Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-12-13

hind legs, Mr.. Brown swung the cat
above his head and brought it down
! on a timber with such force that the
H"critter' lay limp and lifeless. 1t
measured 38 inches in length.
/ At a conference held in Hardwick
Thursday with the commission having
in charge the history of Vermont in
1 the World war as authorized by an
act of the last legislature, former
Gov. Harace F. Graham, OF Crafts
bury, was engaged to write the story
of the civilians part in the struggle.
Mr.. Graham was governor during the
participant in the great struggle and
] is we'll qualified for the task assigned
him.
It has been discerned that there
are members of the Ku Klux Khan in
! Norwich university at Mortified. 1t
is understood that members of the
Klan here were enlisted last spring
when officials of the organization are
said to have canvassed the state of
Vermont. Each cadet, who is a Ku
Klux member, carries the Khan re-
ceipt for $40, paid for the purpose of
promoting the work of the organi=a-
ton. What selective processes or
what method of approach were en-
ployed in securing the membership OF
the cadets are kept secret.
The largest real estate deal made
in Bellows Falls for several years has
been closed, the Frost estate, having
sold to Bellows Falls Lodge No. %,
of Odd Fellows, the buildings at the
northeast corner of the business
SQUARE known as the Central House,
/ the old Morgan Tavern, and the large
livery stable in the rear of these. The
lot is about 100 feet square and ad-
mirably adapted to business purposes.
The buildings will remain the same
as now for a time, TT ultimately the
lot will be used for the erection Of a
CT editable Odd Fello VS. temple.
The third annual sale of the Yer
mont AYRSHIRE club was held in Brat
tleboro last Wednesday. Of the forty
six head catalogued, 43 were forward
and realized the average of $16l per
head. There were Is purchasers and
the cattle going to six New England
states. The Maxwell Evarts estate,
| Windsor, VT, secured both the top
priced female and male, Sylvia of
Edelweiss," and "Brae Burn Conquer
or" at $4O5 and 1925 respectively.
Holden Bros, Pittsford, VT, sold a
cow at $500. Vermont Industrial
School at Vergennes secured Burnside
Lady, consigned by John Hannah at
1920.
Town Clerk, Miss Hattie Pratt, has
sent the following account of the
hedghogs on which has been paid
bounties to the state auditor of ac-
count: I. A. Fisk of Waterbury Cen
ter, 1872 hedgehogs, $48O.20; Guy
Fisk Of Waterbury Center, 1926
hedgehogs, $454.65; III. B. Jones of
'Underhill, 1882 hedgehogs, $448.7O;
w. B. Streeter of Underhill, 285
] hedgehogs, $99.75; L. FL. Houston OF
Stowe, 81 hedgehogs, $31.85; Scatter
ing of Stowe, SO hedgehogs, $500;
Fred Bacon of Underhill, 433 hedge
hogs, $151.55; total hedgehogs, 4814;
total bounties, $1,684.90.' This takes
in the time from November 80, 1921 ),
to December a, 1922.
An award of $465,O0 was made by
the jury in Burlington last week,
which for more than 48 hours had de-
liberted over the million-dollar claim
of Mrs. Dorrit Stevens Woodhouse,
against her wealthy parents-in-law,
Mr.. and Mrs. Lorenzo E. Woodhouse,
of New York and Burlington, for the
alienation of the affections of her
husband, Douglas Woodhouse. The
case had consumed five weeks in
hearings. The plaintiff, daughter of
a family in modest circumstances,
who were neighbors of the wealthy
Woodhouses, contended that her par
ents-in-law had inspired and support
ed her husband in a separation from
her that led in his going to Reno to
establish a residence as a basis for
divorce. She had been snubbed by
them she submitted and never had
been given adequate recognition as
the wife of their son.
Deputy Highway Commissioner c.
M. Brooks has resigned his position
and the resignation has been accept
ed by the State Highway board and
took effect December /, it was stated
on Wednesday by Warren L. Carpen-
ter of the State Highway department
Mr.. Brooks lefe December 1 for his
home in Acworth, N. H. Commission.
EFT. w. Dix is attending conference
of the American Association. of State
Highway Officials in Kansas City. Mr.
Brooks was hired by the state high
way board after the legislature haG
refused to confirm his appointment
by Governor Hartness to the post Of
state highway commissioner. Cover
IlOI CIlcSS SIdCSu lOudy CIldC lie QlS
not think the state highway boaro
would hire a successor to Mr.. Brook.
for the remainder of the present ad
ministration.
With year-old baby dying in hel
arms, another child dead in the house
and third, a five-year-old boy crying
for help that could not come, Mrs
Clyde Hulett of Putney, grief stricken
and distracted, stood outside her hum
BILE home on Putney West Hill Frida!
afternoon and saw the roof of tn,
fire-enveloped house fall in and bury
the bodies of two of her babies under
it's blazing ruins. Mrs. Hulett wa
away from the house for a time ant
her husband had gone to work. Whel
she saw flames burst from the nous,
she ran home almost exhausted il
the hope or rescuing her three little
ones: Robert, aged FIVE; Richard, aget
three; and Roger, aged, one. Sh,
picked up the youngest one, which
soon died of suffocation, but the flames
prevented her from reaching the 9th
ers, although she heard Robert or.
out and made an effort to go to him
The cause Of the fire is unknown.
Great success attended the first at
tempt of the Vermont Society of New
York City in gathering its member