Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-17

The merchants association of Bur-
lington has appointed committee to
begin preparations for a celebration
in that city on July 4th.
The annual convention of the Epis-
copal diocese of Vermont will be held
in st. Paul's church in Brandon
annual sermon will be preached by
Bishop Hall.
One of the cases for trial at the
next term of Bennington county
court is that of Luke Bradshaw for
criminally assaulting his step daugh-
ter. The story of his crimes has sell
dom been equaled in Vermont.
The crockery firms of Van Doom &
Morris OF Brattleboro and Van Doom
& Tilson Of Rutland, the largest in the
State, are involved in financial trou
BILE. The jewelry firm of Jordan &
Van Doom of Brattleboro is mixed
up in the failure. While the COM
bined liabilities of the three firms
with which Mr.. Van Doom is con-
nected are estimated at $4,000,
the assets are nearly as large, Mr..
Van Doorn's personal obligations are
said to be about $4,000, with small
smaller firms in Brattleboro also will
lose various amounts. The Van
Doom houses were founded by Mr..
Van Doorn's father, nearly forty
years ago, and have always done
large business. The cause of the en-
barrassment is not announced.
Ezra F. Elliott. business manager
of the Free Press in years gone by,
was killed in a mining accident at
Colorado Springs, Col, recently. Mr..
his father was a substa initial farmer
and a pillar of the Congregational
church. Going to Burlin gton nearly
80 years ago, Mr.. Elliott entered the
employ of the Free Press as office boy
and gradually worked his way up un-
til he became business manager, a
position he held successfully for a
number of years. About Is years ago
he went west and bought a mining
paper at Denver, and except for
year or two spent in the East, the far
West has been his home ever since.
Mr.. Elliott was an enthusiastic Ma
son. He never married. He leaves
brother, Rev. L. Ell. Elliott of Water
bury, and a sister, Mrs. Austin Hazen.
During the past few weeks, since
the Washi ngton county court has
been engag ed in the trial of liquor
cases, the Montpelier saloons have
nearly all been closed. In conse-
Quence of this the grocers and drug
gists who have dealt in malt extracts
and preparations have done land
Office business. This fact was called
to to the attention Of A. L. Weeks,
deputy collector of internal revenue.
He visited the dealers in these ex-
tracts last week, and informed them
that it was claimed by the govern
ment that the preparations in cues
ton contained a larger proportion of
alcohol than does lager beer. and if
they continued the sale of them with
out a government license for the sale
OF Intoxicating liquors they would be
liable to prosecution. Without ex-
ception the dealers in these goods
have discontinued their sale except
for strictly medicinal purposes.
Warren Gibbs died in Chicago last
week at the age of 81 years. He was
born in Vermont. At the beginning
of the war he enlisted in company A.
1st Vermont cavalry. His valor was
shown in many fields, and when,
along with considerable section of
Gen. Thomas army, he was taken
prisoner in Georgia, he suffered a
long incarceration in two rebel pris-
ons, at Andersonville and Belle Isle.
For four years succeeding the war he |
served as deputy collector of customs |
at st. Adams. On the organization |
of the Vermont Life Insurance COM |