Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-07-03
VERMONT NOTES.

j. A. Dimock of Topsham lost sew
en- acres of beans and five acres of
potatoes in the recent frost, but he is
not discouraged and has planted
again.
While talking with neighbor, Ell
roy Horner, aged 60 of Hyde Park
dropped dead. He had not been in the
best of health, but his death was not
expected.
Gov. Graham says that Vermont
has nearly 10000 now under the COL
ors or a trifie less than 3 per cent
OF its entire population, while the
average throughout the United
states is llrile less than Z per cent.
Through the patriotic action Of the
! business men in the cities and towns
of Chittenden county the farmers in
that county are assured of all the
help necessary to harvest their crops.
I Employees IN stores, offices and fac
tories will be given a vacation during
..lc poI4o-.o O. ll.-VLSC TINE SO that
they may help the farmer in this
work.
One thousand and three men have
been enrolled at the navy recruiting
station IN burlington since its estab-
lishment. Besides this there have
been examined by the naval surgeons
1900 other men who have been found
physically disqualified. The cost to
: the government in securing the 1908
men has been in the neighborhood of
$4,000.
A junior five-year-old Ayrshire
cow which is trying to make a world
record in 365-day milk and butter
test for an Ayrshire in her class and
which has thus far exceeded the rec
ord, was sold imam auction sale at
Brattleboro for 1925. She was con-
signed by w. E. Brigham Of Shrews-
bury, Mass, and was bought by A.
Henry Higginson of South Lincoln,
Mass.
A carrier pigeon messenger SER
vice is to be established soon between
Fort Ethan Allen and Fort Banks,
Winthrop, Mass, Fort Constitution,
Portsmouth, N. H., Fort Williams,
Portland, Me-, and Camp Devens,
Aver, Mass. For that purpose Is
trained pigeons will be housed near
the veterinary hospital at the post.
The service is to be established by
Lieut.. Robert Milne Of Dorchester,
Mass, whose duty it is to open lines
of communication between military
posts in this country by the pigeon
service.
Rev. Chas. A. Boyd of Burlington,
for the last four years general super
intendent of the Vermont Sunday
School association and secretary of
the Vermont Bible society, has been
ordered to report at Camp Zachary
Taylor, Louisville, KY, July IL, to
take a five weeks course of train
ing for an appointment as army
chaplain. He will leave Burlington
July 10. He received his training
course appointment through the war
commission Of the Baptist denomina-
ton. Mr.. Boyd came to Vermont
from the Baptist church at West
Hartford, Conn.
Four hundred and sixty-two SOL
diers of the 310th cavalry, represent
ing 10 nationalities, received their
final naturalization papers with ap-
propriate ceremonies at Fort Ethan
Allen last week. The oath Of citizen
ship was administered by Judge Har-
land B. Howe of the United States
court, the oath being taken by the
aliens in groups according to their
nationalities. The subjects of Great
Britain and Italy numbered the larg-
est, Great Britain being represented
by 1874 men and Italy by lie. After
the oath was administered Judge
Howe welcomed his newly-made
countrymen and called them his
brother citizens.
Arthur E. Culver has won verdict
of one cent and his costs in his suit
against Geo. C. Holmes, sheriff of
Franklin county, Luke P. Martin,
deputy sheriff of that county and
Sheriff J. H. Allen of Chittenden
county, brought in Caledonia county
court. Culver sued to recover dam
ages for alleged false Imprisonment
in Chittenden county jail. The jury
returned its verdict in five minutes.
The case has attracted considerable
attention among the legal lights of
the state as it establishes a precedent
1t dealt not only with alleged false
imprisonment but also mistreatment
of the plaintiff in the Chittenden
county jail at Burlington.
Henry N. Soulia has returned to
his home In Burlington, after seeing |
service in France, which has left him |
with paralysis of the lower limbs, |
caused from exposure he thinks, rath-
er than shell shock, which the physi-
clans state. He received his para
lytic shock month after his arrival
in the trenches and has been in eight !
hospitals since that time, the last be-
ing in the post hospital at Plattsburg,
N. Y, where he has been for four
weeks. At first his entire left side
was paralyzed, but gradually he re-
covered the use of the arm. He is
unable to walk. Soulia has a medal
of honor from the French and wears
the gold braid designating overseas
service. He is now on a furlough,
but expects discharge.
Harold B. Wallis of Waitsfeld !
after offering his services in four
branches of the government, has been
finally accepted as a mechanical en-
gineer and has reported at Washing