Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-02-19
VERMONT NOTES


stockholders Feb. z, the resignation
IF Col. L. c. Leavens, as treasurer
after % wears of continuous service
Vas accepted. and he was thereupon
elected chairman Of the board OF dl-
rac+ors. s. Carl Carpenter, former
" assistant treasurer, was then elect
ed treasurer of the bank in success
sion.
Alleging negligence in not having
v,-iras Droperly guarded in the power
bouse of the Swanton village electric
nIant l2-vear-old Irving Cc5uT1 OF .
Highgate, has through his attorneys,
filed a suit ] franklin county court
for $4,000 against Swanton village. /
The plaintiff claims that ne was Sc
verely and pe-nanently injured py
live wire when ne went to the power |
housa - carry breakfast to A. II. |
Barr, --l e--1.o-'e, SeEefai i'lo''"7
ago.
The Burlington Rendering Co.'S /
Dlant was the scene OF big sale OF |
furs recently. This sale attracted a
lot of BUYERS and is one of the most |
inportant outside of New York, St. |
( Louis and the other big markets. One
+ item was 10000 skunk skins, valued
/ at between $4,000 and $4,000. There
were more than 1000 fox skins, 300
/ raccoon skins, several hundred mink
pelts and more than 5000 muskrat
skins. There were also some ermlne
and a few bear skins. The total turn
over will represent a good-sized for
tune.
I Two Winooski liquor dealers,
/ Frank K Packard and George j.
Bleau, and their clerks, Theophile ST.
mard and Joseph Cusson, are made
defendants in a Chittenden county
court suit brought by Mrs. Elizabeth
Murray of Milton who seeks to recov-
er damages of $4,000, her claim be-
ing that by reason of the defendants
selling liquor to her husband, Edward
Murray on Nov. l, 1918, he lost his
sense of Judgment and control of his
person so that while operating an
automobile he ran into, knocked down
and killed Charles Adams on the
highway at Winooski.
An important step in the develop
ing of the plans of the HortOnia
Power Co. of Rutland was marked
!, last week by the opening of the COM
pany's hydro-electric plant at Middle
; bury. The new plant will have a to-
tai capacity of 4,500 horse power and
will enable western Vermont power
; users in large numbers to make the
] substitution of electricity for steam.
= The HOrtonia company, through eight
{ stations, is now furnishing electric
{ power to factories, quarries and 9TH
2 er enterprises in Chittenden, Addison,
2 Rutland, Windsor and Orange coun-
- ties. The company's mana cement an
2 nounces that further additions to the
4 system are contemplated.
D School was declared off at Stowe
\ high school recently, the faculty re-
S fusing to serve as teachers in the
schools until public apology was made
:. by the school board for encouraging
INSTRUMENTATION among the pupils
E Several of the pupils on the S. H. S
basket ball team, scheduled for q
game with Hardwick that evening
> were under suspension from the
: school for breaking the curfew law
+ Principal Metcalf ruled that the
II team was not school team and mus
/ not be cheered as such. 1t is claimed
5 that members of the school board re
: fused to sustain the ruling. On pc
n tltlon of over 20 business men il
s Stowe, the teachers resumed thei,
Il schools after they were closed twt
y days.
- The trustees of Vermont's perma
- nent school fund have reorganized TO
e the coming two years. John L. South
w WICK OF Burlington was reclecte
y chairman and the Hon. F. A. How
=. land of Montpelier, secretary.
: was voted that Secretary Howlan
- be authorized to invest in Libert
u Loan bonds the amount on han
4 available for this purpose, amountin
a TO Sl4,25O, and now having the stat
~ treasurer as custodian. Vermont
Of permanent school fund has no,
- reached the handsome sum of 81 1864
al UZGO2, the income of which helps eC
Oh ucate the youth of the state in til
- public schools. 1t is invested prir
of cIpalIy IN government and municip;
o. ponds and the certificates of indebted
. ness Of various towns in the stat
still owing the treasury of the con
monwealth.
ct Mrs. Fred S. Platt of Rutland hs
% started a negligence suit in the Uni
ok cd States court against the Boston
* Name railroad company, in whiC
Ire damages of $4,000 are sought h.
De cause of the death of her husban
nd Clerk Fred S. Platt of the Unite
a States court for the district of We
ne mont. Clerk Plat was a passenp,
er: on Boston & Maine train Sept. /
II 1918, and was on his way to a hea
TO ing IN Brattleboro, when a car
De which ne was riding was in a rea
IN end collision south of the Dummer
at ton station. The collision caused
TX telescoplng of two cars and thr,
ior persons, include Clerk Plat. We
raj killed. The acr ut Wa ;-,,,e-.;S-.
ed by the pub service coron, iss;[
ire Of which the late Robert c. Bacon
ne: brattleboro was chairman, and n
Ell commissions report indicated nepl
II gence on the part of some of the ira
IN operatives.
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