Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-10-04
VERMONT NEWS

Johnsbury, has resigned and will go to
Cape Town, South Africa, to spend
year with her brother, DR.. Arthur
d. Ketchen.
September Is, was certainly good
Friday at Vermont Academy, Saxtons
River, as on that day all the mort
cages, over $4,000 worth were burn
ed. This grand old school is again
free from debt, and is doing its best
work.
Mrs. Candace Mckenzie of Morris
vile died recently at 81 years of age.
Mrs. Mckenzie was school teacher
in Lamoille county many years. She
had the record of teaching more terms
of school in the county than any 9TH
er teacher.
ty of Colonial Danes, held at Mont
pelier Tuesday, Mrs. Alice B. Crane,
of Hardwick, was elected president,
and Mrs. G. u. Bear of the summer
colony at Caspian Lake, corresponding
secretary.
The Everett fruit farm near Ben
nington has just harvested its plum
crop of 5000 bushels. This crop sells
at $3.50 a bushel basket, but it is
shipped largely in containers of about
peck, that bring the grower 80
cents or $500 bushel.
A general revival of the slate indus
try on the west side of the state
means a revival of building opera
tions, the construction of homes and
other structures of the pitch-roof
type. The slate business has been
very quiet for several years.
Harry Ranny of North Concord,
| lost control of his car and plunged
over 50-foot embankment recently.
The car was demolished beyond re-
pair. Mr.. Ranny sustained a frac-
| tured jaw and few broken teeth,
otherwise he came out alright.
Amos Eaton, superintendent of the
| Vermont Exhibit in the Eastern
States Exposition re-arranged his ex-
| hibit this year so that it showed off
| Vermont products to better advantage
than ever before, according to those
who have been to the exposition year
| ly.
Leonard D. Smith, former prin-
cipal of Hardwick academy, and for
the past seven years superintendent
of the schools of the Caledonia south
district, with headquarters at Wells
River, has been appointed to the new
south Lamoille district and his head
quarters will be at Morrisville.
Bennington, September 20-T h e
body of Martin Drury, SO, a farm
hand was found in Lake Paran, a
small body of water nears North Ben
nington village, late this afternoon by
party of men who began a search
after Drury's hat and raincoat and a
lantern were discovered on the shore
of the lake.
The Vermont exhibit at the Eastern
States exhibition at Springfield, Mass,
I was one of the best. Julian Dimock
of Corinth showed a Mcintosh Red
apple tree with the fruit on the tree.
| The tree was taken, without damage,
from the orchard in Corinth to
| Springfield and back in an easy truck.
charge of the exhibit, the same as last
year.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
League of Women Voters will be held
on Friday, October 6, at the Univer-
sity of Vermont in general lecture
rom 27 of the Williams Science Hall.
The morning session will be from 10
to IL and the afternoon session from
1.3O to f. At 4.3O the league is invit-
ed to attend a university convocation,
to be addressed by a speaker of ma
tional reputation on a civic topic.
Of the So members of the gradual
ing class of 1922 in Montpelier high
school, 10 will continue their educa-
ton, eight going to academic colleges,
three to military schools, three to
business schools, two to finishing
school, one to preparatory school
and one entering a teacher training
course The University of Vermont
is choice of four graduates, Dart
mouth college two, and Norwich uni
versity three.
Last Monday night between twelve
thirty and one o'clock, campers at
Greenwood lake in Woodbury. discov-
cred the Bushey open-air dance pavil-
ion to be on fire. They Immediately
notified the Bushey family, who lived
about third of mile from the pavil-
ion but nothing could be saved and
the pavilion was completely destroyed,
together with the contents of little
store downstairs and the piano in the
dance hall. The burned building was
insured.
The sale of the North Barre Gran
| tie Co. plant, business, goodwill and
real estate, by the owners, Alexander
Duncan and Battista Lucchina, to De-
bitetto brothers, consisting of Frank,
Nicholas and Domenico Debitetto, was
announced today, the transfer involv-
ing one of the largest business
changes recently made. Debitetto
brothers have already taken posses
sion of the property, retained the
name of North Barre Granite Co., and
! started in business at the plant on
Railroad street. They are members
of the Barre Granite Manufacturers
association.
The railroads centering in Bellows
Falls have decided upon plans and
specifications for replacing the union
passenger station, which was destroy
ed by fire last Christmas and has
lain in ruins since. Chief Engineer
L. P. Morphy of Rutland, was in Bel
lows Falls last week Wednesday and
said the contract would probably be
closed soon with the H. Wales Lines
company of Meriden, Conn.,, the same
contractors who built the Brattleboro
station few years ago. The con-
tract contemplates a one-story yellow
brick veneer building, similar to the
suburban stations in the vicinity of
Boston. The location is to be upon
practically the same foundation as the
old one built in the SOS, enlarged at
various times until the size was the
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