Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1920-03-03

of discussing the work OF the Legion
| in Vermont. A public meeting Will
take Mace in City Hall when there
will be several seekers. The Legion
is endeavoring to secure lease OF
the armory for club rooms. The ar
mory has been used by the state Tor
many years.
Ashley j. Bean of st. Johnsbury,
Thomas j. 'Brien of Marshfield and
Hector j. Hamel of East Hardwick
iwere each sentenced to serve one day
in Chittenden county Jail for failure
to file their questionnaires. These
were received before the armistice was
lsigned but were returnable after the
date of the signing of the armlstlce
and the men said they thought it un-
necessary to return them then.
James Hurley of Bennington has
been sentenced to six months in the
Chittenden county Jail in Burlington
for wearing the uniform of United
States naval officer unlawfully. He
also cashed bad checks, but no action
was taken on that matter. Joseph
Bouchard of Quebec was sentenced to
three months in Jail for making false
reports to the immigration officers
in attempting to get into the United
States.
Horace Melendy, Francis Douglass
and Miss Elizabeth Hannum of JEFF
IL miles to Smugglers' Notch from
Morse's mill one day last week. They
left Jacksonville at seven, driving to
the mill. Coming through the Notch
they found the travelling good, but
the snow was deep and drifted. Mr..
Melendy froze several of his toes and
Miss Hannum froze her nose. They
arrived at three o'clock, having lunch
ed at Barnes camp.
| Mrs. Harry E. Parker died in Miami,
Florida, where the family has been
spending the winter, last week. Her
husband is the owner of the Bradford
Opinion" and well known j. the news
paper fraternity of Vermont, in the
Grand Lodge of Odd Fei'o VS., and
Republican party circles, ir all of
which he has been prominent for
years. Mrs. Parker died of heart
disease and her body will be brought
In the spring to Bradford for burial
Miss Bertha A. Holden has resigned
as extention specialist in home econo-
mics in order to accept a position as
assistant state leader of home demon
stration agents at the state agricul-
tural college at Ames, Iowa, at a
largely increased salary. Miss Hol-
den came to the University of Yer
mont July /, 1917, from the Essex
county agricultural school at Danvers.
Mass, and has been a very capable
and efficient worker.
Each year the Vermont Tubercu-
losis Association presents two banners
for the highest per capita sale of
Christmas seals, one to the town or
city OF over 5000 population, the other
to the town of less than 5000. In
the first class st. bloomsbury wins the
banner with Bennington close Sec
ond. st. Johnsbury sold 5000 seals.
6.79 per capita, Bennington So, 1884.
CT seals per capita. These two are
the highest per capita records in Yer
mont. In the second class Brandon
wins by selling 14,235, 5.24 per capita.
A peculiar situation has arisen in
the towns near the border in the
United States. At the present time
nearly all the merchants and other
users of large quantities of goods are
buying In Canada all their material
on which there is no duty. For in
stance, flour, the grade made in Can
ada Is nearly up to the grade made in
the United States and the bakers and
others buy In Canada. By taking the
flour costing SIS here costs them
around $13 at the present rate of ex-
cnange. The only expense is an entry
blank, which can be obtained for rs
cents. For this reason a big BUSH
ness is being done in several lines in
Canadian trading centers.
States Attorney Ernest w. Gibson
neld an inquest in the case of Miss
GLADYS f. Yeaw of Brattleboro who
oieo IN a drug store about an hour
after falling on the street there. 1t
Is thought death was due to poisoning.
"A small! empty bottle in which drug
glst mad placed poison capsule, which
MISS Ieaw bought a week ago, was
found IN a stove in the girls room.
Inc inquest has not been completed
out some facts which puzzled the Off
GERS have been brought out. They
learned that when Miss Yeaw fell in
the street she was on her way from
the opposite side of the street to her
room where young man was wait
ing for her. The inquest brought out
the TACT also that a physician gave her
prescription which she had filled at
drug store, about half an hour be-
lore she fell in the street, but she had
not used the medicine.
Seventeen ex-service men from var
ious sections of the Vermont have been
awarded scholarships of $50 each by
the state educational service commit
tee OF the Y. NJ. C. A. under the col
ieglate scholarship division of the Y.
III. &. A. fund for ex-service men. The
men who received the scholarships
are ali students in educational insti-
tutlons, most Of them in the state.
Those who received the scholarships
are:-Florendi Cerasoli of Barre, Ell
cry J. Lyndes of Montpelier and Louis
r. Rabaion of Barre, at Montpelier
seminary; Lawrence E. Homer of Rut-
land, Walter Hurd of Mortified and
Carl b. Olson of Proctor at Norwich
university; William NJ. Meacham of
Morrisville, Andrew G. Osteyee of |
miodiebury and Cyril E. Shelvey Of
rutland at Middlebury college; Ray