Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-03-17

VI waterbury IdSL SuuIuSI lS VIC
report which Supt. D. D. Grout of
the state insane asylum at Waterbury
makes to Washington county court in
the case of F. F. Strong, who has
been under observation for several
months, and. as the result of the
report. papers have been issued for
commitment of Strong to the county
Jail, where he will be held until tried.
President Taft Accepts.
Gov. Prouty of Vermont and Gov.
Hughes of New York called on .Presi-
dent Taft Friday. accompanied by
Senators Dillingham; and Page and
Congressman Foster of Vermont, and
invited him to attend the celebration
of the discovery of Lake Champlain at
Plattsburg, N. Y, and Burlington,
July and respectively. Senator
Root is to deliver the principal address
at the Plattsburg meeting. President
Taft accepted the invitation, based
upon the assumption that the special
session of congress will have ad
JOuIuGU ny IIdL Q1GS.
CLERGYMAN Must Paw.
Gerald Laforest received verdict
of $40 and costs in Washington county
court Montpelier, last week, in his
suit for trespass by assault and battery,
against Rev. w. j. O'Sullivan, rector
of St. Augustine's Catholic church,
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plaintiff, youth of 10, for alleged
irreverent actions in the choir gallery
Judge Siam in his charge said
: clergyman did not have the control of
father over child within church,
and that such an act was assault.
} Laforest sued for $1,000. The case has
attracted considerable attention, but
sympathy has been with the priest.
' The case was the shortest on record,
t lasting only so minutes. The jury
{ was out an hour.
+ Horsemen of Vermont and Eastern
Canada Arrange Dates.
v At the annual meeting in St. Johns
{ bury last week Of the international
q trotting circuit of Vermont and eastern
n Canada, the following officers were
{ elected: H. E. Channell, president
- w. M. Tomlinson, secretary both Of
" Sherbrooke. The following dates were
e selected: Newport, Aug. Is and 10
p Morrisville, Aug. "a, Is and &c; Sher
- brooke, Aug. % to Sept. 4 =; Barton
al Sept. 7, 8, 9 and 10; St. Johnsbury
g Sept. IA, Is and 16; White River juno
ton Sept. 81, %, % and "a; Brattle
W boro, Sept. %, 20 and 80. The follow
ing early closing stakes were decided
upon: 2:14 pace, 2:18 pace, 2 3
pace and 2:3O trot, $500 being tn
amount offered to each event. Brattle
boro is the only meeting offering tw
stakes, namely: 2:l4 pace and 2 3
0, pace. Glass races were also DISGUISE
s, and are expected to be as follows
d. 2 40 pace and 2:35 trot, 2 "a pac
and 2 20 trot, 2 30 pace and 2 :16 trot
:. 1t was decided to hold the annua
~ meeting for 1910 in Sherbrooke.
10 In the Priesthood 43 Years.
Il. Rev. j. A. Boissonnault, one of tn
m removable priests created by tn
bishop of the Burlington diocese thre
years ago, died at ST. Johnsbur
Monday morning, after an illness {
Is five months with Bright's diseas
no He had been in the priesthood 43 year
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M May 16. 1881. He studied in tt
III schools of his native village and graz
lie uated from Montreal college in 1856
a' With the exception of Rev. J. \
Cloarec of Burlington, administrat
of the diocese, he was the oldest prize
no in the diocese in point of continue,
,.s service. His theological studies we
IF finished in 1866, when he was ordaine
on and in 1869 he came to Vernon
Of assuming charge Of the new congreg
~, ton at Hartland. Afterward he hi
,c+ charge of the parish at Fair Have
-. He went to ST. Johnsbury in 1874 al
I'll built the church of Notre Dame
,;n VICTORIES, one of the most beautiful
ON this state. He also built the conve
ats of Mt. st. Joseph and the parochi
n school and recently established col
mercial college. Father Boissonnar
built and equipped the ST. Johnsbu
me hospital. 1t is estimated that he h
1eo supervised the expenditure of $3.50, 0
ere in building operations since he car
ltn to st. Johnsbury.
ion
. u Eden Woman Shoots Daniel Baker
vas Daniel Baker narrowly escap
ols death at Eden Thursday from t
rem deadly aim of an Infatuated woma
on. He was shot through the back an in
ght from the spine and an inch below t
and heart, and yet he will recover. MI
Peter Shatney was arrested on t