Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1920-11-10
VERMONT NOTES

SIX men were recently fined at
Brattleboro for hunting coons durino
the closed season.
1t is estimated that between j ooo
ana 1,Z0O people went over the Long
to October 1.
b B. Bates, state highway COM
missioner, and W. @. Hastings. state
forester, of Montpelier. went to Mt
Mansfield recently to look after the
proposed highway, as TO the feasibili-
ty OF construction and as to the more
picturesque route,
The Queen City Cotton Co.. the
largest manufacturing nlant in Bur
lmgton, was closed Saturday for an
indefinite time. About $50 persons
Were thrown out of work Lack of
orders was given as the cause of the
cessation of business.
The diphtheria situation in White
RIVER junction has cleared I'D to such
an extent that DR.. c. W. Kidder. dis
trlct health officer, has terminated the
quarantine on children under 16 wears
OF age, effective immediately. This
applies only TO White River juno
ton.
Nellie Signal Oxfbrd. number
3S5O15, registered Jersey at Quee-
chez Falls farm, has just completed a
years work OF 365 days on register of
merit test, making a total of 10.T72. s
pounds OF milk containing 1888
pounds of butterfat, or the equivalent
10 fOO-3S pounds of So per cent but
ter The test was started at the age
OF two years 26T days and the above
record makes Nellie Signal Oxford
the state champion butter producer in
the senior two-year-old class, beating
the former state champion by over
80 pounds fat
The dates of the 51st annual meet
ing OF the Vern ont Dairymen's asso-
citation have been announced by o.
L Martin, secretary of the organiza-
ton, as January II, u and Is, 1921,
IN Burlington. In combination with
the dairymen's meeting a meeting of
| the Vermont Sugarmakers' associa-
ton will also be held. These meet
ings viii be held in the University of
I Vermont gymnasium, while the ex-
hibits OF the dairynaen will be placed
N the annex and those OF the sugar
makers in the University armory,
just as they We're last year.
Charles z. Peek of Montpelier is
the Vermont Boy Scout who Is honor
ed with one OF the personal letters
dictated and signed by President Viii
son, and sent TO the Scout leader 1T
each of the % states, territories and
possessions OF the United States. com
mendIng the work done by him in sell
ing the Thrift and War Savings
stamps. Peck who is handicapped
by having TO go about on crutches
sold S5310 worth of the Savings
STAMPS according 10 his figures, and
in addition the Scout headquarters
had credits amounting TO $500 more
in his name He received the Wan
Savings award with the gold palm.
The American House barn, 10
Gated in the rear of the hotel at Rich.
ford, was destroyed by fire early Sat
urday morning, with the loss of sew
eral animals and q monetary los:
amounting TO several thousands OF
dollars The insurance was small i
was only by the hardest kind OF worl
that the firemen saved the hoted from
destruction. As il was the laundry
was badly damaged. Charles Cum
mIngS, the hotel man, was awakened
at about 12.45 by the stamping o.
horses Looking out he saw the barr
was ablaze. When the door OF ths
barn was opened il was discovered tn,
entire inside of the structure was OF
fire. Nine horses, one Shetland pony
two cows, and cat were burned u
death. The horses belonged TO JOSEPH
Deyette. owner of the barn, and u
men named Lovette and Enright. Tn,
pony was the property of Fredericl
Kelley. The hotel bus and Wagon
were also destroyed. The fire start
ed in the Office of the barn.