Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-11-07
VERMONT NOTES

VERMONT NOTES
Private Walter J. Fuller Of Putney
member of the former LIST Vermont
machine gun company, who left the
camp with the company three weeks
ago, died in France Of pneumonia fol-
lowing a case of measles, according
to word received at Camp Bartlett,
Westfeld, Mass.
Fred Sprague, lumberman about
AZ years of age, who lives in the town
of Hancock, was accidentally shot
where he is at work Saturday after
noon. A hunter named Whittier mis-
took him for bear and the bullet hit
Sprague in the leg. He is in Bur-
lington hospital and will recover.
The Golfer dam, built at Highgate
falls to enable the laying of the
foundation for the new power station
was swept away bodily by the heavy
causing a loss of about $4,000 to the
village of Swanton. It was with
great difficulty that the dam was con-
structed and it's loss is a serious set
back.
An epidemic of hog cholera has
broken out in Bellows Falls. Veter--
inaries report that about rs good
hogs weighing from $50 to 300
bounds have died in this immediate
Vicinity within a few weeks past. All
veterinaries are being kept busy vac
cinating for the disease. In this way
the scourge is reported as held in
check.
Eben Wheeler of Cabot is 100
years old and says that SIS would COW
er his own doctors bills for the CEN
fury. He spent his entire 100 years
within a radius of 20 miles of his
birthplace in Woodbury.. He has lived
in Plainfield and Marshfeld and came
to South Cabot to live with his son on
the death of his wife, eight years ago.
Mr.. Wheeler was the oldest of 10 chill
dren two others now being alive, Fol
som, 80, of South Cabot, and Zolenzo,
80, of Hardwick.
Charles Norman, boy of 16 years,
employed by c.. w. French in South
Vernon, performed the unusual stunt
of capturing a fox in the field with
his hands. While after the cows the
boy saw the fox's tail sticking out of
hole in which he was burrowing.
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lv I'D to the fox and seized him by the
tail. Then with the club he hit the
animal a death blow on the head and
proudly carried him home, driving the
cows before him. The animal weigh
er about II pounds.
Mrs. Frank H. Wright of Stowe
was shot and seriously wounded on
Saturday, Oct. 27, by Floyd Denton,
who afterward turned the gun upon
himself inficting two wounds. Young
Denton was taken to the Mary Fetch
er hospital in Burlington, where he is
cover. Mr.. Wright was away and
Denton, the hired man, attacked Mrs
Wright when she went to the barn to
assist. While Mrs Wright was seri-
ously injured she will recover. Den
ton is said to have very violent tenn
per when crossed.
H. J. M Jones, Vermont fuel adj
ministrator, has issued instructions
to local fuel committees to urge a
conservation of wood for fuel on &C
count of an immediate grave scarcity
and recommends that the wood using
citizens of the state at once begin to
provide their supply for next year
anu ClldC III securing CIlelI supply CISy
use all trees recently damaged or up
turned by storms so as to preserve
the harder growths for future use,
and suggests the use of the slogan
"saw wood" as it is highly appropri-
ate under present conditions.
One of the first American soldiers
to receive wound in the trenches of
Europe has a wife in Vermont. 1t
was Lieutenant Harden, who received
a shrapnel wound in the leg. Lieut..
DeVere H. Harden is the husband of
Mrs. Josephine Harden of Burlington,
who is making her home with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander
an in the service having enlisted in
the army when he was under 20 years
of age and served for more than IS
years with the forces in practically
all of the American dependencies. He
passed several years in Alaska and
the Northwest also in the Philippines,
etc. He is a native of Seattle, Wash,
and enlisted in the West. He is
about 33 years of age. The ieuten-
ant went to France with the first con-
tingent of American troops on the
first transport that crossed the ocean.
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