Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-10-19
STATE NEWS.
Grand Lodge Of Vermont Good Templars
Hold Annual Session

was held in Mortified last week. 1t
was estimated that 200 delegates were
in town. The report of Grand Secre-
tary Campbell gave the grand lodge
membership as 1852 in sixty-four
lodges, a gain over last year of 410
members and ten lodges. Twenty
FIVE candi iates received the grand
odge degree.
Wet. U. Convention.
The State w. @. T. U. convention
was held at Woodstock last week.
The report of the treasurer, E. M.
Denny, showed that S932.05 had been
received from various sources, and a
balance of s1S5.93 is now in the gen.
eral treasury. There is now 81 1858 II
in organizing and campaign funds.
The report of corresponding secre-
tary, Mrs. G.. E. Davidson, showed
that there are 123 unions in the state
with a total membership of 4S3.
During the referendum campaign
rs, 900 leaflets were circulated. Chill
dreu have been organized into Loyal
Temperance Legions of which there
are thirty in the state with 472 mem
bers.
Poisoning Fish in Lake Champlain.
Strong pressure is being brought to
bear on the New York state author
tiles to close the two pulp mills whose
refuse is said to be poisoning the
waters of Lake Champlain, the Boquet
and An Sable rivers and the waters of
An Sable Chasm. The warfare be-
tween the Lake Champlain residents
and the owners of the pup mills has
been on for over ten years now, and
until now the latter have invariably
won. Meanwhile hundreds of tons of
| fish, according to an accredited
authority, have been killed. Unless
the mills are stopped the residents
now say fishing in the lake will soon
be ruined. Added to this, the New
York shore, it is stated, is unsightly
from accumulations of the refuse.
Murder at West Rochester.
Ephraim Root of West Rochester
was murdered Monday night within a
few feet of the door of the barn in
which he had been working. Mr..
Root went to the barn about six
O'Clock to do the chores and it seems
| ha All ho nd q
about to return to the house. He
had just stepped out of the door when
some one struck the deadly blow.
He was found late in the evening un-
conscious with a large hole in the top
of his head. He had also been
stabbed twice. He died about three
o'clock the following morning. Mr.
Root was about forty years of age and
had lived in Rochester for many
years. He had been for some time
employed at the sawmill of Green &
Bean, and lived at che home of Mr..
Green. 1t is reported that Root and
Bean have had considerable family
trouble of late. Joseph Bean has been
arrested on suspicion of being con-
nected with the murder.
Bethel Granite for washington's New
Railway Station.
The stone and cutting for the new
Washington depot, to be the most
magnificent railway station in the
world, is to come from Vermont
Mortified is to be the center of the
great enterprise. The contract wa,
completed and definitely closed las
week, whereby E. B. Ellis will furnish
; the stone from the Bethel quarrie
and will cut it in Northfield. TIL,
} contract involves more than million
dollars, perhaps nearer two millions
} for not only will the exterior be o
I Bethel granite but also the fine an
3 beautiful inside trimmings will be @
:. the same material. 1t is the larges
r single building contract of the kin
ever made in this country. This cor
tract means that more than doubl
Q the help now employed in the grant
a business in Mortified will be neces
. sary, new sheds will be built and larg
: additional business to the industris
:, and commercial interests of NORTH
: field is assured. The work will begi
!, at an early dav and will cover perio
o of some three years.
q Alderman Dragged through the Streets
70 Burlington.
Mayor Burke and the faction of IL
IA board of aldermen who support hi
10 in his desire to establish a municip
ar electric light plant took things in
# their own hands Saturday evenir
~ and issueC warrants for the arrest
~ four aldermen. They succeeded
40 securing the presence of Alderms
=. Stiles only, but that formed quoru
% and the resolution providing bon