Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-02-22
VERMONT NEWS

The Grand Trunk raili Dad is earring
ice at Island Pond for use at Brock
vile, Ont, next summer.
Middlebury reported temperature
of A below zero Friday morning, the
lowest point reported in the state.
H. M. Farnham and Dean K. Little
are the rival candidates for mayor of
Montpelier, each running without
partisan political designation.
Carlos Degrosso of Rutland tainted
in municipal court Thursday when
Judge Wing sentenced him to year
in the house of correction with a
$500 fine for selling liquor.
At a meeting of the state veteri-
narians held at Montpelier Thurs
day, DIR. P. A. Wakefield of Hardwick
was elected president and DR.. Geo.
Thomas of Wells River secretary.
Rolla Abel, 35 years old, living
on a farm near ST. Adams, was in
stantly killed Tuesday afternoon
while working in the woods, when a
tree he was cutting fell on him.
The horse and cow barn on the
farm of Napoleon Richard, near ST.
Adams, was burned Thursday morn
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persisted. The origin of the fire is
unknown and the loss placed at $1,000.
The September term of Chittenden
county court adjourned Friday, after
disposing and removing from the cal
endar $50 cases, said to be record.
Judge Stanley G.. Wilson of Chelsea
presided.
Howard L. Bailey, state etomolo7
gist, reports that there were about
100000 bushels of seed potatoes
raised in Vermont last year. Of this
amount 100000 bushels were shipped
out of the state last fall.
Maj. Bernard J. Golden, promi-
neT1t attorney of Woburn, Mass, was
taken suddenly and seriously i'll in
Caledonia county court at ST. Johns
bury Friday, where he was engaged
as an attorney and was taken to
Brightlook hospital.
The Missisquoi Pulp and Paper Co.
have increased their authorized cap
ital stock from 100000 to $1,000,000,
by a certificate of amendment filed
with the secretary of state. The stock
is divided into 1000 shares of COM
mon and 5000 of preferred, all of
the par value of 800.
Thad M. Chapman of Middlebury,
ex-sheriff of Addison county and for
20 years member of the Republican
state committee, died Friday. He
was a member of many fraternities
and colonel on the staff of Gov. Red
field proctor in the SOS.
The three new Vermont dry officers
to be engaged along the Canadian
Ill
rector Collins M. Graves, are Henry
0. Nye of Highgate and Gerald Pc
trie Of Island Pond.
Gypsy moth scouting work has been
suspended in Vermont until next
spring on account of the severe
weather. The state has only a small
budget for this work and the United
States government has assisted to the
extent of $4,000.
Wellington Chu, a. nephew of the
secretary of the Chinese legation at
Washington, will enter Middlebury
college at the beginning of the sec
ond semester. Mr.. Chu has been in
America for several years and pre-
pared at the Huntington school in
Boston.
Judge William A. Lord resigned as
Judge of the Montpelier municipal
court Thursday, owing to continued
i'll health. He was appointed about
a year ago by Gov. Hardness to sue
coed Judge E. M. Harvey. The gov
ernor has appointed Fred I. Laird to
the vacancy.
Nobber Berno, believed to be the
oldest person in the state, died at
Mortified last week. He was born
July Is, 1916, being in his 10th year.
He was farmer and had been a
Woodworking man up to few years
ago. His mind was clear until the
last.
The state board of control held
meeting at Montpelier Thursday at
which Governor Hartness was pres
ent, having fully recovered from his
recent illness. A request for $4,000
from State Forester Hastings for use
in forest fire protection was ordered
to lie.
Mrs. Kate C. Dutton, widow of Col
Henry F. Dutton of the 9th Vermont
volunteers in the Civil war, died at
GAINESVILLE, Fla, Wednesday, aged rs
years. Mrs. Dutton was a native of
Townsend, and among her benefac-
tions was the gift of $4,000 hall to
that town few years ago. The flu
neral was held Sunday at Townsend
from the hall which she donated.
The State Fish and Game League
was reorganized at meeting of del
egates from the various fish and
game clubs in the state, held in the
senate chamber in the State House
at Montpelier Friday afternoon.
Changes in the constitution and by
laws were presented to the meeting.
An informal supper was held at the
Pavilion hotel following the meeting.
Daniel Payson, aged 81 years, at
one time grand commander of the
Vermont Knights Templar, died Feb
ruary 8, at the New Hampshire Odd
Fellows home in Concord. He was a
native of Maine, a 33 degree Mason
and while residing in New Hampshire
became member of the grand lodge
of Odd Fellows of that state. During
his activity in Vermont Masonry he
lived at Windsor.
Leonard K. Lane of Chester is a
candidate for the office as second as
sistant postmaster general, made va
cant by the death of E. III. Shaugh-
messy, a victim of the Knickerbocker
theatre disaster in Washington, D. c.,
recently. Mr.. Lane, who is president
of the Railway Mail association has