Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-06-07
STATE NEWS,
To Meet at Bellows Falls.

together with the annual meeting of
the Vermont Domestic Missionary
society, will be held at Bellows Falls
in the First Congregational church
June Is, IA, and Is.
Sells Eleven Head of Cattle for $1,000.
Wallace Houghton. who lives near
East Lyndon, has sold his herd of
Ayrshire cattle, IL head, to a party at
East Ashburnham, Mass, for $1,000.
They were shipped Monday, Wallace
and Paul Houghton going with them.
Mr. Houghton has been carefully
breeding this stock for a number of
years and evidently thinks that it
pays.
Potatoes and Melons.
( Prof. William Stuart, formerly of
the University of Vermont and now
employed by the United States De-
partment of Agriculture, is in Bur-
| lington several months making expert
ments with potatoes and water mel
ons. He found the climate and soil
of Vermont best suited for expert
ments in hand and has planted two
plots of the two seeds and will watch
the growth. The work is being done
at the state farm.
. Child Burned While Alone
A lamentable affair occurred near
Frog City near Ludlow when the four.
year-old granddaughter of Mrs. Julius
Salter waas burned to DEATH The
grandmother, with whom the child
had been living for some time, went
down to the main road, some distance
from the house, to meet the mail car
rier, leaving the little one shut in:
and upon her return found that the
building had burned to the ground and
the child persisted. The cause of the
disaster is not definitely known, of
course. but it is supposed the child
either played with matches or got at
the stove, thus setting the place afire.
Shot Deer and Reported Late.
Frank Rice. a farmer and truck
gardener living at the foot of Har-
mon mountain near Bennington, is
charged with having shot large buck
on his premises. He is to be tried
June 20. The buck was shot in the
evening Of May 2, and the next day
!. Rice notified the game warden that he
had wounded deer that was destroy
ing his crops. He is charged with
not having complied with the pro-
visions of the statute, which requires
that warden shall be notified of the
shooting within six hours after the oc.
currence, and that the carcass shall be
dressed Immediately. Rice has in
4 the past few years collected over $3.50
for damages to his crops.
Must Pay the Piper
Five university students were in CITY
court, Burlington, recently charged
with breach of the peace in connection
with the celebration of the victory
over Dartmouth Saturday night, Nav
20. Judge Palmer fined each SIS and
costs and each took an appeal to the
County court and were released on
500 bail each. The arrests were
the result of riot started in the bust
ness section, in which the students
broke up a show at the theatre.
pitched into the members of the fire
department and attacked a motorman
on a street car. One of the men who
was fined was Elias Lyman, Jr, son
of the acting president of the uni
versity, and Rhodes scholar. The
others were B. Fletcher Andrews,
of Burlington, and Paul w. Waterman
of Barre.
Soldiers Monument Dedicated.
Memorial day, 1911, in Morristowr
had greater significance than in any
previous year, for on that day the new
soldiers monument standing at the
foot of Academy park, was dedicated
This monument, the only soldiers
monument within radius of 81
miles, is the fruition of a desire tina
has long been in the hearts of the oil
soldiers and for many years. 1t i
built of solid granite surmounted by
bronze figure of soldier, and is con
coded to be one of the most handsom
pieces of work of its kind in Yer
mont. It was erected at cost O
$4,000. $500 of which was voted b.
"a the town, the balance being given b.
y the G. A. R., w. R. c., S. V. an
other orders and by citizens of Nor
ristown. The names of the TIP Nor
ristown volunteer soldiers, and s
members of the James NJ Warne
Post, G. A: r., No. 4, appear on tn
bronze tablets of the first die of tn,
monument.
Remember the Flag June II.
The American Flag association. i
It's annual circular calling attention
Flag day, June IA, says: 1--WE re
spectfulIy appeal to the President O
the United States of America, to tn
governors of all states of our Ian
and to the mayors of each America
city to herald the coming and celebra
tion of Flag day, June IA, by proc
lamation we call upon every publ
officer, every teacher of the youth O
our country, the editors of all news
papers, the daily instructors of tn
youth of our land to call public at
tention, to arouse enthusiasm and t.
provide for public exercises and gen
eral celebration of the day.
eve earnestly exhort our citizen
to join in making Flag day an event
and its celebration in 1911 a grea
event. Let us from one end of ou
land to the other, fling the stars an
stripes to the breeze on June Ia