what he says : "Ninety-three out of every hundred do not get beyond the elementary schools. From here they leave, the voters of tomorrow, upon whose judg ment, will depend more and morerf di rectly the solution of the nation's prob lems. And what are these elementary schools? Merely stepping-stones for the high schools. Frankly, freely, that and nothing more. W.hen are we going to cease trying to lift ourselves by 'our bootstraps and recognize the fact that the elementary schools' 'are the finishing schools for the nation? And when are we going to break away from this frantic struggle for stand ardization and bend our energies .toward individualization? When shall we give to each child in whatever time fortune may grant him for schooling, the op portunity to acquire the greatest pow ers of his head and h'nds unhampered by the limitations of artificial grading?" The officials of the Orleans Prouty club have given out the following statement regarding the relation of the Prouty - movement to the three political parties. 1 "The Prouty clubs now organized and hereafter to be organized will, so far a3 lies in our power, be maintained as strictly non-partisan organizations. It is not the purpose of these clubs to interfere with or attempt to influence the action of any one of the three great political parties. We have but one object in view and that is the non partisan nomination and election of Hon. C. A. Prouty as the next United States senator from Vermont. We expect to make the voters of the state so familiar with the record, character and ability of C. A. Prouty that the voters will demand of their respective parties an endorsement of our candi date. We urge every true citizen of Vermont, Republicans. Progressives and Democrats alike, to make the choice of our next senator a matter of civic pride. We solicit the support of the 23,000 Republicans because in Mr. Prouty we have a candidate of the highest and truest type ; we solicit the support of the 22,000 Progressives because Mr. Prouty stands for the square deal in politics as well as busi ness and because he has the ability and courage to defend the interests of the people from the encroachments of special privilege; we solicit the sup port of the 15.000 Democrats because we believe the administration would appreciate a senator who would be bound only by the dictates of true statesmanship; and we appeal to the people as a whole because we have a candidate of abiilty whose brain is so in tune with itself that it gives him courage to rise above the demands of mere party politics. By the election of such a man we will restore to Ver mont her fast-fading senatorial pres tige and to that end we urge the support of Republicans, Progressives and Democrats and if support comes in bunches of 23,000, 22,000 and 15,000 respectively.so much the better for the state which has produced such senators as Collamer, Edmunds, Morrill and Proctor. Million Dollar Campaign. The announcement is made by Presi dent Wm. R. Moody of the Northfield schools, which were founded by his father; Dwight. L. Moody, that the schools have just received an anony mous gift of $100,000, with the sugges tion by the giver that his donation shall be used to start a campaign to raise a million dollar fund to be added to the permanent endowment. The gift has been accepted for this purpose and the million dollar campaign is now under way. BUSINESS DIRECTOR. Y CHECK CHRONIC RHEUMATISM NOW D een- In the appointment of C. S. Skinner of Orleans as Republican state com mitteeman tor uneans county a wise selection has been made. Mr. Skinner entertains broad views, holds high ideals and represents the type of Republicanism that must predominate in our state in order that the party shall live in Vigor and strength. In reply to Mr. Williams's published re quest for an expression of a choice he received 41 replies. Of this number Mr. Skinner had twenty-six, G. B. Young, eight and S. B. Bates, seven. Acting upon the desires of the greatest num ber who expressed themselves, Mr. Skinner was made Orleans county's representative of the state committee. A. G. Bugbee estate, Derby. Exec utor's inventory filed. John Nelson estate, Derby. Inven tory of administratrix filed. Burton B. Blake estate. Barton. In ventories oi administratrix and ap praisers filed. License granted to sell real estate. Eli Gilbert estate, Albany. Commis sioners report niea. Annie L. McVetty estate, Derby. Final administration account of H. E. Campbell, administrator, allowed. Francis D. Lord estate, Holland. Will filed for probate. Hearing May 11 next, at 2 p. m., at Newport. Melissa J. Brock estate, Troy. Li cense issued to sell real estate. Angelia R. Metcalf, estate. Irasburg. Commissioners' report filed. The Vermont Anti-Saloon League wants to have the question of local option versus state proninition again submitted to the votors in a referen- i r"v j i dnm. ui course mere can De no objection to a referendum provided there is a real demand tor it, but to . i i j i return to state pronioition would De a calamity from a temperance point of view. Those who desire temperance and decency and remember conditions under state prohibition and the town and city agency would not hesitate long as to how to cast their vote. Bellows Falls Time. If the return to prohibition would be a calamity "from a temperance point of view" why are the liquor interests always on the side of local option if they cannot secure 'straight license? Why has this been true in Vermont and why should it be true again? If more liquor is sold and drunk under prohibition than under local option as some would have us think, why don't the breweries and liquor houses get out and hustle for prohibition? Cyrus D. Metcalf estate, Irasburg. Commissioners report filed. Cynthia N. Hogdgon estate. Crafts- bury. Commissioners' report filed. Myrtie A. Marsh, insane. Newport, Application filed by guardian for li cense to sell real estate. Heariner thereon. May 13 next, at Newport, 10 a. m. Geo. W. Bryant estate, Morgan. Wil hied tor probate. Hearing, May 18, next at Newport, 2 p. m. Mary A. Rogers estate, Albany. bixecutor's inventory hied. Roland C. Rogers, minor. Newport. Guardian s inventory hied. fin b. ijooawin, jr., non compos. Greensboro. Account allowed of L. A. Jackson, administrator of the estate of A. S. Clary, deceased, former guar dian. