Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-11-09
NEWS OF
GENERAL INTEREST

"A BaCCrIeDOrO man is serving 81
days in the Newfane Jail for getting
drunk on mixture of liniment and
ginger ale.
Rev. Lewis Francis, D. D., sc, one
of the oldest alumni of the University
of Vermont, died at Port Henry, N.
Y, Wednesday. He was a native of
Royalton.
Col. N. F. Dunshell, leading bust
ness man of Bristol and prominent in
Addison county politics, has returned
to his home from the Mary Fletcher
hospital, improved in health.
Edward w. Boyle, aged 80, a Civil
war veteran and resident of Brattle-
boro 26 years, died Friday in his
home. He served in Co. F., 18th Yer
mont Volunteers.
Judge A. G. Whitman of the Hart
ford municipal court reports 81 GRIM
inal cases heard by him for the 80
day period ending October 81. Of
these, 80 were for intoxication.
Charles P. Moat, who has been con-
nected with the state library of hy-
giene for 20 years, has been elected
to succeed the late DR.. B. HI. Stone,
as acting director of the Vermont
state labratory.
The Methodist society of Rutland
will erect their new $4,000 edifice in
the residential section of the city, on
the so-called Gen. Baxter estate. Their
present church, built 25 years ago, is
in the business section.
Hunters throughout Vermont state
that the greater number of cartridges
shot are old males, and that three
h. Ii 111o
males. This would indicate better
hunting for another season.
Bethel is hard hit by the industrial
depression. The quarries furnishing
stone for the cutting sheds have clos
ed with the completion of New York
contract, and stone cutters are being
laid off daily, with little prospects of
work for the winter.
The Automobile Club of Vermont at
meeting in Montpelier Friday un-
officially endorsed the hard surface
road proposition, and will send ques-
tionnaires to it's members on the plan
of bonding the state for $1,OOO,OOO a
year for five years for the undertake
ing.
Lewis MISSIONER, an escaped in
mate of the Waterbury retreat, was
detained by the Springfield police for
time on suspicion, but was dis
charged before word was received
that he had escaped from the asy-
lum. No trace of the man has since
been found.
Antonio Alcovilli of Bethel was ar
rested Thursday by United States
marshal charged with the manufac-
ture and illegal possession of liquor.
Robert Gordon, one time Socialist
Mayor of Barre, died Wednesday at
Lynn, Mass, and the remains were
brought to Barre for interment.
L. Y. Mulholland, state marketing.
of Vermont turkeys for select New
York Thanksgiving trade. The birds
must dress not less than IL pounds.
Because of the milk handlers strike
the Rutland railroad has reduced the
number of cars on it's New York milk
train from 16 to four. -
The bureau of census at Washing
ton reports that out of 29,O75 farms
in Vermont 1,239 sold through farm
ers' marketing organizations in 1920.
total of 81, 449,389 worth of prod
uce, the average per farm being
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purchase through farmers organiza-
tions of $51O,3O5 worth, or an average
of $517 per farm.
A suit for $4,000 was brought Fri
day in the United States district
court against the Rutland railroad by
Ozias Gauthier of Whiting. The
plaintiff, a minor, who is represented
in the suit by his mother, Virginia
Gauthier, alleges that he lost the
sight of his right eye while employed
as section hand because of alleged
faulty tools furnished in the shape
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