Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-04-04

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Nearly 400 cases of measles have
/ been reported IN St. JohnSbury dur
] ing the past winter
( DR.. II. G. Benedict has resigned as
principal OF St. Johnsbury academy, 70
/ take effect at the close of the school
year. He has been there eight years,
coming from Utica, ~. Y.
I At the Memorial building in Hard
\ wick Is on exhibition ballot box that
was used IN that town as far back as
/ 1900 at least. It Is a long box, d.
vided into four separate ballot boxes,
I bearing the words, Justice, state,
county" and representative"
A story appearing IN a recent num-
/ Der of the Youths Companion was
written by a former resident of Hard
wick. Charles A. Hoyt- He was an
employee Of the Woodbury. Granite
company The story, uncle Hates
4 Bears" deals with several Hardwlck
persons slightly disguised by name
In order TO develop the interest IN
pure-bred Jerseys IN the county, the
/ Caledonia County Jersey club offers
registered Jersey bull calf TO the boy
/ or girl Of Caledonia county showing
the best pure-bred Jersey or grade
I Jersey bull or heifer calf at the Gale
donia County fair, Sept. IL, Il and
IS, 1917
The First Church of Christ, Scien-
list. of St. Johnsbury has bought the
property of the Free Baptist church
/ This church has been closed since the
society federated with the First Bap-
/ list church of this place under the
name OF the Union Baptist church
The Scientist society is quite large
/ one and has been looking for some
/ time for q suitable church home. This
church viii be repaired and the socie-
l ty expects TO take possession of it
/ very soon.
/ John B. Provost of St. Johnsbury-
/ proprietor of grocery store, has fled
4 petition IN bankruptcy. He has II
/ abilities of $7559.54 of which there
are unsecured claims. of S6754-54- He
/ claims assets of $S535.90, of which
J $3.50 is claimed exempt Included IN
/ the assets IS $1,000 worth of machIn-
| cry, a $4,000 stock and open book &C
/ counts amounting, to S4045-53-
/ Among the heavy creditors which in
4 clude numerous Burlington and St
I Johnsbury firms Is the HoIbrook Gro
Gerry company Of WoodsviIle, N. H,
with a claim of S1122-28. The Citi-
zens Bank & Trust company Of St
Johnsbury IS also involved.
Col. Ira L. Reeves of Norwich
spoke to the St. Johnsbury CONNER
cial club Thursday night on E4Prepar-
I edneSS-' This get-together meeting
of the club was to stimulate patriot
ism and Pythian hall, gai1y decorated
with the Stars and Stripes, was filed
l with enthusiastic men and women, all
Il eager to show that this town Is ready
I to do its part If the crisis comes The
4 other speakers were Chaplain Paul d.
I Moody of the 1st regiment, Henry W.
/ Ellis, q. former captain of CO. d, Eli
/ sha May, a Well-knOwn Civil war vet
eran, ". J. Bigelow, member Of the
+ executive committee of the Vermont
committee Of safety, and Frank H
Brooks
ST. Johnsbury has q convert TO the
I Mormon faith, Miss GeOrgianna
\ Flynn, who left last week for Salt
Lake City, Utah So far IS known,
I she IS the one and only convert made
4 by Mormon elders, whose activities
+ there for several months caused not
I a little comment The Mormons made
& E1er 1edQqu2rTeFS at the Elynn nome
I so Miss Georgianna had full opp0r-
tunity TO imbIbe the tenets Of the
/ faith At the Flynn home It was
+ said that the daughter of the house
/ expected 10 be married to Frank
/ Warner, 2 Mormon at Salt Lake City.
I and settle down IN q little home of
\ her own IN Parker, Idaho, after few
weeks IN Salt Lake City"
( According 70 the snow record kept
I at the ST. Johnsbury museum the first
+ snowfall came Nov. 13 and I'D to Mar
/ 19 the actual snowfall for the season
{ has been 81 g inches There had been
Unbroken sleighing for 60 days incIu-
I ding Mar 19 and with the IL DAYS of
4 sIeIghing IN November there has been
q total TO Mar. 20 of 100 days OF good
4 sleighing and to date there has been
at least ten more days Of sleighing.
/ According TO the museum record
more snow fell during the winter of
/ 1908-9 than this yea-105.2 inches.
The average depth OF snow IN open
Undrnted places this winter Is p
inches This winter there have been
Il days with the temperature below
/ zero As near as the record could
/ give It, the average date for the dis
/ appearing Of the snow for the season
has been about Mar 16