Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1920-04-21

- Monday. HIS salary will be ST.
500 year.
T. N. Vail was recently elected a
director of the B. q NJ. ralroao
10 succeed the late George Il. Prouty
as the Vermont representative IN the
An apartment house with rs apart
ments of four and five rooms Is TO De |
built at Windsor on the site o. the |
Windsor Cluh inn. It will be of four |
stories, of brick, with Indiana lime
stone trimmings. !
Work on tie X-raying of over 1000
stonecutters of Barre has begun as
par. Of the research work in dust
maxi industries fo~ lo"9t.ng the
cause Of tuberculosis and if possible
it.
The Rev. George F. Fortier, state
superintendent of Unlversalst
churches for Vermont, announces that
a conference of the Universallst min
listers of Vermont and the province of
church, Rutland, April &c and q.
During the sickness of Charles
Smith of Wolcott, his two boys, Fay
and Howard, eight and nine years
old. did all the work, taking care of
80 head of cattle and four horses, be-
sides a lot of young stock, hens etc.,
except, the milking. A neighbor run
the milking machine for them.
Paul Kicker of Burlington, secre-
tary of the Leonard a. Wood club, FL
ed petitions in behalf of Mr.. Wood as
a candidate for president in the Yer
mont primaries with the secretary OF
state. It was found that some per
SONS who had signed the Wood petit
tons had also signed the Webster
petitions.
Charles T. Stowell. of Albany, n. Y.
has been engaged by the state engl-
neer for the purpose af ascertalnlng
if some of the railway bridges that
have been removed by different roads
can be used as bridges on highways
in Vermont. These have become too
light for steam railroad work, but
they are heavy enough for highway
traffic.
Carelessness on the part of the sta
ton agent at Gassetts and the con-
ductor and engineer of extra freight
No. % was the cause of the head-on
collision of that train and passenger
train northbound on the Rutland rail-
road two miles north of Bellows Falls
the afternoon of March Il, according
to the findings of the Vermont public
service commission. The collision
resulted in ten deaths.
| The Vermont Shoe Retailers asso-
citation held their fifth annual con-
yention in Burlington last week. The
I following officers were elected: Pres
ident, George n. Tilden of Barre;
Vice President, W. W. Hartwen of
Mortified, ]. H. Amey of ST. Johns
bury; Secretary, Lester Clough of
Barre; Treasurer, Frank J. Shea of
Injecting Will be held in Barre.
/, Burlington will be the Mecca for
Odd Fellows of Vermont during the
third week in May. Tuesday, Wednes-
day, Thursday and Friday, the 18th
18th, goth, and 21st, when the Grand
Lodge of Vermont will gather for its
74th annual convention. Headquar-
tiers viii be established at the Hotel
Vermont, and the officers and special
guests, several of whom are expected
from outside the state, will be located
there.
weeks effort, has found an heir~of J.
Franklin Severance. Mr.. Severance
left about $4,000 which was claimed
by two aunts. The probate court in
structed Mr.. Deavitt to search for a
closer heir, which he did and found 4
daughter of the deceased sister. MIR.
Severance and his sister were separ-
ated when they were small children
and never saw each other after that
time. The heir is Mrs. Jessie Web
!ster of Sunapee, n. H.
E S. Brigham, commissioner of
agriculture, has placed a quarantine
against shipment of certain products
from Massachusetts, New York, New
Hampshire and Pennsylvania into
Vermont without a permit. These
products ana vegetables, which the Eu-
ropean corn borer work upon, includ-
ing corn, celery, spinach, beets with
tops, and certain flowers and bulbs
The insect has worked extensively in
territories adjacent to Boston, and
purchasers of garden truck in the
markets in Vermont are cautioned to
make sure that these products are
not from the affected district.
The United States circuit court of
appeals in New York has affirmed the
Judgment Tor SZ3,OOO given Mrs Fred
S. Plat of Rutland against the Cen
trail Vermont railroad in the district
court of Vermont at the May, 1919,
term at Windsor. Mrs. Plat is the
widow of Clerk F. S. Plat of the
United States court of Vermont, who
lost. his life in a railroad wreck at
tDummerston on September 10, 1918,
passenger train When the case came
when a shuttle train collided with a
to trial, after the defendant had re-
fused to settle on the plaintiffs of
fer of about 1000. the railroad COM
pany admitted their liability and il
jreHained for the jury to settle the
amount The verdict was one of the
largest ever given in Vermont court
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