Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-02-10
State News Items.

F. H. Perry of Montpelier has Sc
cured a patent for pneumatic tire.
The Masonic lodges of the 18th dis
trict will hold their annual meeting
at Richford on the 18th of February,
under the auspices of Missisquoi
lodge of that place.
Capt A. W. Fuller of st. Adams
has been appointed by Commander
in chief Walker of the G. A. r. to
have charge of military instruction
in the schools of the State.
Articles of association of the Lun
enburg Mfg Co. have been filed with
the Secretary of State. The business
will be the manufacture of burial
cases, and the capital will be $4,000
From the report of 1896 it is learned
that the Vermont Division, Sons of
Veterans, has a membership of 900 in
good standing. There, are AZ camps.
The membership ought to be largely
increased.
The liquor dealers of Swanton were
raided on Monday, the 9th inst, and
a number of them were hauled up
and fined. They appealed and fur
nished bonds to appear at the April
term OF cOurU.
The following note was received by
a dog owner in Island Pond recently.
s'Keep your Dogg in mites. he goes
to the neyburs and houls SO they kant
slope. If you don't take care of him I
shall. Awl the neyburs." ~
/. The State board of Health has Civ
en- a report in regard to the water of
Barre, and condemn the water taken
frn hn h1s0n a q
fit for domestic use. The other sup
ply, taken from a stream on the road
to East Barre is also Objectionable on
account of it's being near village
where the water is polluted and they
recommend that the city obtain
new supply from some other source.
A company has recently been or
ganized in Chittenden county for the
purpose of putting up condensed
milk. 1t is the first attempt at such
an industry in Vermont but there is
no reason why, under proper man
agement, it should not become an un-
qualified success. There is chance
for the satisfactory investment of
many millions of dollars of capital in
Vermont in the utilization of the
finest kind of raw material.
President George M. Powers of the
State Young Mems Republican club
has been so fortunate as to secure for
the principal speaker at the State
meeting at Montpelier, Wednesday,
Feb. 12. Congressman Charles A Rus
sell of Connecticut. Mr.. Russell has
served most acceptably in Congress
for nearly ten years and is one of
New England's solid business men.
He may be expected to give thor
oughly practical talk on questions of
the day. Let every young man pre-
pare to attend the meeting at Mont
pelier.
Franklin boasts of the latest boy
in New England. His name is Frank
Gignac and he was Is years old the
9th day of last November. He is the
son of George and Mary Gignac, and
was born in Laconia. They have liv-
in Franklin for the past II years. He
little sickness. His clothes and shoes
are made to order. His shoe is No.
on the sole, but considerably larger
than the regulation for that size over
the instep. He is feet and inches
tall, and measures 53 inches around
the waist, and easily tips the scales at
1913 pounds. About 40 pounds has
been gained during the past year; at
this rate, if he continues to grow un-
til he is 10, he will weigh 413 pounds. |
1t is possible, but not probable.
The largest piece of granite ever
quarried was shipped from the Barre
quarries to New York recently, where
it will be placed in the Greenwood |
cemetery. 1t will stand on the lot |
of millionaire John Stemme, and it is
said it will be the most remarkable as
well as the highest monument of it's
kind in any cemetery in the country.
It required three cars to transport It.
and they we're built especially by the
Boston & Maine railroad. 1t is in the
form of an obelisk, and in the rough
weighed 10000 pounds, but it lost
about one third in cutting. The
obelisk is copied after one of the most
notable in Egypt 1t will be mount
ed on pedestal fourteen feet high
and its summit will be fifty one feet
from the ground. It's top will be COW
cred with gold SO it can be seen for
miles around.