Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-02-17
STATE NEWS
Mill to Be Rebuilt.

Arrangements are being made for
the immediate rebuilding of the veneer
mill of the Williams Manufacturing
company at East Haven which was
destroyed by fire recently. The total
loss is estimated at about $4,000.
Large Order from Government.
An order for 1000 weighmaster |
beam scales has been received by the |
Fairbanks Scale company of st. Johns
bury from the United States govern
ment for use in the Philippines.
Vermont and South Dakota Exchange
Pastors.
Rev. F. E. White has rendered his
resignation as pastor Of the Methodist
churches at Lyndon and Lyndonville,
TO take effect the last Sunday in Feb.
ruary. He is to be transferred to the
South Dakota conference and will be
stationed at Dell Rapids. r ev. John
Jones of that place will be transferred
to the Vermont conference and will
take Mr. Whites place. The exchange
is desired by both clergymen in order
that they may be near relatives. Mr..
White came from the Minnesota con-
ference several years ago and has been
stationed at Enoshurgh Falls.
Tilted, Committed Suicide.
Stella TiIlotson of Stowe committed
suicide Sunday, Feb. 4, by taking
strychnine. TIE act was committed
in CentervilIe in the town of Hyde
Park, where she was working in the
home of Chester Holbrook. Upon
learning that her affection had been
discarded by young man who had
turned his attentions to another girl,
; she took the poison, which was some
that was kept in a cupboard in d
room occupied by her and was used for
{ catching foxes. Sunday morning the
? girl complained of not feeling we'll and
:. said she would take walk to call on
! a neighbor about mile away. After
] arriving the re the girl was taken
I, with commissions, and when doctor
: was summoned said it was no use as
s she had taken poison. She died before
t medical aid could reach her. Miss
Tiilotson was seventeen years old and
u is survived by her mother and twt
4 sisters.
- Farmers Week at the University o
:. Verxnoos
There will be held at the Universit,
IA of Vermont. under the joint auspice
{ of the new commissioner of agricultur
and that institution. during the secon,
week in March, Farmers Week. !
is expected this will be the first annua
&c event of this character. The work vii
- consist Of addresses by the universit
instructors and others. demonstrations
- and in the evening stereopticon talks
20 The general line Of work will be sim
40 lar to that which has hitherto bee
successfully carried out in Malone
New, York, and several western states
-: In our next issue we expect to publis
+ quite full statement as to the pre-
he gram. The meetings, which begi
ed Monday evening and last until Frida
~. afternoon. are free to anybody WI
X wishes to attend any or all Of then
&C. Our next statement will contain detail
rk as to railroad fares. hotel bills, ct
ng
ne A Vermonter's JOB.
ID.
be Joseph w. Bows, superintendent
ny public schools in East Providence, !
h 30 l., who has just received an appoin
ment in Chicago to revolutionize tt
penmanship system in that city, is
Vermonter, born in St. Johnsbury.
1873. He was graduated from Il
Worcester high school and took h
degree from Brown university in 189
mi Mr.. BOWS has travelled in Italy, Fran,
ain and Germany and studied the style
is penmanship in those and other cour
tries, as we'll as throughout the cas-
to ern states of this country. He extent
u ed his income in the search for mo,
ne knowledge on the great question
HE QOW DGSt w oCCuIS q POI lCCNly 0dS
IRE slant penmanship hand with legibili
~ Al and rapidity. It is all largely muse
an training, Supt. BOWS declares.
TT Chicago there are $50 principals ar
W. Mr.. Bows is to start in on them
teach the West how to hold the D,
IN and to write to the best advantag
d. He saws that the teachers must fir
en- '"'s -
an be taught, then the pupils. The 81
or ject of penmanship was one Of the fir
BON matters taken up after Mr.. Do,
a. went to East Providence. It w
1ps changed and adapted to accord wi
; in his ideas of giving child in FIVE yea
ced a rand legible hand suitable for col
t ts position work in the various schc
ma. subjects. Supt. Bows declares tn