Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-07-24
VERMONT NOTES.

| dlebury college has announced that
the total subscription to the liberty
endowment fund of the college has
reached $4,000 or $4,000 over the
top. He has mailed messages tc
5000 friends of the college thanking
them for their assistance.
A raid in Burlington for draft
slackers, conducted by the agents of
the Department of Justice, and the To-
cal exemption board, assisted by 20
soldiers from Fort Ethan Allen and
as result eight men went to Jail. In
all, 100 men were apprehended, but
only eight failed to show proper
draft credentials.
w. w. Walker, a lineman employed
by the Public Electric Light company
of St. Adams, was killed while work
ing on a pole on South Main street.
The lie carries 2,4OO volts and the
man vHs hanging on the wire about
two minutes before he fell to the
ground from thetop of the pole dis
lance Of 80 feet.
Barre quarries and manufacturers
are getting wood piled about their
sheds and quarries, anticipating that
coal will not be supplied this winter.
The Boutwell,, Milne & Varnum have
bought a wood lot to cut their own
fuel. William Barclay, H. w. Var
mum and E. J. Batchelder are can
vassing the fuel situation.
Harry, the five-year-old son of Jer-
nv LaBreck, of Middlesex, who was
run over by loaded hay wagon un-
der which he had crawled in the field
unknown to the men, died at Heaton
hospital in Montpelier, Saturday, an
operation showing that the intestines
had been seriously injured. The wa
gon ran over his stomach.
A sensation was caused when Max
E. Bogue of Underhill went to be ex-
anlined by the Chittenden county ex-
emption board. Mr.. Bogue measured
just 821A inches in height, or six feet,
1912 inches. His weight is in pro-
portion to his height and he is not
physically defective but he could not
be accepted on account of his size. He
recently tried to enlist in the navy
and was rejected for the same reason.
Oscar Kahn, the Morrisville junk
man, who pledged to give the profits
Of last weeks business to the Y. M.
C. A., made net profit of $51.75. In
April Mr.. Kahn gave weeks profits
of his business to the Red Cross,
amounting to S221.76, and recently
gave $40 to the local Red Cross, and
some smaller gifts, making a total of
$4,000 which he has given to these
Vermonters who recently have re-
ceived patents are: Giuseppe Tim
pano, inventor, of Mortified, for
machine; Samuel L.
Bennett, Bellows Falls, inventor and
assignor of the Vermont Farm Ma
chine company, for speed Indicator;
Celest o. Burt of Winooski for hand
operated drill; Charles G. Richard
son of Springfield, for cloth-marking
device; Richard Johnson of Proctor,
for film-holding spool.
There has been a marked reduction
in the amount of money paid last
month to the soldiers in France as
state pay, some 500 having dropped
off the list. This is not due to the
casualty lists, but to the fact that 500
have received their years amount, as
provided by the statutes. Last week
from the state treasurer's Office there
was mailed to soldiers in France, who
were members of the old First Yer
mont regiment, $1,000.
Miss Lavina Wakefield, a middle
aged Burlington woman made des-
perate attempt at suicide Saturday.
She slashed her throat with a razor
and also took paris green. When the
police ambulance arrived she begged
the doctors not to take her to a hos
pital. She was rushed there, how
ever, and an attempt was made to
save her life. She lived few hours.
She is supposed to have been despon-
dent on account of i'll health.
A verdict of $4,000 in favor of the
plaintiff was returned by the jury in
the case of D. w. Bailey of Montpe-
lier against Amos H. Blandin and the
Somerset Land company of Whining
ton in Windham county court. The
case involved a commission on land
and timber rights sold by the defend
ants to the Rich Lumber company
some years ago and the case was re-
tried after having been taken from
the jury at a previous trial with YER
dict for the defendants.
About 200 of the 1000 employees of
the National Acme Manufacturing
company in Windsor walked out Sat-
urday morning because the company
refused to meet their demands for an
increase of cents an hour and the
strikers predict that many more of
the employees will join them. 1t is
understood that there has been con
siderable dissatisfaction for some
time among the older employees of the
company, who claim that the concern
is paying new arrivals at it's shops
more than the old hands are getting.
Henry Martin of Calais, "a, COM
mitted suicide by shooting Friday
Ess, his sister. Martin used a 32-
calibre revolver, the first two shots
being at the right of the heart while
a third punctured the heart He was
a native of Calais. About a year ago
he tried to enlist, but failed to pass
the examination. He then went to
work in munition factory in Con-