Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-02-05

wac natiioo W niu al ler nome in
the year 1871. Two children wera
born TO them, Charles Albert PInm-
ley, who is in partnership with his
father at Northfield, and Mrs. Theo-
dora Flint, wife of the Rev. III. A.
Flint of Allegheny, Pa, who is arch
deacon of the Episcopal parish in that
city. Mrs. Plumley was a woman of
strong literary tastes, and had written
many poems for the current masa-
zines.
Employees Get SD, 900.
Three years ago the Vermont Mar
bic company first started paying back
to its employees Inc profits earned at
each of It's three stores. The Total
profits at each store were divided in
proportion to the purchase of Ali the
company's employees. FolIowing ont
the custom of last year, the Vermont
Marble company Wednesday distrib-
uted between $4,000 and SAG ooo
the profits made at the three offer
ent stores of the company during fbe
past year, ali of which goes in cash
tSthe men working for them. The
dividend declared at the Proctor store
has been IL per cent, at the West
Rutland store 10 per cent, and at the
Center Rutland store per cent. The
total sales of the Proctor store wera
about 1924, 900, of which people en-
ployed by the company purchased
S177, 900. At the West Rutland store.
the sales were about $4,000 with
employees sales of $l17,OO The
Center Rutland store sales amounted
to 800, 900, with employees purchases
of about $50. 900. 1t will be seen from
these figures that while the sales have
been mainly to the company's en-
ployees, yet, Notwithstanding this,
the stores have sold over 500 900
worth of goods to outside people.
Another Switch Opened.
A dastardly attempt TO wreck the
finest train running over the Contra
Vermont railway, the New Englard
States Limited, was made at Bolton
Friday evening, Jan. 26, and that
there were not large number of
lives lost can only be explained as
Fifteen minutes late the
north bound train known as train No.
3 was running at a rate of about sixty
miles an hour in an attempt to get it's
heavy load of passengers to their |
destinations on time when without
warning it jumped the switch south
of the station and plungs I'D into tire Q
freight cars on the siding on the east !
side of the station and every car was
derailed and some of them badly |
smashed. So great was the mo-
mentum that the train plowed over
the ties for a distance of fifty rods,
leaving only destruction in it's. path.
The engine took one track and the
cars another, they being brought to
stop by the automatic breaks. The
engineer, John Donovan, and his fire.
man, Fl. g. Bell, pluckily stuck to
their posts and stopped the engine as
soon as possible. The conductor was
Dan Church. No blame can be
attached to them because the switch
light was in position to indicate that
the switch was properly set so that
they could not suspect the trap that
had been set for them. AS soon az
the train was stoppeds the trainmen
went to the switch andafound that it
had been left unlocked, the light
taken off and left suspended bv a
wire SO to appear as. if set in the
regular form. The shock was terrible
as the large load of passengers was
instantly swung from the smoothly
running flyer to the ties and bumped
along for a considerable distance
amid the flying and crashing timbers
of the train and the. freight cars it
had struck. They were terribly
shaken and frightened but aside from
this there was no serious injury to a
passenger or train man.