Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-11-14
VERMONT NOTES

The Vermont Methodist conference
will hold it's annual session at St.
Johnsbury in Grace Methodist church
Apr. "a to 80 next. Bishop E. H.
Hughes of Boston will preside.
The divorce case of Mrs. Ethel De-
Boer Field was tried in Washington
county court last week: Mrs. Field
has been getting $500 alimony a
year, but is suing for $4,000, stating
that $4,000 year was as little as she
could support her home and rear her
children on.
Fort Ethan Allen near Burlington,
which contained so many thousand
troops all summer is now practically
deserted. More than 5000 men have
left the place within few days and
what few are left now expect to go
soon. A large part of the recently
moved men went to "a Mississippi
training camp.
A sagging potato market in Bos-
ton has had no perceptible effect on
the Vermont market as yet. Pota-
toes have gone off SO cents a bushel
in Boston with Vermont potatoes
selling less in that city than they are
in the home market. Farmers still
ter prices. With this condition ex-
listing western potatoes have been
shipped into southern Vermont and
New Hampshire.
The Vermont and Quebec Power
company Of which Charles HI. Thomp-
son of Montpelier is manager, has
bought the Fessenden power about
three miles south of Bronze lake in
Canada. The purchasers expect to
set their pole line this fall and con-
meet this power with that used at
Stevens Mill for operating the new
ment to be derived from the new
power is 1000 horsepower for "a
hours.
Floyd Denton, the 18-year-old
Stowe farm hand, who is accused Of
assault with a dangerous weapon
with intent to kill Mrs. Frank Wright
Of Stowe, was taken from the Mary
Fletcher hospital, Burlington, to the
Lamoille county jail in Hyde Park
Saturday. No operation was per
formed for the recovery of the bullet
said to be in the young mans head.
His condition is improved as is that
of Mrs. Wright, who has also been in
the hospital since the shooting.
Vermont's fertile pasture lands
will be grazed some day by multi
tudes of sheep as they were IS years
ago if plans of the United States de
partment of agriculture do not mis-
carry. Tangible evidence that a be
ginning has already been made in
that direction is the presence in Brat
tIeboro this week of an expert sent
by the government to interest every
farmer in that vicinity who has IA
cilities for raising sheep to make
that part Of his regular business.
A scheme to swindle the United
States government out of $3.50, in
which the Lane Manufacturing COM
Dany of Montpelier would have been
an innocent accessory, has become
known. A few days ago the concern
received from Francisco de Ia Vega
Echemendia, a commission merchant
of Santiago, Cuba, a letter stating
that he wished to open an account en-
closing money orders amounting to
$4,000. Later another letter was re-
ceived from Echemendia stating that
he had drawn a draft of $2,85O on the
account. The transaction seemed
regular enough, although perhaps
out of the ordinary. Be-
fore arrangements could be made to
have the draft honored, Postmaster
B. E. Bailey was warned from Wash
ington to be on the lookout for just
such a transaction.