Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-10-18
VERMONT NEWS

ly $500 for the benefit of the public
library.
| Because she did not send her
daughter to school, Mrs. Grace Hall
of Rutland was fined SIS and costs
last week.
I Eugene Narcotic, aged 10, of ST..
Adams, was shot by his uncle, Nor
bert holland, in mistake for a part
ridge October 8. The boy was in a
| tree.
J. E. Kennedy, Democratic candi-
date for congress to the first district,
is openly opposed to the Volstead act
and is making a campaign issue of his
stand.
| Howard Lamb of Richmond was
killed October 9, when thrown from
giant swing at his school play
ground when the swing broke. He
was Is years old.
| The I'D annual convention of the
| Vermont State Teachers association
opened Thursday in ST. Johnsbury
with large attendance of members
from all over the state.
Arthur Martin, aged 26, of Water
bury was shot in the back while hunt
| ing in the Woods October 6. Clark
Young, with whom he was hunting,
1 slipped and fell, his gun being dis
| charged.
| Mary Peterson and Beatrice Loom
| is, employed at a Bennington hospi-
| tai, we're killed when an automobile
in which they were riding stalled on
the railroad track and was struck by
train. Two others in the car
jumped.
Two men, both sentenced for bur-
| glary, escaped from the state prison
at Windsor Sunday by cutting the
bars at window. They are Morton
Martin, aged &c, of Montpelier and
William Doheney, aged "a, of Bur-
| lington.
According to reports from national
sources there were 361 accidents to
workers in stone quarries in the
| state during 1921. There were 413O
employed in the work. In the whole
country 100 were killed and 1876
met with accidents.
Waterbury was threatened with a
bad fire October 9, when an old livery
stable was destroyed with contents.
Several nearby buildings caught but
rain helped the fremen in the work
of extinguishing the blaze. The sta
BILE was near the Opera House build
ing.
| The Boston & Maine railroad has
requested authority from the inter-
state commerce commission to merge
several roads with it completely.
Among the roads are the Sullivan
County, Vermont Valley, Barre &
Chelsea and Montpelier & Wells Riv-
er.
The Vermont estate of the late
Theodore N. Vail, former president
of the American Telephone & Tel
egraph Co., has been sold to a group
of New England business men who
plan to use it for club. 1t is said to
be worth $2,000,000 and includes
mansion of 100 rooms, modern cot
tages and garage capable of hous-
ing 100 cars.
The state board of charities and
proba ton has filed its financial re-
port in the office of the state auditor
at Montpelier, and it shows the ex-
penditures of the year ending June
| 80, 1922, to be $69,542, as compared
| This is an increase of $26,633 in one
year. The receipts from sources out
side the state showed a falling off.
While digging near the site of the
| Snowflake canning factory in Brat
| tleboro October 2, Warren May, an
employe of the Presbrey-Leland COM
pany, uncovered a human skeleton
about foot under the surafce. The
bones were partly disintegrated, but
| the teeth were well preserved. Anoth-
er human skeleton, that of child, was
found the next day near the same
place.
The body of Frank E. Small, man
ager of a drug store in Dorchester,
Mass, murdered September 20, by
robber, who later fled with $3.50 in
money and express money orders,
only to be captured, was brought to
his home in Morrisville, where burial
was held. Only month ago he Wis
tied his native town and attended a
Small reunion, being accompanied by
his family.
Wallace Taylor Of Peacham, while
helping to cut corn last week We'd
nesday at the home of his father,
Fred Taylor, was drawn into the ma
chine while carelessly attempting to
replace the belt, which had slipped
off. He attempted to do this while
the machine was running but the belt
broke, saving his life. He was
thrown several feet from the machine
and picked up in an unconscious con-
dition.
The latest addition to the faculty of
the University of Vermont was made
last week when DR.. Elmer Pike was
appointed as medical director of the
university. DIR. Pike will fill the po-
sition left vacant by DR.. David Mar
vim, the latter having served as med
ical director of the university for
several years. He has also been a
professor on. the faculty of the col
lege of medicine and will continue to
serve in that capacity.
The judges of probate of the state
held their annual meeting in the
county court house in Montpelier Oc-
tober A. Officers were elected as fol-
lows: President, Judge Stow, Chelsea;
vice president, Judge Henry L. Clark,
Castleton; secretary and treasurer,
Judge J. Fl. Macomber, Burlington.
Of the 20 probate judges in the state,
II were present. Judge Frank Mar
tin of Montpelier, the retiring pres
ident, was made an honorary member