Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-09-21
VERMONT NOTES

buying PUBIC as slogan.
Gov. Hartness has appointed Frank
Robinson of Colchester justice of
the peace to fill a vacancy.
Burlington police. dispersed party
of crap shooters in Battery park Sum
day without making arrests.
The st. Adams public library was
burglarized Thursday night and
small amount of change taken.
George w. Young of Lyndon has
attended " of the rs annual Gale
donia county fairs at st. Johnsbury.
Eugene Croissant, 81, of Bethel, died
Friday of anthrax poisoning, con-
tracted a week ago while handling
hides at the tannery.
u. A. Woodbury. Of Burlington has
sold the champion Guernsey bull, Rose
Golden Cherub, to Thomas III. Monro
of Camillus, N. Y. The animal has
taken 10 first prizes.
A jury at st. Adams has awarded
Howard L. Drew $500 damages from
Miss B. L. Harrington of Boston, for
negligence in colliding with him with
a Dodge roadster which she was driv-
ing.
Norwich University, Mortified,
largest freshman class in the history
of the institution and nearly all the
men in the three upper classes re-
ported for duty.
The Salvation army home at Rut-
land, the first of it's kind in the state
of Vermont, was dedicated Saturday.
It contains an auditorium to seat 200,
kitchen, bedrooms and bath for re-
lief work and cost $1,000.
Lyndonville people gave barbecue
Friday night to their baseball team,
which closed the season with 26 vic
tories and lost only nine games.
There was speaking and street dance
and carnival lasting until midnight.
Work will be begun directly on the
drainage Of Vermont highways under
an appropriation Of $4,000 from the
general highways maintenance fund,
and as much work as can be done un-
der the appropriation Will be COM
pleted this fall.
Along with the claims Of the young
est great-grandfathers, Mrs. Marga-
ret Rogers of Springfield wishes to
lay claim to being one of the youngest
great-grandmothers. She was So
years old when her great-granddaugh
1920.
On September 1 there were $50 in
sane patients being cared for by the
state Of Vermont, divided as follows:
Waterbury hospital, 389 men and 369
Brattleboro there are also 293 pa
than state aid.
John Shonion or Jack Shannon and
Robert Hill were sentenced by Judge
Mcnamara in Burlington Municipal
court Saturday to minimum of eight
were charged with holding up au-
tomobile parties and breaking and
entering railroad stations.
Antonio Pizzol of Barre was fined
500 in city court for distributing l..
w. w. circulars on the streets. The
handbills were sent from the Chicago
referring largely to conditions in the
West Virginia coal fields. A city
| ordinance prohibits the distribution of
handbills on the streets.
When Alfred Landin had not been
seen by his neighbors at lower Web
sterville since Wednesday and there
had been no signs Of life around his
home, friends entered the little cot
tage Friday afternoon and found
Landin hanging by the neck from a
stairway. Medical examination
caused the belief that the man had
been dead for nearly 48 hours.
Paul T. Simchak, an Austrian resi-
dent in the town of Sharon, was found
dead in his cow barn Sunday morning,
his right temple penetrated by q
bullet. A revolver was cluched in
| his right hand. The death is taken
| for granted as case of suicide.
Deputy Probation Officer Charles A.
| Smith left Montpelier Saturday for
Messina, N. Y, with an executive war
rant for James M. Brown, who is be-
ing held by the chief of police there
for violating the terms of his parole
from states prison at Windsor. Brown
| was convicted of bigamy Sept. 16,
1919, and sentenced from two or three
years at Windsor. He was paroled
on May 1, 1920.
Sheriff Farr of Bristol is perplexed
| by a recent theft in that village. The
| cemetery authorities recently discov-
cred that a sun dial had been removed
from a pedestal in the burial ground
and carried away. While the matter
was being Investigated. the dial was
! received by express without any mes
sage of explanation as to why it was
taken or who the offender was. The
shipment was made from Rutland.
Articles of association of the Dun
ham Trust, Inc, were received at the
| office of the secretary of state last
week. The purposes Of the corpora
ton, as set forth in the articles, arc
the aid Of poor and deserving people
in matters of education and medical
attendance, aid to religious and other
charitable organizations, endowment
of hospitals and other charities, aid
to civic improvement and the receipt
of gifts for charitable purposes. The
incorporators are Brattieboro men.
All the directors of the Brattleboro
and Whitehall Railroad company.
which owned the West river branch of
the Central Vermont Railroad in
1905, met in Brattleboro Saturday
and decided to take action to prevent
the Cenral Vermont Railroad compa-
ny from carrying out its plan to cut
off all trains on the West River
branch except one mixed train each
way BEGINNING Sept 26 There IL a