Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-05-31
H. Stanley, were uninjured beyond :
severe shaking up and bruises.

H. Stanley, were uninjured beyond a
severe shaking up and bruises.
Fire of unknown origin recently
destroyed the storage building of the
John T. Slack corporation of Spring
field, shoddy manufacturers. The loss
of the building and hundreds of bales
of rags is estimated at $3.50, 900, part
| ly covered by insurance. The struc-
ture was of wood, 400 by 60 feet. On
June 2, 1873, the shops of the YER
mont Novelty works on the same site
were destroyed at loss of $4,000.
The hotel at Mount Mansfield will
be opened June and it has been de-
cided to make the road up the noun
/, tain toll road. in order to take care
| of the expense of building and main
tenance A toll house will be built
at the junction of the road leading up
the mountain with that which goes on
through Smuggler's notch. Mr.. and
Mrs. M. c.. Lovejoy will live at the
house through the summer and collect
the tolls.
The cutting out of all games of
chance and the doing away with I'M
clean shows of every sort in official
fairs to be given in the state during
| the coming season has been decided
by executives of the Vermont State
Fair association. This decision was
reached following a discussion in
which it was pointed out that the
trend of public sentiment is for clean
er entertainment debarring games of
chance and the like.
E. S. Brigham, commissioner of
agriculture, has returned from a trip
to Gassett, Windsor, Sharon and
other towns in that section of the
state. He finds the dairy production
about 20 per cent below normal at
this time of the year due to the poor
condition of the cattle which is caus-
ed by the shortage of hay during the
winter and the fact that the pastures
have not been good until this week.
/ l.. G. Mulholland, who has been in
/ the northern part of the state, makes
the same report.
The workmen who are engaged in
cleaning up the brick from the old
/ Catholic church in ST. Johnsbury for
Henry Juneau came to the corner
stone Thursday and made an inter
esting discovery. When the church
was dedicated on the 18th of July,
/ 1860, tin box was placed in the cor
ner stone. This box was found and
after 81 years the contents were in a
fair state of preservation. The box
contained copies of current issues of
the Boston Pilot and St. Johnsbury
Caledonian and a Canadian penny of
the date of 1852, and American pen
MES dated 1857 and 1859 and a u. S.
three-cent silver piece dated 1851. Z
A possible clue to the where
abouts of William E. Gay, Granville
farmer, whose bullet-pierced and
blood-smeared Ford car and punctur-
IL x~4 IL L
were found in the field near Mont
pelier Junction last week one morn
ing, leading at first to the theory of
murder, may be furnished by the re-
ceipt of a letter by the Barre Times
from Detoit, Mich, subscribing to the
paper and stating that the writer
was interested in local real estate"
| The letter is signed Games E. Gray"
the same name which was signed to
an immigration inspection blank by a
man leaving the state by train for
Canada early Friday morning and
who is thought by the officials to be
the missing William E. Gay.
"No May or June salaries for judg-
es and court officials, no more ex-
pense accounts paid" is the verdict
of the state auditor in issuing state
ment in regard to the exhaustion of
the appropriation for the department
of justice. With the exception of
small sum reserved for county clerks
and witness fees, the money is all
gone, spent, and the comparative
statement for the period just ended
shows a net increase in court expens-
es of over $4,000 over a similar per-
iod last year. According to the aud
ltor, no more salaries can be paid
until July /, when the new appropria-
ton for the department of justice be-
comes available. Then the depart
ment will start in with at least $685.
600 of unpaid bills from the current
fiscal year.
A deed has been signed for the
transfer of the Miller forest property
of 9,4OO acres in Peacham and Gro
ton to the state, and this tract, COM
bined with 5000 acres which the state
already owns, will be used by the |
state forestry department for forest |
demonstration on large scale The |
state already has several small tracts |
which are used to show how woodlots
may be proftably operated, but has
not had any means of extensive de-
Much of the timber on
state, and it is expected to convert |
it into perfectly managed and reg
ulated forest. The development will |
of course take many years. The set
Element of the transfer has been held |
up by a difference with the owner
over water rights.
The fish and game department has
another game preserve in
Mortified on land owned by Plumley
and Plumley and also on land owned I
by j. M. Donahue. The department
has several of these preserves
throughout the state. The largest
one containing over 1000 acres is sit
uated at Milton. st. Adams also has
a large one, having 500 acres in it.
Others are located at Norwich. Ar
lington and Rutland. The idea of
these game preserves as explained by
Captain Harold P. Sheldon, commits
sioner, is to give a place of refuge in
every community wherein game can
find protection. Tt is especially need
ed for partridge which are passing
through a very critical period and if
they have some such place as these