Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-12-27
VERMONT NEWS

VERMONT NEWS
Miss Matte J. Wheeler, aged II,
and for more than 80 years organist
at the Rutland Universalist church,
died last week.
The state convention of the Parent
Teacher association is to be held May
II, but the meeting place has not yet
been announced.
The annual meeting of the Green
Mountain club will be held in Rutland
January Is. This club has 1888 mem
bers. Charles P. Cooper of Rutland
is president.
Henry Danforth of Island Pond, a
Grand Trunk railway freight conduc-
tor, was killed recently. While work
ing in the East Deering yard, he was
struck by a locomotive and dragged
more than 800 feet.
! Old Jack Frost has done his bit
again, as ST. Adams bay is entirely
frozen over. The ice varies from IL
to Is inches in thickness and is clear.
Preparations are being made for ice
dealers to begin harvesting the crop.
Tobey, nine-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. George A. Churchill of Burling-
ton, while sliding and using fence
board for sled, sustained fractur-
ed skull when the board slowed and
threw the boy against building. He
was unconscious for two days.
! Another granite manufacturing
firm, A Sanguinetti and Co. on Burn
hams meadow, signed up with the
union Tuesday night and will resume
work at once. This makes total of
- plants in Barre city which have
affected settlement with the union
since the suspension of work last
April.
I S. B. Thomas, who died few days
ago at his home in Sheldon at the
age of 70 years, was high bailiff for
more than 80 years, represented the
town in the legislature of 1912 and
for several years was overseer of the
poor and school director. He was
president of the Franklin County Bar
association for two years.
The .schoolhouse in district No. 4,
the Hough district, Orwell, was burn
ed to the ground recently. Leighton
Duffnay, who lives nearby, arising
about 4 o'clock discovered the build
ing to be in flames. Neighbors were
summoned by telephone but the fire
had gained such Roadway that it
could not be checked and the build
ing and it's contents were destroyed.
The lowest number issued this year
from the secretary of states office
for automobile number plates, 100,
went to Alonzo A. Hopkins of Cabot,
who made his application last Octo-
Der; Charles c.; Warren of Water
bury, who had No. 1 for many years,
will have for 1928 Nos. 1O1 and 1922
! Mr.. and Mrs. J. Stanford Morse OBJ
served their 50th wedding anniver-
sary last week Monday at their home
in Brattleboro. Mrs. Morse is rs
years old and Mr.. Morse is 81. His
mother lived to be more than 100
years old, dying January 8, 1917. For
Is years he has been employed by the
town of Brattleboro on road construc-
ton work.
A. X. Johnson of st. Johnsbury, for
43 years affiliated with the st. J. &
L. G. railway, has been retired from
active service and placed on the pen
sion list. In the nearly half century
Mr.. johnson was in the railroad bust
ness he was never in serious acct
dent, although "a years ago he lost
his left hand between cars while
switching. He became 70 years old
last October.
John McGill, chief of the st. Johns
bury fire department., in attempting to
swing onto the side of the motor
truck as it was on it's way to a fire,
slipped and fell, one wheel of the
truck passing over his right leg be-
tween the knee and body. He con-
tinued to the fire and directed his
men but afterward was taken to the
/ hospital and it is feared his leg is
fractured An X-ray will be used to
determine the exact injury.
Muriel Stafford, six-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Lotus E. Stat
ford of Brattleboro, while coasting a
few days ago, was thrown from her
/ sled when struck by an automobile,
which saved the child's life, as the car
ran over the sled and cut it in two.
The girl was somewhat bruised. 1t
is alleged that the driver of the ma
chine, said to have been a truck, was
! looking behind him when the collision
happened and continued afterward
without attempt to ascertain the ex-
tent of the injury.
A proposal has been made by Man
ager Philbrook of Canaan, N. H., of
the toll bridge between Barnet and
Monroe, N. H., that the last mention
ed towns purchase the bridge and
then make it a free throughfare. Mr..
Philbrook has made a reasonable
price on the property and it is ex-
pected the subject will come up in the
next legislatures of Vermont and
New Hampshire. Such a bill is to be
introduced in the Vermont legislature
by Representative John Roy of Bar.
net and in the New Hampshire body
by Oscar Frasier of Monroe.