Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1920-02-11
VERMONT NEWS

The three churches in Stowe are
forming a union OF some
kind.
Bellows Falls has been divided into
d districts to make an lnterchurcn
movement survey during the present
month.
George o. Hale of Middlesex was
indicted for murder Friday afternoon
by the special jury that sat in Mont
pelier Thursday afternoon and trl-
day on the matter. male IS alleged
to have killed II. Lester Morse near
his home in Middlesex, for which he
was arrested by Sheriff f. II. Tracy
Sunday afternoon. =
By a vote of more than two to one,
the voters of Burlington decided
AGAINST the proposal to bond the city
Ior 5z50, 900 Tor tne purpose OF Dull1-
ing a memorial building. The propo-
sal was defeated in every ward and
the total vote stood $50 against 492
in favor, giving a majority of AIS
against the proposition.
DR.. C. H. Burr, district health Of
ficer, has put the town of GrOton I'M
der quarantine because OF an influen-
"a epidemic. Local doctors are sick
or unable to visit ali the cases. Vol
unteer doctors and nurses will go
there from Montpelier. DR.. Burr
does not know definitely how many
cases there are, but says in many IN
stances whole families are sick.
Walter F. Scott, state treasurer,
has received from Walter "a. Graham,
judge of probate at BellowS<falls, a
check for So, S65, which is the final
payment of the fees which Mr.. Ora
ham received in the settlement of the
estate of Hetty R. Green. There had
previously been a payment of $4,000,
maxim the total of $52,9S2 that the
state received in settlement of the ac
count.
Mrs. Lucy Jameson Scott, author
and editer, the widow of the late Rev
o. W. Scott, who died on Monday at
her residence at Brooklyn, n. Y, from
influenza, was born in Irasburg rs
years ago. She had been editor of
the Junior Missionary Friend, pub
lished by the Woman's Foreign Mis-
sionary society of the Methodist Epis-
copal church, since lit was founded,
. OF years dSsOs a14u was e-A-b TIC slNtAAOA
of q number OF books.
Linden Lodge, q summer and win
ter resort on the BTattlebOro Retreat
property in Brattleboro, occupied by
persons nervously but not mentally af-
\ fected, was burned and the 80 or more
+ occupants were able to save but lit
tie Of the belongings. Several people
escaped with only their night cloth
: ing. The value of the building was
about $4,000 and the furniture S5000
I The insurance was only $1,000. The
property was outside the fire district
being no water near enough to be
available. The fire started in the
second story of the ell, which was
80 feet long, but there is nothing to
indicate its origin.
Capt. J. Harry Estey, aged 45,
treasurer of the Estey Organ company
of Brattleboro, died Saturday in the
Parker house, Boston, after two days
illness with influenza. He went to
Boston Wednesday from New York
on a business trip. Mr.. Estey
was the son of the late
Mr.. Estey was the son of the late
Julius ]. Estey who was the head of
the Estey Organ company until his
death in 1902, and, like his father,
he was long Identified with the YER
mont National Guard. He leaves a
wife, who was Allethaire Chase of
Brattleboro, a son, Paul, and dau-
ghter, Allethaire, also a mother and
brother, j. Gray Estey, president of
the Estey Organ Company.
Preparations for the annual pulp
White and West rivers, and under the
supervision of the Champlain Realty
CO., the main office of which is in
White River Junction, are fast APP
preaching completion. The drive
down the White river will this year be
of record-breazing size, as it will in
clude the accumulation of two years
as that of 1919, was at the last mo-
ment, postponed. The White river
drive this year will aggregate 10000
900 feet. The Connecticut river drive
will not this year be as large as US
ual and particularly so as compared
with that of last year, when nearly 49,
100000 feet in all were set afloat to
various places on the river. Three
million feet of this years drive will be
halted at the Wilder International
Paper Co.'s mills. The drive down
West river this year will be of ex-
lceptional Importance, as its estimated
size is 100000 feet, all of which
/ will ho ballad Rrafflobor0