Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-09-27


Rudolph Smith of Gilmore, aged five
years, has bad case of infantile |
paralysis. The cases now number 20
in Vermont. There have been four
deaths.
Adjt. Gen. Lee S, Tillotson returned |
to ST. Adams Saturday from Eagle |
Pass, Tex where he went two weeks
ago to visit the camp of the First |
Vermont infantry.
United States Senator Carroll S.
Page is patient at the Rutland hospi
tai. His physician finds that Mr..
Page has no organic trouble but has
outing of month or six weeks at At
lantic CITY, N. j., if he spends a few
days of absolute rest in bed.
Hobart Bliss Of MorrisvilIe was
caught by cavern and buried in sand
up to his neck while at work with his
father drawing sand to be used in their
new barn More than wagon load of
dirt had to be moved before he could
be extricated. It was with difficulty
that he breathed while imprisoned.
Senator Carroll S. Page spent $751;
445.08 during the recent primary cam
paign, which resulted in his renomina-
tion by the Republicans, according to
returns filed Saturday with the secre-
tary Of state. Former Governor Allen
M. Fletcher, one of his opponents. filed
expenditures of $22, 425. 30. Gov. G.
W. Gates. the third contestant, spent
less than $500.
The seventh annual orchard meeting
of the Vermont State Horticultural
society held at South Hero Wednesday
was attended by about 100 Burlington
mans and so other members and their
friends, scattered among Grand Isle
county, CbittenGen, Franklin, Lamoille,
Addison, Bennington and Rutland.
Every town in Grand Isle was repre-
sented. There were 200 people on the
grounds in the course Of the day.
The Howe Scale works at Rutland
passed from the hands of John A.
Mead into the possession Of capitalists
on Tuesday. According to terms of
the sale, the plant will remain in Rut-
land for at least ten years and Mr..
Mead will be retained as president.
pIoyes and this mum Der will soon be
materially increased. The transaction
probably involved more than $1,000,
900.
The controlling interest in the Ad
vance of Burlington, the weekly which
was primarily the organ of the Pro-
gressive party in Vermont, has been
transferred by Guy B. Horton, presi-
dent of The Advance company, to
Merle MacAllister, who has been editor
of the paper the past four months.
Mr. MacAllister has not purchased the
entire stock of the paper, Mr.. Horton
retaining a small portion of it and
there being shares held by others.
The II students, former members of
C company ana of the attached sani-
tary troops of the Vermont National
guard, who arrived Sept. 20 at Fort
Ethan Allen from Eagle Pass, Tex.
were discharged Friday from the fed
eral service, most of them leaving
Immediately for their home. The
guardsmen received their federal pay
of SIS month for Aug u It and 81 days
of September and most of them re-
ceived several dollars additional, the
uneXpended portion of their clothing
allowance, which is 81 cents day.
| While no formal announcement has
, been made with reference to whether
Vermont academy at Saxtons River
would reopen, it has been apparent that
there would be no session of school,
there this fall. 1t is now stated by per.
sops in position to know, that the acad
envy will remain closed for this tern
and probably for year. No definite
decision has been made as to the insti
+ l.
that after being closed q year the
themselves so that the work can be re-
summed.
Francis Ketcham, 81 years old, VIII,
has always lived in Bennington ane
who has served sentences at both tht
industrial school at Vergennes and tn,
house of correction at Rutland, Frida.
afternoon confessed that he killet
William Costello, whose dead body wa
found Sept. Is near the Vermont Sol
diers' home crossing in Bennington
The confession was obtained at the jai
at Salem, N. Y, where Ketcham i
serving a sentence of 80 days for steal
J ing buggy. The theft of the wagol
was part of Ketcham's plan to escp
after the commission of the crime.
; The Republican state convention vii
be held at Burlington Thursday, Sept
%. DR. H D c. Hawley of Burlingt to
will be temporary chairman. TIL
state convention. under the new lay
will consist of the nominees for tn
state Offices, the nominees for stat
-. senatorships and the nominees for tw
representatives., must also elect stat
e committee. Stanley c. Wilson O
( Chelsea, chairman of the state com
e mittee, presided at the meeting an
Robert w. Simonds of ST. Johnsbur
3 was elected chairman of the committe
r on resolutions for the state convention
o He Trusts Animals More than Human
n Billy Snyder. the head keeper 6
a Central Park Zoo, New York. say
tho OctOhar norican Moro1iro ~,