Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-08-15
VERMONT NOTES

The grlStmill owned Dy z. n. c1SarDs
a. Son Of johnson burned Friday night
about III O'Clock together with guam
tlky of grain and feed. The creamery
connected Herewith caught fire and
was saved, there being quite supply
stored therein. Aid was sphoned for
at Hyde Park and they responded and
rendered valuable aid in stopping the
flames. This removes one OF the an
cient landmarks OF the village. Had
il not been for the fact that there was
no pereepdble wind the building and
large part of village would probably
have been burned.
Major Andrew Moses of the general
staff, war department., Washington,
D. @, has notified DR.. Guy Potter Ben
ton, president, Of the University OF
Vermont, that the university would
continue in the distinguished class
of institutions giving military train
ing. This classification Is based upon
the excellent military work done oy
the University of Vermont students
last year. This ia the third year that
Vermont has been rated as "clstln-
guished college, and as a result ten
of next years graduates, who have
completed the military course, may
be appointed without examination.
other than physical one, as second
ieutenanTs in the Uni ted States army.
The two days' sale of Holstein cat
tie at the Pure bred Livestock Sales
Company's pavilion at Brattleboro
closed with total receipts OF ABOUT
S23, 600 for 127 head, about 30 of which
the sale was paid for three-year- old
fscnwv rTraT 70 Vrv TNnnG SNITFn
BadleY Falls. Mass. for $500. Two
other cows sold for 800 each. a i've
year-old going TO G. E. Moody OF
Waterbury and q four year-old TO 4.
3. House of Montpelier. j. Z. Single
ton of Woonsocket, r. T., paid $3.50
for a heifer calf four months old and
S505 for one five months old.
The largest buyer was John +. ben
iamin of Barre, whose purchase a
mounted Co 81 .925. The stock bought
by g. E. Moody of Waterbury came 10
s., $40 The purchases by &C. ABBOTT,
also of. Waterbury. aggregated 8, 070-
E B. House drew his check for 81 46s5-
j. Ala of Montpelier paid 1910.
President Guy Potter Benton of
the University of Vermont has been
asked by the National war work eoan-
ell to 60 as soon as practicable TO
France with three or four other Am
ericau educational leaders 70 spenG
the coming year in exercising general
supervision over the activities OF the
council in that country. The pr0po-
sition was taken up at meeting OF
the university trustees and the board
unanimously voted to donate the
services of Dr. Benton for one year
TO the council, his salary TO be contin-
ned. on the ground that while work
ing in France among American TROOPS
he would be doing work laudaOle TO
the University, the state and the ma
ton. He will receive no salary from
the war work council. During the
absence of DR.. Benton the admins
tration of the university will be in the
hands OF the board of deans, with
Dean q. H Perkins, vice president, de
acting president.
The dead body of Jennie Hamming-
way, 14-year-old daughter of Henry
Hemingway, of ST. Adams, was
found about s.: 80 Monday morning
by the girls uncle and a trooper of
the Eighteenth U.ited States cavalry,
Private Robert Warm, of PottstOwu
Pa, at the edge of corn field little
west of Postmaster William Ell. Firms
house on the Newton road. Private
Warm is under arrest at the county
Jail, being held pending an investiga-
ton of the case. Warm had been
friendly with the girl fer several
weeks and was with her Sunday even
ing, according ID his own statement.
Superficial examination of the girls
body Indicated that she had probably
b7en strargled TO death. It is also
evident that she put up some struggle
for her wrists were disc0IoTed, show
ing that had been firmly gripped by
some strong person On one arm
there was another discOlored spot, and
her neck was blaekened and swollen.
as wonId be the case with a strangied
person. But If shs put up resistance,
she must have been quickly oyerp08-
cred despite her efforts for her clothes
We're not much disarraDged. There
was no blood on the body or on the
ground where il was found.