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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-06-22
PROBATE COURT.

Dennis Depochia estate, Newport.
Commissioners report returned.
Louis C. Kelsey trust estate, Derby.
Trustee presents his annual account.
Referred to July 5, 1910.
Maria Lother estate, Derby. Com
m~issioners' report returned.
Mary P. Moon estate, Holland.
Commissioners report returned.
Martin j. Sherburne estate Glover.
Commissioners report returned.
Lucy S. Calkins estate, Morgan.
Commissioners report returned.
Lois C. Kelsey trust estate, Derby.
Trustee presents his account. Referred
to July 5, 1910.
Mary P. Moon estate, Holland.
Executor presents his account. Re-
ferred to June 27, 1910.
Merton P. Lackey estate. Holland,
E. A. Ferrin appointed administrator.
J. A. Bradford and ]. M. Page ap.
pointed appraisers and commissioners.
Charles A. Lawrence estate, Glover
Commissioners report returned.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-06-22
High School Examinations.

On July Z and 8, 1910, applicants for
teachers certificates and pupils of
Newport, Coventry, and Irasburg who
wish to obtain free tuition certificates
of admission to approved high schools
will be examined at the village school
house of Newport and Irasburg. Un-
less known to the examiner, the for
mer will be required to furnish testi-
monials of moral character and ability
to govern.
Edward S. Watson, Superintendent
in Newport Union. =
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-06-22
Newport News Page
Important Happenings and Local
Notes from the County Seat.
l. B. WELLMAN, Local Editor
L. B. WELLMAN, Local Editor

David w. Calderwood estate, Glover.
Appraisers inventory returned.
Samuel B. French estate, Glover.
Appraisers inventory returned.
William H. Willis estate, Charleston
Appraisers inventory returned.
James Cameron estate, Albany.
Executors inventory returned.
Amy L. Stanley estate, Barton.
Consent to settlement filed. Admins
traitor settled his account.
Blanche Uric, minor, C~raftsbury.
Guardian settled his account.
j. C. Boswell trust estate, Barton.
Trustee presents his account. Re-
ferred to Barton, July 8, 1910.
Phila Coburn estate, C~raftsbury.
Executor presents his account. Re-
ferred to Barton, July g., 1910.
William H. Willis, non compos,
Charleston. Guardian settles his
account.
Ada P. Coburn estate, Newport.
Administrator settles his account.
Decree of distribution made.
Joseph Murray estate, Westmore.
Will proved. Mary Jane Murray ap-
pointed e%xecutrix. w. C.. Daniels and
c. H. Atkins appointed appraisers and
, commissioners,
Dennis Depochia estate, Newport.
Administrators inventory returned.
Samuel B. French estate, Barton.
Executrix's inventory returned.
David w. Calderwoood estate,
Glover. License granted to sell real
estate.
Harvey A. Perkins estate, Brown
ington. Anna j. Perkins appointed
administrative. Homer Leland and G..
E. Robinson appointed appraisers and
commissioners.
Mary F. Drew estate, Barton.
Commissioners report returned.
Frank Dwyer, non compos, Derby.
Application made for appointment OF
guardian. Referred to Newport, June
20, 1910.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-06-22
DERBY.

Rev. Anderson is entertaining a sis
ter from Indiana.
H. T. Robbins of Newport was a
visitor in town Sunday.
L. L. Wiley is entertaining a
nephew from Chicago.
Mr.. Carpenter of Enosburg is visit
ing his daughter, Mrs. Will Kidder.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arnold Edmunds were
owe in their auto from Troy Sunday.
Mrs. Ira Taylor is paying her semi
annual visit to her son, w. M. Taylor.
DR.. Davidson of Burlington preached
in the Baptist church Sunday evening.
Mrs. Arthur Kimball is entertaining
a brother with his wife and baby from
Nelson, Washington.
George Cofran is moving back from
Newport, having hired the Helen
Nourse house for a year.
Edwin Gordon is spending a short
time with his parents before going to
his charge in Craftsbury.
DR.. and Mrs. Aldrich have been TAX
ing a weeks vacation visiting rela-
tives in Glover and other places.
Mrs. Boynton, who passed her s2nd
birthday last Wednesday, was remem-
bered by a shower of 106 postcards.
Mr.. and Miss Baldwin of North
Stratford, N. H., spent last week with
their cousins, Nh. and Mrs. Arthur
Kimball.
The remains of Mrs. Luman Jenne,
Nellie Adams) were brought here for
burial from her late home in West
Derby Sunday afternoon.
The Boys club recently organized
by Rev. Anderson is holding a lawn
party on the parsonage lawn this
"wednesday evening and serving ice
cream to raise funds to defray expenses
for the summer.
Funeral services for the late Moses
Rogers were held in the M. E. church
last Thursday afternoon, Rev. I. P
Chase, a former pastor and close
friend of the deceased, officiating. His
bereaved wife and three sisters have
the sympathy of the community.
The younger members of the M. E
Sunday school gave their annual Chill
dren's day concert Sunday evening.
The church was prettily decorated FOL
the occasion. A large audience lis.
tened to the program consisting OF
choruses, duets, solos, recitations, anc
exercises, which were we'll rendered
considering the length of time taker
in their preparation.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-06-22
NEWPORT.

