Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-09-05
VERMONT NOTES


gas has appointed Rollo G.. Reynolds,
who has beer deputy commissioner
of education, to manage the Vail ag-
ricultural school at Lyndon. Mr..
| Reynolds viii go to Lyndon immedl-
ately to assume his new duties.
Among the Americans honored in
Paris by being awarded the French
war cross i Sidney Fairbanks, a
member Of the American ambulance
field service. Mr.. Fairbanks is q
Harvard man and the grandson of
Rev. and Mrs. Henry Fairbanks of st.
Johnsbury.
Stanley c. Fits, who has been in
the ammunition transport service IN
France, has arrived at his home in
Brattleboro. After undergoing a mi
nor surgical operation he viii enter
the aviation service. He says that
there is an abundance of men in the
ammunition transport service but
there is scarcity of airmen.
1t is estimated that it will cost the
town of Concord from $4,000 to $1O,-
600 to repair the damage done to her
| highways by the cloudburst of Aug.
] "a. During the same storm, bolt of
/ lightning entered the house of David
Ramage of East st. Johnsbury, burn
4 ing a large hole In a rug, but doing
no other damage.
An accident in which an automo-
bile was smashed took place two miles
from Brattleboro Saturday when a
car containing four Keene, N. H,
residents and a quantity of booze ran
into a rock on the roadside, throwing
out the wet goods, the occupants, and
smashing the car. The liquor was
con6scated and the occupants and
driver arrested.
Arthur N. Chamberlin, C. Douglas
Woodhouse, Charles P. Smith, Jr., Oh
liver M. Smart, all of Burlington, and
Robert M. Briggs of Hartford have
ment as candidates for aerial observ-
ers. The appointments were made on
the recommendation of President Ben
ton of the University of Vermont.
They have gone to Boston for in
structiOn.
Private Robert Warm, a trooper of
the 18th United States cavalry, sta
toned at Fort Ethan Allen, was ar
rested last week on a charge of muir
dering 14-year-old Jennie Hemming-
way. L liz arrest was ll1dQO ny Ou6I-
if G.. G. Holmes at the county jail
where, since the finding of the body
of Jennie Hemingway, Warm has
been held IN default of $4,000 bail as
a material witness In the case.
The forty-f1fth annual meeting of
the Vermont Branch will be held in
the Congregational church at Bellows
Falls Tuesday and Wednesday, Sep
TENDER 1926. All members of the
Branch and Union and two delegates
from each auxiliary and Young Wom-
ans Society will be entitled to enter
tainment. Application must be made
promptly not later than Sept. 20, to
Mrs. George e. Welch, Bellows Falls.
The seventeenth annual convention
of the Vermont Association of Funer-
al Directors and Embalmers was held
in Burlington last week. Officers
elected were as follows: President,
Frank J. Dryer of Burlington; first
vice president, E. J. Goamans of Fair
Stanley of st. Johnsbury; secretary,
E. ]. Hewitt of South Royalton; treas
urer, r. W. Barnard of Pittsford.
The annual meeting of the Associa-
ton of American Cemetery superin-
tendents was held in Barre last week.
An automobile trip through Williams
town Gulf was on the program. The
convention lasted three days and was
attended by hundreds of out-of-the-
state delegates. Prof. George H. Per-
kins of the University of Vermont adj
dressed the gathering Friday on 60
cation and Formation of New En-
gland Granite"
One person was killed instantly and
another injured in an automobile ac-
cident three miles north of Brattle-
boro village Friday. Miss Agnes Dali
ligan, q, daughter of Joseph DALI
gan of Stafford Springs, Conn, sus-
tanned fracture of the skull and a
fracture of the jaw, dying instantly,
and her sisters husband, Walter H
Tobin of Holyoke, Mass, sustained
cuts on his nose and over one eye and
an injury to one hip which is not Sc
rious.
A sum closely approximating s12,-
600 has been added to the state treas
ury through successful prosecutions
on the part of States Attorney Allen
Martin of Chittenden county since the
first day Of February. This sum rep
/ resentS fines and costs IN both Bur
lington city court and Winooski mu-
nicipal court. It is the result of sue
cessful convictions against persons
charged with the illegal sale of in
toxicating liquor, breach of the peace
cases, running of automobiles con-
trary to law, DRINKS, etc.
Rufus Brown of Hyde Park, aged
As years, committed suicide Sunday
morning by shooting himself in the
head with a shotgun. He had been in
poor health for some time and had
frequently said he would put himself
out of the way He was road COM
missioner of Hyde Park and the large
amount of work that devolved upon
him by the cloudburst and the many
1 fr.arhntr rrnr-lrnd r.r,nrn his mind ard