Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-04-18
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Il GItCo3 10 "a 4tA1ONilCOu1y UOy
Mrs. Gibson of Montgomery Center
committed suicide the other day by hang
ing herself.
Trout fishing, although contrary to law
until May lst, is INDUCED in by sportsmen
Lincoln and Ripton.
Mrs. Margaret Mack of White River
Junction died Saturday, April 2, at the
advanced age of 103 years.
The Van Ness House, Burlington, was
sold for $25, 447, and the new proprietors
assumed charge on Monday last.
A Mrs. Currier of North Troy has just
filed petition for a divorce from her
husband whom she married in 1881.
One of the Swanton listers recently ex-
empted two cows ON account of their
having lost their upper front teeth.
The venerable Capt. E. Root, Inspector
of Steam Vessels at Burlington, has re-
signed on account of advancing age.
Frank Miner of West Halifax was ia
tally shot the other day by the accidental
discharge of gun in the hands of L. H.
Ballou.
The Burlington cotton mill now en-
ploys about three hundred operatives and
turns out twenty-five thousand yards of
cloth day.
Mrs. Edward Green of Bellows Falls,
the "money queen" is reported to have
sold her property in the place to avoid
| taxation.
Burlington has a debt of $439, 300, a
reduction during the year of $6,562, and
sinking fund of $5S, 900. It's schools
have cost it $40 1928, and its streets and
sewers $22, 125.
The case of the Williston murderers
William Wood and Mrs. Smith, has beer
continued to the next term of the Chit
tenden county court, on account of the
illness of Mrs. Smith.
Consumption is said to be not nearly
so common in the counties along LAX
Champlain as in those along the Connec
ticut river, the weather being more equa
BILE the year through near the lake.
At Swanton the other day a two years
old daughter of Myron Kidder, Will
playing GU the floor, her mother bein
engaged in washing, fell into a pail G
boiling water and was so terribly scalde
that death soon ensued.
Plymouth has the champion boy of tn
state. His name is Orson H. Butler
aged years, height feet 8 inches
weight 1872 pounds, waist measure A
inches, and one of his legs measures
, inches in circumference at the thigh.
The body of the missing Addison Val
derhoff of West Addison has been foun
in an open pasture near Dead creek, ha'
ing been there nearly ten days. He W;
forty-two years old and has been regar
ed as somewhat demented for the pa
year.
Bakersfield had lively school meetir
the other day. One of the committee,
, lawyer, was charged with having Apr
priated three cords of wood belonging
! the school, and this led to fight, one
y the features of which was an attempt
u bite off the ears of the accuser.
The listers Of the town are progressil
= satisfactorily with their work.
obstructive tactics have been encountt
:, ed, and the lists thus far taken indica
! that the grand list of the town may rea
- $4,000. The list under the old law W
=, about S11 ,000.-Montpelier Wdtchnadn.
N Lieutenant Governor Barstow and He
m Charles Thatcher, one of the directors
m the state prison and house of correctiC
of visited the latter institution Tuesday
RI last week, to which it is proposed
re make a forty feet addition to the wo
or shop as soon as the weather modera
IN sufficiently.
oy F. G. Clark, an employee of the Ada
IS, Slate and Tile Company of Northfie
r. while working on the quarry, WednesC
forenoon, was caught by the drag CHI
of of the derrick, drawn over the ledge, 6
on falling perpendicularly 60 feet was aim
nd instantly killed. He leaves wife 6
he four children.
IL The April term of the Lamoille cou
as court opens on Tuesday, the Goth in
en- there are eighty-nine cases in the cou
Is court and twentv-six in chancery
IT. slight increase over the December dock
ng The most important case for trial will
es, that of the state as. Moses ID. Smith,
Ike dicted for manslaughter.
Oh The state championship checker ma
y between Messrs. Bailey of Rutland {
'lie Powell of Cuttingsville was concluded
'he Rutland last week Wednesday event
'ie Mr.. Bailey, the present holder of
'eu championship board remaining in pos:
aI sion. The score at the end STOOD Bal
yes four; Powell, three; draws, thirteen.
his
for Bristol woman has thus ADVERT
adj her liege lord in a local paper: cd
! is strayed or stolen, from his berea
o,y household, one red-headed man, five
4
ate teeth on upper jaw, and one real one
ok lower jaw. Please cause said man t.
Of arrested and returned to his berea
ha wife" He returned of his own accor
ual The butter market at st. Adams, T
cad day, was active with increased shipm
ed. of new butter. Prices remain unchan
ay, from last week, good to choice brins
ng, 20 to 80 cents, and choice lots % and
cents per pound. Maple sugar in C;
was in great demand for shipment W
;, and prices ranged from to IL cents
cake, and from to 10 cents for tub su
IL The supply of ''oleo" is exhausted.
that The woman who committed suicide
a. the City Hotel in Keene, New Hampsl