G. A. Prouty has returned from
Washington for the summer.
Mrs. H. Jackson of Barre is spend
ing the week at E. E. Scott's.
G. l.. Fulsom returned last Saturday
from a months stay in Boston.
Robert Porter will move to the
Richard farm early next month.
Hon. Alexander Dunnett of St.
Johnsbury was in town last Saturday.
Master Maurice Clark is spending
the week with relatives in West Glow
err.
C. M. Bailey visited his sister in
Berkeley, Mass, the first of the
week.
E. C. Blanchard Is taking a business
trip through several of the southern
states.
Mrs. Q~uackenbos of Washington, D.
c., is visiting her brother, Mr.. Win
terton.
Miss Martha A. Howe of Brookline,
Mass, is visiting at H. T. Blar-
chard's.
]. D. Rossier will soon close his la
bors as milk man for the Clover Hill
milk farm.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Emery are re-
joicing over the birth of a son born
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. B. Wellman are
spending a few days at North Rye
Beach, N. H.
MI. and Mrs. F. civilians are en-
pertaining their daughter, Mrs. Fuller
ton of Toronto.
C. F. Bigelow was called to New
boro, Ont last Thursday owing to
the death of his mother.
o. B. Sias left for his home in Palm
Beach, Florida last Saturday after a
short stay among friends.
Mrs. Fred Sisco. spent a part of last
and Mrs. E. M. Todd, of Orleans.
Benz. Heath has closed his labors at
the Wright Shoe store and Harold
Flint is the new man behind the
counter.
The j. B. Swafford's Theater COM
pany have pitched their tent on the
Brady lot on Main street and will ex-
hibit n week.
Mrs. A ]. Magoon is entertaining
her sisters, Mrs. Mayo and Miss Re-
cor of Foster, P. O., and her brother,
Olive Recor of Stowe.
A new boat has been added to the
already large fleet on the lake. The
latest is a very fine launch owned by
j. T. Martin of New York.
The friends of Mrs. Luman JENNIE
will be panied to learn of her death
which occurred at her home in West
Derby last Saturday after a long and
painful illness.
George Herrich, who has occupied
the Richard farm for the past few
years, will vacate about July l, when
he will assume management of the
Glover Hill milk route.
Francis Robinson has closed his la.
bors with the True & Blanchard com
pany and has accepted a position al
the Mt. Washington house, Bethlehem,
N. H., for the summer.
Lakeside Chapter, No. II O. E. S.,
at its last meeting voted to discontin'
lie the meetings during the summer
months. The next meeting will be
held the first Monday evening in Octo.
Der.
Col. z. M. Mansur and Horace
WEIGH were in Barre last week. They
went to bring back a new automobile
which the Colonel has lately pur-
chased. It is a fine machine of the
Cadillac family.
Next Sunday morning the members
of Memphremagog Lodge, No. IS F.
and A. NJ, will attend service in the
Methodist church in a body and lister
to an appropriate sermon by the pas
tor, Rev. c. D. Lance.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-06-22
COVENTRY.

