Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-11-03

from the agricultural department |
/ Washington. It is expected that a
new feature will be introduced in
short talks by the secretaries of the
different dairy mems associations,
which will be followed by discussions
It is also expected that the dairymen's |
school will be operated at the same
time.
Wandered in Delirium. d
Rendered temporarily insane by an
attack of typhoid fever. the Rev. w.
H. Wheatley, pastor OF the Baptist
church at Whitehall, N. Y. wandered
about all Wednesday night and was
found early Thursday lying beside
the road in Center Rutland. twenty
miles from home. He was in seri-
Gus condition sfrom exhaustion and was
unable to tell his name or give any &C.
count of his movements. His iden-
tity was discovered from papers in his
pockets and he was later taken to the
Whitehall hospital. 1t is not yet
known whether his illness is danger
Gus. He is thirty years old and was
married six months ago.
Found Corporations Poor.
Only about 1000 corporations in Yer
mont having an annual net income of
$4,000 or more have been found by
Geroge E. Robertson, deputy collector
of internal revenue, who has for two
weeks been at the Office of the secre-
tary Of state, Montpelier, obtaining
this data as preliminary step toward
putting in force the corporation tax
law passed by the last Congress. Mr..
Robertson found that approximately
5. 900 corporations are doing business
in Vermont and the number that will
come under the provisions of the law
namely, those whose whose annual in
come is $1,000 or over, is considered
small. tax of one per cent on all
annual incomes of $4,000 or over is
imposed under the new law. Mr.. Rob-
ertson went yesterday to Congress to
get similar data for the state of New
Hampshire.
Postmaster Taken.
Jean K Vandeveer. postmaster at
Hartwellvile, who was arrested by
Deputy United States Marshal E. S.
Whitaker, Rutland, was arraigned be-
fore United States Commissioner j.
> A. Merrill the next morning on a
charge of being $500 short in his
money order accounts. He furnished
3 bail in the sum of $500 for his appear
t ance in theFederal Court, Rutland, on
D November Is. 1t is understood that
2 Vandeveer was arrested on a mere
: technicality' He was hard pressed
: by a creditor, who threatened to
S bring suit and he took $500 of the
t Governments money until he could
e draw the money from a North Adams
: Bank, where ne had deposit. While
he was in North Adams on the follow
-? ing day for the purpose of getting the
e money, a post office inspector arrived
: at his office and found the shortage
Vandeveer paid over the money, be
r fore the inspectors eyes but never
s theless he was indicted by the recon
J, Federal Grand Jury, which sat in thi:
= city. He is well-to- do and has pay
J. roll of $3.50 a week. Mr.. Vandevee1
- was private secretary to Admlra
e George Dewey at Manila Bay.
~ New Concern to Locate
o The Quaker City Pneumatic Too
h company, inc, of PHILADELPHIA is t,
" remove it's business from Frankfort
n a suburb of Philadelphia. to Barre,
n deal having just been completed where
It by James Ahern, proprietor of tn
J. New England Granite Tool compan,
y of Blackwell street, Barre has Dough
}. an interest in the concern and ha
been elected treasurer to succeed
Ralph NJ. Seaman of PHILADELPHIA
Mr.. Seaman has been in this city tw,
,r days making the legal transactions O
y his interests. The company is incor
porated under the laws of Pennsyl
J. vania with capital stock OF SIS, 90
M and it has been operating it's plant ii
s. Frankfort for three years and half
y turning out pneumatic tools used il
the stone trade, doing repair work OF
all kinds of machines and buildin,
y special machines. The same line O
It work will be done in Barre when tn
II machinery has been moved there iron
Philadelphia. Frederick S. Graham
of Phildephia. the president of th
company, expects to come to this cit,
to reside and take an active part il
the conduct of the firms business
with Mr.. Ahern, while some of tn
9 workmen now employed at Frankfor
r. are also expected to move to this city
n The other officer of the company i
IS c. A. Struntz of Philadelphia, the sec
IS rotary. Treasurer James Ahern i
q we'll known to Barre people and t.
l. granite men all over the countr,
through his long connection with tn
toll-making concern in this city, an
he has built up good business at hi
a plant on Blackwell street. He will
e retain part of his present quarter
l. for the New England Granite Toe
70 Works, and it is expected that tn
le Quaker City company Will be soon lo
j. Gated in the other part. AS the Ger
is ter of the monumental granite busi
le ness of the country Barre, is NATURAL
re an advantageous place for the locatio
of the industries which are closely a.
lied with it, such as that of the Qua
ikar CITY Cnmnanu