Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-04-21

way of producing from New York
some of his old checks for comparison
with the claimed forgeries.
Father and Daughter Killed.
The northbound New England States
limited on the Central Vermont rail-
way Sunday, Apr. IL, ran down Will
liam Cone and little daughter at the
twin bridges near the Roxbury line
and both were killed. The mans body
was found on the rocks below while
long search is in progress for the re-
mains of the girl, many citizens of
Roxbury and all the section men from
Mortified joining in the hunt. The
trainmen say that when the flyer ar
rived at Mortified the engineer stated
that he saw the man and girl on the
track, that he whistled and as he sped
along asked the fireman if they hit
anyone. The latter said, 81 believe
not" On attending to his duties
about the locomotive the fireman was
shocked to find it blood stained and a
portion of the girls dress on the cow
catcher. The place where the accident
occurred is about four and half miles
south of Mortified station and search
along the track revealed nothing of
the girl except portion of her head
near the bridge. 1t is the theory of
the searchers that Cone laid the girl
on the bridge beside the track hoping
she might escape. His body was
found with several ribs broken and the
entire upper portion of the skull gone.
including its contents. The wound
was such as to take away nearly half
the face, leaving one eye. The body
was evidently struck in the side by the
train. thrown over the bridge and land
ng on the head on the rocks in the
river 70 feet below. Cone was an in
dustrious workman. aged about As
years and leaves a wife and three
other children beside Minnie, IA years
old, whom he was accompanying on g
walk. Their home was near the place
where they were killed.
Two Days Course in Forest Planting
Interest in forest planting has in
creased so rapidly in Vermont since the
| establishment of the state nursery two
} years ago that it seems probable tina
!, this is to become part of the regular
5 spring farm operations. In spite o.
the rapid extension of the nursery thu
! supply of stock was so largely take,
: up that it has been necessary to i'm
( port seedlings from Germany Thu
year. Experience with this imported
material in other parts of New Eng
9 land indicates that it is fully as salts
e factory as that grown here. Thes,
{ three year transplants are for sale a
between four and five dollars per thou
j sand. Of the state nursery stock Their
= is for sale limited amount of the fol
e lowing: White pine two year Seeding
at $3.50 per thousand; Scotch pine tw
: year seedlings at $500 per thousand
= Norway spruce three year seedlings a
s $500 per thousand. Now that seed
/. lings have been brought within tn
o reach of all prospective planters tn
+ only hindrance to extensive reforesta
n tion is a lack of knowledge regardin,
e the methods and cost of planting, an
= the profit to be derived therefrom
+ While the work is very simple and O
O such nature that any farmer ca
n readily do it, there is well-know
! conservatism in undertaking new prob
lens. In order to overcome this diff
Guilty State Forester Halves has al
q ranged to give two days. course i
:. forest planting at the University @
p Vermont at Burlington. April % an
,r 20. This short course will compris
It lectures and actual field work in a
f the operations of raising trees fror
g seed, and setting out the nursery stoc
= on the land. 1t is entirely free to a
IS and no application is necessary. Will
n farmers are situated favorably for cal
u n rying out this work themselves ther
e are many lumber companies and nor
A resident land owners who are becon
n ing interested in planting who are NJ
~ we'll situated for carrying on the worl
ID 1t is probable that some of those a
If tending this course can find emplo,
70 ment in experimenting the planting
- on such holdings. Applications for nu
,r sery stock or inquiries regarding tt
1t planting course should be addresse
.. to A. F. Halves, State Forester, Blu
4 lington, VT,
+ Facts about Parcels Post Bill