Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-04-06
Pure Food Law Help. Sugar Dealers.

Maple sugar making is now we'll
under way. The quality is excellent.
Sugar is selling,from nine to II cents
pound and syrup from Is cents to 81
a gallon. c. L. Mcmahon of the firm
of Miles, Mcmahon 81 Co., Stowe,
widely known as dealers in maple pro-
ducts, says the new pure food law has
benefited the maple sugar situation
100 per cent People know now they
are getting the genuine article. Mr..
Mcmahon thinks he may have more
orders than he can fill. He has just
shipped two hundred pounds to Califor-
MIA.
Charges against Deputy Sheriffs.
Governor Proctor and Attorney Gen
eral Fits visited the House of Correc-
ton Tuesday. 1t is understood that the
visit was in conjunction with COM
plants made to the governor by Super
intendent Morgan of the House Of Cor
rection that many deputy sheriffs are
making it habit to take there for
committal persons convicted of breach
of peace, and who Mr.. Morgan claims
should be taken to the county jails.
Mr.. Morgan has called the governors
attention to the fact that by this meth
cd the deputies secure much larger
fees for travelling expenses etc., and
the institution is overburdened with
inmates who, the superintendent al
leges, do not belong there. Governor
Proctor refuses to talk.
Cut Trees Scientifically.
The Rutland railway, light and power
company has contracted with Orel
Johnson of Chittenden to cut 1000, 900
feet of hard and soft timber on the
company's land adjoining it's immense
reservoir in Chittenden. In order to get
the necessary water rights the con-
Germ had to buy thousands of acres of
land and late survey shows that it
has 5000 acres of timber. The lum-
Der is to be cut scientifically under the
supervision Of the company's engineer.
With view to conserving the small
timber and protecting the watershed
only trees eight inches or more in diam
eter, three feet above the ground,
will be cut. The company is fitting
up the Baird mill, built 81 years ago
and long since gone to ruin and will
market it's lumber
Attacked by Rat.
Henry O. Thatcher, an elderly man,
was attacked by''a large enraged wharf
rat and severely bitten, while walk
ing along one of the principal streets
of Bellows Falls Monday. He succeed
ed finally in knocking the rat from
his person with an umbrella and after
ward killing it with 5stone, but not
until the rodent had bitten him on his
leg and hands AS Mr.. Thatcher was
walking along the rat ran past him and
suddenly turned back and attacked
him viciously, the old man being so
surprised that he could not at first
shake it off from his person. He went
to the Office of physician near by and
the wounds were dressed The incident
was witnessed by number of people
who were unable to reach Mr.. Thatch-
err until he had been badly bitten.
Stowe Post Office Robbed
Four burglars early Tuesday triec
the safe of the Stowe post office anc
fired four shots at H. E. Shaw, whose
house adjoins the building in which the
post office is located. Mr.. Shaw was
not injured. Postmaster J. H. Cheney
states that the burglars secured be-
: tween $500 and $500 in cash anc
stamps. Mr.. Shaw heard the burglars
at work and opened one of his window.
! part way. The men heard him ant
I fired four shots, one shot striking tn,
2 window sash two inches from Mr.
Shaw's head, another entering tn
D room and lodging in the piano, the tw,
S remaining bullets being imbedded il
the side of the house. The men thel
}. made their escape without leavin,
f any trace either of their identity or O
the direction in which they had gone
: Drowned Himself While Delirious.
The body of Elroy Phelps, of Bran
don, was found Monday afternoon il
. the Neshobe river where he ha
drowned himself Sunday when craze
y by pneumonia. He had been suffering
!, with the disease for about week an
:, had been carefully watched, for in hi
- delirium he wished to escape fror
p" those attending him. Early Sunday
in the temporary absence from tn
D bedside Of his grandfather, Phelp
n jumped out the window and started fc
q the river nearby. Search failed to re
20 veal his whereabouts and it was though
"a that he might have wandered into tn