Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-05-05
STATE NEWS
Killed by Grasping Live Wire.

electrocuted Friday morning While
working just outside the building on
the. premises of the Windsor Machine
Company at Windsor. 1900 volts
standing on one transformer. trying to
remove another transformer just
ABOVE, and it is presumed that he
started to fall from his position and
grasped wire to save himself, receiv-
ing the charge of electricity. Gas
sett's assistant who was standing on
the ground saw Gassett hanging on to
the wire and he went up to release him
| and received a shock which knocked
him to the ground. Then the power
was turned off and the body was
removed. but not without some diff
Guilty because the mans legs were
wound around the wire
Prominent Speakers a I'd Gueats a. C v,
A Annual Meeting.
The annual meeting of the Greater
Vermont association will be held at
Brattleboro on Thursday and Friday.
May 18th and 14th. There will be
addresses in the afternoon and
dinner or the evening of the 18th, and
conference the next morning. The
business meeting will be addressed by
J. M. Ward, Secretary of the Keene,
N. H., Commercial club, who has been
very successful in securing new indus
tries for Keene, and John A. Scheuerle,
secretary of the Hampden County
Massachusetts, Improvement League,
who has done notable work in for
warding the extension of county organ
izations in Massachusetts counties
At the dinner there will be present as
guests ]. A. McKibben, secretary of
the Boston Chamber of Commerce; j.
; H. Hustis. president of the Boston &
Maine railroad F. j. Hillman. presi-
Chamber of Commerce! Governor
, Gates hopes to be able to be present.
, Lumbermen Fail to Get Pay after "a
Mile Tramp.
Twenty-seven lumbermen, who have
worked all winter and part of the
f spring in Fayston. tramped to Mont
= pelier one day last week to meet
: Martin Gibson who was to pay them
off. Each man was entitled to from
500 to 5000. According to the stories
g of the men, the majority of whom are
9 foreigners, Gibson, their employer,
:; telephoned to the lumber camp early
f that morning. telling. them to come
n to Montpelier as soon as possible; that
= he would be at the Pavilion hotel tc
E pay them off The men walked the q
miles, going without dinner or sup.
:, per, and arrived in the city early in the
- evening. They went to the Pavilion
4 bat Gibson, it is said, told them to wait
y as he was not ready to see them
= While they were practicing the watch
q full waiting policy, keeping their eyes
L
!" dealer is said to have slipped quietly
:, waiting automobile and left in tn,
\ direction of Plainfeld. The men wer,
~ in an ugly mood when the alleged rus
~ became known. States Attorney Glea
~ ~, son was notified. Meanwhile the cit,
w is faced with the proposition of lodg
~ ing and feeding the 81 men and Gibson
r. is being hunted.
rC Summer Session at Middlebury.
v Middlebury college has issued it
l. handsome annual announcement of tn
n summer session, which will be held a
a. that institution from June 10Th t
r. August 9th. This is to be the Sevent
Summer session, which Middlebury ha
conducted The bulletin presents a
interesting variety of courses of ir
he structlon, most of which are of specis
k, value to teachers. Many of the regr
ne lar faculty of the college remain t
b. give instruction at this session, an
In their number is supplemented by ir
= structors from other colleges an
:h universities. particularly our ow
ne university, Vassar college and Simmor
nd college. In view of the Europea
On war. announcement of courses i
be history, dealing with The Europe c
no Today, and International Cancellation
~ is timely. Special facilities are offere
a in vocal music, dramatic interpret;
an ton, including the staging of hg
ed school plays and the study of English
ag Two schools of modern Language
it. French and German, are to be COZ
.al Quoted. while variety of courses
u, offered in pedagogy, with especis
lei emphasis on practical methods
have been added as dressmaking ar
er millinery. 1t is interesting to mo-
of the extent to which this higher inst
er tuition is making it's work effect,
ral among those who teach and attend II
as lower schools. The session is undo
ais the direction of DR.. Edward D. Collin
an who will be glad to send bulletins
lie any interested persons.
aid u. V. M. to give Free Tuition to SUDDEN,
eo The trustees of the University
IL Vermont and state agricultural coI)eg
' ue prompted by a desire to co-opera
~ ~. with the heads of high schools al
ay academies in Vermont, have evolved
an plan for the distribution of free schc
10 arship to pupils in preparatory schoo
III and the proposition has been favorab
III received by the principals of sui
az. accredited institutions. At meetir
'l ns of the executive committee of tt
~ university a recommendation fro
'n7 President Benton and Dean Hills
free scholarships to honor graduates
he ~ ~ sI Ia, hns o.d -,
the $500; ~ 60 .as e,,oh ;nst;4,tio g.,
ity S.1ig 49, ssINI.l1i: :" ;