Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-03-30
VERMONT NOTES

The number of marriages in Bel
lows Falls during 1920 were 118. The
| minister who led off by marrying the
most couples was the Rev. J. G. Prince
who tied II nuptials knots. =
Joseph F. Lechnyr of Winooski has
been elected leader Of Sherman's band
of Burlington to succeed George R.
Sherman, it's leader for many years,
who resigned in order to give his
whole time to music composition.
Leonard Lussier, 16, came in con-
tact with cutting-off saw at a mill
the other day, with the result that one
foot was cut nearly off through the
instep. The front part of the foot
had later to be completely amputated.
At consultation of five physicians
Saturday, it was decided that Mrs.
B. H. Gilbert of East Franklin has
sleeping sickness. She mas been i'll
with the disease for five weeks. At
times she is conscious and then for
long periods at time she sleeps.
Little Nicholas Matinselal of
Springfield fell recently, striking a
bottle, which severed a tendon in his
right wrist, and little Adam Anto-
nivich of the same place fell onto a
pair of shears March 5, cutting
cash in the right eyelid in which
several stitches had to be taken.
J. M. Weir, alias Charles N. Nash,
of New York, is to be rtied at the
current term of Rutland county court
on a charge of obtaining money I'M
der false pretenses. The state al
.eges that Weir, posing as clairvoy
: ant, fraudulently obtained about $500
from Leonard Workman on Mount
Holly. &
! Mrs. John w. Lane of Springfield,
| who over two years ago sent a number
of layettes through the Red Cross to
France and Belgium, placing her card
in two, has just received grateful
| letter from a Belgium whose home
was blown to bits and whose family
| is now living in an old basement IL
| feet square.
A group of 90 high school pupils of
Bellows Falls, Black River Academy
of Ludlow, Chester high school and
Walpole,, N. H., high school have gone
on a trip to New York to see
the sighths. The Bellows Falls high
school fund is approximately $1,000
| trip cost each of the 40 from that
school only about So.
A postcard mailed at Hartford,
Conn.,, on April 16, 1919, has just been
received by Miss Bernice Frechette of
Hardwick. eff this card could talk"
says the Hardwick Gazette, cit could
either tell a long, wearisome roundabout
journey in all that time, or else it
could tell of long vacation lying
around. Almost two years fl ON the
date it was mailed until it reached
Hardwick, not such a long distance
away, when travel is computed now
adays."
At an exhibit of old shawls held the
other day by Ottauqueche Chapter,
D. A. R., Woodstock, over 40 were
shown, one of them a typical Wood
stock product, the wool heirg raised
by the ancestors of Mrs. Mary Leon
ard Richardson on Hartland Hill
and also dyed with colorinG from
plants and woven by them at home.
The oldest shawl dated back to 1875
Lyman W. Clay, almost 72 years
cid, of Woodstock, sets an example to
men Of younger years. by walking
three miles to the farm of Peter Du-
puts, working all day in the woods
with an axe and saw and keeping up
his end with the younger men and
then walking home at night. "That
would be some stunt for a man 3d."
says the Woodstock Journal.
Spaulding high school of Barre by
the excellent showing of it's basket
ball team holds the championship of
the Northern Intefschoiastic League.
and becomes the permanent possessor
OF the silver cup presented by the
he;dmasters to the school winning the
title three years. Burlington won it
in 1915, Montpelier in 1917 and 1920,
and Spaulding in 1918 and 1919.
Spaulding won eight out of 10 league
games and II out of Is altogether.
Spaulding was the only team in the
State to defeat the fast Cathedral
high team of Burlington.
Edward Garrow of Franklin is in
Franklin county jail in ST. Albans,
having been arrested following the
bringing of an indictment charging the
murder of his wife, who was shot on
November 80, 1920. The Indictment
was returned by the grand jury and
a warrant was served by sheriff Geo. |
0. Catlin at Garrow's farm in Frank
lin. Trial will probably take place !
at the present term of county court |
For some time after the death of Mrs.
Garrow, the death was thought by
the authorities to have been due to !
suicide although two bullet wounds |
were found in the head.
A circular prepared by Professors
M. B. Cummings and B. F. Putnam !
of the University of Vermont, and |
State Agricultural College which de-
scribes the most serious insect pests
and fungus diseases of cultivated |
plants and discusses methods of con-
troll and suggests sprays and spray
ing for their control is being distrib-
uted by the Vermont Agricultural Ex-
tension Service to it's mailing list.
The circular is illustrated, contain
ing Is pictures which assist in the
Identification of many maladies.
There are accompanying dissertations
and characterizations of the more
common ailments of plants In all
the, circular contains Is pages. Dust
powders are liquid solutions are de-
scribed and compared and a spray
is suggested. There are al