Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-05-27
STATE NEWS.
H A. Burt Dead.

friends.
Montpelier City Hall Contract Let.
The contract for erecting the City
Hall at Mo ntpelier has been awarded
to Geo. G. Adams of Lawrence, Mass.
The building will cost about $4,000
and will have an auditorium with
seating capacity of 1900. The com
mittee will go this week to Massachu-
setts to see some Of Mr.. Adams work
and if satisfa ctory will award him the
contract.
Body Found in Orchard.
The body of John Comstock, who
became missing Sunday, May 10, was
found in his large orchard at Mont
gomery Monday morning. Health
officer Il. T. Brown and first select
man E. F. Parker made an examipa
ton and decided that no Inquest was
necessary, as death was due to heart
disease or apoplexy, and there was
no suspicion or evidence of foul play.
DS1lOWS ais, way 1913.
The nineteenth annual meeting
of the Woman's Home Missionary
Union of Vermont will be held in the
Congregational church in Bellows
Falls May % and 90, Mrs. Rebecea P.
Fairbanks OF St, Johnsbury presiding.
The usual business of ahis organiza
ton will be conducted during the two
days aud the speakers from abroad
include Mrs. G. NJ. Stevens, wife Of
the principal of the school at Nc
| Intosh, Ga, "a graduate of the Schauf-
fer training school at Cleveland, DR..
HILBERT G. Herring, the new secretary
of the Congregational Home Mission
airy society, and the Rev. Frank K.
Sanders, secretary of the Sunday
School and Publishing society. :.
Rutland Horse Show.
J The Rutland Horse Show and
| Breeders association will hold their
second annual meeting Tuesday,
Wednesday, and Thursday, June %,
26 and 81, on the fairgrounds at Rut-
land. The prize list, which has
just been issued, contains one hundred
classes, which provide for the exhibit
of morgans, roadsters, trotters, draft
horses, saddlers, ponies, hackneys,
or french coach, high steppers, tan
dems, four in-hands and Jumpers
Entries close June 10, and should be
sent to the secretary, w. K. Farms
, worth, Rutland, Vt. on or before that
, date. The following well-known
, horse show judges will act as judges
: at the Rutland show. Samuel Waite
G Taylor, editor of Rider and Driver
: New York city; Francis M. Ware
o New York city, horse show judg
for the past 80 years; Frank c
b Trott of the Boston Globe, one of til
n best known judges in New Englan,
r. The railroads have co-operated wit
the dire ctors of the horse show an
will have in effect special excursio
rates to Rutland and return from q
parts of Nsw England and Easter
New York.
rd Vermont Library Association.
rt The annual meeting of the associs
be ton will be held by invitation of th
at Mark Skinner library at Mancheste
ed on May %, 1907. The business NEE
by ing will be called to order at 2 80 p.
he A round table for the discussion
70 practical library problems held undo
us the direction of the state libra
of Commission, will Immediately folio
so At the round table, Miss Mary
lat Titcomb, formerly of Rutland, nc
he librarian at Hagertown, Nd, a
vas secretary of the Maryland Libra
he commission will preside. A demo
ort stration of how TO bind book will
ng given by practical bookbinder. E
to hibits OF children's books will
Ill made by various publishers. At
gh p. m. James FL. Garfield, Ii.