Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-09-17


of the supreme court to fill the vacan-
cy caused by the resignation of Chief
Justice John w. Rowell and the eleva-
ton of Chief Judge w. w. Miles of the
superior court to the supreme court
bench.
Italian Laborer Murdered.
Jumbo" an Italian laborer known
only by this nickname, and a workman
| in the construction gang employed on
the dam being built by the Burlington
Light and Power company at Essex
Junction, was shot and killed last
evening, it is alleged by Benny"
Mazello, derrick foreman. Three
bullet wounds were found in the body.
Mazello and two other Italians were
arrested by Sheriff James H. Allen,
Constable H. G. Gates and Officer
David Demag and placed in the
county jail in Burlington. The shoot
ing occurred near the works and was
done, it is supposed, in self-defense,
the dead man having been discharged
several days ago for intoxication, since
which time he has bounded the fore
man with threats against his life,
according to reports.
State Convention of the w. c. T. u.
The annual state convention will be
held in Burlington. October 10.
Special features of interest will be the
national speaker, Mrs. Mary Wilson of
Philadelphia. A debate, "Resolved
that Prohibition is a Better Temper
ance Measure than Local Option. !"
The affirmative side will be taken by
DIR. Guy Potter Benton, president of
the University of Vermont. The
speaker on the negative side is to be
announced later.
There will be matrons' gold medal
contest: Other subjects to be given
Young People, Suffrage" "The
Importance of Temperance Work."
and "Moral Education" addresses to
be given by Miss Lillian Rember,
Washington, D. c.; Mrs. Annette
w. Parmelee, Enosburg Falls and Mrs.
w. H. H. Avery, Middletown Springs.
Mastadons Lived in Vermont.
The skeleton of mastadon is now
being dug up on farm in Pennington,
CT. The Hartford Courant says that
never before have bones of one of
these prehistoric animals been found
east of the Hudson river.
In this connection it is of interest
to recall that the tusk of fossil ele-
plant was found about 80 years ago in
muck bed, about five feet below the
surface, on the farm of D. S. Pratt of
Brattleboro. One tusk which was
taken out in good state of preserva
ton was 48 inches long, 18 inches in
circumference at one end and clever
inches in circumference at the smaller
end. Bones of one of these elephants
were unearthed in Mount Holly il
1848 by workmen engaged in building
the railroad from Bellows Falls tt
Rutland. The Mount Holly Skeleton
was also in muck bed, eleven feet
! below the surface, and at an elevation
of 1415 feet above the sea. The work
| men carried away many of the bones
/ but the most perfect tusk was secured
r by Prof. Zadock Thompson and is nov
7 in the collection of curious specimen
Y in the state house in Montpelier Thi
! tusk is 80 inches long and four inches
in diameter. Prof. Agassiz of Har-
5 ward secured a molar tooth of the
Mount Holly skeleton. This tootl
$ weighed eight pounds and presented
grinding surface eight by four inches.
5 A plaster cast of the tooth is on exhi
bition with the tusk at Montpelier
Vermont in the National Magazine
The September number of the Ma
Z, tional Magazine is surely a number t.
= make some readers sit up and take no
G tice and those of us who are natives 0
residents of Vermont to feel doubl
proud Of our good old Green Mountai
: state.
a This number Of the magazine is
Vermont number, and careful readin,
+, will inform great many that Vernon
, is not altogether the back numbe
i many people think her to be. This is
- sue is clothed with a handsome three
color cover, setting forth very goo
likeness Of Ethan Allen or some othe
sturdy patriot of colonial times with
i particularly good background of field
I stream and rugged hill
o With descriptive articles and plenti
S full illustrations of her wonderful natu
Y raj scenery together with views fror
y a number of representative towns an
y industrial plants from all over tn
l. state, we feel that Vermont is secon
It to none in her showing of mechanics
e as we'll as agricultural lines. Anon
e the leading industrial plants shown ar
= those of the Connecticut River Powe
e company at South Vernon. the Este
IS Organ company's plant at Brattlebort
@ the Fairbanks Scale company at S.
IL Johnsbury. the Windsor Machine con
: pany at Windsor, one of the thre
plants of the Prouty- Miller Lumbe
10 company at Newport, the Robin Hoo
lt Ammunition company's plant at Swa1
y ton, the Howe Scale works at RUTLAND
r occupying nearly II acres, and last br
Ce by far not the least our own Jones
Or Lamson Machine shops together wit
Il picture of the village square ar
n dam at the Falls bridge, a birdsey
he view of Bellows Falls and the MAJ
as streets of a number of the more impo
lg tant cities all over the state and sple1
n did views of quarry workings in diffe
TO ent stages of that line.
IL The picturesque villages, nesting f;
ne the foot of the Vermont hills are sur
70 ly worth going far to see, and whe
IL IL one considers the natural good roads
oil l.