Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-05-19
Vermont Notes.

"Billy'' Miller of Montpelier, known
the state over as restaurant and
hotel man. died at Montpelier last
week.
At the annual meeting of the Ver-
mont Commandery, Military Order of
the Loyal Legion of the u. S.. held in
Burlington last week. Admiral George
Dewey was selected head of the order.
The directors of the Vermont Ma
tional bank of Brattleboro one of the
leading financial institutions in the
state have announced the resignation of
the president, George G. Averill, and
the election as his successor of DR..
Henry D. Holton, who was vice
president.
George Wissell, seven years old, a
pupil in grade two of the public schools
of Middlebury is quarantined, his
disease being diagnosed as infantile
i paralysis. The case is considered a
mild one DR.. C. S. Caverly of Rut-
land. president of the state board of
health, ordered the patient quaran-
| tined.
Curtis Brothers of Corinth. n. Y,
have purchased the water power at
Garfield in Hyde Park. paying $23, 600.
The power is one of the best in north
ern Vermont. giving a fall to the
Lamoille river of about 500 feet. The
purchasers believe the time is not far
distant when this power will be want
ed in that vicinity and have bought 1t
as a speculation.
Announcement is made of the ap-
pointment of j. E. Maun, mayor OF st.
iY%o oF
northern division of the Central Yer
mont Railway company. with office
headquarters at St. Adams, vice S. S.
Russell. who has been assigned to
other duties. Announcement also is
! made of the appointment of G. w.
Groom to be assistant to the superin-
tendent and chief train dispatcher.
Superintendent Maun has been in the
employ of the railroad since 1886.
Lon Foster, who was accused OF
shooting and killing Ossie Prouty of
Halifax in 1913. was setenced to 13
years at the states prison at Windsor
in the supreme court last week. This
confirms the lower courts findings. The
shooting of Prouty is said to have been
the result of "bad blood" between the
two men, and Foster claimed self
defence when tried in Windham county
court. Foster was game warden in
that county and had had considerable
trouble with Prouty, who had gibed
him to a great extent, so the story
went. 1t is said that they had row at
a cider mill and that Foster shot Prou-
ty through the forehead.
Every Knights of Columbus council
in Vermont was represented at the
annual state convention held at Rut-
land last week. A resolution appro-
priating $2,5 800 to Bishop J. J. Rice
for missionary use in the state, more
especially the back districts. was adopt
ed. The following officers were elect
ed: State deputy. C.. F. Mann of
Brattleboro; secretary, S. M. Driscoil
of St. Adams, treasurer. A. C. Moore
of Barre; advocate. B. J. Mulcahy of
Hardwick; warden, John F. Smith of
Rutland; delegates to national conven.
ton, Z. J. Mann and James Cosgrove
of Brattleboro; alternates, S. NJ.
Driscoll of St. Adams and j. E. Barrett
of Bellows Falls. The next annual
convention will be at ST. Adams.
An attempted wholesale poisoning
at the farm of John Fullum in the
town of DENLY was frustrated by the
discovery of a suspicious looking green
substance in a watering tub in the
Fullum yard, which is used not only
; for animals. but often for household
purposes. The poison was mixed with
the water in considerable quantities
and it is the opinion of the authorities
that the tub contained enough of the
death-dealing substance to kill all the
livestock on the Fullum farm, as well
as the inmates of the house. 1t il
alleged that threats against the life OF
Mr.. Fullum were made during heateC
argument between Fullum and a mar
whose name is not divulged by thu
authorities.