Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-11-16
VERMONT NOTES

Morristown's oldest resident, Mrs.
Alma Shaw, will be SO next birthday
The Vermont State horticultural
society will meet at Rutland Thurs
day and Friday.
Henry Ruiter of East Richford
raised a pumpkin that weighed 65
pounds and had girth of seven feet.
The town of Corinth in Orange
county with a thousand Inhabitants
is without physician, DIR. Deming
having moved to Concord.
Carl Cameron, who has been acting
postmaster at White River Junction
for several months, received his of
fetal appointment last week.
Rutland has one and three tenths
miles Of new concrete highway which
required one and one-half million
pounds of concrete in construction.
Charles Markham caught in a trap
in North Fayston last Tuesday male
hob-cat that weighed 27 pounds and
d.e&sured three feet and two inches.
Howard L. Hindlay, editor of the
P1-t'and Herald, smoke at an ARMS
tice Day meeting held in the Mont
pelier Unitarian church Thursday
evening.
The first annual dinner of the Rut-
land Chamber of Commerce will be
held Thursday evening. Editor
Frank L. Howe of the Bennington
Banner will be the speaker of the
evening.
Theodore Maximillian Won Raoul
Keller, former German secret agent,
was given from two to four years
in Windsor prison by Judge Wing
in Rutland Thursday for passing
forged checks.
Not vacant store exists in Mont
pelier the first time this has occurred
for a great many years. Housing
conditions also are becoming prob
lem with an unusual demand for the
better grade of tenement.
More than 100 women, members and
guests of Brattleboro Chapter, d. A.
R., gathered in Masonic Temple ban
Business is brisk in the little vii
lage Of Williamstown. An items says
that Mr. Hoyt has lately shipped car
of hemlock bark to the tannery In
Morrisville and also two cars of bass
wood lumber to down-country parties.
He has accepted an order for last
blocks that will keep the plant busy
to capacity till the middle of next
summer.
Daniel Willard, aged IS, of Towns
bend, was sentenced to not less than
one year nor more than two years in
the state prison by Judge Frank l..
Fish in Windham County Court
Thursday for breaking into George w.
Briggs store in Wardsboro and steal
ing canned goods, tobacco and money.
Tho st. Adams and Swanton Trac-
ton company, which has operated
a trolley line between st. Adams,
ST. Adams Bay and Swanton has sus-
-erded operations and awaits action
CT The pat Of Us cred.ocTs accord
ing to a statement made Saturday by
A. w. Peterson, superintendent of the
company. Mr.. Peterson declared that
the decision is final and that the COM
pany will make no effort to resume
operations. The last car was run Fri
day night. The road has been in
operation for nearly 20 years and the
owners offered to give it to the city
of ST. Adams, but the gratuity was
declined.
After being out 18 minutes the jury
in the Bellows Falls strike case of
the state against Micheal Curtin,
president of the Bellows Falls pulp
and sulphite union, returned YER
dict Thursday of guilty of attempt
ing to intimidate Joseph Doucello,
workman for the International Paper
Co. The state charged that Curtin
said To- Doucello in Ernest Ablondar's
fruit store on Oct 20. "You are
scab. You are a damn scab, and if
you continue to work for the Inter
nationf Paper Co. I'll fix you"