Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-07-22
STATE NEWS.
Special Educational Commission Reports
to Governor.

The educational commission held
special session in the supreme court
room of the state house Friday and the
completed report was placed in the
hands Of Gov. Fletcher Saturday. The
contents of the report are carefully
guarded. The publication of the docu
ment, which is long one, Twill rest
with the governor, as he indicates.
Prohibition Biennial Session.
The Prohibition party of Vermont
will hold its biennial session in st. |
Johnsbury July % and 20. The chair
man of the state committee, DIR. L. |
w. Hanson of Montpelier. is arranging
the program. 1t is expected that Rev. |
William Shaw of Montpelier and Irving |
w. Master, secretary of the Massachu-
setts prohibition committee, will be in
attendance.
Fined $500 and Costs.
A fine of $500 and costs was imposed
on Robert H. Drake of Pittsford after
he had pleaded guilty to charge of
selling Jamaica ginger illegally. The
officers of the county happened into
the Drake drug store and found GUS
toner buying bottle of the beverage
and returning number of temples.
Search revealed the fact that a custo-
mer had returned 10 empty bottles, for
which he received cent apiece and
that there were many dozens of these
returns.
Students from 131 Institutions.
At the close of the first day of rout-
inc the students military encampment
at Burlington numbered about 1876 en-.
hn fhor Ind
far south as Texas and South Carolina
and as far west as Colorado. One hun
dred and thirty-one institutions have
sent delegations Yale leads with 33,
Princeton is second with Is and Har-
ward is third with Fl. Stevens insti-
tute has Is, Cornell II and Vermont
Is. Ninety-seven are preparatory
school men.
Woman's Skull Laid Open with Axe.
Louis D. Pelkey of Fair Haven, a
moulder, is in the lookup there on a
technical charge of assault which may
be changed to one more serious if his
wife, whom he is alleged to have
struck with an axe, should die. The
chances of the. woman's recovery are
slight. according to the attending
physician. The consumption of a pint
bottle of whiskey, and quart of beer
robbed Pelkey of his senses and filled
him with rage, he says, and his mind
is blank from the time he drank the
liquor until his daughter, Miss Belle
Pelkey, entered the house Wednesday
evening, July Is and found her mother
with the husband standing over he,
with an axe. The woman was bleed.
ing profusely and was unconscious.
/ Confesses to Assault on Girl.
H. w. Morgan of the Wood Morgan
detective agency of Boston, said that
the authorities had obtained from w al
lace Avery, of Randolph, confession
that he committed the assault upor
ten-year- old Evelyn Ferguson, and he
has been removed to another town
where he is held for special term OF
Orange county court. On account Of
strong feeling against Avery, through
the section as we'll as in Randolph. Mr.
Morgan said, the place Of confinement
was not given out. Violence is feared
) Avery was taken over the scene of the
) crime and confronted with the evidence
J which included plaster casts of the
, footprints on the maple tree where the
child was bound He was closely ex
, amined and broken down. He has a
previous record of two convictions fol
similar ofenses. He is 81 years old, {
laborer, and unmarried.
Good Record of Plainfield Church. >
) Since the first of May four people
} have joined the Methodist Episcopa
} church of Plainfeld in full membership
} and seven on probation; IA have beer
baptized by the pastor; and the aver
| Of fIo
since conference has been 146. Not
withstanding 80 losses by death and re
moval the membership at present is tn.
! largest it has been for more than l.
f years. In the last six years the tota
7 improvements in church property .in
: Guiding the piano and bell which were
gifts, have amounted to 1885, an av
! erage of more than $764 a year. Tn,
=. finances of the church have been pu
1 on business basis and bills are pait
5 monthly. The Ladies Aid society j
, making repairs in several ..differen
rooms of the parsonage. Since the frs
: of May the pastor, Rev. A.. w. Hewitt
: has made 116 calls without being abb,
to cover one-sixth of the parish,
Vermont Fire Cost.
The official report of the insurance
$ business of Vermont for the year 191;
: shows that there were 1912 fires, caus
ing damage Of S1,328. SIG a tre1nen
4 dous tax on the thrift and enterpris
:, of our people. Of the causes of fire
l lightning stands at the head with 355
!. Chimneys come next with 221 and ex
2 posure-whatever that may mean-i
third with Ill. Then come matches
): which are charged with 81 fires, an,
{ children playing with matches 40
I combination of rats and matches, 6
Cigars. cigarettes and pipe were TIL
o cause of 38 fires, stove pipes, defectiv'
n Of the total of 1912 fires, 261 were il
farm dwellings, and liz mercantile
q buildings. Lightning killed 232 hea'
of livestock. Insurance was paid t
the amount of $500, 538 on building
q and $5O4, SOB on contents. AS to lif
}. insurance. 1876 policies insurin,