Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-06-25
VERMONT NEWS

| T. Mayo of the navy are both present
at the U. V. NJ. commencement II
Burlington this week. Henry 7
Mayo was born in Burlington Dec. 8
1856, being the son of Henry anc
Elizabeth (Eldridge) Mayo and mar
ried Carrie NJ. Wing of Burlington IL
March, 1881.
The Connecticut river log boom al
the International Paper company's
mills in Wilder village was opened or
June II to let out 10000 cords of pull
wood that will be fioated down the
river to Bellows Falls. By evening
the river was filled with floating logs
for several miles below White River
Junction. Near 10000 cords of the
logs now in the boom will be retained
for use at the Wilder mills.
Rev. Rufus C. Flagg, D. D., OF
Ashland, Wis, has been engaged tC
supply the pulpit of the Congrega-
tional church in Sudbury during the
summer months. DR.. Flagg was born
in Hubbardton and has held various
Vermont pastorates, one in Newport
one in Winooski, and in North Crafts
bury He is now professor of phil
osophy and Biblical literature in
Northland college at Ashland.
! A committee consisting of Prof. K.
R. B. Flint, Prof. Carl V. Woodbury.
and Capt. Chas. n Barber has been
appointed by the trustees of Norwich
| University to arrange for the COM
memoration of its Tooth anniversary.
The first meeting of the committee
will be held in Mortified, June "a,
when the time and character of the
celebration will be determined. 1t is
expected that the festivities will take
place in October, soon after the col
lege year begins.
The Public Electric Light company
has started a new power plant at
Fairfax Falls on the opposite side of
the Lamoille river from where the
present plant is located. The new
plant is to have a capacity of 1000
horsepower. The Golfer dams have
already been built and a forbay and
spillway are being constructed.
Workmen are clearing the river bed
of debris. As soon as the new dam is
completed the old dam will be blown
up. The present plant has a capacity
of $3.50 horsepower and it is intended
to use both plants in the future.
Every year since the classification
of distinguished colleges" was first
made by the war department, Nor
witch university has been so classified.
This year is no exception, the CLASH
fication being based upon reports of
officers detailed for the purpose of
making the annual inspection of the
military departments of educational
institutions at which officers of the
army are detailed as professors of
military science and tactics Nor
wIPh nn1VarEIru iS Of ha wv
schools which has always been on this
list since the classification was first
made.
The officers who have been looking
for Edward Barron, the man whose
laundry mark was on a handkerchief
found about the neck of Mrs. Lucinda
Broadwell the night she was murder
ed IN Barre, May 3, have located the
man in Springfield, Mass, and have
taken him, it is understood, to Boston
to get the extradition papers to bring
him to Montpelier as a principal wit
ness IN the murder matter 1t is ex-
pected that Barron can furnish in
formation relative to who might have
worn his handkerchief the night of
the murder. There is still bundle
OF clothing at the laundry which is
for Barron and has been un-
claimed for several weeks. Barron
has not been in Barre since in March.
Wallace Batchelder, aged A. for
many years a leading LAWYER in
Windsor county and a prominent man
IN Vermont affairs, died Saturday at
the state hospital in Waterbury. hav-
ing been an inmate there for more
imam two years. The cause of his
death was of a tubercular nature.
Mr.. Batchelder was counsel for the
roosevelt forces in contests before
the Republican national convention /
IN Chicago IN 1912 and was chairman |
TOR Vermont of the Roosevelt presi-
Dental campaign that same wear, !
gong on the stump in Vermont and +
New Hampshire. His service as a f.
trooper IN the 1st L. S. Volunteer /
cavalry (ROOsevelt's Rough Riders) /
N the Spanish American war BROUGHT ,
nm into friendship with Roosevelt
lie was commissioned by President /
Mckinley IN 1899 as first lieutenant
n 7; ,. Volunteers, and he was com
OF Co. B. and later of Co. c
II the 46th U. S. Infantry Volunteers
turing the campaign in the PhiIin-
pine Islands, He was honorablv dis Il
;harged from the service in 1901 In !!
-9I6 ne was commissioned major in Il
ne lst Vermont cavalry, which was Il
1t Fort Ethan Allen for a time. bnt 4
which was dismissed from service \
because there was no need of the ser
ices of the organization.