Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-09-20
VERMONT NEWS

The South congregational cnurcn
at st. Johnsbury has extended call
to the Rev. A. G. DeLapp, pastor OF
the North Congregational church at
Woburn, Mass.
A night blooming cereus at the
home of George Fletcher of Orleans,
recently had six blossoms open on
four consecutive evenings. One hum
dred and sixty people saw the flowers.
While George Dunn of Pownal was
driving his cows to pasture one day
last week, five of them were killed
by a fast freight train and the herds
man, Frank Blanchard, narrowly es-
capped being hit by the train.
Smith Jameson, aged 80 years,
while attempting to go from one
room to another at his home in Man
chester Depot Thursday night start
ed in the wrong direction and fell
down flight of stairs. Death result
ed the next morning from the fall.
Eben Ryder, who was seriously in
jured at the Rutland fair grounds
Thursday still remains in paraIyzed
condition at the Rutland hospital. He
received blow on the neck from a
piece of lead pipe which projected
from the rear of an automobile.
Most of the public schools of the
state will be closed on October IL, ID,
and IA, the dates of the state teach
ers' convention which is to be held at
ST. Johnsbury. 1t is expected that
practically all the grade teachers and
many of the high school instructors
will attend the convention.
III. T. Johnson, adjutant- general, is
compiling the data connected with the
l.. 4Jr, r,r,+ L,
Spanish-American war. In the ses-
sion of the legislature following the
ending of the war an appropriation of
So, 900 was made for the purpose of
writing a history of Vermont's part
in the war.
James Cruickshank, go, died last
week Monday at his home in Barre,
death being due to tuberculosis. He
was very prominent in labor circles,
having served as president of the
Barre Granite Cutters association,
president of the Vermont State
branch of the American Federation of
Labor, and president of the Barre
Central Labor union. He is survived
by 10 children.
Louis F. Dow, U. v. NJ, '15, tel
egraph editor of The Burlington Dali
ly News, is to edit the Alumni Week
ly of the University of Vermont dur
ing the coming college year. He will
take up the editing of the alumni pa
per in addition to his work on the
News. He succeeds James r. Jenn-
ings, U. V. NJ, '21, who has resigned
his position at the university and goes
to New York City to take a position
with the Robbins Publishing Co.
Rev. John G.. Prince, who from Jan
uary, 1916, to January, 1920, was pas
tor of the First Congregational
church of Bellows Falls, and for the
past two years pastor at Waterbury,
(Vt.) has received a call to become
secretary of religious education for
the state of Maine and professor of
religious education at Bangor Theo-
logical seminary. Rev. Mr.. Prince
has become widely known to New
England through various phases of
religious work.
A work horse owned by Truman E.
Mead who recently bought the
Adams farm in West Dummerston on
the West River road, was electrocuted
instantly Wednesday morning when
the animal was touched on the head
fallen across a field belonging to the
farm. A current of 10000 volts pass
ed through the body of the horse. The
wires are part of the high tension
line which was involved in the fatal
airplane accident on the afternoon of
August Is on the field north of the
Retreat meadows and are owned by
the Twin State Gas & Electric Co.
After running into a man and
knocking him down and then colliding
with pole in Greenfield, Mass, two
occupants of a Chevrolet car register
ed under the name of Rufus Hough-
ton of Brattleboro, abandoned the ma
chine Tuesday evening and took to
the tall timbers, apparently thinking
they had injured the man seriously.
The man, who is Frank Martin, en-
ployed by Charles A. Theyer's Sun
ny Dell greenhouses, was only shaken
up, aside from receiving a few
bruises, and returned to his work
next morning. He is about so years
old.
Last Friday while Frank Seaver,
who lives on Riford Brook, Randolph,
was engaged in operating crosscut
saw, with his wife on the other end of
the saw, not far from their home, he
heard his little boy, who had left the
house to look out for small infant,
SnfIoKlng IOr noIp. Mr. SoaVef ran
as fast as he could to the house from
which emerged on the other side a
stranger in army uniform, who made
his escape. The man had entered the
house and was ransacking it when the
boy cried out. The intruder had then
seized the lad and struck him several
blows with stick before he could
alarm his father. He left without
taking anything.
After having put up about 10000
900 cans of sweet corn the Snowflake
canning factory at Brattleboro has
ceased operations for good. AS soon
as possible the machinery and equip
ment will be stored, after which the
buildings will be removed to leave the
land clear for the erection of a gran
tie cutting plant by the new owners.
the Presbrey-Leland Co. No decision
has been reached by the canning fac
tory proprietors, Baxter Brothers of
Brunswick, Me-, as to where the fac
tory will be located hereafter. Dur
ing the season which closed last week
the output was 425,OOO cans, which
was about 100000 cans less than the
output last year.