Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-07-22

in that place. Mr.. Walsh has been
located at ST. Johnsbury during the
last seven years and has had an un-
usually successful pastorate. He is
chairman of the St. Johnsbury school |
board and prelate Of the St. Johnsbury
commandery of Knights Templars. 1t
is anticipated that arrangements will |
be made for him to begin his duties |
in Manchester, should he accept the |
| call, by September /.
Race Meet at Rutland
A race meeting which it is expected |
will attract between 40 and so horses,
among them some of the fastest in
this section, will be held on the fair
grounds at Rutland July 20 and 80.
| There will be six classes, the purse in
each class to be $500. They will be as
follows: 2 80 pace and 2 :27 trot, 2 rs
pace, PIT pace and 2:14 trot, 2 rs
straight trot, free-for-all, trot and
pace. Chester Pike, of White
River Junction, who is acting as Off
cial starter at the Montreal races, is
trying to induce the horsemen there to
bring their horses to Rutland, and it
is expected he will be successful, as
there IS to be race meet in Barre
the week following the meeting at
Rutland. If the meet is a success an
other race will be held in October after
all Of the fairs are over. A stock COM
pany will be formed later.
A Challenge to Sugar Makers.
A. C. Leach of Fletcher one of the
most extensive sugar makers in that
sugar makers of the state for sap
building apparatus that will take care
of as much sap in one hour, or in ten
hours, or produce the same number of
gallons of syrup weighing eleven
pounds to the gallon as the apparatus
which he is now using. The past
spring Mr.. Leach had an evaporation
made according to specifications,
scientifically prepared from his own
deductions, arrived at from many
years experience in sugar making,
and he now champions his own appar-
atus as the best in use to-day. Mr..
Leach stands ready to back his theory
, in practical test with any apparatus
having the same number of feet of
heating surface. The size of his
evaporator is IA by 4 feet.
Two Tramps Sentenced to Workhouse.
Three tramps are in the hospital at
, Proctor recovering from mysterious
, explosion which occurred near Proctor
recently. One man suffered a frac-
ture of one leg in two places. another
lost an eye and a part of the side of
his face. and the third received a
number of serious cuts. A few hand 4.
fuls of dynamite were found in the
bushes near where the accident hap
pened and the theory is that the
hobos were engaged in melting the
explosive with the object Of extract
ing the glycerine. The hospital physi-
clans continued to find bits of tin in
= the bodies of the men and it was nee
k essary to use chisel to get pieces of
k the metal out of the bones of one
s mans legs. Parts of the cans which
contained the explosive were found
c Is feet from the fire over which the
d men Lad placed it. The men claimed
f they were making tea for breakfast in
f can which they found beside the
e road. All three were rendered uncon-
g scious and it was night before they
!. were removed to the hospital. The
:. men have been sentenced to the work
: house. It is thought they are con-
nected with several state robberies.
Plot Revealed to Ruin Father.
! A deep laid plot to ruin Barney
: Rosen, a Polish merchant of West
Rutland, was revealed Wednesday when
y Annie, his 17-year-old daughter. who
has been under arrest for three days
charged with arson. confessed to her
parents that she and Powell Turkot, a
, shoemaker, aged % years, had agreed
to take 500 from John Pifko, Rosen's
= business rival, and burn her father s
$50, 900 brick store building just COM
: pleted on the site of structure de-
: stroyed by fire, two years ago. The
. girl says that they were to take Pifko' s
money and ANY funds she might be
, able to steal from her father and elope.
Turkot was arrested by Sheriff Enos
Fish of West Rutland on the charge of
being an accomplice to the girl. Annie
had been in Jail several days in default
. Of $1,000 bail, her father refusing to &c
. on her bond. Pifko in denying that
; he offered the bride, stated that he had
not spoken to the girl in seven months
but Rosen claims to have witnesses who
will testify to seeing Pifko and