Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1920-02-04
VERMONT NEWS

The Vermont tuberculosis associ- !
alton announces that from returns to
date st. Johnsbury leads in the sale
of Red Cross Christmas seals with
per capita sale of 81 seals, followed
by Bennington with per capita sale
! of 500. ST. Johnsbury sold 54,279
seals, Bennington 1924.
Mayor ]. Holmes jackson of Bur-
| lington has issued a call for a special
meeting of the citizens of Burlington
to vote on the proposition to bond
that city for S250,000 for the erection
of memorial building to the men
who served in all the wars. The
meeting is to be held Friday, Feb. 6.
The statement of transactions in
the customs district of Vermont dur
ing the month of December 1919, is
sued today by collector H. G. Com
ings, shows a large increase, both in
importations and expectations over
the month of December 1918. The
total importations were St, 854 ,437,
as compared with S2,871 1882 in the
corresponding month the year be-
fore and the exports were SS,990,273
as compared with $5,334 AGO in De-
cember, 1918.
Sixteen people were thrown into
the icy waters of Lake Champlain
and scores of others were thrown
from berths or jostled about the
coaches when a Rutland railroad
train, the New York-Montreal sleep
er, was derailed just south of the
l"gut" drawbridge between Grand Isle
and North Hero early Saturday
morning by broken rail, car SO go
ling into the lake. The victims were
taken to Burlington hospitals and
hotels. No one was seriously lnJur-
ed.
About II, 900 muskrat skins were
sold last week by the Burlington rem
iering company to Boston and New
York purchasers. The sale from all
furs Brought between $4,000 and
$4,000. Good and poor muskrat
skins sold alike at $3.50, mink about
S1T. and fox skins for SOB. Two
thousand skunk skins were sold at 81
each, while coon skins brought SD
and bear skins SIS each. A few
hundred ermine sold at 81 each. All
the furs were obtained in this state
: and northern New York.
The Vermont state fair for 1920
viii be held on the state fair grounds
at White River Junction Tuesday
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
September %, 20, 80 and October 1
THE race schedule viii carry purses
aggregating $4,000. This is The
largest race schedule ever planned
= for the state fair. The admission
G price to the fair for adults was rails
led to Toe, while the admission of 25t
for children remains the same. Ih'
G larger grandstand WILL command {
price of 75c and the smaller grand
stand soc.
The Vermont Farm Machine Cor
poration of Bellows Falls is 81
crowded with orders that it is neces
sal-y to run their metal working Gle
partment day and night. They ar
turning out $500 15-quart sap buck
cts per day, also 1000 40-Quart specia
design milk cans per week. IN
maple sap evaporatOr orders are IA
in excess of previous years. In
separator business IS three time
n larger than for several years. I'M
= week they have received an order 10
E1O0O United States Cream separator
for export to the Balkan States an
Russia.
Mrs. Catherine NJ. Hollaren c
. MONTPELIER has brought suit agalns
the New England Telephone q TEX
graph company to recover Sl5,0U
5s damages. While inemen We're mai
- ing repairs in Montpelier it Is CLAIM
ed that something gave way, so tina
the cable Stacked back and, as ST
was passing over 1T, resulted
throwing her to the ground, and tn;
she hit against curbing, breakln
three ribs, injuring her chest, Dac
~ and side, and developing internal II
- juries, which included a heart troub
so that her health is impaired ar
she could not withstand an operate
should occasion demand.
George o. Hale, representative
}, the legislature from the town OF MI
dlesex, is held on the charge of mu
der of neighbor, II. Lester Mors
1t is alleged that he shot Morse att
quarrel about a boundary line b
tween their farms. He notified tt
authorities after the shooting al
n was brought to the county jail her
I'D According to the. story told by Tia
L to the authorities, dispute of
years standing over the bounda
line resulted recently in Hale's o
- tanning a judgment against Mors
VI He said that he walked out to the Ill
. and that Morse approached him WI
a pitchfork in his hand. Hale war
III ed Morse, he said, not to come a.
nearer, but Morse did not stop, a
Hale shot him through the heal
III Morse fell dead in the snow.
The frozen body of Mrs. Betsey
Hadley, aged 80 years, was found
the door-yard of the farm at Sht
burne Friday, where she had Inv
for SO years. Since the death of b
husband in 1894, Mrs. Hadley had
ed alone, steadfastly refusing. to
taken from the home she had low
for so many years. The victim W
lquite feeble and it is thought prot
III BILE she was overcome while atteml
In. ing to reach the house from the pa
al where she had gone to care for /