Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-03-15
VERMONT NEWS

ed Offices In burlington and st. OhnS-
bury.
In some divorce cases filed in the
office of Clerk w. R. Daley for the
April term of Windham county court
the papers show that one couple lived
together one month and another cou-
pie three months.
The 10th annual meeting of the
Vermont Society of Engineers was
held in Burlington last week, 100 be-
ing present. The membership is
about 200 James M. Morrison of St.
Adams was elected president.
Fifty-three cases are set for trial
on the March term of Rutland coun-
ty court which opens next Tuesday.
A case of special interest is the $10,-
900 libel suit brought by Fred Jas
min, of Rutland, against Mark Ten
ney, a we'll known Mendon resident.
The ffty-fifth annual encampment
of the department of Vermont G. A.
R., will be held in Brattleboro June z
and 8, according to a circular let
ter issued by Assistant Adjutant
General H. P. Hunter by order of de-
partment Commander John r. Will
son.
A waterwheel at the Mill Village
plant of the Rutland Railway Light
and Power Co., broke March 9, caus-
ing a damage and loss of $4,000.
This is the second identical accident
in the past six months with this
company. Water flooded the plant
when the wheel broke.
George Lawrence of Westminster,
man of middle age, was killed in
BELLOWS Falls March 7, when his
team becamel frightened by train
He stepped to their heads but was
knocked down and the forward sled
loaded with wood, passed over his
body, causing fatal injury.
About 900 attended the spring
ceremonial of Mt. Sinai temple OF
Shriners in Montpelier Friday even
ing. Potentiate J. Rolf Searles of St
Johnsbury and the other officers re-
Gently elected made their first ap-
pearance The degree was confer
red on 25 candidates.
J. E. Hunt of Essex has filed a
voluntary petition in bankruptcy, CIV
ing his liabilities as $135, 593.07, and
assets, at $46,886. Hunt says he had
no knowledge of much of the in
debtedness, which was contracted by
his son, who is in company With him
in the grain business in Jefferson
vile.
Attachments in behalf of the town
of Readsboro have been placed on the
real estate and personal property of
Clifford E. Brown. former town treas
urer and clerk, who is charged with
being short $1,000 of town funds.
The board of selectmen will audit
Browns books for the last six years.
The stock fire insurance companies
doing business in Vermont wrote a
total of S70,887, 256 in 1921, accord
ing to the bulletin which ]. B. Brown,
insurance. commissioner, has issued
from his office. Total risks taken in
the state amounted to $186, 671 ,586.21.
In losses there was $22, 1855 paid on
motor vehicles, $5407 on ocean ma
rine insurance and $1,001 $50 on fire
losses.
The result of the compilation by
the registrar of Middlebury college
of the scholarship averages of the
students for the first semester of the
current year shows the scholarship of
the Women's college to be several
points ahead of that of the Mems
college, the general average for wom
en- being 1895 per cent. while the
general average for men stood at on
ly 1923 ner cent.
The mid-winter meeting of the
Vermont Headmaster's club, compos-
ed of principals of Vermont schools,
was held in Burlington last week
with 800 in attendance. Honor So
cieties will be organized in Vermont
the object of the societies be-
ing, "The encouragement of superior
scholastic achievement by recognition
comparable to that now given for
athletics achievement"
The annual dinner of the Vermont
sociey will be held March Is at the
Hotel Pennsylvania in New York.
The guests and speakers will be Con-
gressan Frank l.. Greene, of st. AL
bans, DIR. Francis Hovey Stoddard, of
New York, a native son of Vermont
and professor emeritus of English
literature at New York university,
and John Farrar, of Burlington, ed
itor of the Bookman, who will read
some of his poems. Vocal selections
are to be given by male quartet un-
der the leadership of Herbert c.. Sar-
gent and readings by Miss Sophie
Wild, formerly Of Middlebury.
IA large quantity of wine and two
barrels of mash, each capable of
holding 40 gallons, were seized at the
dwelling house of v. Paz, in Hard
wick Friday. while another barrel of
material used in the manufacture of
alcoholic beverages was located at
the home of Caesar Travers in raid
conducted by States Attorney James
Campbell. Judge Harry Blodgett,
Sheriff w. H. Worthen and Deputies
Garfield, Sherry and Hartman of
St. Johnsbury, working with Deputy
Sheriff Rand and Chief Hall of Hard
wick. Several other houses were
searched but nothing else was found.
Nearly 100 tuberculosis patients
are in the two state institutions for
use of such persons. The Pittsford
sanitarium has increased it's capacity
from 46 to 81 and is full with 10 on
the waiting list. The Washington
county hospital at Barre was opened
the latter part of November and now
has it's capacity, 40, with waiting
list of five. This does not include
the Vermont preventorium at Essex
Center, which gives sanitorium care
to children who are in grave danger
of developing active tuberculosis un-e
less given special care. The proven
torfum has it's capacity, 16, and
number on the waiting list that can