Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-04-02

men team winners and ind vidual
champion were $50 loving cups.
state Y. Nj. C. A. Convention.
The first Windsor county 7. M. G. A.
convention will be held in Windsor
April 26 and q, following which the
annual state convention of the asso-
citation will be held. A banquet will
be held Friday evening, with speeches
by Atty.-Gen. Clarke @. Fits of Brat
tleboro, and A. Buchanan Jr. of st.
Adams, superintendent of motive
power of the Central Vermont rail-
way.
Northfieid Fire.
The steam sawmiil owned by FL. O..
Ward of Moretown and located in the
Cox brook neighborhood in the west
ern part of Northfeld, was completely
destroyed by fire about II O'Clock
Monday night, including the engine,
shafting and all the machinery. The
value OF the property burned is not
less than $4,000, the outfit being one Of
the most complete in this section.
How the fire started is not known.
There was only a very smalinsurance.
More Money for Experiment Station.
Experiment stations have proved
to be of such benefit throughout the
country that an increased appropria-
ton has been made at Washington
and the station in Burlington in 0 n
nection with the State Agricultural
College will receive benefit from this
appropriation as do ali other stations.
For many years tais station has re-
c9ived SIS. 900 a year. The appropria-
ton this year will bs $40, 900 and this
amount will be increased yearly until
five years from now the ~appropria-
ton will be $4,000. From that time
on the appropriation will increase at
a ratio fixed by the law.
Clement to Open Speaking Campaign.
Percival w. Clement, of Rutland.
who recently returned home from a
business trip through the West, an
nounces that his campaign of public
speaking, in his contest for the
republican nomination for the gov
ernorship of Vermont, will begin
about the middle of April. 1t will be
conducted largely on the lines of the
tour of 1902, when he first appeared
as a public speaker. The Poinciana
negro quartette, which achieved fame
as "Clement's coon quartetten in that
historic canvass, has been engaged to
accompany him this year, and wi
sing wherever he speaks.
Fined So, OO and Costs.
Swift judgment was melted out to
Almon White, indicted for man
slaughter and selling without author
ity, in what are known as the Richford
wood alcohol cases, when the jury,
before which he has been brought on
trial for selling, brought in a verdict
of guilty of four offenses. White was
at once sentenced by Judge Manson
to pay a fine of $4,000 and costs, a
total of $500, or the alternate SEN
tence in the House of Correction of
three days for every dollar. This
would make Whites imprisonment,
If he failed to pay, about seventeen
years. States Attorney Warren r.
Austin asked to have the respondents
bail increased from $1,000 TO So, 900
and this was ordered by Judge Mum
son. Colonel Hall of the respondent
COUNSEL becoming surety for the
additional amount. The case will be-
taken to the supreme court on excep-
tions.
Girl Disappears.
Blanche, ffteen-year-old daughter
of Fred Fl. Mcfarland, a lawyer of
Hyde Park, disappeared mysterioasly
from her fathers heme "Wednesday,
and 20 trace of her whereabouts, HAS
at this writing been found by the
authorities, who are searching dii-
gently for the missing girl. Mr.. and
Mrs. Mcfarland have been separated
since. the daughter wa a small child.
Mrs. Mcfarland was permitted to-
interview the daughter on various
OCCASIONS, always in the presence of a
third person. Mrs. Mcfarland has
been nursing in the family of Winn
HolbEook for seve al weeks. Wed
nesday evening E. L. Noyes consented
to represent at an interview at the
Mcfarland home between Mrs. Nc
Farland and her daughter. The inter
| view lasted about half an hour. At
it's close Mrs. Mcfarland asked to. zee
her husband. The daughter went
upstairs and called her father and
the interview between Mr.. ard Mrs.
Mcfarland lasted from half to three
quarters. of an hour. After the de-