Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-03-23
Prisoners Will Have Work.


shoes. The board of penal commits
sioners has concluded a contract with
Houghton, Hebard & Warren, shoe
manufacturers, of Somersworth, N. H.,
to conduct the shoe manufacturing in
dustry at the prison for from two to
five years.
Old Mill Destroyed.
Fire Tuesday destroyed the Star
gristmill at Middlebury which was
erected 100 years ago, destroyed the
three-story wooden structure, causing
a partial loss estimated at about S1O,-
900, partially insured. Fay Warner,
superintendent of the Middlebury Elec-
trio Light and Power company, mem
Der of the volunteer fire department,
had his right ankle broken by slipping.
Granite Strike; unsettled.
The Quarry Workers Union at
meeting held Thursday at Graniteville
rejected the proposition from the Quar-
ry Owners association offering them
the old bill Of Is cents an hour, with
weekly pay, by an almost unanimous
vote, there being only 40 votes in favor
of accepting the offer and about $50 vot-
ing against it. This puts the situation
where it was on March LIST and the set
Element looks no nearer now at hand
than it did then. At one time last week
it was thought settlement would be
made but circumstances did not bring
out right and no agreement is now in
sight. About $500 men are out of en-
ployment.
Record of Some Vermont Cows.
In paper read by c.. M. Winslow of
Brandon at the annual meeting of the
American Breeders association held in
Washington in January. he gave some
Individual records of COWS. among them
the following from Vermont -" Rena
Myrtle" 9, $50, bred by c. M. Winslow
of Brandon, owned and tested by the
Vermont experiment station, Burling-
ton, gave 12,172 pounds of milk and
SAG pounds of butter; miss Ollie
1903, bred, owned and tested,by L.
S. Drew of South Burlington, gave
1924 pounds of milk and 514 pounds of
butter; "Acelista" 1904, bred, owned
and tested by G. M. Winslow. of bran.
don, gave for five consecutive years ar
official test of $4,000 pounds of milk
and 2, 1877 pounds. of butter, and drop
ped five calves.
Gives Notice That He Is Not Dead.
= The Rev. Charles Smith, Lewis, rec
tor of St. James Episcopal church
Woodstock, has been obliged to give
public notice that he is not dead, a.
reported recently in the church press
The publication of his obituary wa
due to a confusion of names. Unit
recently there were two men named
the Rev. Charles Lewis in the Epis
copal diocese of Vermont. One wa
the Rev. Charles Trask Lewis, VIII
came to Vermont from Colorado il
1905, and became rector of St. John
church at Poultney, where he died
The other clergyman is the rector O.
St. James church, Woodstock. H
came from Lafayette, Ind, in 1907
For several weeks friends of tn
Woodstock rector in the West hav
been under the impression that he wa
dead, and, to add to the embarrass
: ment, a widely read church publica
t ton recently confused the two men i
a it's obituary columns. To inform hi
friends and church officials that he i
still living, the Rev. Charles Smit
Lewis has sent notices to that effect
t the church publications.
!, Russell w. Taft in Jail for Contempt.
: Attorney Russell w. Taft, son O
former. Chief Justice Taft of the Vel
mont supreme court, is in Jail, charge
Y with contempt of court for havin
+. failed to pay alimony to his forme
O wife, who secured a divorce. He wi
J. be confined in jail until a further orde
) of the court. Mr.. Taft was visited
it jail to-day by his divorced wife, who
10 said to be seeking to secure his release
It Attorney Taft declares he has not pal
J. the alimony demanded as he was fnal
cially unable to do so, his legal busine:
having suffered in consequence Of tt
notoriety acquired in the divorce pr
~ ceedings. Mrs. Taft, formerly Mi
" Winona Brigham, daughter of a clerg,
1' man, married Attorney Taft while 81
= was secretary of the state railros
- commission under D. J. Foster, no
W congressman. After hearing in Chi
= tenden county court Mrs. Taft's pet
- ton was heard in Franklin county cou
Y" and a bill was granted, the custody
the minor child also being given to Il
petitioner. Mr.. Taft carried the ca
he to the sunreme court, which affirm