Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-06-07
VERMONT NEWS

Bids were opened Thursday for the
construction of 117-foot single spar
bridge at Huntington.
Work was begun last week on g
new 5000, OO0-ga1lon water reservoir
in Richford, about so men being en-
ployed on the job.
The annual meeting of the Yer
mont Botanical club and the Vermont
Bird club will be held in Montgom-
cry Center the week of July 10.
Rev. N. A. Wood has resigned as
pastor of the Baptist church in Will
mington and accepted call to the
pastorate of the Baptist chuhch IL
Wil1iamstown, Mass.
Ralph H. Rogers of Burlington was
ordained to the Methodist ministry
in Burlington Friday, May Fl. Mr.
Rogers is graduate of Yale and has
done missionary work in Asia.
In the cemetery at Johnson are
graves of veterans of five wars, Rev
dictionary. War of 1912, Civil war
Spanish-American and World war
Three veterans bore the same name
Levi Darling, and all served in the
three first wars.
West Townshend has only one Civ.
il war veteran left, w. A. Kidder
He was present at the memorial
service Sunday in the Congregations
church, singing in the choir as has
been his custom for over SO years.
The Vendor Slate company OF
Poultney has filed articles of associa.
ton in the office of Secretary of State
for the purpose of manufacturing
slate in the above-named town. The
capital stock is 100000.
The sum Of 81 200 has been raised
in Bennington to be used in financing
a baseball team during the present
season. Expenses equal to more than
half of this sum have already been
incurred in the construction of a
diamond on the North Bennington
road and the erection of grand
stand.
What seemed to be a tame buck
deer strolled into the dooryard OF
Harmon Sinclair in Jericho one day
last week submitted to petting by
Miss Dorothy Sinclair but an attempt
to lead it with rope was vigorously
resisted and it broke away and dis
appeared quickly into the woods.
The Barre Electric company was
the lowest bidder for the electric
contract connected with the construc-
ton of the new State armory at
Mortified. While the G. F. Blodgett
company of Burlington were low bid
ders on the plumbing contract, their
bid being Sd, 447.
The fish and game department. re-
port that the Matching of pheasants
is coming along very successfully and
looks extremely encouraging. The
department has 1000 eggs at Shanty
Point on Lake Champ1ain and some
5000 among the farmers and sports
men of the State. 1t is from the
latter that the reports of the hatch
ings are coming in.
The ST. Johnsbury Warehouse Co.
of st. Johnsbury has filed articles of
association at the Vermont secretary
of states office to do a storehouse
business. The incorporators are
James Cosgrove, B. B. Scribner, A.
B. Noyes, F. D. Gilman, Gilbert E.
Woods, L. w. Leach, George Carey
and c. A. Champion.
Samuel E. Pingree, aged go, for
mer governor of Vermont, with dis
tlnguished military service and the
oldest town clerk in New England,
died at his home in the village of
Hartford Thursday morning after
three weeks illness, the cause being
the general breaking down of his
health.
George w. Ross of Rutland died
Got 1oxy of
Mr.. Ross was a civil engineer and
was widely known about the state,
working at his vocation up to a few
weeks ago in spite of his advanced
age. He was a veteran of the Sec
ond Vermont regiment and was a
member of the Grand Army. He is
survived by his wife.
Authority being given by the YER
mont Methodist Episcopal conference
recently in session, the property of
the First Methodist Episcopal church
in Stowe has been decided to w. T.
Burt and Sweet have decided the
parsonage to Mrs. Fanny Mayo and
have reconstructed the church build
ing into garage.
A five-passenger Chevrolet tour
ing car belonging to Judge F. A.
Brewer of Concord. which was stolen
from the garage in that place Mem
mortal day evening, has not yet been
heard from. There were no tires on
the rear wheels, but there were
evidences that after the machine had
been driven outside the village the
car was stopped and tires put on.
Mrs. Fletcher d. Proctor of/Proc-
tor has presented to the Kurn Hattin
homes at Westminster a Cadillac au-
tomobile for use in their publicity
work. Recently the head master at
the homes took 20 children to Spring
field to attend service at the Congre-
gational church and later in the day
the whole party was. entertained up
on the grounds of Governor and Mrs.
Hardness.