Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-01-26
STATE NEWS.
Rutland's Fire Loss.

was S22, 908. 62, according to the an
nual report of Chief James G. Dunn,
made public Thursday. Of this
amount, $40, 901. 20 was in real estate
and $12,007.42 in personal property.
There was 1921, 260 insurance involved
on the burned property, the loss.
Fifty-three alarms were rung in.
Veterinarians Elect.
The semi. annual meeting of the
Vermont Veterinary Medical associ-
alton was held at White River juno.
ton the 10th and the following Off
GERS elected: President, D. K. East
man of Newport; vice-presldents. A.
H. II. Lewis of Barre and 0. E. Barr
of Barre; secretary and treasurer,
George Il. Stevens of Burlington ex-
ecutive committee, G. ID. Wood, DIR.
Welsh and DR.. Prouty.
Share Stores Profits.
The employees of the Vermont Mar
BILE Company who have traded at the
company's cooperative store at West
Rutland during the last year will re-
ceive a dividend of four per cent on
the sum expended by them In purchas
es. A similar dividend was paid last
year. At the company's Proctor
store a seven per cent dividend is to
be paid this year, while last year
nine per cent dividend was paid.
Captured Many Firsts.
Hermon D. Hopkins of Montpelier,
is the proud possessor of bunch OF
White Plymouth Rock fowls that have
won blue ribbons not only in the Yer
mont poultry exhibitions, but in the
New England shows as well. The
latest honors won by the birds come
from the Vermont Poultry Show which
was recently in progress at st. AL
bans, and the judges, who finished
their work yesterday, gave Mr.. Hop
kins' birds the following awards, out
of a class of 60: 1st cock lst End and
4th cockerel; 1st, End and 4th hen
and End pullet and lst pen.
Issues Warning Against Smallpox
DR.. Henry D. Holton, secretary
and executive officer of the state
board of health has issued the follow
ing bulletin to the town and city
health officers throughout Vermont.
Information has been received that
smallpox is prevalent in Massachu-
sets towns and that one or more cases
have developed in Keene, N. II. We
would call the attention of physicians
and local health officers in the state
to this fact, warning them to be Wig
liant and see that cases do not pre-
sent themselves in their respective
towns, promptly quarantlnlng all sus-
picious cases to the end that the dis
ease may not obtain foothold In any
part of the state.
Afflicted with Lump Jaw"
James s. Brownell of Woodstock
1st Lieut.. Co. G. 1st Inf. V. N. G.
and a deputy sheriff, is said to be
afflicted with very rare disease lr
man, only 1l3 cases being said to be
recorded up to 1893. 1t is not infre
quently found in cattle and hogs anC
is then OFTEN called lump jaw" the
more scientific name being actinomy
COSTS, or ray fungus disease. The
fungus is said by authorities on the
subject to have been found in chaff
grain husks and corn stalks, and NOR
often than otherwise attacks the jaw
perhaps through a decayed tooth a!
in the present instance, and ther
spreads to other tissues. Mr.. Brown
ell has gone to the Massachusetts:
General hospital, Boston, for treat
ment.
Woman's Clothing Ablaze.
Maddened by her pain, as her cloth
ing was ignited by the explosion Of
an oil lamp, when she attempted tt
start a stove fire with the kerosene,
Mrs. Katherine Gallo jumped, al
ablaze from a second story window OF
her house, % feet above the ground
Thursday. Two men near by extin.
guished the flames with blanket be-
fore serious injury to the woman re.
suited. The kitchen was on fire too,
as result of the explosion, but
Patrick Lanahan, who lives next door,
ran in threw out the blazing lamp
and put out the blaze. Mrs. Gallo
was severely burned on both arms
from the hands to the elbows, but the
attending phyician stated tonight
that her condition was satisfactory.
The property damage is nominal.
Aged Veteran Dead.
Lemuel M. Hutchinson, of Montpel
Ter, civil War veteran, died on the
evening of Jan. Is, aged rs. He
served in the Civil war as captain OF
Company f, Sth Vermont regiment,
under Col. Stephen Thomas. Captain
Hutchinson lived most of his life ir
Worcester b. For the past p yea 8 hac
resided in Montpelier. While repre-
senting Worcester in the legislator
OF 1882 he introduced the bill which
became law providing for establish
ing the Vermont Soldiers Home il
Bennington. He is survived by {
wife and four children, Willard anc
Katherine Hutchinson, who are promi
nent in the theatrical worlc, Mrs.
W. Andrews of Boston and F. T
Hutchinson of Montpelier. He wa,
pro hinent in the affairs of Brooks
Post, 6. A. R., and up to two week.
ago had been in good health.
Has Invented Farm Automobile.
A farm automobile that will do tn,
WORK of team on Yer mont hill farm
is the invention which j. B. Mahan;
of Poultney, claims to have been per
fected. He says that the machin,
will pillow, harrow, NOV, haul load O