Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-03-31

sight is much impaired.
Fish and Game Club Bapque,.
At the third annual meeting and
winter banquet of the Addison County
Fish and Game league at Middlebury
March AZ. Congressman Frank l..
Greene, State Grange Master w N !
Cady, and State Fish and Game Com
missioner John w. Titcomb were
among the speakers. At the banquet
in the Addison house 100 covers were
laid.
Suicide at Springfield.
Charles P. Nourse, 63, carpenter,
committed suicide by shooting, at.hic
home March "a. There was bullet
wound back Of the right ear, the bullet
having entered his brain, and a %
Nourse had been in poor health and |
this is given by the members of his
family as the probable cause for his !
act. He had previously made threats
that he woulo end his life.
Annual Mock Session.
A mock session Of the legislature
was held March "a in the house cham
DER USlOT0 d large duulSnCS. W.T.
Hewitt of Plainfeld was the speaker
and was instrumental in keeping the
fun going. Among the bills intro
duced were, one for closed season
on angle worms, compulsory lights on
lightning bugs, bounty on flies and
one setting aside Peru as the indie
pendent principaIity of "Happyland. F"
New Episcopal Coadiutor
The Rev. DR. George Y. Bliss has
been notified by the presiding bishop.
the Right Rv. DR.. futile, that a can
sceration has been received from the
bishops of the church, and as this COM
pletes his election to be bishop coad-
jutor of Vermont, DR.. Bliss yesterday
wrote to the presiding bishop formally
accepting the election. Order will at
once be taken for the conservation. 1t
will probably be on Wednesday, April
81, in St. Paul's church. Burlington.
The New England bishops may be
present and one or two from neighbor-
ing dioceses either west or south. The
final and complete arrangements will
be made by the Right Rev. DR.. Tutte
Annual Log Drive.
Preparations for the annual log drive
down the White River by the Ameri-
can Realty company, successors to the
! Champlain Realty company, are COM
plete but the drive will not begin until
there is material rise of the river,
the waters of which are very low.
The current seasons drive will consist
of no less than 10000. 900 feet and IN adj
dition there are near to 5000, 900 feet on
the river banks in the town of Sharon,
which after a two years Judgement
there will this season be sent with the
main drive to Bellows Falls. In Gran
Vile alone is single pile of logs that
is said to contain, 100000 feet. 1t
is at present the plan of the corpora
ton to have the White River drive
precede it's still larger Connecticut
river drive.
Enosburg Falls Fire.
Fire losses aggregating nearly $780,
900 were sustained at Enosburg Falls
March 21st, when the Missisquoi
FIGURING rnill. owned by L. L. Marsh,
and the Owls Head creamery and
cheese factory, owned by the G.. H.
Thayer estate, Of Worcester, Mass.
were burned to the ground The fire
i was uISCOVSI6u DIT C.OU y CLOCK ana is
believed to have originated around the
boiler in the creamery. The village
hose companies responded to the alarm,
but so rapidly did the flames make
their way through the wooden struc-
lures that the firemen could do little
but turn their efforts toward saving
adjoining property. A number of
dwellings were threatened and it was
with difficulty that long wooden
bridge. which crosses the MissisQuoi
river just below the mill, was kept
from burning.
Senator Page Visits Senate.
Standing. beside seat in the Yer.
mont senate. No. 10, which he used 4C
years ago. United States Senator
, Carroll S. Page addressed the members
March 20 He spoke of Washington
! experience on the ship purchase bill,
giving interesting statements upon
the addresses of Senators Smoot, Bur.
ton and Weeks and the protection Of
the minority of the senate. The fill
buster of the past winter was {
:, peculiar one. in which a change of two
votes would have enacted the bill. Ir
the last two weeks of the session, over
t $1,000 10000 in appropriations was
pdSSeu, lncIuQiHg all OUT Two OF Int
> postoisice and Indian bills. By 6
= resolution, the postoffice bill was taker
r care of. President Wilson and Secre
. tary Bryan are two of the safest mer
to be left in Washington, D. c., be
cause both are opposed to war. so ne
special session is looked for and the!
do not expect to reconvene unit
December Going back to the senate
life of 40 years ago. Senator Pag'
spoke of Justice John w. Rowell. E
: P. Ward and the late Redfield Procto
t as associates of his in the Vernon
t senate. He then spoke of the histor!
c and works of the Vermonters in Yer
t mont and elsewhere. Justin Morril
holds the record for the longest ser
e vice, having been in the u. S. congress
e for "A years. Geo. F. Edmunds's opin
s ions are expressed as authority upol
e constitutional law in congress and ar,