Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-04-26
VERMONT NEWS

chips and dirt was required to fill
washout on the C. V. railroad near
Sharon.
The annual gathering of the older
girls of Vermont will be held this
year in st. Johnsbury, meeting May
II, ID, and IA.
A radio outfit has been established
in the Methodist church at Randolph.
It is expected that it will be in work
ing shape in the near future.
Consolidation of the Vermont Val
ley, Montpelier & Wells River and
Barre and Chelsea railroads with the
Boston & Maine is to be brought
about.
A big power plant will probably
be established some time In the near
future on the Lamoille river near the
Georgia station of the Central YER
mont railway.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cyrus M. Belden of
Benson, celebrated their 10th we'd
ding anniversary at their home April
8. Mr.. and Mrs. Belden are both in
comfortable health.
Boats on Lake Champlain will not
be operated this summer until the
middle of May, because if operated
earlier there is loss of about 500
day above receipts.
Articles of association have been
filed with the secretary of state by
the Danville Maple Sugar Makers
Association, Inc, which will issue
ESQ shares of $40 par value each.
All the cavalry at Fort Ethan AL
len will leave about May 1 for Camp
Devens, including about $50 men. Tt
is supposed a few men will be left
at Winooski to guard the government
property.
Rev. j. w. Trip, rector of ST..
Anne's Episcopal church in Richford
has declined call to the church at
Poultney and will continue as rec
tor of the Richford church for an in
definite time.
No cases of anthrax were found at
Bethel bv DR.. A. J. DeFossett of the
State Board of Agriculture, who
went there to investigate reports
that the disease had appeared in cat
tie there.
DIR. George o. Mitchell of st. AL
bans has accepted the position of
state manager of the Independent
Order of Foresters and has sold his
dental business to DIR. Ell. NJ Britton
of Randolph.
Fred Ovitt of West Enosburg
made $500 pounds of maple sugar
from 400 buckets, averaging six and
one-half pounds to the bucket, and
William Cassavant of the same place
made little more than six and one
fourth pounds to a tree.
The Mechanics Street bridge
Mo7o+ya1io1s rrybiob haC hooy,
ed for more than month, crashed
into the Winooski river one afternoon
last week. The bridge was open tt
foot travel, and people were crossinc
up to few minutes before the crash
w. G.. Tyler, of South Vernon, was
terribly injured when he was gored
by a bull while he and DR.. Adams, Of
Bellows Falls, state veterinarian
imaPs ear recently. The animal was
shot Immediately.
A. L. Bragg, contractor of st.
Johnsbury recently died following
shock. Mr.. Bragg was born in Thev-
ford July 10, 1913, living there and
in Fairlee until early manhood when
he came to st. Johnsbury where he
has since resided.
intermittent land slides at a point
on the highway near Bethel will
probably result in the permanent
closing of the road. The slides block
the road for 20 rods. At the point
of the slide the highway is built half
way up precipice about 200 feet in
height.
The $4,000 bail of John w. Cham
bers was forfeited in Burlington last
week. Chambers was charged with
trying to bride E. P. Webb of st. AL
bans to let carloads of whiskey go
through st. Adams. He is said to
have offered Webb $1,000 each for
several cars.
A. w. Coote, of Los Angeles, Cal,
a graduate of the St. A. Ell. S., class
of 1898, and former baseball and
football star of considerable repute,
has given the ST. Adams high school
the six-acre piece of ground known
as the hospital property just east of
Houghton park. He purchased the
land and gave it outright.
Patrolman Ellis G. Worden, mem
Der of the police force of Brattle-
boro for 20 years, shot himself in
the head while in the station house
and died at hospital. He has been
suffering from a nervous breakdown
and visited physician who gave him
medicine. The package of medicine
had not been opened.
In one day last week 562 automo-
bile registration plates were mailed
from the office of Secretary of State
Black in Montpelier and enough
plates handed over the counter to
bring the days registrations up to
600. On another day last week 522
plates were mailed and $1,000 taken
over the counter. Still another day
APP plates were mailed.
A resolution urging a "comprehen-
sive survey of the economic and So
cial conditions of the state by towns"
as the most important work that can
be taken up by a state organization
at the present time was presented to
the board of directors of the Greater
Vermont association by the associa-
TONS central committee on investi-
cation and survey at a joint meeting.
Mrs. Eliza Magoon of Hardwick,
is SO years old. She is in better
health today than she was a year
ago and is as sprightly as woman
25 years her junior. She cares for
her own room, twice day washes the
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