Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-05-02
VERMONT NOTES

Private Arthur J. Sweeney, a men,
Der of company B, 1st infantry, Yer
mont national guard, was shot and
instantly killed bya bullet from a gun
in the hands of Private j. NJ. McCon-
mel of the same company, both of St
Adams. 1t is unofficially stated that
the gun was accidentally exploded.
The Vermont state school of agri-
culture was closed Friday. The boys
will return home to the farms to help
increase the crop production. The
seniors will come back June IA and Is
for their commencement exercises. A
large part of the juniors will also re-
turn. It is hoped that most of the
alumni will be here also.
BY May / branch factory of a
New York shirt manufactury was
opened in Barre as a result OF efforts
made by the board of trade, and there
is reason to believe that wooden
mill, entailing an expenditure of
100000 will be established IN Barre
in the summer. During the year just
closed the membership jumped from
$50 to 325.
M. Steiner bought alarm in Towns
bend about a year ago. He has a
wife and several children. Having
heard that Germans in this country
must not have in their possession any
firearms, Mr. Steiner has turned over
his rife, shotgun and other weapons
to neighbor for safe keeping, and
he and his family are taking no part
in the discussion of the war.
A jury in Windham county court
Friday awarded DR.. Benjamin f. Mil
lington of South Londonderry $4,000
damage in his $4,000 suit against
the town of Londonderry for injuries
alleged to have been due to defec-
tive highway. Dr. Millington sus-
tanned injuries to several ribs and to
the base of the spine when his car
went over an embankment last sum-
mer.
Mason S. Stone, former commits
siOner of education, has been chosen
by the publicity committee of the
Vermont committee on public safety
to have charge of the speakers bu-
reau and the publicity work. Mr..
Stone recently returned from a nine
months trip to Alaska and Honolulu
and had planned to spend the sum-
mer in Montpelier. He will have an
office in the state house in rooms of
the educational department which is
carrying on a campaign for increased
food production.
A statement issued by Adjutant
General Tillotson says the guard at
the state arsenal at Montpelier was
fired upon by an unknown man with
a revolver at 11.40 o'clock Thursday
night. Private Garrow returned the
fire but missed the man, who escaped
in the darkness. Private Bressett,
coming to the assistance of Private
GarroW, saw another man in a gulley
and discharged his rifle at him. The
deep ravine back of the arsenal was
searched without finding any trace of
the providers. The fusillade of shots
awoke the entire neighborhood
Arrangements for the ninth annual
session of the Middlebury college
summer school have been completed
and the courses of study and instruc-
ton mapped out. The session will
open Saturday, June 80, and will close
Friday, August 10. Classes will
meet daily throughout the week ex-
cept on Saturday, on which day the
open to students who may choose to
use them, but as a general thing Sat-
urdays, as heretofore, will be devoted
to recreation, with excursion trips to
many of thepoints of interest in Yer
mont and eastern New York.
United States Judge Harland B.
Howe, after hearing in Brattleboro,
ordered that Max Wolff of Saxtons
River, German citizen, who is 81
years old, be confined until further
order of the court. It is charged
that on April II Wolff violated the
United State statutes and the presi-
dents proclamation by saying in the
presence of others: 'To hell with
this country. I belong to a good
country and at the same time he
displayed ribbon rosette of the
German colors.
Nevada leads all the states in the
proportlonate recruiting for the reg
ular army between April 1 and April
"a by contributing 94.4 of her war
quota, war department records
showed today. Vermont made the
poorest showing with 2.5 and another
low state was New Hampshire Sc.
These figures need an explanation, as
they apply only to the recruiting for
the regular army. Vermont and
New Hampshire men have been
called upon for National Guard re-
cruits and they have sent a large
number of men into the naval re
serves.
The state treasurer has borrowed
$4,000 on the million-dollar loan au-
thorlzed for war purposes by the leg
lslature. This sum will be more than
enough to meet the present situation
and additional sums will be borrowed
later When IL nQcGSS9TV IIYfI1
Thursday no money had been paid
out by the state treasurer on the war
loan and an order in favor of Durham
Brothers of Brattleboro for shoes
supplied Vermont soldiers was the
first bill paid under the loan. This
order amounts to $4940. The auditor
has about $4,000 worth of bills for
which orders will be drawn.
The Military Training Camps as
ISOLATION announces that the war de-
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