Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-07-02
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
Collins Held in $4,000.
Hugh Collins. the substitute station
agent at Vernon who shot and serious
ly wounded Representative Herbert A.
State near the Vernon station Sunday.
June was arraigned before Municipal
Judge Frank E. Barber of Brattleboro
and held under bonds of $4,000.
Hid Nearby Nearly Two Years.
The police of Rutland arrested Fred
wooster. aged 10 years, of West Rut-
land Thursday on the charge of steal
ing three bicycles and on arraigning
him in city court to-day found that has
been fugitive from the Vermont In
dustrial school at Vergennes nearly two
years and although he worked for most
of that time within Is miles of the in
stitution, he managed to elude all
searchers.
Fire Threatens Montpelier House.
A fire of unknown origin on June Is
in the livery stable of E. N. Rock of
Montpelier threatened the destruc-
ton of the Montpelier House with
which it is connected and gave the
firemen over a two hours fight and
completely Quilted the three floors of
the building. The loss is estimated
at between $4,000 and $4,000. The
building is owned by A. L. Sparrow,
proprietor of the Montpelier House.
The 1913 Automobile Year Book.
The annual year book of the Auto
mobile club Of Vermont is now being
distributed by S. S. Ballard of Mont
pelier, the secretary and treasurer of
the club. The highest registered mum
Der June Is was 5000, an increase of
1900 over the registrations of a year
ago. There is evidence of the growing
popularity of the automobile and as
sures steadily increasing fund to be
applied to the improvement of Vermont
highways.
Vermont Timberland Taken By Syndi-
cate
Control of 300, 900 acres of timber
land in northern Vermont and New
Hampshire, around the headwaters of
the Connecticut river and tributaries,
passed June 25th into the hands of a
Boston syndicate which purchased all
the stock of the Connecticut Valley
Lumber company. The transfer is
said to mark the completion of a deal
involving two billion dollars by which
Boston financiers plan to develop
large spruce timber districts.
Relative of Raider Young
Bennett Chapple. brother of Joe
Mitchell Chapple, editor of the Nation
al Magazine was in ST. Adams re-
Gently looking up material for an
article on Vermont which will appear
in the National Magazine. Mr..
Chapple is relati7 Of Bennett H.
Young, the confederate leader, who
figured in the st. Adams raid during
he Civil war; Mr.. Chapple found it
of great interest to be on the scene of
the exploits of Bennett Young and alb
sorbed considerable family history
during his visit.
Postmaster to Fight.
'For the good of the service" the
department has asked for the resi- gna-
ton Of Postmaster Joseph G. Brown of
Montpelier, who is serving his second
term. Representations have been
made to the department that he does
not devote time to his duties COM
mensurate with his salary. Mr.
Brown conducts an insurance business
and is the proprietor of a clothespin
factory. United States Senator Dill
lingham has been appealed to in the
matter and Postmaster Brown has re-
tanned former U. S.-Dist. tty. w. A.
Lord as counsel.
U v. M. Graduates 90.
Degrees in course were conferred
upon Sc graduates of the academic de-
partment at the University of YER
mont commencement last week and
the degree of doctor of med icine was
bestowed on 81 graduates of the medi-
cal school of the university. An
nouncement was made of gifts to the
university during the past year
amounting to the total of over SAT, 900,
including S25, 900 from Governor Foss
of Massachusetts, and $4,000 from
D. P. Kingsley, president of the New
York Life Insurance Co. Both these
donors were member of the class of
1881
A Page March.
Senator Carroll S. Page heard a stir
ring march, composed by Vermontel
and named for him, played recently
by the United States Marine band in
front Of the capitol of the United
States. The senator recently received
a copy of 1.-The Carroll S. Page
March, from the composer. Miss
Myrtle C. Wallace of Cambridge, with
the request that it be played by the
Marine band. 1t was turned over te
r Ill,
that famous musical organization, who
examined it and reported it to be very
good The Marine band gives concerts
in front of the capitol each week, ano
'"The Carroll S, Page March" was one
] of the selections rendered at recen1