Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-03-30

educators WILDE invited to arfted and
undoubtedly all whose engagements
will permit will attend. The alumni
and guests will meet in the chapel at
7 10 clock in the morning and proceed
to the Congregational church where
Ex-Governor John w. Stewart will
preside over the Inauguration exer-
cises. The Rev. Ezra Brainerd, the
retiring president, will confer such
honorary degrees as may have been
voted and will then deliver the seal and
keys to the president-elect. Doctor
Thomas will then deliver his inaugural
address and a banquet will follow the
exercises. The committee in charge of
the inauguration consists Of Prof.
Brainerd Kellogg, '55, of Brooklyn
Polytechnic Institute, the Hon. John
w. Stewart, '46, Henry H. Vail, go,
of New York city, and George M.
Wright, IA, of New York. The reg
ular graduation exercises Of the college
will take place Tuesday, June %.
Tax List in Bad Way.
That comparatively few tax lists re-
turned in Vermont are legal, and that
many more are not even sworn to is
one of the discoveries made by the
state tax commission, which has prac-
tically completed it's investigation of
the question of double taxation. That
a great inequality exists in the matter
of appraisals is also one of it's findings.
The report to the governor is not yet
ready to be presented but it has been
learned that the report will embody
several radical tax reforms. 1t is the
general belief that the commission will
recommend the entire abolition of the
system of offset for debts owing and a
REIMBURSEMENT of the tax laws; the
honest taxation Of all visible property,
both real and personal, the owner pay
ing on his equity and the mortgage hold
er paying on the mortgage where re-
. corded; the enactment of stringent
laws for the direction of listers in the
, performance of their duties. The
, members of the commission are 0. M.
Barber of Bennington, Ernest Hitch
cock of Pittsford, A. A. Olmstead of
Newbury, L. P. Slack of St. Johnsbury
and ] ohm H. Senter of Montpelier.
Suicide
James Luther, a young man of "a
years, committed suicide at the home
of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. E.
Luther, on West Hill, in the eastern
part of the town Of Wolcott, near the
Hardwick line, Friday, March 20
Young Luther has for the past three
years been employed at Beecher Falls
but has since visited his parents or
several occasions and was at home fol-
a time last fall. On Saturday, March
IA, he came home ostensibly on visit
and to all appearances was in mis- usua
: health and spirits, but that he contem-
: plated taking his life is shown from the
; fact that he had purchased chloroforn
5 at four places on his way home-one.
half ounce in each place, at West Stew.
| artstown and Lancaster, N. H., St.
: Johnsbury and Hardwick. Thursday
: evening of last week he informed his
mother upon retiring that she need not
= call him until seven o'clock the next
morning. Before Mr.. Luther had re.
turned from the barn where he was
occupied doing the chores, she heart
groans coming from the young mans
room and investigations found him or
the bed with the empty walls nearby
=. attesting the deed. A doctor was i'm
mediately summoned and everything
3. p )ssible was done for his relief. He
y regained consciousness and seemed t.
= be out of danger until Friday evening
when he was taken worse and befor,
{ the doctor could get to him he wa
dead.