Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-09-02
State News Items.

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| Bellows Falls.
Henry M Arms of Springfield. a we'll
| known Vermonter and member of
| the Board of Agriculture, died sud
denly of heart disease last week.
If Morrisville does not keep right
on "boomingn it will be no fault of
the Neavs and Citizen. That paper
keeps up constant din of praise for
the town.
It's expected that at least $50
Vermonters will attend the National
encampment at Louisville. All the
sleeping car berths have been taken
already.
The postoffice department. has made
the following annual allowance for
clerk hire at the Vermont postoffices
named: Montpelier, 1924; St. Adams,
50, 200; Brattleboro, $2,64S.
A. J. Maxam, the famous campaign
singer, has received an offer of $15
a Sunday to sing in Boston during the
months of October and November;
also a fattering offer from Indian
apolis for the same months
The state highway commissioners
report that the best six miles of road
in the state is that running from the
Barnard line through South Pomfret
to Woodstock. Bicyclists agree with
them team can go the full length
of this road at 2:40 clip without halt
and without danger.
Word was received by State Secre
tary, E. E. Towner that the efforts to
secure Rev. d. L. Moody as one of
the speakers at the State Y. P.S. G. E.
convention at Burlington next month
had been successful and that he would
come with one of his singers, Mr..
Jacobs, and occupy Wednesday even
ing, September %.
The harvesting of the tobacco crop
in the southern section of the Con-
necticut river valley commenced this
week, ten days earlier than usual.
The crop is heavy and without rust. |
Vermont has about ITO acres this
year, rs to so acres being in the town
of PutDey. The average size of the |
field is from five to eight acres.
F. w. Farnham, who has had wide |
and varied experience in copper
mining for the past seven years, says
that the mines at Copperfield are in
good shape and could be put in work
ing order in less than a weeks time.
He also says that there is over $12,-
900 worth of copper, with the market |
at IL, now on the roast beds ready for |
smelling. 1t is thought that copper |
will soon 60 to 15 If that expecta-
ton is realized, that section will |
boom. seseUC +,
The Congregational church inEWil-s
Jamestown, which celebrated its Tooth |
anniversary on Tuesday, was organic |
ed August Is, 1895, by Elijah Lyman,
with a membership of ten, and Rev.
Jesse Olds as the first pastor. The |
present house of worship was erected /
in 1912 on land decided to the society |
by fPefley Howe in 1903. The number |
of pastors during the century has /
been is, oand the oldest member of the |
church is Mrs. DIR. N. w. Perry of |
Burlington, who is SO years old.
The annual meeting of the Kings |
Daughters is to be held in Burlington,
Monday and Tuesday, the I'd and Sd
of September. Among the SPEAKERS |
from out of the state will be Mrs. |
Mary Lowe Dickinson, member of |
the women's congress at Washington,
and Mrs. I. @. Davis, both of New
York, and officers in the Internation-
al Kings Daughters circle. The rest
of the program will be occupied by |
speakers from about Vermont and a
profitable meeting is anticipated. pGr i
The bicycle races on the Morris
vile park track Tuesday afternoon
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large number of contestants Lewis
Dodge, of Barre, was starter, and F.
w. Nichols of Barre, referee. The
results: One mile novice race-Leon
@. Emmons, Morrisville, won; Frank
Stevens, West Derby, second; P. A.
Shattuck, Hardwick, third. Time,
3-371a. Half mile open j. E.Walsh,
Barre, won; Philip Pierce, Winches-
ter, second; Clayton J. Lewis, North
ampton, third. Time, 1913 Half mile
race for boys under seventeenth. P.
Brown, Rutland, won; Lewis @. Rob
bins, Barre, second, James Clark,
M orrisville, third Time, lib 1-5
Mile open, $3.50 class-Philip Pierce,
Winchester, N. H., won; Frank A.
Fish, Keene, N. H, second; @. M
Walletson, Plainfield, N. j., third;
Time, 2:48. One mile handicap
Frank A. Fish, Keene, N. H., won;
g. H. Craigne, Springfield, second;
Leon @. Emmons, third; j. E. Walsh,
Barre, (scratch) fourth. Time, 218.
One mile open-J. E. Walsh, Barre,
WOE; @. j. Lewis, Northampton,
second; G. M. Walletson, third. The I
last half was made in Iii.