Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-03-22
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

STATE NEWS ITEMS.
Rutland has had twenty-four alarms of
fire in the last ten months.
The Salvation Army claims twenty
eight converts in Burlington.
Ex-Governor J. Gregory Smith spent
Sunday before last in the City of Mexico.
/. The freight traffic has been heavier on
the Central the last ten days than for
nearly two years before.
Sugar-making has already begun in
some parts of the state. The yield prom
Uses to be fully an average one.
The Philharmonic Society of Burling-
ton proposes to hold it's next annual mu-
steal festival in that city the last week in
May.
Colonel A. F. Walker of Rutland is at
Nassau, New Providence, one Of the Ba-
hama islands, for the benefit of his
health.
Receiver Rich Of the St. Adams Trust
Company will have nearly 100000 on
hand when the Norwood money is paid
over to him.
The initial number of new weekly
newspaper, to be called the Rutland E1-
press, will be issued April LIST, with jew
EFT P. Cain as editor.
John Jones of West Pawlet was last
Friday seriously injured by the prema-
ture explosion of blast at the Rising &
Nelson red slate quarry.
Homer A. Lyon of Bennington has pur-
chased kaolin or white clay bed at South
Wallingford. 1t is said to be the finest
clay yet mined in the country.
Hon. Frederick Billings left New York
and other friends, in his private car, for
a trip to Atlanta and New Orleans.
1t is expected that the first volume of
the History of the Odd Fellowship in Ver
| mont, covering the time from 1916 to
1870, will be completed during the year.
Hon. Peter Buchanan OF Barnet died
on Sunday, aged seventy-eight. He rep
resented the town in the legislature, and
was elected assistant judge of the county.
Louise Clemens, claiming to hail from
Dorset, was arrested in Rutland last
week on charge of forging notes. She
| denied the forgery, and awaits trial in de-
| fault of bail.
| Miles A. Wyman of Chester, who has
| just completed a term in state prison for
an assault on small girl, has again been
| arrested for similar assault upon girl
of eight years.
| Benningtonians are DESTROYS that the
| cornerstone of the battle monument be
laid next August, SO that the annual mus
Bennington at that time.
The following towns in Vermont adopt
ed the town system of schools at the re-
cent annual town meetings, viz: Spring
field, Richmond, Newark, Lunenburgh,
Sunderland and Marlboro.
The thirty-three surviving veterans Of
Company A, Second Vermont Volunteers,
are to hold reunion at Bennington, May
IA, it being the twenty-tifth anniversary
of their being sworn into service.
Several new cars have been put ON the
Passumpsic road. In the summer they
will run from Springfield to Quebec with
out change, being used as parlor cars in
the day time and sleepers at night.
A suit has commenced against the Pas
sumpsic railroad by Mrs. John M. Potter
of St. Johnsbury to recover damages for
the death of her husband and the severe
injuries she received last year in an acct
dent ON the road.
A little son of Samuel Cakes, of West
Windsor, while recently at play with an
older brother in the wood shed, had one
arm badly crushed and bruises infiicte
falling, which completely buried him.
A prominent name in the death-roll
Of the week is that of William 81. Root of
Burlington. Mr.. Root was secretary o
the Masonic grand lodge of Vermont Ga
place he had held ever since the tota
eclipse suffered by Henry Clark of Rut
land) and had been city clerk of Burling
| ton for sixteen years. He was the mos
eccentric Of men, but kind hearted an(
? | capable, and he leaves many friends, il
| and out Of the Masonic fraternity, t.
| mourn his death.
, Col. Jacob Kent died ofparalysis Marcl
18th. He was born in Newbury April 20
1900, and for 20 years was proprietor o
{ the Coosack House, Wells River, but ha
/ | lived on his farm for the last 80 years
: He took the census of Orange county il
1880, 1910 and 1880, was sherifrfrom 1874
to 1914 and was United States marsha
for Vermont during the administration o
President Polk. He joined the Masoni
: order in 1926 and was life long demo
: crat.
y A special freight train from Palmer
# Mass, to Brattleboro, narrowly escape,
serious catastrophe on the forenoon
- of March 9th. The train was on it's wa
to Brattleboro when rail was discover
ed on the track near Montague station
It proved to have been placed there by
l. thirteen year old boy for fun. The pile
J. of the locomotive threw the rail off TIL
j. track, but had it been placed in front {
\ the passenger train it would have gon
= under the wheels, causing disastrou
wreck.
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