The schools close Friday.
VIM. Niles is not as we'll again.
Mary Brooks has gone to Winthrop,
Mass, to stay awhile with her cousin.
Little Alta Wheelock suffered an
attack of appendicitis the past week.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-06-22

Foley's Kidney Remedy may be given
to children with alm irable results. 1t
does away With bed wetting, and Is also
recommended for use after measles and
scarlet fever. Sold by all druggists.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-31
POLICE SEARCH FOR
MURDERER IN Vain
Fugitive L0ngshOreman Is Be-
Iieved to Be Hiding IN Sail
ors' Boarding House
George Bessor Secured Supply
of Cartridges After Killing
Miss Eleanor Fieber

George Bessor, the longshoreman
who shot and killed Miss Eleanor Fiee
her. who was known as the Belle of
Butchertown." in her home al Dore
street. early Saturday night has thus
far succeeded in eluding the vigilance
of the police department. Several men
have been put on the case, and the
regular force has been furnished with
descriptions and photographs of the
murderer.
1t was suggested last night that
Bessor might have made his escape on
some outgoing vessel, but this idea
was secuted by the police department,
as a close watch has been kept along
the water front to avert this possibility
After shooting the girl in fit of
jealousy, owing to her popularity in
South San Francisco and her refusal
to accept his advances Bessor returned
to the home of his mother, kissed
goodby to her and his sister. went
to his own room, put a number of cart
ridges in his pocket and departed.
The detectives detailed on the case
believe that the fugitive is shiding in
some of the sailors lodging houses and
that it will be only short time before
they have him in custody.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-31
ONE MILLION DOLLARS
PAID YEARLY IN WAGES
Public Service Corporations
Contribution to City's Wealth

One million dollars a year. is paid in
wages by one concern in this town to
its fifteen hundred employees in San
Francisco.
About 1900 men. women. and children
in this city trace their regular support
to wages or salaries paid here by the
san Francisco Gas and Electric Com
pany and its parent corporation, the
Pacific Gas and Electric Company. That
means that fifteen hundred families get
their livelihood from the manufacture
and distribution of gas and electricity
in this city. or that one person in every
fifty in this community is at present
dependent for living upon the local
employment required by this company
This company also pays one hundred
thousand dollars a year in repairing
the streets of San Francisco. Every
time il disturbs the pavement il has to
make repairs at its own expense. And
besides this. IL has TO pay the city sew
erai thousand dollars in taxes on a
franchise privilege. not for using the
pavements, but for laying pipes under
ground or stringing wires overhead
along the streets.
Companies or individuals using drays
or wagons for their delivery system are
not charged anything for using the
citv's streets If gas and electricity
could be delivered in wagons that $780,
600 a year for street repair work could
be saved, and so could the franchise
tax
The gas and electric company pays
taxes on all its property. just the same
as any other business enterprise. Then
part OF those taxes are taken by the
city TO repair streets used by all the
concerns that deliver by wagon.
These things help to establish the
selling price of gas and electricity.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-31
SCORPION FOUND ALIVE
IN CARCASS OF A COW
Poisonous Insect Real Cause of
Animals Illness

Along about the middle of last Sep
tember fine Jersey COW belonging to
John S Gilliss who owns a farm just
outside of Rockville. became i'll. She
began coughing, and later showed
symptoms of tuberculosis, states the
Philadelphia Ledger.
At least the neighbors, many of
whom had lost cows through that
malady. all said tuberculosis was what
was the matter with the Gilliss COW.
The GiIlisses did not know positively
that tuberculosis was what allied their
favorite milch COW, but they took no
chances. They segregated her, stopped
using her milk and bestowed every at
tention upon her. But the COW grew
worse
Finally she became so feeble that she
could not stand. The veterinarian who
was called in diagnosed her ailment as
pneumonia. Her cough increased and
the Gillisses decided that the humane
thing to do was to kill her and end her
misery. So she was duly executed and
a negro farmland was set to work to
skin her.
When he had removed the hide the
negro noticed a hole in the skin next
to the hide on the cows side. His
curiosity was at once aroused and he
traced the hole through the intestines
and stomach OF the COW. Following its
course, he came TO the cows udder.
There was found a scorpion, five inches
long. alive and apparently in the best
of health
Mr.. Gilliss believes the COW swal-
lowed the scorpion some time in Au-
gust or September. A drought pre-
vailed in the Rockville section at that
time and the small stream in Mr.
Gilliss' pasture ran dry. The cow went
to a spring to quench her thirst. Scor-
pions of the kind swallowed by the
Gilliss COW are common throughout this
section. They are always to be found
living in springs, for which reason the
country folk call them spring keep
ers.'' That the COW drank up the scor-
pion along with copious drafts from
the spring is Mr.. Gilliss' theory
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-31
FUGITIVE WALKED
HUNDREDS OF MILES
Convict Tramped Through the
African Wilds to Civiliza-
tiOn; Recaptured
Taken Back and Died While
Serving Sentence of Six
Months

