Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-11-28
VERMONT NOTES

Der II, IL, and IS.
James H. Peabody, ex-governor OF
Colorado, but a native of Topsham
VT, died in Denver, Col, Friday
Mr.. Peabody received his early edu-
cation in Vermont.
Vermont has more than furnished
her quota of $4,000 in the Red Tri-
angle Y. M. C. A. war fund campaign
by David M. Claghorn, state cam
paign secretary.
A Joint meeting and exhibition of
the Vermont Horticultural society
and the Vermont Sugar Makers as
ISOLATION will be held at the Howard
Relief hall in Burlington from De-
cember A to 8, inclusive.
| Mary French, 16-year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. George French of
Topsham, employed in Hotel Groton
at Groton, committed suicide by shoot
ing while at her home ON Nov. 18th.
| Unhappiness is given as the reason
for the act.
A decayed limb falling from a tree
which was being felled by wood
chopper in the woods on the Albion
Demerritt farm in Johnson struck
Elbridge Jones on the head causing
injuries from which he died soon af-
terWard.
Eight hundred and eighty-three
pledges of $40 each were made by
boys of Vermont to the Y. M. c. A.
work. In a number of cases two or
more boys formed partnerships to
earn $40, so that nearly 1,10O boys
are sharing in earning that great
sum of $3.50.
If the record of three days bust
ness at the Burlington postoffice for
extra postage is a fair criterion of
what may be expected throughout the
year then the business will add some
$4,000 to the department War
Fund as revenue from first-class
postage during the coming year.
Returning from a days hunting
trip Monday night, Nov. 10Th, be-
tween the hours of and 6 o'clock
with some companions, Francis
Gibbs, 10, son of Mr.. and Mrs. An
drew Gibbs of Morrisville, was fatal
ly shot by a shotgun in his own
hands. The gun was accidentally
fired when pulled from the wagon.
The Rutland Railway Light & Pow
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coal yearly in the making of gas,
faces a hard proposition. Soft coal
is what has been used, but it is al
most impossible to buy it now at any
price and if hard coal is used, which
is nearly as scarce, a change OF pro-
cess will have to be made. The COM
pany faces a possibility of having to
close down.
Clarence O. Langlois, an electrician
in Burlington, narrowly escaped the
same fate which befell Myron Young
of Cambridge, who was suffocated in
Burlington, by carbon-monoxide gas
escaping from an automobile in a
closed garage. Myron Young was
found dead but Langlois was revived
after taken into the open air: The
exhaust from an automobile when in
a confined place is poisonous.
A case in which all the facts have
not yet come to light, is that in
Franklin county where Herbert Ken
nison of Fairfax was injured Sunday,
Nov. 18th, by his 19-year-old son,
Rodman, in what the boy says was a
fight. Mr.. Kennison was taken to a
ST. Adams hospital in state of I'M
consciousness and has not yet been
able to give his side of the story.
Young Rodman is in county Jail
awaiting further developments.
A sheriff is investigating the find
ing of box containing dynamite and
brass caps in Randolph. These were
found by children playing on the land
Of Lyman Hutchinson, under a board
which was over an abandoned we'll.
There was a box of brass caps, four
and a half sticks of dynamite and
two fuses. The box had appar-
emily been recently placed in the we'll
and considerable mystery is attached
to the incident.
The Rev. Clarence H. Waldron,
whose mother-in-law was born in
Berlin, Germany, and whose pro-
nounced "pacifist" views have arous-
ed his parishioners and townsmen, is
no longer the pastor of the Windsor
Baptist church. The Baptist State
convention severed his connection
with the church at a legal meeting
of the congregation held there Thurs
day evening. The Rev. Mr.. Waldron
was present at the meeting.
The British admiralty has announc-
ed that Allen Gray, of johannesburg,
South Africa, has been captured by
the Germans and is now in a prison
camp. He enlisted in the aviation
corps of the British army and was
captured within a week after he be-
gan flying over the German line His
mother lived in St. Johnsbury about
30 years ago and Mrs Matthew H.
Buckham, wife of the late President
Buckham of u. V. M, is his aunt.
COMPLAINT ALnOST GONE