Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-03-24

Vermont Anti-Saloon League Had Sue
cessful Year.

The annual meeting of the Vermont
Anti-Saloon league was held in Bur-
lington March 19. The expenditures of
the organization were $4,000 during
the year, and the league debt was
decreased $500 The report of the
superintendent. C. H. Smith, was en-
couraging.
Vermont's Baseball Prospects.
The base ball team of the University
of Vermont left Monday on - it's
Southern trip. The best college teams
of the South. including North Carolina,
S. G. Trinity and Georgetown. will be
played The team should be in excel
lent shape in its return, and should be
well ready to meet Syracuse at Bur-
lington on April %.
New Corporations.
The Boston Store company of Rock
ingham, Incorporated for $4,000, divided
into SO shares, has filed articles of
association with the secretary of state
to do a general mercantile business in
Bellows Falls. The subscribers are
Pauline E. McWeeney, Gertrude M
McWeeney and Dolores A. McWeeney,
all of Bellows Falls. The ChampIain
Valley Fruit company of Burlington,
with a capital stock of $4,000, has
filed articles of association. The SUBJ
scribers are Fred A. Drew, VIM. Weirs
and John r. Reed.
Prepare for State Odd Fellows Meeting.
Preparations for the entertainment
of the hundreds of visitors to Brattle-
boro on the occasion of the annual
me citing of the Grand Lodge of Yer
mont, I. o. o. F., from May Is to 81
inclusive, are going on steadily. Com.
mittees have been appointed and work
Of a pre- liminary character has been in
progress for some time. It is not
expected that work on the proposed
Odd Fellows temple will be sufficiently
advanced so that the grand lodge will
participate in any exercises connected
Herewith at this time.
St. Johnsbury Wants New Postoffice.
Secretary James B. Campbell of the
Commercial club has sent to the secre-
tary of the treasury affidavits fixing
the value of the Billiard lot, the pro-
posed site for St. Johnsbury's post
Office, at $500. This is the result of
a conference held here last week with
W. w. Husband of Washington. The
lot is owned by Mrs Husband, who
valued it at SIP, 500. The government
favored the site and intimated that it
would bring condemnation proceedings
as the price was prohibitive. This Is
looked upon as forward step towards
the proposed new building.
Leads Officers Long Chase
William Pitt Hyde. wanted in Port
To-, NJ h0 If toJI
warrant charging him with defrauding
the Rutland sheriff's department a
merry chase for two days, managing
to keep a few hours ahead of the Yer
mont officers who, Tuesday morning,
learned of Hyde's last stopping place
that be had decided to return to Maine
and make what defense he had. A
copy of the original warrant arrived
in Rutland Nor day afternoon and soon
Deputy Sheriff Pascal Ricci was speed
ing toward the home of Hyde's wife
in Fair Haven.
Charged with Stealing Furs.
Riley Moser, of Hardwck, has been
arrested on charge of stealing $500
worth of furs from Max Schlarman.
The arI est follows Is months and one
day after the theft was committed
: Moser has been taken to Caledonia
county Jail at St. Johnsbury by Sheriff
W. H. Worthen. It is expected that
other arrests will be made, as it is
supposed that the theft was not the
work of one man. A short time before
the robbery Moser sold $3.50 worth of
furs to Mr.. Schlarman. Entrance to
the barn in which the store furs were
kept was made through a window,
which is so high above the ground that
one man could not have reached it.
A Fertile Acre.
The fertility of Addison county soil
could not better be illustrated than by
telling what one farmer has accom-.
plished the past season. About half
way from Vergennes to the mouth of
Otter Creek, near the north bank. lies
the productive acre referred to, and it
is owned by Samuel Bigelow Mr.
Bigelow has house and barn on this
acre, but found room enough in 1914 to
produce rs barrels of apples, two tons
| of hay, Is bushels of potatoes, wagon
load of pumpkins and winter squash,
three bushels beets, two barrels car.
rots. one bushel beans. three and one.
half bushels tomatoes. $50 head cab
bage and three bushels sweet corn
Where is the acre that can beat this?
Judge Howe Presides
| An adjourned session of the United
States court was held in Burlington
| March Is. at which time Judge Har-
land B. Howe of St. Johnsbury pre-
sided. Considerable business was
transacted, including the sentencing OF
two prisoners who were recently in.
dicted by the grand jury here. The
session marked the last appearance OF
Elvard L. Moses of Buffalo, NJ Y, the
head of the Oxypathor company, before
he started to serve his sentence at the
government penitentiary at Atlanta
Ga. Moses was convicted at RUTLAND
in the October term of district court
and found guilty of the fraudulent use
| of the limited States mails (which b &c