Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-10-11
VERMONT NEWS


ing year.,
Miss Alice Ketchen, superinten-
| dent of nurses at Brightlook hospital,
ST. Johnsbury, left Saturday Tor
Cape Town, South Africa, the home
of her brother.
/ George E. Carpenter, state pur-
! chasing agent, has been elected
member of the executive committee
at national conference of state pur-
: chasing agents held in Denver, Col.
George P. Vennart, for six months
executive secretary OF the Burlington
chamber of commerce, has resigned
and will take up campaign work IN
| Connecticut.
After October /, the delivery of all
hard coal in Rutland will be limited
to those presenting coal cards to their
dealers, these cards specifying the
Quantity obtainable when available.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. P. Read of East
Charlotte celebrated their 50th we'd
ding anniversary by trip through
the White mountains and an elabor-
ate dinner at their home IN the even
| ing.
The creamery at Woodstock owned
and operated by HI. P. Hood & Sons,
Inc, for Is or 20 years, has been sold
to Francis Bouchard of Stanstead, +.
O., who took over the business Octo-
Der /.
An infant child of Mr.. and Mrs. P.
| c.. Coombs of Burlington fell from
third story window at his nome last
week Monday and was taken to a
hospital supposedly fatally injured.
However, a fractured leg seems to be
it's only injury.
Mrs. Elizabeth Krook, who has
been conducting nursing hame in
Pittsford village, has leased "Hendee
Villa" in that town for term OF
five years and beginning November 1
will open a convalescent home for
about 20 patients.
| That the striking of railroad shop
craft men in Rutland or elsewhere on
the Rutland railroad system do not
come under the terms of the so-called
Baltimore agreement was definitely
stated last week by the Rutland rail-
road management.
Robert Monogal, employed at the
dam being built by the New England
Power company at Brattleboro, was
fined S25 and costs for driving q
pony at top speed and beating it at
every step. A Jail sentence OF 6O
DAVIS was suspended and he was plac-
ed on probation for six months.
One hundred and ninety-eight tour
ing parties, from 10 states, have used
the public camping grounds at Rut-
land this summer More of these
were from Massachusetts than from
any other state, ST; the next being
New York, with go Only II of the
parties were from Vermont.
The pastor of the North Congrega-
tional church, st. Johnsbury, an
nounced at the Sunday morning ser
vice that the unknown donor OF the
electrical equipment of the church
organ, costing several thousand dol
lars, was Percy F. Hazen of St
Johnsbury, who gave the same as a
memorial to his wife, Mrs. Minnie
Baker Hazen, for over 70 years a
member of the North church choir.
The question of who will represent
the Republican party on the ballot al
the November election for the office
of state senator at Montpelier, is still
open as Guy l.. Butler of Fairfax
one of the candidates at the prima-
ries, defeated on the first count, has
asked and been granted an opportun-
ity to have the count in the town OF
Fairfax reopened. The Fairfax vote
was Bradley, %; Butler, IA; Gates
81; Smith, II.
Harry E. Clogston, for about three
years landlord of the Addison House
at Middlebury, has thrown up his
lease, leaving September %, since
which time the hotel has been closed
to the public. Arrangements, how
ever, have been made and Merlin Fl
Tisdale of East Middlebury, who fol
two seasons has been the manager Oh
the Green Mountain Inn at that place
will be the new landlord. This hote
has been open to the public almost
continuously since 1904.
Both strikers and strike-breakers
of the International Paper Co., a
Bellows Falls are interested in news
papers received from Glens Falls
: and Fort Edward, N. Y, which give
accounts of the opening of the mills
there last week Tuesday for the first
time since May 1, 1921, when the
strike started at all points where the
company has mills. Old workmen tt
the number of between 200 and 25(
, applied for work.
A supplement to the Vermont mo-
tor vehicle register has been ISSUED
by the state motor department. The
supplement gives the numbers OF
pleasure cars from $4,000 to $4,000
omitted in the register, the registra
lions from $4,000 to $4,000, small
number of registrations to be filled
in at different points in the register
, trucks over 1900 pounds carrying
: capacity wit h the registrations
T-3OO1 to T-3350, truck registrations
motorcycles with the registration
701 to 800, and 1858 re-registration:
of pleasure cars, giving the names O.
the present owners. All the regis
trations between June % and Sep
TENDER are included. The supple
\ ments are being mailed to all those
who purchased registers. The pric.
/: of the register and supplement il
:, so cents, and they may be obtained
by mail from the Sacr.at of state,