Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-04-30
STATE NEWS
Sold LIQUOR to Boys.

has surrendered his license TO sell
Intoxicating liquor at The Bardwell. i
pleaded guilty in court to one oHense
of selling liquor to minors. contrary to
the terms of his license. and was hned
$500 and costs by Judge F. M. Butler.
Big Show of Automobiles.
Vermont's Third Annual Automobile
show will be held in the armory. Bur-
lington, four days. from April 80 to
May g. Arrangements have been COM
pleted for very successful show in
every way. Every available foot of
space given over for the exhibits has
been taken.
Barre Granite Selected.
Arrangements have been made for
the erection in the Arlington National |
cemetery of monument of Barre
granite to Major Archibald W. Butt.
". S. A.. military aide to President
Roosevelt and Taft, who was lost at
sea when the steamship Titanic sank
in the Atlantic ocean. April 18th, 1912.
Bond. Which Are Legal.
Bank Commissioner F C. Williams
has issued an official list of the rail-
road bonds which are legal invest
ments for Vermont state banks. The
| list of the bonds permissible under the
provisions of the laws of 1912 and 1910
The only Vermont railroads whose
Maine 1T. Johnsbury and Lake Cham
pIain), New London Northern Central
Vermont) and the Burlington Traction
Company.
Dog Saves Second Child From Death.
Rover. big st. Bernard dog owned
by w. ]. Ellis of Poultney, for the
second time within the last two years
saved the life of a child. Daniel
Costello, the eleven-year old son of
George Costello, fell into the river
April %. which runs near the village
of Putney and but for action of the
dog would have been drowned. About
two years ago the animal in a similar
manner saved the life of his mistress,
the young daughter of Mr.. Ellis.
To Revise Public Statutes.
Gov. Allen H. Fletcher has announced
the appointment of Hale K Dar-
ling of Chelsea. Julius A. Wilcox of
Ludlow and Daniel A. Gui]tinan of
Bennington commission to make
such revision of the public statutes as
tional amendments adopted by the
people at the last annual town and
city meetings in March. This revision
will be presented to the legislature at
the special session to be called by the
> governor.
To Reopen Girls School.
) Bishop Hopkins Hall, the girls
school at Rock Point near Burlington.
which has not been in operation for
several years, while an endowment of
100000 was being raised, is to be
reopened in September next. under the
principalship of Miss Ellen Seton
Ogden, Phi. D., of Bryn Mawr. Miss
Ogden was for ten years on the staff
of St. Agnes school at Albany. N.
Y, and is now at Miss Porter's school
, at Pennington Center. She has
secured staff of experienced teachers
: to assist her.
. Over Enbankment near Middiebury.
Half a dozen passengers were
seriously and several others severely
0 injured about $50 O'Clock sunday
evening when the New York flyer or
: the Rutland railroad was partly de
rallied four miles north Of Middlebury
The train, when the accident occurred
was running at a speed of about A
miles an hour. Railroad men say i
n was caused by spreading rails. The
e track was torn up for 800 yards, 10t
" yards of which were on bridge
n Two Pullmans, two day coaches, +;
l. combination baggage and mail car lief
!, the irons and one of the Pullmans,
G steel car, capsized and slid 10 fee
e down an embankment. In it at thu
n time were about Is passengers.
= Presidents Summer Staff at Windsor.
: The government building at Wind
). sor, will be used for the executive
r offices during the time that Presiden
% Wilson spends at the summer Whit
% House in Cornish, N. H. Court room
r. on the second floor which are ordinari
J. ly used only few days each year will
ID be utilized by the Washington official
3, and telegraph companies are makin
le plans for branch Offices in the building
There are five or six rooms Navailabl
D. for use as private and public office
l. and telegraph rooms and other pull
" poses. Surveyors have begun layin
IS lines for the new Wilson road, to b
lg built from the village to the Winsto
1t Churchill estate, which is to be occu
t. pied by President Wilson. The cos
of the road is to be borne by the state
Negro Boy Thrown In the River an
browns.
in Three men, Henry McCabe, Jane
wv Sweeney and Henry Remission, worl
H. men on big dam being constructed i
Of Bolton. were arrested March q
us charged with throwing negro be
h into the river with the result that tn
60 lad drowned. It seems that the BIO
be was working for firm in that vicinit
M, MT and stole the dinner pals of the me
ss. named above. They caught the be
i'm and thrashed him and told him to or
- duce the dinner pals by certain no,
r. or they would chuck him in the rive
,d. Weak from his thrashing the boy d
on not get the pals and at the hot
%. named was pushed into the water. On
e of ho /.