Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-07-19
VERMONT NEWS

minor improvements Will be contln-
ued.
C. C. Delavan, in charge of forest
fire prevention for the State forestry
department, placed two new patrol
men in the Mount Mansfield Sterling
mountain section last Wednesday.
The patrolmen will probably have
their camp in Smuggler's Notch.
George M. Tucker of East Barre
was arrested June 20, on charge of
having six short trout in his posses
sion. He was fined $40 and costs.
Fred Foster of Rutland was in a
serious condition last week as the re-
suit of drinking ammonia poison in
place of medicine. He is in the hos
pital at Rutland.
Herbert Joslyn, So, of Waitsfield
was almost instantly killed last week
Monday night when thrown from
truck operated by Carl Long when
a wheel came off. He struck on his
head against the side of the bridge
through which they were passing.
Joslyn and two others were riding
with Long to Warren.
1t is expected that about 900
acres of potatoes will be certified this
year by the inspectors of the state
department of agriculture, who con-
ferred with the executive committee
of the Certified Seed Potato Growers
association in the state house at
Montpelier Thursday. The acreage
certified last year was $50. Inspec-
ton has started.
The Union Novelty company, toy
shop, which operated only few
months in Ludlow, has given it's
creditors the alternative of accepting
10 cents on the dollar of their invest
ments or forcing the concern into
bankruptcy. The assets for the com
pany are $11 300 against liabilities
of $29 900. A number of Ludlow men
are stockholders and creditors in the
concern. !.
James B. Estee of Montpelier was
elected president of the Central As
ISOLATION of Universalists and Unitar-
ians at mass meeting of about 100
delegates at Barre July 5. Rev.
Frank A.. Hazen of Richmond was
elected vice president and Rev. Geo.
L. Fortier of Morrisville, secretary
and treasurer.
"My, that was a pretty close
shave" declared Leland Bartlett, Fl,
Of Plainfeld, when his shotgun went
off July 4th, as he started to place
the weapon on the ground. Then he
drew his hand across his face to
clear away the daze and learned that
his left thumb had been shot off SO
that it hung in shred.
Henry C. Copeland, New York
banker, has bequeathed a permanent
endowment fund of $4,000 to the Fed
Grated church at Middletown
Springs and also $4,000 to the
Pleasant View cemetery of that town.
Mr.. Copeland was born at Middle
son of Lucius and Minerva Skinner
Copeland. Mr.. Copeland started as a
clerk in the First National bank of
Poultney and when he retired from
the banking field he was president of
the Riverside bank.
The driver of milk truck found
package containing about 800 quarts
of the best Canadian whiskey under a
small bridge in Fairfield a few days
ago. He Investigated and then told
all his friends about the package I'M
der the bridge. with the result that
while he was telling the last of his
friends, the first were busy removing
the liquor. So the finder was about
the only man in Fairfield without ]
supply of whiskey for the Fourth.
The quality was the best and the
wfnskey would have brought from
$4,000 to $4,000.
Eighty-nine children from New
York will reach Montpelier July Is
nd be entertained by families in this
lection for short time during the
hummer weeks as a result of the
york of the committee, of which Mrs.
w. S. Smith as chairman, has been
able to accomplish. The committee
IS pleased with the results of the first
>fort along this line as far as Mont
<elier is concerned. In the western
hart of the state, through the efforts
the New York Tribune, this fresh
s1r work has been actively carried !
1t for some years.
A mudhole three feet deep was the |
cause of an automobile accident on |
July 3, reported by A. E. Mccullough |
Of Corinth to the secretary of state,
in which Mrs. Mccullough was
thrown against the windshield of the
car and received cuts on her face and |
hands. The accident occurred on. a |
road in Vershire where, it is stated, |
a team had become stuck and had |
been dug out. Mr.. Mccullough claims
that the town is liable.
]AOOut SlSHC VI C0H AUTOMOBILES
,5ads of men from Groton went to
the Irving Moulton farm in Topsham
last week to answer a call for help
because of the falling in of barn.
Mr.. Moulton and four boys were do
ing chores in the barn, which con-
,ained 40 or so cows About a third
If the cows went into the basement
when the building collapsed and
they were piled together with tim
oers and men in a tangled mass. Mr..
Moulton and the boys, although some
what injured, were not seriously hurt
Fwo cows were killed.
Operators licenses held by the fol-
lowing have been suspended indefi-
nitely for driving automobiles while
Henry E.. Pelkey of
North Bennington; Bert E. Rivers of
Bristol; Daniel F. Mclean of Cabot,
Alton E. Stoddard of Wolcott, Gay
ord A. Fleming of Brandon, Fred
Abair or Larose of Enosburg Falls,
]. E. Leclerk of North Stratford, N.
a., Harold A. McEchron of Manches-
ter, Clvde l.. Provost of Cambridge,
Alfred kneIz OF Burlington, Fay K.
Dillingham; of Montpelier, Paul N.
Fausler of Fort Ethan Allen.
Twenty minutes after Augustus
Duri of Fair Haven had placed his
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