Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1920-05-26
VERMONT NOTES


nounced his candidacy for the nomlnal
ton for congressman from the secoIIu
district and gives out long platform.
This makes the fourth candidate Tor
tbe honor: Congressman Dale of Is
land Pond, Raymond Trainor OF Whlte
River Junction, E. W. Gibson OF Brat
tIeboro and Mr.. Gordon.
With only few towns missing out
of PAT in Vermont, the vote IN tne
nresidential primary May - shows
that Major General Leonard Wood re-
ceived 3.21S out of the 4,469 votes
cast. Herbert Hoover of California
was second with $40, Senator hiram
Johnson of California third with 500,
William Grant Webster of New YORK
fourth with 343 and Gov. Coolidge
fifth with 326, the others being scat
tering.
Charles A. Plumley was elected
nresident of Norwich university by
the trustees Saturday afternoon; Mr.
PlumIey received 16 votes; MAJOR
Frederick M. Crossett of New YORK:
five and Mai. Lee S. Tlllotson OF
MontneIier. one. The election Oh MT.
P1nnIev was recommended by ma
ioritv of the committee on president
Tho new president is 45 years OF age
He was born in Mortified and was
Graduated from the university IN
1896. He was secretary of the French
Venezuela mixed commission, OF
which his father, Ex-Congressman
Frank Plumley, was umpire. he was
principal and superintendent OF the
Mortified high school for four years.
| In 1903 he was admitted to the YER
mont bar. He was speaker OF the
Vermont house of representatives IN n
1912 and tax commissioner from 1910
to 1919.
The firm of Bonazzi & Bonazzi,
granite manufacturers of Montpelier,
has signed an agreement with Presl-
dent Alexander Mcmillan and Secre-
tarv Arthur Knight to pay the COM
lpany's cutters IS a day or 81 an hour.
This is the first firm to sign up. an
agreement in the granite belt since
the cutters went out April /. The
employers offered the cutters $3.50 q
lday which was not accepted. This
agreement is the first breaking away
from the granite manufacturers.
Seventeen barrels supposed to be
filled with fish and consigned by Geo
Birse of Montreal to the William nj
Green City Fish Co., Elliott Street
Boston, were taken from train II
St. Adams by Inspectors w. l.. Full
er and Peter Marengo Wednesday
night and an INSPECTION disclosed 5O'
quarts of various kinds of liquor o
a valuation in Boston of $4,000 o.
$4,000. The William M. Green Cit.
Fish Co. is said to be the larges
Handlers of fish in New England. Tn
inspectors were looking over the eS
II.
Icions were aroused upon dlscover1n
lsawdust about the barrels. Whe
1.-THE barrels were opened 80 bottles c
the best Canadian liquor were foun
in each barrel under layers of fis
and ice.
From returns received from tn
Vermont preferential presidential pr
mary Tuesday, it is certain ths
Major General Leonard Wood {
, Bourne, Mass, one of the two cand
dates whose names were printed c
the ballot, received majority of tt
votes. Herbert Hoover of Californ
was running second and Senator p
ram Johnson of California thlr
r their names having been written i
as were the names of Governor Coo
idge of Massachusetts, and Gov. Lo'
: den of Illinois. William Grant We
ster, a New York lawyer, who h;
: filled papers for the nomination, w
: the recipient of good sprinkling
= votes. The total vote cast was We,
S small, not being over one-twentieth
: the normal voting strength.
Il Vermont Council Knights of Colu1
bus, in annual convention in Burlin
e ton elected E. j. Howard of Belloy
d Falls, state deputy; P. j. Hicks
q Middlebury, secretary; Arthur
Moore of Barre, treasurer; John
Smith, warden; Martin F. Cleary
Newport, advocate; E. J. Howard
is Bellows Falls, Thomas B. Wright
it Burlington, E. j. Owens of Barr
II Frank j. Dwyer of Burlington, J.
:, delegates to the national convention
IN Leamy of Rutland, P J. Prenterga:
e. Bennington, alternates. There a
" now ID councils in the state. II
v secretary's report showed a tot
membership of 3,306, a gain of 79
The next convention will be held
r Rutland.