Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-03-22
VERMONT NEWS

Judge Wing OF Rutland municipal
court handled Ats cases during 1921
and turned over to the state $6,598.69
in fines and COSTS
Miss Minnie Hayden will again
head the music school at the coming
summer session of Middlebury col
lege, Middlebury.
A total of 81 towns have reported
forming Abram w. Foote Economy
clubs and backing Mr.. Foote in his
gubernatorial candidacy.
Roy Trombley about 80, of Stowe,
was fined SIS and costs recently for
cruelty to a horse. The animal had
been so tortured that it had to be kill
ed that evening.
A derailment of seven loaded
freight cars near East Putney on the
B. & M. railroad last week caused a
loss of $4,000 to the road. A tele-
phone pole carrying 20 circuits of
wires was broken down and all but
President Paul d. Moody, of Mid
dlebury, has announced that work
will begin in the near future on the
erection of new temporary recita-
tion hall to be located on the campus
of the Women's college. The build
ing will cost about $4,000 and be ready
for occupancy in September.
Kinstead, the Shelter Home of the
Board of Charities and Probation at
Montpelier, has been turned over to
the state and will soon be ready for
the reception of the children who are
committed to the care of the board
by the courts. The furnishings are
being moved in.
Governor James Hartness has re-
appointed John G. Roy of East Bar
net and James A. Stacey-of White
River junction as members of the toll
bridge commission and appointed Gil
bert M. Campbell of Lyndonville as a
member, vice Adino N. Bell-of South
Lunenburg, resigned.
Nellie Ruisill Nelson, of Lincoln
ton, N. c., wife of Romeyn w. Nelson,
has brought suit in the United States
court of Vermont to recover $4,000
from Thomas S. Nelson and Kate Mel
son of Pawlet, her parents-in-law on
the ground of alienation of affections.
Thomas S. Nelson is one of the
wealthiest slate dealers in Vermont.
Mrs. George Kenerson of st. Johns
burp, who was 80 years old last Jam
uary, is active and happy and well
and believes IN going coasting despite
her age. The other morning, after
getting the family breakfast and do
ing up the homework, she took adj
vantage of the bright spring weather
and fine crust by taking her hand-sled
to nearby hillside. And for half an
hour she enjoyed the sport of coast
ing.
The State of Vermont has sued the
International Paper Co., of Bellows
Falls for $4,000 for taxes claimed to
be due for the past three years The
suit is brought by Tax Commissioner
Fred B. Thomas of Montpelier, under
Act 43 of the Acts of 1919, which re-
lates to the placing of insurance in
companies not authorized to do bust
ness In this state and to levying tax
computed on the gross premiums paid
such companies.
Shareholders in the Jones & Lam
son Machine company of Springfield
receive a stock dividend of two shares
directors recorded with the secretary
Of state. 1t was voted at a meeting
March 9 that the capital stock of the
TO 81 100000 by eapitalizing $3.50, 900
Of the surplus. Gov. Hardness is
president of this company.
Missing or dead, the whereabouts
Of N. Henry Loranger, young vet
eran of the World war, is being
sought by his father, Godfrey Loran-
ger, a barber in Burlington. The
BOY has been missing for about two
years now, and when last heard of.
mad left his sisters home at Beach
Haven, N. H., bound for Canada, with
a sum of money, including two $50
Liberty bonds. soon after being dis
charged from the army. Since then,
he has never been heard of.
Mrs. Raymond C. Ransom of Cas-
Teton has announced that she will be
a candidate in the September prim-
aries as member of the legislature
from Castleton. She has taken a
prominent part in the agitation for
the reopening of the Castleton nor
NAL school and appeared before legis-
Iative committee several times last