Recently news was received in Lon
don of the death of Joseph Creswick.
who, while fleeing from justice. ac-
eomplished one of the most remark
able walking feats on record
Creswick was undergoing sentence
for forgery in Rhodesia. and. while
being conveyed from one prison 10
another by train (ss reported some
months ago.. conceived the idea of es-
Gaping from his guards. AS his legs
were heavily ironed. the task was by
no means an easy one. But one night.
when the train in which he was being
conveyed was between Buluwayo and
Salisbury and his guards were asleep.
CreswiCk quietly opened the carriage
door and jumped out. When he reached
the ground he fell. but was not badly
hurt. During the remainder OF the
night he shufied 'along in the dark.
and at daybreak could see the railroad
in the distance. He decided to walk in
a straight line from IL. which he did
for several DAYS, still with his feet
shackled.
Day after day and night after night
he rubbed his irons with the sharp
est pieces of rock he could find. until
at last he was able to throw his irons
aside After this Creswick went
on with great strides through the
unknown country in which he found
himself. his sole object being TO get
TO some white settlement.
Some weeks after his escape the
wanderer had wonderful piece OF
luck In hut apparently belonging
TO a settler he found a gun and some
ammunition. which, in the circum-
stances he did not hesitate TO take
possession Of With the gun he man
aged TO shoot several zebras and other
animals, which provided him with
many a welcome meal. but. unfortu-
nate1y his gun got out of order he
fore his ammunition became exhausted.
and he had TO rely upon fruit for his
sustenanee-
Just when Creswick was coming to
the conclusion that he had been walk
ing round and round without making
much progress. he fell in with some na-
tives. who gave him certain directions
as 10 how to md "a very long water
which Creswick concluded must mean
the River Congo, and for several more
weeks he continued his weary tramp.
He was taken subsequently, TO Rho
desia and for his escapade he was SEN
fenced TO a further term of six months
imprisonment. during which he died
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-31
MANY FAMOUS NAMES
FOUND IN DIRECTORY
Julius Caesar, Homer and Venus
Lived in London

After rummaging among the strange
surnames to be found in the postoffice
directory. the London Graphic asks:
What could be better for the name of
a saddler than Whippy? William Sykes
is the name of q sports manufacturer.
On the other hand, great names of the
past have an unfamiliar look in Sebas-
tian Bach ca horse dealer), Robert
Bruce ca green grocer), John Bunyan
(another green grocer), John Milton "a
chandler) and James Boswell (mason)
William Shakespeare is the name of
a barrister, a tailor and a van builder.
There is a Crusoe and also CULVER
Julius Caesar is a chemist, Livy keeps
apartments, Homer is a lighterman,
Pindar an electrical engineer. Mars
retails beer and Venus is, not inap-
propriately, a confectioner. Francis
Bacon is an architect, and Bayard a
dairyman.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-31
CLAWS TO MEET
MEN HE ACCUSES
Leading Witness in BalIinger
Inquiry Faces Grueling
Cross Examination
Two congressman Charged
With Feathering Their Nests
to Defend Themselves

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.-When the
examination of L. r. CLAWS begins to-
morrow before the Ballinger-P -Pinchot
investigating committee it is expected
that some new and startling features
Will be brought out regarding charges
against officials of the interior depart
ment
1t is expected that Representative
James McLachlan of California and
Representative Kfnkaid of Nebraska.
either directly or through friends on
the Investigating committee, will put
CLAWS through a grueling examination
in an effort TO free themselves of the
odium of suspicion.
CLAWS said yesterday that Ballinger,
after having been commissioner of the
land office, had acted as attorney for
Kinkaid. In regard to McLachlan, Gla-
Wis testified that Ballinger had sug
gested to him that the investigation
against the California congressman be
not pursued, as there had been too
much of that sort of thing in the past"
There was no meeting of the COM
mittee today and, so far as tomOrrows 5
proceedings are concerned. they viii
be directed entirely by Senator Nelson,
chairman of the committee.
1t is regarded as certain that several
officials and employees of the general
land office viii be summoned and the
list of witnesses probably will include
government employees from other de-
partments having jurisdiction in land
matters.
There is much speculation as to
whether Clifford Pinchot will be called
to the stand. He has been an inter-
ested attendant at the proceedings. 1t
is believed that democratic members
of the committee will see to it that
Pinchot is summoned and will seek to
make as much political capital out of
his Testimony aS thew can
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-31

