Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1920-01-28
VERMONT NEWS

Boarders of Mrs. Saroya in Barre
were sick last week from eating I'M
cooked pork. State labratory tests
showed that trechina spirales develop
ed from the uncooked meat and this
caused the sickness.
Oscar Mayhem, who is employed in
the veneer mill of Nielsen d Hall
company at Montgomery Center, fell
into a vat of scalding water at the
plant and his left arm and right
hand were severely burned and his
legs slightly burned, one day last
week.
Richard S:svage OF Randolph, r. D.
2, formerly cub leader of Brookfield,
carried forward from May IA to Sept.
z, 1919, a "se4f feeder" pig project;
elever Chester White pigs, same hit
ter, a at beginning $50, cost of
feed ST94.2z, tCLaI expense q-oo.--,
value at end of feeding, ITO pounds
1T PIC, S410.40, net profit S150.1S.
Immediate steps toward the re
building of the burned section OF
Chester village have been taken and
a building association has been for
med. A sum of 100000 will be rails
ed as soon as possible to be used for
building purposes and it is thought
probable that the sum will be realized
through the formation of stock
company.
Frank S. Mackenzie, of Wood
stock, president of the Ottaquechee
Savings Bank, and owner of the
Bridgewater Wooden Mills, died after
having been in poor health for some
time. He is 76 years old and is sur
vived by his second wife, but leaves
no children. He was a director OF
the Woodstock National Bank. He
was a wealthy man and a very gen.
erous philanthropist.
Hardwick will entertain the mid
summer convention of the National
Building Granite Quarters assocla--
ton and the National Association of
Granite Paving Block Manufactur-
ers next July. These two societies
embrace in their membership practl-
cally all the important granite quar-
ry operators east of the Mississippi.
There will be about 20 delegates with
their families in attendance.
Mrs Alma Ploof of Richford, ad-
ministratrix Of the estate Of her hus-
band, George Ploof, has sued the Yer
mont and Quebec Power corporation
and the Shortcomings company of
Richford for $4,000 for the death of
her husband, who was electrocuted
while repairing q line of the Vermont
and Quebec corporation. The acct
dent happened at Richford. The suit
alleges negligence on the part of the
oil I1a n hn-
come electrified while the man was
doing the work.
The Center Congregational church
Of Brattleboro at special meeting,
voted to accept an offer of $4,000
from the Durham Brothers company,
wholesale and retail shoe dealers, for
the Goodhue property on Main street.
Durham Brothers plan to tear down
the house and to erect on the lot a
large building to accommodate its
house needs. The lot adjoins the
Boston & Maine railroad right of
way in the rear The company will
move its wholesale business from
Hooker block, bat will retain its re-
tail store in its present location in
Hooker block.
Through business deal just com
pleted, Burlington becomes the head
quarters of the ice cream industry fol
all northern New England and north
eastern New York. F. E. Mcintosh
and H. B. Slingerland of the Coor
Ice Cream company, with headquar.
tiers in Burlington have purchased
from the Wheeler Ice Cream company
their ice cream plants at Manchester
and Portsmouth, N H., the plant al
Manchester being the largest ice
cream fcatory in the state of New
| Hampshire. This purchase brings the
number of plants owned by the Coon
Ice Cream company up to eight in
number, five factories and three
creameries, which will manufacture
the products of this company and dis
tribute them during the summer OF
1920 in practically every city and town
in Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire
northeastern New York, and western
Massachusetts,, making them the lar
gest ice cream distributors in New
England.