Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-10-22

Several of our people attended the
funeral Of L. G. Miller at Newport last
week Mr. Miller was brought up in
all.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
SIT. .TOhnSDUry.
Miss A. E. Batchelder and Miss n. NJ.
Clark attended the state Teachers Instl-
tute held at Newport last week.
The third annual reunion of the Third
Vermont Volunteers, held at St. Johns
bury last week was quite successful,
in point of numbers end enjoyment. Ex-
Governor Pingree, Il former colonel of
the regiment, presided The time was
fully occupied in that, to an old soldier,
most pleasing Misunderstanding up reml-
niscences of the past. Lieutenant-Colo-
mel W. H. Hubbard of Lyndonville was
elected president; Captain A. E. Pierce,
vice-president and Captain Montgomery
of st. Johnsbury secretary. A campfire
was held in the evening, at which the
principal address was made by Comrade
| Skinner of Barton. The next meeting
is to be held at White River Junction.
Eugene Cowen, brakeman on the Lake
road mixed train leaving here at p M,
was the victim of a horrible and fatal
accident Monday afternoon. He was
tending a switch at North Concord and
| got one foot caught in frog in such a
way that he was unable to eXtricate it,
and the wheels ran over him. One leg
was crushed into pulp for its entire
| length, the hip of the opposite leg was
broken and one arm was broken in two
| places Coweu lived in Whltefeld,
! whittier he was at once taken, but he
| died soon after reaching there. The un-
fortunate man was about twenty-one
years of age and unmarried.
Two children of Leon Pnard's, Il
daughter, Helen E. aged four and son
! Arthur, aged nine years, were poisoned
Monday by eating canned fish, After
"a hours of terrible suffering the girl
died The boy will recover. The can
was opened on Friday and the fish eaten
at dinuer by various members of the
family without any unfavorable results.
Some of the fish was left in the can I'M
til the following Monday morning when
the two children were allowed to eat it
without any thought of danger. The
boy started soon after for school but was
taken with violent vomiting. He started
to return home vomiting all the way and
finally was so weakened as to be unable to
reach the house without assistance.
Meanwhile the girl had been taken in the
same way, and though everything pos
sible was done for her relief she died
Tuesday morning. Both were great
sufferers. They had every symptom of
being poisoned, and there is no doubt
but that the fish caused the trouble, as
no other member of the family partook
of itson Monday and the children were
the only sufferers. To save other fam
lilies from a similar experience and also
to overcome any undue prejudice that is
likely to be created against canned food,
fruit or vegetables, it is we'll to follow the
directions given by local dealer some
days ago, before the above sad event
occurred in relation to canned goods ::
Whenever you open any kind OF canned
goods empty the entire contents of the
can at once into a glass or porcelain dish.
The moment the air comes in contact
with the contents of the can fermenta-
ton begins, the resulting acid acting on
the tin and producing more or less
poisonous compound, as the contents
oair hn Fer q
longer or shorter time. The habit that
prevails in many families of opening and
using the contents directly from a can
until all is consumed is dangerous one,
while if the contents are at once emptied,
the only thing to be guarded against is
the same danger of souring, ETC., incl
dent to keeping any cooked food exposed
to the air too long before eating. Let
proper care in it's use he exercised and
no danger need be apprehended in the
use of food properly canned Cdledon-
ian.
East Burke.
A. c. Farmer has bought 80 acres of
land of Joel Jenkins, paying $1,000.
Loren Aver is repairing his house !;
Harvey Freeto is doing the work.
Miss Belle Gleason has gone to Hol-
yoke, Mass TO work in the thread factory.
Will Bowditch has moved his father
and mother here from Cabot. They &C.
cupy the Baptist parsonage.
The Amidon girls are still very
sick with typhoid fever.-Harvey Prouty
who has long been sick, Is much better
West Burke
Ezra Powers who has been IN poor
health is failing quite rapidly.
Jennie French has returned from Bos-
dence and Lowell this week
VIM Foss is repairino his housa and