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

| Forty thousand dollars is to be ex-
pended in a cement road In West
Rutland for distance of 2,4O0 feet.
A bond issue was authorized to cover
+, the cost of construction.
| Pearl Norton of Bridport charged
with running an unlicensed automo-
bile and also with running an auto
mobile without drivers license was
| fined SO and costs amounting In all
to $35.85.
! Farmers in Barre city and town
and five adjacent towns have voted to
organize cooperative creamery.
These farmers own a total of 2191
cows The capital stock of the
creamery will be 100000.
DIR. j. H. Miller of Wallingford, a
reputable physician of many years
practive, was arrested Friday on
warrant charging him with violation
of the laws of Vermont by failure to
quarantine a house in which there
was case of whooping cough. DIR.
Miller pleaded not guilty and de-
manded a jury trial.
The third annual Montpelier Ep-
worth League Institute opened the
first of the week with a registration
of about 75 persons. The officers OF
the institute are: Dean, Rev. G. w.
Kelley of Irasburg; registrar, the
Rev. R. FL. Moore of Randolph; bur-
sar, the Rev. B. G. Lipsky of Barre;
secretary, Miss Madge Warren of
Montpelier.
i The secretary of state has received
a letter from a man in Springfield,
Mass, asking advice relative to the
state building regulations as to how
high a frame building can be erected
to comply with the state laws. The
letter states that the writer is to
build 250-room hotel on the shore
of Lake Champlain, but it does not
give the place or any further data
concerning the plans.
Adjutant General H. T. Johnson
has compiled an official list of those
from Vermont who were killed or
died as a result of service in the
World war, showing a total of ABB,
of whom 116 were killed in action, 4S
died of wounds and 269 died of dis
ease. This is the first official list
that has been announced since the
war and from time to time there will
probably be additions to it.
Statistics gathered at the state
board of charities office show a re-
markable record in the child welfare
: work There have been in the three
! years existence of the office 400 chill
dren committed to its care, of whom
: $50 had hospital attention. The re-
: markable thing is that statistics in
l child welfare work show that at least
: 40 of that number should have died,
{ while thus far not a single death has
/ occurred.
tyears connected with Goddard semi
1 nary, Barre, as teacher and principal,
1 has asked to be released from further
5 duties at the school in letter to the
: executive committee of the seminary
: July /. His reason for resignation
/ is given as poor health. The resig-
nation came as a surprise to the trus-
t tees and friends of the seminary
: alike, as no intimation of such a
s move had been given.
: The large granite shed owned and
. operated by the n. Pelaggi Granite
+ company, in Mortified was struck by
o lightning last week and entirely des-
? troyed by fire The shed was about
: 800 feet long and had large amount
n of finished work in it which was ruin
: ed. The company estimates the loss
n as around 100000, partially cover
out of work as the result of the fire
4 The fire companies were unable to
o stop the spread of the fire as the en-
: tire building was mass of flames in
= no time. This is the second time Mr.
( Pelaggi has been burned out since
5 being in the granite business in
y Mortified. The shed was only few
4 years old. 1t is not known whether
: he will rebuild or not.
! Another chapter in the famous
! boundary line case of George p
! Eastman and Gov. P. w. Clement VS.
! the Vermont Marble company, which
|. has already resulted in the payment
!, : of $4,000 by Eastman to the Yer
mont company, the indictment OF
Eastman for alleged forgery Col
which he was acquitted) and the dis
! barment of Attorney Ernest H
O'Brien of Rutland, has been enacted
: IN decision by the Massachusetts
supreme court in favor of the Yer
: mont Marble Co. The court holds
: that disputed document which figured
\ IN the case is invalid under the rule
= of perpetuity which provides that nc
: real estate shall be tied UP during
4 the life time of two persons or fol
! more than Fl years.
! The Rev. DIR. w. A. Dawson, Sec
= rotary and superintendent for the
q Vermont Baptist State Convention
= has just returned from the Northern
Baptist Convention, held in Buffalo
N. Y. The Northern Baptist Con.