Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-08-30
VERMONT NEWS

i celebrated her Tooth birthday August
! 5, at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
j. c. Weld.
i The 16-year-old son of Sumner
Wiley of Greensboro, who had been
missing since July 9, was recently
found at Mud island in Glover.
4 Ludlow guarantors of the Chautau7
qua were obliged to pay "a deficit of
nearly $500, the largest of the nine
successive years of the entertain
} ments in Ludlow.
/ The output of the granite quarries,
Barre, last week amounted to sc car
loads, an increase of two cars over
any previous week since the quarries
resumed operation in April.
/ Clifford G. Brown, former village
and town treasurer of Readsboro, was
1arrested last week and furnished bail
of $4,000 on charge of embezzle-
ment of $4,000 of town and village
funds.
| DR.. C. C. Farrell of Castleton, a
physician well known in that locality,
pleaded guilty last week to charge
of operating his automobile while in
an intoxicated condition. He was
1 fined $50 and costs of $7.65 and will
lose his license for one year.
Either spontaneous combustion or
a spark from the frebox under a
for a fire which broke out at the
plant of the Brattleboro Last & Wood
Heel Corp. Friday night and did dam
age to the amount of $1,000 or more.
The wishbone of car which Ro-
land Simonds of Saxtons River was
driving last week broke, causing him
to go over a 40-foot embankment in
to the White river. He had to swim
several feet in order to reach the
shore. He was uninjured but the car
was badly damaged.
/ G. D. Howe, for many years super
intendent of the schools of Morris
town lmore- Stowe district, has re-
signed to accept the appointment of
superintendent of the Rutland south
west district, with headquarters at
Poultney. This is in the nature of a
promotion.
The first public demonstration by
the Central Vermont railway strik-
ers at st. Adams took place in the
form of a street parade Saturday
noon, August II, when 400 strikers,
headed by the ST. Adams Brigade
band, marched through the streets of
the city. No disorder occurred.
Mrs. R. w. Roundy, wife of Rev.
Rodney w. Roundy, well known
Congregational clergyman of Bellows
Falls, was drowned August Is, in the
Williams river. Together with her
husband and daughter, Mrs. Roundy
was bathing in the river and in some
manner got out into deep water.
Two passengers in the airplane
which made public flights in Fairfax
10 On nc
old. When landing the plane run in
to the crowd and in a rush for safe
ty Mrs. T. L. Marvin fell, one wheel
of the plane running over her foot,
injuring it quite badly, but breaking
no bones.
Myron benson, two-and-one-half-
year old son of<Hayden Deuso of
Westfeld, was drowned by falling in
to the brook that runs near the house
a few days ago. He was playing with
other children and when he was miss
ed the others ran to tell his mother.
The body was found several rods be-
low where he fell in.
Benjamin Roberts, employed on the
John Seaman farm in North Ferris
burg is in the Mary Fletcher hospital
in Burlington with broken shoulder
blade and severe bruises as the re-
suit of being attacked by bull on
that farm Friday. The animal struck
him several times and rolled him for
a considerable distance.
One hundred and twenty-five gal
Ions of mash in barrels was found
last week in a vacant lot near Mt.
Elmore, near Morrisville. The Off
GERS conducted a diligent search of
the premises but were unable to find
any trace of still. The lot where
the mash was found is owned by Mrs.
Charles Stone of Fair Haven.
Fire early Thursday morning COM
pletely destroyed the building owned
by S. B. Hawks and occupied by the
, Velvet Ice Cream company in Ben
nington. The occupants lost their
entire equipment and an automobile
/ truck and suffered loss of at least
$4,000, well covered by insurance. The
81, 800 insurance on the building is
, about half the value of the structure
Three deer have been shot lately in
= open zones in Windham county, one
5 of them shot by Wilson Winchester
the animal being in his bed of beets
5 and being two-thirds albino, and the
other two being shot by Henry Bros
man of Cambridgeport. The bucks
were in DR.. F. L. Osgood's orchard
They were damaging fruit. One was
six-pointer and the other a seven
pointer.
A new Essex car delivered to Mrs
E. N. Cox of Brattleboro last week
Sunday was in a collision before
night, heavy truck from Fitchburg
Mass, running into it. Both cars
slowed down, then each expecting the
other to wait, both started again
| with the result that the Essex was
struck and turned completely around
The greater damage was done, how
ever, to the truck.
A band of gypsies which infested
Burlington few weeks ago and re-
lieved one man of his roll before de-
parting, entered the city via Shell
burne They were met by a motor
cycle policeman and held up, much to
their dislike, which they manifested.
The police patrol was soon on the
scene and trailed the wanderers out
of the city, via Winooski. The par
ty had nine automobiles, and children
were numerous in their machines.
The Memorial Craftsmen's associa-
ton, national organization of mar
BILE dealers, 800 strong, were guests
of the Vermont Marble company at
Proctor Friday to learn how marble
is handled from the quarry to the Gus