havoc in Paris and. surrounding French
provinces.
This was the declaration tonight of
Willis L. Moore chief of the United
States weather bureau. He says there
was a remarkable persistence of abb
normally low barometric. pressure over
the Iceland area and adjacent Euro
pean countries.
While great cyclonic areas prevailed
ia the high latitUdes Of the Pacific
ocean and in the Bering sea the baro-
metric pressure was unusually high
over Siberia, the Azores and the trop-
ical and subtropicaI regions of the Pa
ofEp
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-31
HEAD OF RAILROAD
MIXES WITH MEN
President MelIen of New Haven
and Hartford Pleads for
Cooperation
Tells Engineers and Firemen He
Is in Favor of Shorter Day
and Overtime

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Jan. So.-Mu-
tual cooperation and information as
to the work of the company in behalf
of its employees Were discussed tonight
by President MeIlen of the New York
New Haven and Hartford railroad at
the convention of the brotherhood of
locomotive fremen and enginemen.
Menen began by calling attention TO
the existence of a new and unheralded
labor organization in Connecticut
namely. the association, of railroad
presidents of the state. of which he
himself was president. treasurer. sec
retary and a large majority of the
members.
He. as well as his men, wanted a
10 hour day; he wanted double pay for
overtime and, if the men would help
him, he promised to help them and said
they should work as fellow employees
together.
"Think it over said MeIlen. Let's
join hands, because if we don't go to-
gether We are both liable TO get dam
aged"
President MelIen referred to the pro-
posed employers liability act. which.
he said. if it must come. should come
by degrees He called attention to the
fact, almost unknown, and that never
appeared in the newspapers. that his
corporation had a pension fund of 600
names, paying out 100000 year.
He referred TO a statement that he
had made at a stock holders meeting
that higher wages breed poor service,
and. while not receding from that gen
of railroadmen ever existed in eff
cheney and morale than those who had
just brought his company through a
period of adversity.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-31
Relief Fund Growing

Funds are still pouring in for the re-
lief Of the stricken people of Paris.
While the subscriptions yesterday were
comparatively light because of the
Sabbath. the committee looks for large
additions TO the fund today and
throughout the week. More than $1,000
has already been subscribed for the
relief of the flood victims. With many
subscriptions yet to be received and
projected benefits. the total sent from
San Francisco should be A very large
sum Contributions are being received
al the French Savings bank and at the
Offices of Raphael Weill & Co.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-31
ODD CAREER OF
ROBERT BADDELEY
Was Cook to Foote, Also Moses
in "SchooI for Scandal

Robert Baddeley. who endowed the
Twelfth Night" cake for his fellow
actors at Drury lane, was husband of
the notorious Sophia, and. originally
cook to the "infidel' comedian Foote
whom Doctor Johnson detested, though
"the dog" compelled him to laugh, says
the Westminster Gazette. From Foote
he possibly acquired some training for
the stage, on which he became a good
actor of Jews and Frenchmen" He
was the original of Moses of the
school for Scandal" and was seized
with fatal illness while dressing for
this character in 1894. Baddeley is
buried in ST. Paul's church, Covent
Garden. In addition to founding the
.'Baddeley cake, he bequeathed his
property at Molesey to provide pen
sions for "deeayed actors
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-31
WOMAN GIVES LIFE
TO RESCUE PET DOG
Meets Death Under Train Try
ing to Save Canine

IAN BERNARDINO. Jan. 30.-AIrs. J.
McDaniels. mother of Montana Kid.
prize fighter, was instantly killed at
Hesperia, a desert station on the Santa
Fe. east of here, today, when she ran
on the tracks to save the life of a pet
dog and was struck by the speeding
engine Mr.. and Mrs. McDaniels were
returning from a journey by wagon to
Imperial valley and had camped for
the night near the depot at Hesperia.