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Re ward for any case of Catarrh tha cannot De cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have knovch F.J Cheney for the laet 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all bu-iDe8B transactions and fiaancially able to carry out a,nv oDiigatiODS ma"e oy ms firm. NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE, v To'edo, Onio Hall'- Catarrh Cure is taken internally acting directly upon the blood and ma cous surfaces of the svstem. Testimoni als sent tree. Price (5 ceots per bottle a -la uy an a ueistP. Take Hairs Family Pills for constipation Vermont Notes. The overwhelming vote to exempt the proposed new Barre betel from taxation for a period of five years indi cates that the hotel will surely be put up. The vote in favor of exemption was 980 against 78. RHEUM A Through'y Drives out Seated Uric Acid Poison. mere is onlv one way to be frea from Rheumatism the accumulated impurities caused by an excess of Uric Acid poison must be txpelled irora tne oody. That is what RHEU MA will do and do it thoroughly If you suffer from any form of Rhenma tism Sciatica, Inflammatory, Arthri tis. Muscular or Gut Gn a bottle of KUfcUMA from F. D. Pierce for 50 cents it is guaranteed. l L tl T - ror years i was a cripple on crutches from Rheumatism. One bottle of EHEUMA cured me com pletely." J. K. Greenberg, 2238 Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago, 111. Sold nd guaranteed in Orleana by F. J. Kinney. Wagons! Wagons! Wagons! I have just received two car loads of wagons, the famous H. H. Babcock and Excelsior make. are look W.R.Aldrich Office, ORLEANS, VERMONT F. W. BALDWIN Attorney, Insurance Agent, Surety Bonds BARTON, VT. C. A. CRAMPTON, M. D. St. Johnsbury, Vt.J SPECIALIST. EYE. EAR, .NOSE, AND THEOAT. Office 29 Main St.. over Fob Office. Office Hoars: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p. m Appointments for examination of t&e ea for glasses can be made in advance by letiei ortelephom. Harry Dickens AUCTIONEER Orleans, Vt. N. E. Telephone Vermont Notes. Mayor James E. Burke .of Burling ton plans a conference of the mayors of Vermont cities soon to talk over commission forms of government for Vermont cities and general civic improvements. We guarantee that there none better. Just call and them over. strength ot an Boston Herald. entrenched position. Rural Vermont Conditions. It has become a habit with some writers to term Vermont decad exit and to point to conditions in the rural sec tions of the state in a manner that might lead some to suppose certain back districts were reverting to a state of untamed savagery. Guy Potter Benton, president of the Univer sity of Vermont, who gave an address here Conference week, affirms that it is untair to our state to claim condi tions here worse than in other states. Dr. Benton believes one of the chief causes of the conditions found in some of the sequestered hamlets of our state is due to lack of church privileges. Many have no religious services what soever, others are supplied with young and inefficient or old, worn-out preach ers, isut this state oi ariairs is not peculiar to Vermont. In 40 of the 168 townships4 of Connecticut no church services are held. In the western states, conditions are still worse and in the northwestern states, where there is a large foreign population we find but little interest taken in the things that make for the highest citizenship. The result is that we are raising up a crop pf ' American-born heathen" as Dr. Benton expressed it. Let us look to the rural sections of our state and make every effort to improve condi tinns but, at the same - time not imag ine ourselves worse than we are. Hardwick Gazette. Church Consolidation. Rev. R. F. Lowe, superintendent of the St. Johnsbury district of the Ver mont Methodist conference, , says church consolidation is not practical with the feeling of jealousy and hos tility that exists in the smaller Vermont communities. The St. Johnsbury Cale donian thinks he is right, but says "it must be admitted, if this is true, the people of Vermont are too narrow to save the churches in the small com- munites of the state. Conducted as separate denominational institutions they have long been losing ground and must soon lose their existence. Could people sink some of the technicalities of their neighbors and unite their forces there is hardly a community in the state that would not "supnort a live and influential church." That many towns are over churched and lose their strength through doctrinal differences is very apparent. Many of us can name little towns of less than 12. 0 population that support beg pardon, give existence to three and even four churches. If they would center their work on the fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man, and the Golden Rule, in one church they would increase immeasurably the spiritual influence and uplift in the communities which now struggle to maintain de nominational churches. Brattleboro Phoenix. The Extra Session Question. There seems to be a wide division of opinion as to the wisdom of an . extra session of the legislature. The ques tion aroused considerable discussion at the recent gathering of Republicans in Burlington following the introduction of a resolution asking the governor to call a special session for the purpose of enacting a direct primaryjaw in ac cordance with the expressed wishes of the people. Such "old liners" as Ful ler C. Smith, Frank C. Williams, Earle Kinsley and P. W. Clement were op posed to the idea, while other and more Progressive Republicans like Lieut. 11 TT7ifWTTm iTMTTTrVTTTK HTT T IS rLMfi li AS! I also have a carload of Worcester Kemp Manure Spreaders . There is not a spreader on the market that will spread as even and run as easy as Worcester Kemp, with the low body which makes it easy to load. If you will see this spreader working it will be the one you will buy. Remember that I have Brad ley's Phosphate. Also the larg est line of tillage implements of any dealer in the county and the price is the lowest. F. S. Whitcher Barton, Vermont N. H. DREW Licensed Auctioneer Glover, Vt. Satisfaction Guaranteed. FREDERICK LAiNPHEAR, M. D. ORLEANS, VERMONT QHNERAL PRACTICE, Eye, Ear, Kosp and Throat. Examination of eyes for glasses by appointment. JOSIAH A . PEARSON, DENTIST, BARTON. VT. OFFICE IN Owen's Block. W. W. REIHDEN, T AWYER, SHAVER'S BLOOK, Baetow, Vi JLJ PEOPLE'S TELEPHONE. x J. N. & P. L. WEBSTER Insurance Agents, Barton, Vt . Mileage Boots to rent. Ficture Frames made to order. Office over Lang's Jewelry Store. J. M. BLAKE, M. D. BARTON, VT. 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