Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1920-08-04
CALEDONIA COUNTY

A. 81. Mcleod of the MILNE .or,
pany of st. Johnsbury has annlied -
the secretary of state for permission
to change its name to the Caledonia
Mills Of that village and to increas Sc
its capital stock from 500. 900 to
100000.
Charles E. Simanton. a well knovn
resident of st. Johnsbury, was fined
$25 and costs of $12.95, admitting
that he was guilty of owning and
operating two slot gambling ma
chimes. The machines were being on
Grated at McIndoes and LyndonvilIe.
The census of Caledonia county is
25,755, as announced by the census
bureau. This is loss of 276, or ii
per cent. The population of Gale
donia county in 1910 was 26,031. The
gain IN St. Johnsbury, recently an
nounced, failed TO make up for the loss
es sustained IN the smaller towns of
the county.
Frank 81. Brooks of st. Johnsbury.
in his Coles, with a party consisting
of his four daughters and two of
their girl friends, made the ascent of
Mt Mansfield recently, going to the
top and being the second car to ac-
complish the feat. The party is tour
ing Vermont in camping style, pitch
ing their tent wherever night over
takes them.
Rev. Harold Guy Scott, who this
week completes his pastorate of the
Church of the Messiah, in St. Johns
bury, has accepted call to the First
Universalist church of Cincinnati, o.
Mr.. Scott takes up his work in the
Ohio city the first of September He
came to the Universalist church here
about two years ago from Oldtown,
Ne. His successor here, Rev. Weston
A. Cate of Henderson, n. Y, was
classmate of Mr.. Scott at Goddard
seminary, Barre.
Regis Michaud, rofessor of French
IN the University of California, Ber-
kelley, Calf. summer resident of
Lyndon, has been awarded the Prix
| Montyon by the French academy at
Paris. This in recognition of his
books, Emerson" and "Mystiques ct
that the Montyon prize is one of the
oldest and most important in the gift
of the Paris academy. Prof. Michaud
was a former teacher of French at
Smith college. He did an important
work in France during the war and
much of the time Mrs. Michaud. who
was Miss Chase of Lyndon, had
charge of his classes.
Telephone service between Lyndon
vile and Newport was halted for
hours recently because of a peculiar
automobile accident. A car crashed
into telephone pole severing ser
vice wire. The pole came down,
bringing with it a section of the
wires. The accident happened near
the Lyndon station. The driver of
the car, unfamiliar with the road, did
not see the south-bound Boston &
Maine train until he was nearly on
the crossing. He turned quickly and
hit the electric light pole with such
force that it was broken off. The car
was only slightly damaged and the
occupants escaped with slight bruis-
es and scratches.
AT the summer home on Joe's pond
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles II. Goss of
st. Johnsbury, their youngest daugh-
ter, Clara Helen, was married Thurs
day afternoon to Noel Noyes of St.
Johnsbury. The ceremony took place
on the piazza overlooking the water,
members of the two families being
present. Rev. Dr. Francis A. Poole.
pastor of the South Congregational
church of St. Johnsbury, performed
the ceremony. The piazza was dec
GRATED with trailing nine, pond lilies
and yellow daisies. Following the
ceremony, refreshments were served
by Misses Ruth and Dorothy Gossr
! cousins of the bride. The groom is q
Yale graduate and served in the wal
with the rank of lieutenant in the
regular army in the Southwest. The
bride is a popular St. Johnsbury CIR
and received many choice gifts from
her friends.