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

inspectors Tor Al states ana Alas
ka to enforce the federal explosives
| law under supervision of the bureau
of mines have been appointed by
Park Il. Pollard of Proctor has been
named.
The deer season that closed TUES
day Of last week showed 833 killed.
Last year hunters shot 1880 bucks
during the open season, 169 being
secured in Rutland county. In 1915,
when the shooting of does was per-
mltted, the kill was 6042 of which
1920 were female deer.
State Fuel Administrator II. J. M.
Jones, while at his office in the state
house Monday afternoon, said that he
wished someone would suggest some
thing to wake up Vermonters rela-
tive to the coal situation, that there
should be a great deal more interest
taken in the matter, for if the war
continues (and all those who are in a
tlnue for another year,, the situation
as to coal bids fair to be worse next
year than this.
The second Plattsburg officers
training camp for 1917 came to an
official close last week. A total of
1888 men were commissioned out of
an enrolment of 2,75O. Some of those
not commissioned probably will be
provided for IN some manner before
camp is broken. Vermonters from
this section of the state receiving
commissions are: Emmons J. Stock
well Of East Burke, as second lieu
tenant IN the revenue corps; Maynard
x. Alexander Of West Burke as sec
ond lieutenant for immediate service
with leave of absence until Dec Is.
Mrs. Bert Macfeld, who lives on a
farm near Starksboro killed her baby
with rife Monday night and then
shot herself, inficting wound which
probably will prove fatal. Physicians
said that the woman's mind was tenn
porarily deranged. Mrs. Macfield
met her husband, who arrived home
at late hour, and after taking a Ian
tern to the barn for him returned to
the house and shot her child. She
used a 22-calibre rifle and the shot
went through the child's head. She
then turned the same weapon on her
self. The child probably died in
stantly. 1t is said that the woman
had been a user of morphine.
A service flag with ten stars was
raised in the Congregational
church at Springfield Sunday for
members Of the society in the army
and navy. At that time the pastor,
Rev. Raymond A. Beardslee, an
nOunced to the congregation that he
had decided to go into the machine
shop to work for the purpose Of OBJ
tanning money to contribute to the
Red Cross and the Y. M. c.. A. war
work. Rev. Mr.. Beardslee will retain
his pastorate of the church and will
be ready to oficiate at the services
Sunday and during the weekly meet
ings. Mr.. Beardslee said he felt he
could not go to the front as a soldier
nor did he care to enter Y. M. C.. A.
work as secretary as so many other
clergymen have done. He felt that
the industrial work WAS of great i'm
portance and that he could make his
services count there as much as any
where. This will be of no personal
financial benefit to him, for all that
he earns will go into the war work.
He has wife and two small children.
The arrest Monday night of Sieg-
mund Bloch, for ten years a tailor in
st. Albans, and a German subject,
caused the discovery that a half
brother of the man, Walter Bloch,
who has been in ST. Albans for a
short time, is a deserter from the
United States army. Yesterday the
latter went to Fort Ethan Allen and
gave himself up to the authorities
there. Siegmund Bloch was arrested
at his shop by Deputy United States
Marshall Thomas Reeves of Burling-
ton, on a warrant issued by U. S.
District Attorney V. A. Bullard of
Burlington. The man was locked up
in Franklin county Jail pending an
So far as revealed, no
specific charge has been made
against Bloch but he was apprehend-
ed by advices from Washington. He
is about 45 years of age and has a
family of two little daughters. Bloch
is said to have boasted that he served
in the German Imperial Guard, which
is composed of men above six feet
tall, and also that he was at one time
with the German expeditionary fore
es in the Boxer Insurrection. Before
the declaration of war by the United
States he displayed many pro-Ger-
man tendencies, writing letters to the
played flags of the United States and
attended patriotic meetings with a
great show of feeling. Bloch, how
ever, has not yet taken out his first |
papers for naturalization, though he |
has often spoken of doing so. i
Saturn's ObIateness.
From the positions of the minor di- |