Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1920-03-17
COURT PROVIDES FOR CARE
Neglected Children of Barton Fam
lilies Get Aid from State.

A session of the municipal court
sitting as the Juvenile court, Judge
Wright, presiding, was held at the
municipal court room in Barton on
Saturday, March 13, 1920. The state
was represented by States Attorney
Thompson and Hon. William III. JEFF
frey, state probation officer and sec
retary of the state board of charities
and probation.
The first case was that of Idell F.,
Millard o., and Sherman A. Wilt
shire. For some time the parents
of these children have been living
apart, and on March 1st the children
were adjudged dependent" children
for want of proper parental care.
The children were placed in the GUS
tody of the board of charities and the
father ordered to pay SO. per week
for their board, and both parents were
charged equally with ire duty of
supplying the children with proper
clothing and medical attendance. Mr..
Jeffrey placed the children temporar-
lily in the care of the mother, who
lives at Orleans, the length of time
of her care of them depending upon
her future department.
The second case was that of Myrtle,
Robert and Gertrude Bumps, aged
y
the children of Alfred and Ida
Bumps, who live at Barton. The evil
dence disclosed that Robert is a
cripple suffering from infantile par
alysis, and that nothing has ever been
done to alleviate his condition; that
the mother of the children has repeat
edly gone awav for day to associate
with people of immoral reputation,
leaving the children alone at home,
without proper food, care or cloth
ing; that one forenoon in the latter
part of January 1920, the landlord
of the house found the children alone
ard two of them barefoot, and they
told him that they had had no break
fast and their mother had gone out;
that he gave. them food and later told
the mother that he would buy the chill
dren some stockings but she did not
take them. Mrs. Bumps testified that
she did not love her children except
the youngest one, and did not care
anything about them. States Attor-
ney Thompson filed complaint
against Mrs. Bumps for neglecting
her children, to which she pleaded
guilty The court thereupon SEN
fenced her to the state prison at Wind
sor for term of not more than two
years nor less than one year and
eleven months, and placed her on pro-
baton under the care of the state pro
baton officer, who laid down some
strict rules for her future guidance
which her past conduct seemed to re
quire The children We're adjudgel
l"dependent" children for want of pro
per parental care, and were placed il
the custody of the state board of char
tiles, and arrangements were mad,
for the proper medical treatment o.
Robert.
The third case was that of Merton
Grace, Doris, Arthur, Wallace AM
Florence Gleason, the young children
of Bert Gleason of Barton, who il
the past has received considerabl
aid from the town. The evidence i
this case disclosed that the famil
, lives in the back part of the town i
an old house, in filthy and unsanitar
conditions: that two of the childre
need operations for adenoids and en
larged tonsils but the parents woul
not consent to the same; that las
year Florence broke her arm but n
medical attendance was procured flo
her; that the father, while a har
working man, has no ability as mar
ager. The children We're adjudge
, dependent" children for want of pre-
per parental care, and, with the cor
sent of the state board of charitie;
I7lorsEea ard Wallace We're co.nmitte
to the State Industrial school, and tn
rest. of the children committed to tn
joint care of the state board of char
, tiles and the overseer of the poor q
, Barton.
These last two cases had been ir
vestigated by one of the field worker
of the state board of charities. and
! was by reason of her report that tn
l proceedings were instituted.
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