Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-05-24
VERMONT NEWS
Tntended for last week.

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The Sheldon Junction Hotel, barn
and shed, owned by w. E. Lampman
were entirely destroyed by fire
/ Thursday. The fire started on the
| north side of the roof and soon the
entire building, which was two and
one-half stories and a wooden struc-
ture, was enveloped in flames. The
blaze spread to the. barn and shed
which also suffered similar fate.
A motor truck load of $500 empty
pasteboard boxes covered with tar
paulin was blown off the highway on
/, the island in the Connecticut river be-
tween Brattleboro and Hinsdale one
afternoon last week and tipped down
an embanhment. Some small willow
trees prevented the load from going
| into the river. A-sharp gust of wind
struck the load just as it emerged
from a covered bridge.
A drowned horse, attached to a
buggy, was found in a brook In
Stamford one morning by Charles
| Strope, who lives nearby, and later
Joseph Mesnick of Somerset, appear
| ed in Stamford in an apparently in
| toxicated condition, announcing that
row, of Readsboro, were driving
| the river and that he had not seen
Pracharow since. Whether the man
drowned also is not known. 1t is
supposed both men were intoxicated.
Fred Murphy of Richford was ar
rested Monday, charged with assault
with a dangerous weapon on Miss
Emily Audette of East Richford. The
assault grew out of a broken love
affair the authorities say. Miss Au-
dette had returned Murphy's engage
ment ring and as a result he is al
lodged to have threatened her life.
Two shots from a revolver are said
to have been fired at her and man
named Aldrich, who was accompany
ing her, to East Richford the even
ing of May g.. He is out on $1,000
bail.
After discussing the punishment of
suicides in the hereafter with Charles
Rushton, farmer of Gassetts, Rolin
Jacquith, aged 40, of Wallingford,
hanged himself in Rushton's barn by
He leaves wife and three children.
Jacquith had but recently left the in
sane asylum at Brattleboro, after a
brief confinement, when he visited
the farm of Rushton, who was an old
friend. His father and brother both
committed suicide by hanging within
the past year and sister killed her
self by drinking poison.
The funeral of Judge Edwin G. Pot
ter, who died suddenly in a Boston
savings bank, was held at the Mason
| ic temple in ST. Johnsbury. Mrs
Catherine B. Rich of Dorchester
Mass, who was with Mr.. Potter when
| he died, came to the funeral and an
nounced afterwards that they were to
have been married. The relatives of
M. Potter here and in Boston deny
| this and have engaged J. Rolf Searles,
the we'll known st. Johnsbury lawyer,
| to look out for Mr.. Potter's affairs.
Mr.. Searles left for Boston with the
relatives who came up for the funer-
| al.
The farm buildings of S. L. Grant
in East ST Johnsbury were badly
wrecked during terrific thunder
shower May z. The roof of the hen
house was torn off, the roof of a
| long shed was nearly ruined and that
on one of the barns was ruined COM
pletely. The fence from the barn to
| the road was not only torn blown
down but was broken to pieces. The
other fences were blown down, the
large tree by the water tub was
struck by lightning and split so that
| it probably will not live. The large
yard and road were covered with
| shingles and pieces of boards. Law
renee Grant was alone in the house al
| the time of the storm and said he
| surely thought the house would blow