Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-05-07

The forest fire between waterbury
and Middlesex is still raging and it
looks as though nothing but rain can !
check it. A large number of men are
fighting it..
Short Trout Cost Him $50.
Orlin H. Ellis was arraigned before
William R. Daley, municipal judge at
Brattleboro, and pleaded guilty to |
having four short trout in his |
possession. He was ordered to pay a /
fine of $50 and costs of $6.74.
War Veteran Suicide.
/. George Mercy, Civil War veteran,
residing on the road leading to East |
Berkshire from Richford, committed |
shooting himself near the heart. Mr.. |!
Mercy had suffered from mental
trouble for some time and it is thought
his mind was unbalanced when he took
his life.
Charge Is Manslaughter.
The grand jury has returned indict-
ments in Chittenden county court
against Henry Goodrich, James Sweeny
and Henry McCabe, charging them
with manslaughter in connection with
the drowning of Sam Rounds, negro,
at Bolton April 10. The trial of the
cases will probably be held at the
present term of court. Much will
depend upon the engagement of
Attorney General R. E.. Brown, who
will assist States Attorney Hopkins.
John Remission is being held as a wit
ness in the SUN of $50 bail, which has
not been furnished.
Col. Olin Scott Dead
Col. DIN Scott, proprietor of the
Bennington Machine works and a life
long resident of the town of Benning-
ton is dead. He had been in bus mess
in Bennington for nearly 60 years, the
| longest of any citizen. Machines
from his Bennington plant have been
shipped to every continent on the
globe, and he took commendable pride
in the international reputation made
by his comparatively little plant which
has built powder machines for the
Car of Russia, the Mikado of Japan,
for the Spanish government in Cuba
before the island became independent,
for the English in South Africa at the
time of the Boer war and for different
South American republics. Colonel
Scott left two memorials to the town
of Bennington, the monument and
statue of Col. Seth Warner and the
Masonic temple completed a few
months ago. He personally carried
out every detail of the first gift and
provided the funds for the second.
Common Towel Banished.
The doom of the roller towel has
been sealed. This germ-laden relic of
the wash room and kitchen of the cor
poratiOn boarding house has been con
demned by the Vermont state board of
health. At recent meeting of the
board the following regulation was
adopted:
Whereas. it has been demonstrated
that the use of the common or roller
towel is in danger to the public health
and is a source of communication of
infectious diseases; therefore, under
the authority of the statute imposed
upon the state board of health to
promulgate rules and regulations
relative to the preservation of public
health in contagious diseases and
prevention of the same, the use of the
roller towel, or any other towel,
which may be used for more than one
/ service, is hereby prohi bited in any
school, hotel, restaurant, boarding
house, saloon. club house, public
lavatory, Mushroom, depot or railroad
car, or any other public place
Vermont's Trip t, Gettysburg.
1t is estimated that 500 Vermont
veterans will; visit Gettysburg battle
field ON the occasion of the 50th
anniversary of the famous battles in
which Vermont soldiers took such a
conspicuous part. Col H. W. Allen,
who is chairman of the committee on
arrangements for this state has
received nearly thousand letters for
information in regard to the celebra-
ton and between 300 and 400 appllca-
tons for places. The celebration will
take place July IA The Vermont
veterans will leave the state Satur-
day, June %, arriving at Gettysburg
on Sunday, according to an official
circular sent out by Adjutant General
Lee S. Tillotson of St. Adams, who has
been placed in charge of the details.
Arrangements have been made for a
special train to start from St. Adams
! at 9 a. m. June %, run via Essex
junction, Bellows Falls and Brattle-
boro to New London. Conn.,, without
charge. Veterans living off the main
line will travel on regular trains to
the most convenient connections from
other lines.
Posted Brooks-New Law.
Many persons who have posters on
| their lands announcing the fact they
!. are "posted" to fishermen probably
are unaware that they are subject to a
, fine of $40 for each poster. In the
, last session of the legislature the law
makers passed some new fishing and
! hunting laws and among them was the
, following. 1t is section 60 of chapter
2O1 and reads as follows: ga person
: who maintains poster prohibiting
/. fishing for more than one year afte,
2 said waters were last stocked by him
a shall be fined ten dollars for each
poster so maintained. This sub
' division shall not apply to a persor
! maintaining at his own expense
t private preserve, when the com.
j missioner after axa mi ,,ation oe ...al