Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-04-05
VERMONT NEWS

The name OF ~. v. HOOKER q Bon
of st. Johnsbury has been changed
by vote to the Hooker Manufacturing
Corporation, according to an affidavit
filed with the secretary of state.
About $50 pounds of maple sugar
in two-ounce cakes, and 30 gallons OF
syrup in pint bottles, have been sent
to Senator Page at Washington for
distribution among his friends there.
The granite business in Vermont is
tied up by strike of cutters against
cut in wages from 81 to 80 cents
an hour. Nearly 1000 votes were
cast in>Barre and Montpelier nearly
all being for the strike. The shops
| ferent from the open shop plan in
that union or non-union men will be
| taken on.
Following an attempt to murder her
husband by shooting, Mrs. L. l..
Stearns, mulatto, jumped from the
third story window at her home in
ham hospital in serious condition.
Mr.. Stearns, with a bullet through
| one lung, is not expected to live.
A straight cut of 10 cents per hour
or 80 cents per day, on all work, Ell
\ l.,
! by the MaSons' and Plasterers' Union
| of Burlington. This action followed
as a result of considerable agitation
on the part of the public and among
members of the union to stimulate
building.
! DIR. Charles F. Leonard, principal
| of Troy Conference Academy at
| Poultney, announced the taking up
by the treasurer of the board of trus-
J tees of the mortgage of $4,000 which
/ has been on the old school since 1908.
/ Plans are under way for a fitting Gel
i ebration of the event at the COM
mencement exercises next June.
/ Knocked from ladder by the limb
| of tree he was saving off and fall
ing but five feet Wyland F. Jackson
( aged % years, lineman employed
| by the Twin State Gas and Electric
/ Co., was injured fatally at Brattle-
| boro. His head struck the sidewalk
/ fracturing the skull and he died two
| hours later.
] The Weldon National bank of ST.
Adams is financing the taking of
| motion pictures in the state of the
maple sugar industry. The work be-
| gan at the A. J. Eaton orchard in
South Royalton, where old-fashioned
methods were filmed, and from there
the photographer went to ST. AL
bans, where pictures will be taken at
some orchard equipped with the latest
| devices.
Articles of association have been
filed by the Neollithic Burial Vault
Company, Inc, of Fair Haven. The
concern is capitalized $4,000, of SOC
shares of 500 par value each. The
concern plans to manufacture burial
caskets, vaults, boxes and under
takers supplies. Rights reserved in
clude among others, rights to own
real estate, quarry stone, mine ores
and cut timber.
Bids for the state armory and COM
munity house to be built in Brattle-
boro jointly by the state of Vermont
| and town of Brattleboro, were opened
Thursday afternoon, but all bids
were above the amount of money
available. The state has appropriate
ed $4,000, the town $4,000 and the
! Brattleboro war chest $4,000 and a
site has been given. The state ar
mory board, the local committee and
| the lowest bidders will confer next
week to revise the specifications.
Figures compiled !. by Edwin R
| Bigelow, secretary of the Associated
Alumni of Middlebury college show
| that out of 1877 living alumni of the
college over one-third, or~479, are al
the present time actively engaged ir
educational work. Law and mercan-
tile business are the next highest
with 81 and rs respectively, while II
graduates are at present studying in
higher institutions. Ministry and
banking are tied with 81 each. The
| government service includes AZ, while
rs are engaged in scientific pursuits
Twenty-one are actively engaged in
literature and journalism.
1 linton has decided against Mrs. Clara
the estate of Frederick S. Plat, who
! sought to recover for an alleged over
| charge of $4,000 for legal services rem
dered by Dunnett, Shields & Conant
| of ST. Johnsbury, who recovered from
the Boston & Maine railroad the sum
of $23, 800 for the death of her hus-
band in September, 1918. In the
| course of lengthy report, Judge
Moulton speaks in the highest terms
of the legal ability of the late Alex
ander Dunnett, declaring that a re
tanning fee of $500 and 500 pei
I diem was a reasonable compensation
considering the ability of the attor
ney and the work done.
The statistics of the 213 Congre
gational churches in the state have
been compiled for 1921 by John M
4 Comstock, statistician for the Con
gregational conference, and show
gratifying gains all along the line
The total membership of the churches
is 23,268, net gain in membership
of 228 in the year. There is gail
of % in the young peoples societies
which now have a membership o.
1923, and a gain of 280 families will
total of 17,347. Home expenses
increased over the previous year $36,
973 and amounted to $344,7 56, whil'
the invested funds of the churches in
creased $38, $40 and are now reported
at $736,944. Benevolent contribu
tons to the seven denominational so
cieties increased $20,470 and amount
ed in 1921 to SOL, 1876. The state
apportionment for benevolences wa
$40 600 The Same Amount has haa1