Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1920-07-28
VERMONT NOTES

! Inc annual meeting VI JERSEY
breeders of the State of Vermont will
, be held at Quechee Fells Farm, Que
chez, on August -.
The new Calef library at Washing
ton was dedicated last week 1t was
through a gift of $4,000 left the
town by Ira Calef that the building
was put up.
Four veterans of the Vermont sol
diers' home at Bennington have been
relieved of some $3.50 taken from
their pockets at night. Charles Gar
rison, an employee of the home, and
his wife have disappeared.
The Vermont state fair premium
list, giving the details of all premi-
ums to be paid exhibitors at the 1920
exhibition, to be held in White River
Junction, September %, %, 80 and
October 1, is just off the press and is
being mailed from the Office of Secre-
tary Fred l.. Davis. Exhibitors not
on the regular mailing list and all
others interested in the fair may pro-
cure a copy by making request of
Mr.. Davis.
Richard Trombly, 26 years old,
son of Mrs. Jerry Trombly, was in
stantly killed Saturday afternoon at
o'clock at his home IN North Go
shen. Mr.. Trombly was saving
wood with a circular saw run by
gasoline engine. The arbor of the
ting off both his arms and cutting
saw broke and the saw flew off, cut
terrible cash in his left side, the saw
penetrating his heart. There were
two young boys helping him. He is
survived by his mother and several
brothers and sisters.
James Fisk, aged ~ years, a farm
er living in the town of Rutland, was
almost instantly killed one afternoon
last week by falling from a load of
hay in his field. He was near the
rear of the rack receiving forkfuls
from the man on the ground when
| the horses started suddenly and he
| pitched head first to the ground. His
skull was fractured. Mr.. Fisk was
native of Randolph and was veter-
an of the 14th Vermont Volunteer
Regiment in the Civil War.
Hugh J. M. Jones, state fuel admit
| nistrator, is in New York attending a
conference of the wholesalers and
| coal producers. Mr.. Jones recently
sent letters to the consumers of hard
and soft coal He finds that while
there is shortage of hard the condi-
sion relative to soft coal is worse than
at any time during the war, 25 per
cent of the soft coal users having less
than ID per cent of the needed sup
ply. He is much Harmed over the sit
| uation-
The body of Leulie Hunter, "a ex-
lieutenant in the u. S. calvalry, who
was drowned in Lake Bomoseen Sum-
day afternoon when a canoe capsized
had not been located up to late hour
last night according to those engaged
in the searche The drowning occur
ed at spot north of Poor Farm bay
and several hundred feet from shore
where the water is especially deep,
this part of the lake was thoroughly
dragged" yesterday. The search
viii be continued tlday.
Inspector Pierce of the state auto
mobile department has reported to
the secretary of state the result of
two days work in johnson, where he
defined 160 automobiles causing
them to show whether they had au-
tority to operate an automobile. He
found many instances in which the
drivers had neither certificate of reg
istra ton of the car or the operators
license with them. He called atten-
ton of the drivers of machines to the
fact that if they would carry these as
provided by law they would be detain-
ed only long enough to show identifi-
cation and would in the end save
themselves some embarrassment.
Nathan G. Williams president,
treasurer and general manager of the
Vermont Farm Machine corporation
of Bellows Falls, has resigned his po-
sition after 40 years of service. In
March, 1877, Mr.. Williams moved TO
| Bellows Falls to accept a position
with the Vermont Farm Machine cor
poration. Later he was made presi-
dent, treasurer and general manager.
At the time Mr.. Williams became con-
nected with the Vermont Farm Ma
chine corporation, it was in its earli
est stages of development. From that
time the company has made rapid
] advancement. In 1906 he was elected
judge advocate general by the legis-
/ lature of Vermont.
Alexander Hall, Joseph Affair,
Leonard Lawliss and L.S.Tillotson of
! the American Legion went to- Plain
field Monday to attended the funeral
of Grover Townshend, who died on a
transport en- route to France. He en-
listed in Company E, 57th Pioneer
Regiment and developed pneumonia
when on the way from Camp Jackson
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| France he died and his body was
taken to France, where temporary
burial occurred. The body reached
Plainfield about ten o'clock Monday
morning. He was a son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Townsend of East Mont
peller The funeral was at one o'clock
Monday afternoon.
Three years old Eleanor LaBelle
was run over by a trolley car on
Winooski bridge Friday and died in
the Mary Fletcher hospital three
hours later. The little girl and several
children were playing on the bridge,
when a military post car approached.
The little girl ran from the sidewalk
int ha Il