Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-08-09
Old Home Week at Athens.

Old Home Week at Athens.
The little town of Athens. 10 miles
from Bellows Falls, is to observe this !
year it's first "Old Home Week. the |
period beginning August 20. Among
Vermonters who were born in Athens
may be mentioned Superior Judge
Alfred A. Hall. of ST. Adams, and the
Rev. L. 0. Sherburne. of Burlington.
secretary of the Vermont Bible
Society. and a former pastor of the
Methodist church at Bellows Falls.
Mr.. Sherburne was born in Athens So
years ago during the pastorate of his
father, the late Rev. J. A. Sherburne,
at that place.
Danby's 150th Anniversary.
In commemoration of the 150th
anniversary of the granting of a
charter to the town by Gov. Benning
Wentworth of New Hampshire Dandy
will hold a celebration the week of
August 21-27. the program taking the
form of an Old Home Week. August
% has been set apart as Governors
week. Governor John A. Mead and
President John M. Thomas of Middle
bury college have already been Sc
cured as speakers. There will be
athletic sport and in the evening
good display of fireworks. August
81, as climax to the celebration,
! handsome drinking fountain will be
unveiled and dedicated
Howe Scale Company to Enlarge.
The Howe Scale company, of Rut-
land, of which Gov. J. A. Mead is the
head. has closed a contract with the
Winters, Coleman Scale company of
Springfield, Ohio to act as exclusive
agents for its entire system of auto.
matte scales. The move will mean a
largely increased business at the ma in
plant of the Howe company. The
contract means that the Howe com
pany has secured the output of the
concerns various types of automatic
scales, important among them being
what is known as the Sonander grain
scale. which is an apparatus for
simultaneously weighing grain and
loading it into cars. There is also
scale for weighing baggage which is
being adopted by railroads throughout
the country. The mechanism for the
baggage scale will be manufactured
in Rutland. The change was effect
i've August l.
The Pageant OF / h etford.
The town of Thetford is to give a
great outdoor pageant on August IL,
ID, and Is, in celebration of the one
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
founding. The pageant will be per-
,, formed on the banks of the Connect
cut River, at one of it's most beautiful
points, and the site has been carefully
chosen with view to taking advant.
age of the natural beauty of the
scenery. The pageant will have a
, cast of about five hundred men,
, women and children, drawn exclusive.
ly from the six villages making up
the town of Thetford. Historical
, events in the past of the town will
be alternated with interlude of sym.
bolic nature. principally expressed ir
dramatic dances given by the young
girls OF the villages and of the sum.
' mer camps located in Thetford.
, Alleged to Have Murdered Companion
In a preliminary hearing before
, Frank w. George, justice of the
! peace, Alessandro Dantonino, ar
! Italian laborer working in a con
:. truction gang near Wells River, was
held under $1,000 bonds for the
! alleged murder of fellow laborer
= Antonio Marconi. He was unable tt
+ furnish bonds for his appearance al
! the next term Of the county court
.. The tragedy took place about eigh,
; o'clock the Sunday night previous
! the pair having had trouble during
= the day, and meeting again at nigh
= Dantonino is alleged to have pulled
revolver and shot twice at Marconi
Both bullets took effect, one in thu
shoulder and one in the abdomen Thu
wounded man was taken to the hos
= pital at Woodsvllle, where he died il
. less than "a hours. Dantonino Offered
: no resistance when placed under
J arrest by Sheriff Scott Fellows.
- Nearly $4,000 Paid 70. Hedgehogs.
a In the five months since the legisla
S ture fixed bounty on hedgehogs, 9
0 towns have applied for the none
e allowed under law and $3.50 60 ha
d been paid out in 80 cent bounties
/. Bolton is the banner town thus ia
S with claims Of 1855. 70. Waterbur
n second at S482.7O and Groton thirc
n 1891. so. These towns have bee
d leaders before. One man in Water
n bury brought in 800 hedgehogs in
% week. From the present rate a
/. which the claims are presented to tn
l. state it is expected the total for tn
year will be between $40. 900 and SI2
900. In 1904, the last full year
which the state paid bounty O
hedgehogs, the years total was Sc
A. 861.20. considerable less than tn
" " estimate for this year. The law pr,
ii vides that any person killing a pn
Is cupine commonly known as hedgeho
re- may within 10 days present the hea
of the same to the town clerk of tn
y same town and if satisfied that tn
80 animal was killed in said town til
+c head is marked by cutting off bot
nd ears in the presence of the clerk, ar
i'd the person killing the hedgehog pay
Ilr the town clerk five cents for ever
head presented. The treasurer of tt
town on presentation of the cert
ficate shall pay 81 cents.