Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-09-24


the great granite quarries. The
trip was certainly worth time and
trouble.
Vermont Branch Womasn's Board OF
Missions.
The thirty fourth annual meeting of
the Vermont Branch will be held in
the Congregational chu ch at Swan
ton, Wednesday, Sept. 26. Services
at $3.50 a. M, 200 ana 7:30 .. Ii.
The speakers will be Miss H. Juiette
Gibson of East Africa, Miss Alice
Kyle of the Woman's Board and Rev.
Enoch F. Bell of Japan.
Statehouse in Trim.
Many repairs and improvements
have been made on the capitol
building at Montpelier for the
coming legislature. The dome has
been newly gilded at a cost of $500
and the contractors say they lost sew
eral hundred dollars on it at that. The
approaches and bases have been
cleaned. The serge ant alarms re-
ports about 800 applications to fill 35
positions.
Good Roads Convention.
A good roads convention will be
held IN Montpelier Oct. Is and II at
which about 1000 delegates are ex-
pected. The movement is brought
about by men of Montpelier inter-
ested in the good roads movement
and its object is to get the sentiment
of the people Of the state on the ques-
ton that it may be presented to the
legislature with degree of certainty
as to what the people want.
| c. S. Page Director.
The name of Ex-Governor G. S.
Page of Hyde Park is in the policy
holders list of directors OF the Mu-
tual Life Insurance Co., one of the
independent tickets of the several
policyholders' committee Of proposed
trustees or directors to be voted for
at the annual elections Of the New
York Life Insurance companies under
the provisions of the law passed by
the New York legislature last spring.
Narrowly Eacapes Wreck.
| A special train going south from st.
Johnsbury and carrying about 1aoo
people ON the Caledonia County
Fair Wednesday evening narrowly
escaped bad wreck between Rye
gate and Wells River. A man hap
pening to go along the track discov-
supporting the track had slid away
and left the track in badly weak
ened condition. The train was sig
nailed just in time to save it's run ming
I into the death trap. 1t delayed trains
, about five hours.
New Secretary.
, Benjamin Williams, Jr., of Proctor,
is to be Governor elect Proctor's sec
rotary of civil and military affairs
when he assumes his Office. Mr.
Williams is about thirty years old
was born in Rutland county and is Of
II Welsh descent. He was assistant
Q postmaster at Fair Haven for while
Q and then went to Washington fol
Q three or four years and studied Law
n there. being subsequently, admitted tc
Is the bar in Vermont. He entered the
/ employ of the Vermont Marble Co
d about a year and half ago. Mr.
@ Williams was practically in charge o
/ the detailed work at the headquar
Ii tiers of the republican state commit
: tee in the campaign of 1904 and again
3, in the campaign recently closed. H
70 there demonstrated the possession 0
J. an unusual capacity for organization
ID and administration, his services wer
TO of great value to the committee ant
o. to the party.
:. Vermont Boy Honored In Alaska.
8. Friends in this state will learn will
le interest of the recent election, as
j. territorial congressional delegate fror
at Alaska, of Thomas Gale, former Un
it derhill boy. Mr.. Gale is son @
IN Patrick Gale of Underhill. FOR tn
at past eleven years he has been pros
al pecting in Alaska and his square deal
y ings With the minsrslthere have wol
III him high place in their estlm alton
to He was among the pioneers IN deyel
IS, oping the Alaskan. mining Interest
es and his career there has been of grea
II, success. He received the nomination
IA as territorial delegate to the mouse Q
al representatives from the miners ad
w ministration party; made Yer
as strenuous campaign land was electe