Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-11-10
STATE NEWS.
Number of Deer Killed.

| State Fish and Game Commissioner
Thomas of Stowe will make no official
report of the number of deer killed in
Vermont the last week in October for
several weeks and will not make an
estimate but old huntsman think fully
5000 were killed and the papers have
so reported it, but local sportsman do
not set the figure much more than half
/ that number. 1t is not thougSt the
number killed in Orleans county will
exceed that of last year.
Elroy Kent Must Die.
The Supreme court handed down a
decision in the case of Elroy Kent,
who had been found guilty in the
lower court of the murder in July
1909, of Miss Della Congdon, a resi-
dent of East Wa]lingford, and ordered
that the man be confined at Windsor
from now until Oct. Is, 1910, then to
January Is, 1911, when he is to be
hanged between the hours of one and
three O'Clock in the afternoon.
Struck Drunken Parent with an Axe
Nelson Bonner of Morrisville was
hit on the head with the blunt end of
an axe by his thirteen-year-old son,
Monday night, Nov. /, and sustained
an injury which necessirated his being
taken to Burlington hospital, and it
was at first doubtful if he would re.
cover. The Bonners have family of
six children. They live on Harrison
Dodge farm in the south part of the
town, and had been in Morrisville that
afternoon on business connected with
a farm deal. Here Bonner secured
!. liquor and became crazy drunk. Upon
reaching home he quarreled with his
; wife. He threw her down and chok &c
her. and was about to com nit injury
with knife. when nineteen year
old son pulled him over, and the
5 younger boy struck him with the axe
! just above the eyes crushing the skull
A hearing was given the boy before
Justice Niles at Morrisville Wednes
day, and he was discharged. Repor tt
say the father will recover.
10. U. A. M. Appointments.
a State Councillor William H. Jeffry
: of tn Junior Order United American
;, Mechanics, announces the followin,
: committee appointments for the ensu
= ing year. To take effect at once
: Trustee (for three years. George H
e Massey, of West Derby. Law. w. c
e Humphrey of East Burke; Irving L
= Bailey of Johnson and Representative
), Williams of Craftsbury.i Credentials
. Walter M. Jones, of Hardwick; W
e E. Perkins of Plainfeld; B. A. Sea
- vey of Bloomington Center. Mileage
% Ralph W. Gymer of Montpelier, Ear
d D. Mitchell of Hardwick and Amos W
~ - Lawson of Newport Center. Finance
- Goorno Ci1loUou Mammalian. X
~ G.. Magoon, of Montpelier and Georg
le w. Kibbey. Subordinate Council re
e ports. Karl E. Keath of Montpelier
~ DR.. j. c. Breitling of Lunenburg an
:, John Harlow of North Danville
y, y Special on 1910 session. A. f
% White Montpelier; C. A. POLAND
'n o Putney; G. o. Farr. Springfield; E
70 F. Humphrey, East Burke; G. v
"a Coffran of Lyndonville.
J. Dairymen to Meet.
70 The fortieth annual meeting of tn
10 Vermont Dairymen's Association wi
~ be held in Burlington, January 4,
i and 6 next. Speakers Of national rel
n utation will be in attendance and wi
" address the meeting on various sal
to jects pertaining to dairying, breedin,
40 feeding and the care Of dairy stool
~ as we'll as on up-to-date methods
W. W, the manufacture of butter and tt
T. care of milk and cream. Silver cul
g. will be given for the best samples
m creamery and dairy butter and al
r. for the best samples of milk al
~. cream. This test will be under Il
- direction of an expert from the depar
% ment of agriculture at Washingto
.Iv who will. after the test, give talk
r. the results of this test. Il is expec
1T ed that a new feature will be intr
~. duced at this meeting in short tai
IT from the secretaries and the differe
~, dairy breed associations. followed
~ discussion. Burlington is becomi
,re the recognized convention city
10 state, and the agricultural cole
ar and experiment station are there
~, is expected that the dairy school "
hu be in operation at that time viii
+as will be interesting to all who ate
10 the meeting.
is Vacancy at Military Academy.
Senator Page has been invited
n the Secretary of War to nomin
on- a candidate for appointment as ca
the to the United States Military Ac
nan envy, who if he passes successful
If the examination will be admitted to
a Academy on March l. 1910. At
cen same time, Senator Page will no
ode nate two alternates with the une
orn standing that if both meet the reQu
anic menus. the one Detter Quailneo IS &c
,urs aunltceu IN Tue event OF the Ialiur'
old the principal.
conf Appiicahts LOT tne appointment
line De actual residents OIL the state,
now under II or over % years Of age
t. the date of admission. and not
than five feet four inches in heigh
the age of II, or less than five
five inches in height at the age o
and upwards.
In order to give all young Verm
" i n ers, who desire to enter the Milit