Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-06-04
STATE NEWS.
Blew Off His Head.

Blew Off Hi. Head.
Peter Sears, 45. farmer living in |
the east part of Starksboro, committed
suicide MAY q by blowing the top Of
his head off with a shotgun. Poor
health and dependency are said to
have led to the act.
Takes St. Albans Church.
Rev. F. A.. Lendrun has been an
pointed pastor of the Methodist
Episcopal church in st Adams. He
has been working in Mexico but was
obliged to leave there because of the
continued revolutionary movements.
He is 35 years Of age. Rev. Mr.. Len
drum is appointed to fill the place made
vacant by the death of Rev. C. D.
Lance, who was appointed at the recent
conference and who died shortly after
wards at his home in Newport. The
appointment was made by Bishop Theo-
dore S. Henderson of Chattanooga,
Tenn, who presided at the recent con-
ference, and by Bishop John w. Hamil-
Elect J. e. Colburn.
John Edward Colburn of Fairfax,
head of the Bellows Falls Free acade-
my, was unanimously elected by the
Burlington school commissioners from
list of IS applicants to succeed Mer-
rift D. Chittenden as superintendent.
elect of the Burlington schools. Mr..
Colburn is Al years of age. He is a
graduate of the Burlington high school
and the University of Vermont and has
successful record as an educator and
a reputation for scholarship and teach
ing ability. He has been successfully
principal of Craftsbury academy, New
port academy and graded schools, Burr
and Burton seminary at Manchester,
and the Bellows Falls Free academy.
Of the last named he has been the
head for the past five years. In col
lege he stood high in scholarship and
received the Phi Beta Kappa honors.
Masonic Week.
The annual meetings of the grand
at the Masonic temple in Burlington
from June 9 to Ii, according to the fol-
lowing program: June 9, p. M
Marsh o. Perkins, 33 degrees, deputy
for Vermont.
June 10. 9 a. m.-Grand commandery,
Knights Templars and Appendant Or
ders of Vermont, R. E. Frank L. Clark,
grand commander.
June II, 10 a. m.-Grand lodge of
Vermont. F. and A. NJ, M. w. Eugene
S. Weston. grand master.
8p. m.-Masonic Veteran Associa-
ton of Vermont, Frank M. Rood, ven
cradle chief
June IL, 9 a. m.-Grand lodge of
| Vermont (secOnd day.
8p. m.-Convention of the Order OF
High Priesthood, M. E. Collins Blake.
ly. president.
June 13, 9 a. m.-Grand Royal Arch
chapter of Vermont, M E. Henry D.
| Bryant, grand high priest.
Leaves Request to Boys.
The will of Col. DIN Scott. the man
ufacturer of powder mill and pulp mill
machinery, who died at Bennington
April % at the age of 81 years, has
been probated. He left money to q
number of friends and relatives, the
Second Congregational church of Ben
nington, $4,000 and the Kurn Hattir
Home gets $1,000. The residuary estate
is disposed of by the testator in the
following paragraph: Because of the
fact that in my own boyhood and youth
| ! udO W uCpIlV0 tuyS0ll VI pleasure
and to struggle against adversely to
obtain what education | received. ir
later years it has been my privilege
and pleasure to assist worthy boys anc
young men to obtain an education
trade. or profession and thus equiv
them for upright and useful lives; an(
so thus to perpetuate this object,
desire that my executors shall hole
said residuary estate until such time
as corporation has been formed tt
take this fund as trust and use tn,
income therefrOm to assist young mel
and boys by way of loans, advance
ments, or gifts, as may seem to sai(
trustees most beneficial, to enabl
them to obtain an education, trade, O.
profession, hoping, however, that i
will adopt such rules or plan that tn
income from said residuary may b.
continually increased and the scope O
this work thus be enlarged for the goo
of humanity
The executors, Henry D. Fillmor
and Homer H. Webster, are authorize
to continue the operation of the ma
chine shops SO long as it shall seem TO
the best interests of the estate.
Breeding Army Horses
The Bureau of Animal Industry Q
the United States Department of Az
. riculture has completed arrangement
for the standing Of Government stall
ions to encourage the breeding @
horses for military purposes. A tots
of lforty- four stations are in service
and gratifying reports are being re
ceived. The following Morgan stal
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