Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-09-05
NEWS IN BRIEF
NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
SUNDAY, AUG. 2SA

E S living Westfield, N. Y; Professor
w NJ Lockwood, Chicago; Mary Lease,
Kansas; T. A. Wiggin, Salem; May S.
Pepper, Providence; John Slater, Cali
fornia. The management reports a sue
cessful season and proposes many i'm
provements upon the grounds by an
other year.
An epidemic of whooping cough is
prevalent among the children in Sea-
brook, N. H. More than 20 cases have
been reported in the town. Only few
fatalities. however, have occurred.
The most remarkable postoffice con-
test in the history of New England
eliminated in the appointment of H enry
Robinson to the postmastershipo of Con-
cord. y. H. Since his. candidacy be-
came avowed in February, it has been
very generally believed that Mr.. Rob
inson would be the nominee.
MONDAY. AUG. 90.
Names governor says: Instead of
having companies of so men, we should
have log, requiring fewer officers, but
being much more businesslilxe. AS to
equipments, the troops should have the
very best. Naval brigades are too ex-
pensive for our state, and heavy ar
tillery is unnecessary, as the members
do but infantry work.
An exceptionally large tobacco crop,
in excellent condition. will be harvested
in the river towns of Cheshire county,
n. H, this year, and the farmers are re-
joicing over the prospects of large re-
turns, prices being far in advance of
any known in recent years owing to the
war revenue tax. The harvesting has al
ready begun.
TUESDAY, AUG. 80.
Thorp anu wife of Whitman, Mass, was
celebrated Saturday. Hundreds called
to pay their respects to the worthy
couple who have resided in Whitman
since 1912. Mr.. Thorp is SO years of age
and Mrs. Thorp, 66.
The incendiary who has been very ac-
tice in Brockton for the last three weeks
set fire to a waste paper receptacle in q
building Saturday night, but before any
damage was done the blaze was eN-
tinguished. The aldermen are consider
ing the offering Of a reward Of $500 for
the apprehension OF the miscreant.
The hotel proprietOrs of Lowell have
been notified that the law regulating the
sale Of liquor on Sunday would be most
rigidly enforced hereafter, and that
sandwich served with liquor would not
be considered as constituting a meal.
The police have been instructed to arrest
the proprietor if the law is violated.
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 81
Governor Ramsden of New Hanp-
shire sent a relief party to the sick at
Chickamauga, consisting of two physi-
clans and six nurses. In Boston the
party was joined by Surgeon General
ToIles of the governors staff and three
nurses.
The railroad commissioners of Mas
sachusetts have received thus far this
year 10 applications for charters for
street railways. Compared with pre-
vious years this number is normal. The
latter six months of the year always
bring fewer applications. Applications
for charters last year were the largest
for several years.
Joseph E. Stoddard has confessed to
setting 13 fires in Brockton. He has
a neglected wife and three children. His
excuse is that he liked the excitement
he caused.
THURSDAY, SEPT /.
Enclosed arc lamps will replace the
open ones in Boston. and insulated wood
poles will be substituted for the iron
ones.
Conductors and motormen of Wake
field and Stoneham (Mass.) electric sys-
tenn object to signing a bond against
careleSsnesS.
New Hampshire Democrats nominate
Charles F. Stone for governor and ex-
press confidence in Bryan.
Philip Picknall and his four sons went
out to look for deer near White lake. VT
They separated in the forest so as to be
able to cover the ground more thoroughly.
Picknall thought he saw a deer in the
I,o, -
spot he found his youngest son on the
ground dead.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 2.
Senator W. E. Chandler has received
as a war relic the bell Of the castle in
Santiago.
John Weston of Skowhegan, Me-, has
Blk children, three girls and three boys
and u grandchildren, six girls and six
boys. One of the daughters and one son
have 2 girl and a boy apiece, one daugh-
ter and one son have two girls apiece
and one daughter and one son have two
boys each.
The other day a smoker in Bath, Me-
was smoking a pipe with a celluloid
stem when the mouthpiece exploded
burning his mustache and filling the
room so full of smoke that he had to
leave it. The celluloid took fire. prob
ably, from spark drawn into the stem.
The Massachusetts Democracy will
meet in Worcester Oct. f.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 8.
The $50 employees of the Kenyon, r. L.,
wooden mill have been informed that
the mill will shut down today for an in
definite period. The mill had been run
ming on short time for three months up
to last month.
Dot 6In iS TO
horse and capable Of going the mile I'M
der that mark, was the opinion Of 1000
people formed yesterday afternoon in
Readville, Mass, when they saw the
fieet-foOted son of Patchen Wilkes,
driven by his owner c. w. Marks of