Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-05-31
VERMONT NEWS

John T. Cushing, editor of the Mes
senger. sailed Saturday from New
York on the steamship Adriatic for
brief trip to England.
| A two days sale of Holstein-Frie-
sian cattle at Brattleboro last week,
in which 148 head were sold, brought
the total sale price to $4,000.
! Rev. George w. Scudder of Brock
ton, Mass, has accepted a call to be-
come pastor of the Church of the
Messiah in st. Johnsbury and will be-
gin his pastorate the middle of June.
The Swanton Cooperative Dairy
Co., Inc, of Swanton has filed vol
untary petition of bankruptcy in the
United States court. Assets were
placed a $5O,341.45 and liabilities
were given as $117,554.21.
The tannery company of Hyde
Park is being reorganized so that
now the company is Carroll s. Page,
Inc. The subscribers are Russell S.
Page, L. M. Drew, H. A. Noyes, r. w.
Hurlburd and d. III. Scribner of Hyde
Park
With $4,000 pledged by Arthur r.
Brooks of st. Johnsbury as the first
subscription, half million dollar
drive was recently launched for ST.
Johnsbury academy. Within Is min
utes over $4,000 more was pledged
by Ii others and the drive may be
said to be fairly launched.
Fifty years a barber, still working
and good for several years more is
the record of Selah d. Hartman. the
oldest man in continuous business in
Bellows Falls. He has shaved and
cut hair in the same place and beside
the same chair for 80 years.
| The Vermont delegation in con-
gress has unanimously recommended
Bert L. Hyland, chief of police of
Rutland, to Prohibition Director
| Haynes for appointment as chief OF
the prohibition forces in that state,
succeeding Collins M. Graves of Ben
nington, resigned.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rolfe Searles of ST.
Johnsbury leave very soon for San
Francisco en- route to the Hawaiian
Islands to attend the meeting of the
National Shriners. Mr.. Searles goes
pie, Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine, of
| I'm the case of Nell R. Nelson
against Thomas and Kate Nelson
wealthy residents of West Pawlet for
alienation of the affections of her
husband which has been on trial in
the federal courthouse at Windsor for
the past two weeks, the jury brought
in verdict of $4,000 and costs for
| Mrs. Nelson.
The registration of automobiles
thus far this season shows marked
/ increase in spite of the hard times
prevailing in Vermont and on May 10
there had been 32,188 machines regis
tered, with total fees collected of
$571, 477.36. In the same period in
1921, 28, 855 machines had been regis
tered and $500, 350.15 in fees collect
ed.
Friends of Major HI. Nelson Jack
! son of Burlington are circulating pc
titions to be signed by voters of the
state to have him consent to be a can
didate for the office of United States
senator at the primaries to be held
on September II. Headquarters for
the campaign have been established
at the Hotel Sherwood under the di-
rection of ex-service men.
Mrs. o. III. Stanley. 81, of st. AL
bans was almost instantly killed and
her father-in-law, P. III. Stanley, in
jured when an automobile driven by
her husband turned turtle near East
Franklin. Mrs Leon Going, daughter
of the dead woman, and her two chill
Dire, also occupants of the car. and O..