Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-01-07

Music Master 43 Years.

This year will make 43 years that
Clarence j. Sargent has taught music
in Vermont Mr.. Sargent teaches the
piano. organ, violin. cornet. etc., and
uses the same method that is used in
the Conservatives of music. He has
over one hundred pupils in Washington
county.
Partner and 1000 Gone.
Frank Martell of the firm of
Ainsworth & Martell, proprietors of
a prosperous general store in Brattle-
boro disappeared Monday night of last
week and $1,000 of the firms money is
missing. Martell took his oldest
daughter with him. Mrs. Martell,
who does not speak much English, was
deserted and left with four young
children.
Boy Confesses to Killing.
The Wood Morgan detective agency
has solved the mystery of the shoe ting
of John w. Wait in Peru, November "a,
by securing confession from 14-year-
old Edward Reed. Jr., who admits firing
the shot which he aimed at what he
thought was a bird but which pene-
trated Waits head under the left ear
and came out through his right temple,
causing death in few minutes.
directly away from the scene and for
fear of being arrested had denied
everything until the detectives saw
him. The case has attracted much
attention in the southern part of the
state.
Prosperous Year for Montpelier Banks
A stock dividend of 100 per cent, or
$50, 900 is announced in the 85th semi
annual statement of the Montpelier
Savings Bank and Trust company, the
oldest trust company in the state.
With the Increase voted by the direct
ors of the company, it's capital stock is
now $780, 900. Not less than S58, 900 is
the sum total of New Years money
which will tomorrow go to enrich the
scores of stockholders in three local
banking institutions, the Montpelier
Savings Bank and Trust company, the
First National Bank and the Capital
Savings Bank and Trust company.
The two last named are capitalized at
100000 each and are paying dividends
aggregating four and eight per cent
yearly.
bequests OF MIR. Billings.
The estate left by Frederick Billings
of Woodstock shows that when he died
on May 5, 1913, he left in New York
city an estate of SAT-, 768. rs. After
the wiping out of the debts, the sum
of $4,000 to his Alma Mater, the
University of Vermont, Burlington, to
be used as the trustees of the univer-
sity may direct: 81, 900 to the Burllng-
ton Home for Destitute Children; 500
to Joseph William Votey, friend who
is the dean of the civil engineering
department of the University of Yer
mont 5000 to Charles w. Buckham, a
Burlington and New York friend +;
S27, 800 to friends and institutions and
the balance of the estate to his widow,
Jessie S. Billings of Woodstock.
Tramps Swell Record.
The new law providing that tramps
shall serve sentences at the house of
correction instead of in county jails
and making the minimum sentence
for which offenders shall be committed
to the house of correction three months
instead of six months, made a big
difference in the number of commit
ments at the state institution during
1913. The entries on Superintendent
Merton H. Loukes's books show 100
commitments for the year just closed
in comparison with IS for 1912. There
are LAG prisoners confined in the house
of correction and county Jail combined
at Rutland, 10 of them being women.
Twenty seven women in all were
committed during the last IL months.
A. F. Stone Editor of Advance.
The directors of The Advance, the
new Progressive paper. at a meeting
at White River Junction, elected the
following officers: President, Guy B.
Horton of Burlington; vice-presidents,
DR.. w. J. Aldrich of St. Johnsbury,
DR.. H. j. Blodgett of Bellows Falls,
secretary, A H. Townsend of Burling-
ton; treasurer, NJ L. Aseltine of ST.
Adams. The paper has engaged as
editor Arthur F. Stone. formerly
editor of the St. Johnsbury Caledonian.
NJ. L. Aseltine will be circulation
manager and A. H. Townsend, adver-
Using manager. The management of
the paper propose to devote the
energies and influence of the paper to
the interests of the Progressive party
in Vermont.
Death of Mrs. c. S. Page
Mrs. Carroll S. Page, wife of United
States Senator Page, died in Hyde
Park Wednesday of heart disease.
The end was unexpected, as Mrs Page
had been in her usual health until two
or three days before and it was not
until Monday that she became so i'll
that physician was summoned.
Senator Page and their daughter, Miss
Alice Page. were with her when death
occurred Mrs. Page was born in
Johnson in 1912 and was the youngest
daughter of the late F. H. Patch. She
was married to Carroll S. Page April
| II; 1865, and to them were born three
children. One son, c. H. Page, died
July 80. 1898. Russell S. Page, their
younger son, is now on a visit with his