Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-06-03

nlaoed on exhibition. The flag is of
heavy silk, four and one half feet wide
and six feet in length. 1t is designed
for interior decor alton and not for
waving ia the breeze and therefore is
mounted on heavy blue silk. The
cost of the flag, which was made IN
Philadelphia, was s110 and the money
or its purchase was contributed by
the so chapters of the D. A. r. 10
Vermont. The gift will be supple
ment to the silver service given by
tho Vermont legislature and will be
presented at the same time as the j
silver service.
Important Change in Telephone Affairs.
An important change sffectipg |
central Vermont results from action |
taken by the directors OF the New
England Telephone & Telegraph Co.
at a meeting held in Boston on Tues-
day. The Vermont Telephone COM
pany took over all the holdings OF the
| N. ct. & T. Co. and hereafter the
Vermont company win run its affairs
entirely separate from the n. E. L. q
T. Co. and the headquarters will be in
Montpelier. The Vermont Telephone
{ company was given it's charter from
the legislature and was formed with
capital stock of $4,000 for the pur-
pose of buying the telephone COM
pany from Col. A. Q. Brown, who
once owned all the telephone prop
erty in this vicinity. This was
about IL years ago. The price paid
was somewhere between 1000 ard
$5o, 900.
Saxtons River Murderer Regrets Failure
of Suicide Intent.
William c. Fairbanks shot and kill
ed his paramour, Mrs. Mary Grout at
Saxtons River Saturday night, May %,
and then shot himself. He will live.
The dead woman was Of respectable
parentage, her relatives being we'll to-
do people in Grafton, though she her
self had had a somewhat varied ca
reer. Married at Is to Henry Clark
of Grafton, man go years her
senior, she early sought divorce.
Her second marriage to Fred Grout
was unfortunate and for over year
the couple had lived apart. Fair
banks, on rallying Sunday morning,
answered the questions OF the officers
freely. He admitted doing the shoot
ing and said that he only regretted
the shot upon himself did not kill at
once. He said that he intended tc
kill Mrs Grout because she would not
do as he desired, and that he ha6
, become jealous of certain stories he
heard about town in regard to other
men.
j Furniture for Vermont Building.
= E. nj. Goddard of Montpelier hal
a shipped to Jamestown full carload
: of exhibits and furnishings for the
Il Vermont building at the exposition
10 Just as soon as Mr.. Goddard has re-
" ceived word of the arrival of the
>. goods at the grounds, member o
" the Vermont commission will 60 dowl
h to attend to the unloading. In TIT
at car shipped were the furniture for thu
of Vermont building, additional exhibit
for the mines building, large exhibit
Y for the states exhibit palace and tn
nt fora from the University of Vermont
,e Burlington, prepared by Prof. L. r
n Jones, containing valuable specimen
w from the Pringle herbarium at Bur
90 lington. The furniture contain
many handsome old pieces of mahog
any which have been shipped by ez
press from various places in the stat
We in addition to these. The Vernon
pt building will be all furnished just 6
soon as the goods from this last CO
mt arrive and are placed, and most ;
"a the specimens will be in place With
,ut two weeks. 1t is thought that near
everything on the grounds will be
Oil in order by June 1 and this is tV
:. weeks earlier than the other great e.
al. positions have been completed
Fed Chicago, Buffalo and st. Louis.