Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-03-24
yerv Old Coins.


lection of coins which belonged to his
1t is a copper piece
about the size of an English half
penny. In the collection are many
other coins among them being an
Irish piece which is over 100 years old.
West Rupert Woman a Centenarian.
Mrs. Hannah Hadaway of West
Rutland. celebrated her Tooth birthday
Monday. Mrs. Hadaway
was born in Granville March Is, 1909,
and has made her home in West Rupert |
for the past thirty years. She has two
sisters living in the West aged 80 and
81 years respectively. She also has
five living children, twelve grand
children, and twenty-five great-grand-
children. Mrs. Hadaway was pre-
sented on her anniversary photographs
of President Taft and ex-President
Roosevelt with their autographs.
Fatally Injured Moving Sugar Camp.
Eli Rivers. aged As years, an unmar-
ried farmer on the nanville road
about two miles from St. Johnsbury,
was fatally injured Wednesday while
moving his sugar house. He had
removed the sides of the building and
was standing under the roof when the
posts gave way. pinning him under the
wreckage and crushing his abdomen.
A nephew. Joseph Martell, found
him and summoned help. After the
unfortunate man had been extricated
he was taken on handsled to the house
where he died at 6 80 o'clock. Mr..
Rivers leaves a sister, Mrs. Minnie
Martell, who with nine children lived
with him.
Walton Register Announcement.
In consequence of the destruction by
fire of the forms. type and other
material used in the publication of
Walton's Vermont Register. The
manag ement announce that this
annual book for 1909 will not be issued
this spring. 1t is proposed, however,
to publish the Register next fall for
1910, and to issue it annually there
after early in November. The old
style and form will be adopted in
future numbers as it has been founc
that the people who use the Register
prefer the familiar arrangement Of
grouping all local facts and informa
tion under the name of town or city
) as in former years.
Allen Says Not Guilty.
Herbert w. Allen, former cashie
7 of the Woodsville National bank, wa
: arraigned Llast week on charge o
embezzlement of $4,000. Allen i
out on bail and came to court with hi
counsel, James w. Remick, who en-
I tered a plea of not guilty. Distric
u Attorney Hoitt was ready for trial
: but there was no jury summoned an
the case will go over until the Jun
{ term. Judge A]drich said he under
stood that the plea might be change
and that he understood an effort Wa
-, being made to- take the matter u
! with the attorney-general at Washing
ton. Mr.. Remick said he was NJ
ready for trial and did not think thel
would be one. The case was continue
> until June and Allen was held in ST.
900 bond
Deputy Sheriff Business Straightene
Out.
" Deputy sheriffs, it appears, m;
Is still hold their jobs and not be deprive
v of a living wage by the law pass
If by the last legislature, as was fear
l. by certain Brattleboro officials. tt
0. claim was made that deputies a
so allowed nothing except their regul
i. fee of ten cents per mile for the Sc
vice of writs. This, however, ,
slightly in error. Section 6210 of t
:, public statutes, provides that the fe
"a of officers shall be the same as befo
=, with the exception of the readi,
- fee of six cents per writ, which h
- been discontinued AS useless. F
~ making copies of writs, the deputi
- are allowed seven cents per folio
49, 100 words, the former price being
- cents per folio, but the average pr
of county court writ is nearly Q
- dollar while the costs of a justic,
writ is about rs cents.
: q Boston's Vermont Association.
wo The Vermont association of Bost
res invites Vermonters, residents of t
ew and other New England States, W
visit Boston and those who reside
and near Boston to become memb
and take an active part in the affa
Co., of the association, to enjoy it's ent
by tainments and to use it's club rooms
}. at 65 Hotel Westminster which
j.; always open and in charge of
ms attendant. There the association