Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1920-06-23
VERMONT NOTES

Montpelier has a population of 1925
and Barre 10,00S, according to an
nouncement by the census bureau The
population of Montpelier in 1910 was
1856, which shows a loss of 726.
The whereabouts of Chauncey Sharp
an aged resident of Fair Haven, has
been unknown since last week and
posse of % men has been securing the
woods but is said to have found no
trace. Sharp is sc.
Rufus E. Brown of Burlington. aged
Go years, one of the best known attor-
neys in the state, died last week fol-
lowing brief illness, although he had
been in failing health for some time.
He was states attorney of Chittenden
county from 1894 to 1900, a member
of the Vermont senate in 1900, and
attorney general of the state from
1912 until 1914.
Following the closing of the wooden
mill In North Montpelier, the mills of
the American Wooden company at
Wlnooski are laying off many hands.
The pay roll has diminished one-third.
The principal reason for this slacken-
ing of business is that the manufact-
urers connot get the price for their
goods which it would cost under pres
ent conditions to produce them and,
therefore, they are letting down.
As the result of a shooting affair
on June II, Henry Adams, farm
hand in Fletcher is dead and Louise
Garrett, his stepdaughter, is at Fanny
Alien hospital, Burlington, with bull
let holes in her right leg and left arm.
Although the wounds are serious she
Will likely recover. Adams, who did
I rhn -Hn
weapon on himself is said to have been
jealous of attention a young man was
paying to the girl. The shooting fol-
lowed q quarrel between the two.
Information has been received that
the worms which destroyed a field of
corn on Miss Mary Andrews farm in
Putney and which caused much uneasi-
ness among the farmers there were
not the feared corn borers but were
a native species. The identity of the
pest was secured through sending
specimens to the United States bureau
or entomology in Arlington, Mass.
As the worms principal food is smart
weed, the bureau suggests the elimina-
ton OF all smart weed in the vicinity
of the Andrews farm.
Although no announcement has vet
nave next season one of the finest
music courses given anywhere in the
country The season will open No
vember with concert by the Phil
harmonic orchestra of New York, Jo-
SET Stransky conducting. The orches-
ira will receive $4,000 for coming to
Mlddlebury. Later will come the Flon-
alley string quartet, now ranked as the
flnest organization of its kind in the
country. Another engagement is that
OF Renald Werrenrath, the famous
American baritone. A two-piono con-
cert IS to be given by Guy Maier and
Lee Pattison, two young men who
have won high standing for their uni
que recitals.
| Frank Whittemore of Eden commit
ted suicide Wednesday of last week
about noon by drowning himself in
the stream near there. He had been
living with his brother up to a short
Time ago when his daughter, Freeda,
who has been attending the Boston
Conservatory of music, returned. Last
week they went to their old home to
lVe Before noon, Mr.. Whittemore,
VINO had been sitting on the porch all
morning, left and was later missed by
his daughter. After searching for
some time party started out and con-
Quoted thorough search. Shortly
after Mr.. Whittemore's crutches were
found on the bank of the brook and his
body was found a short distance down
stream.
MAJ. u. w. Gibson sent out the fol-
lowing list of service men in Vermont
who sent their discharge certificates
to Washington in order to obtain the
500 bonus. The discharges are still
there with check The addresses of
these men should be furnished at once
to the Zone Finance Officer, Bonus Sec
ton, 18th and c streets, Washington,
ID. G. The names are: Fred M. Davio,
Leon M. Stokes, Henry C. Williams.
Hubert w. Williams, Edgar A Cook,
Jackson E. Howard, Thore A. johnson,
William E. Kendall, Wilfred Limothe,
Mark A McClosky, Dominica Mantello
Michael Patrick Noonan, John E.
Smith, Lee j. Soucie.
Tell an excitable man to use his