Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-01-10

The last official business day of the
year brought ten couples from differ
ent sections Of New England to Bel
lows Falls to secure Gretna Green
marriage licenses. The Office of the
town clerk closed at o'clock and
when the last license Of the year had
been issued the records showed that
1864 had been given out.
F. H. Metcalf of Holyoke, Mass,
paid the highest price ever paid for
COWS in Vermont at the tWo-aay Hol-
stein sale in Bellows Falls last week.
He bid $4,000 for Aggie Cornucopia
TWlsk, second, seyen-year-old, with
a record of 31.40 pounds of butter fat
to seven days. He paid $4OO for
yearling son Of the same cow a short
time ago in Brattleboro. Mr.. Met
calf paid $1,51O for a half-sister of
the cow he bought last week. Dur
ing the sale 1O8 COWS were sold at a
high price.
Governor Charles w. Gates has is
sued statement conveying the infor-
nation that the famous telephone
cases, which started during the
Fletcher administration, have been
withdrawn from the courts and new
investigation will be made by the pub
lie service commission. This is due
to changed conditions in the matter
of telephone service and business. The
rev. appraisal Of telephone properties
in the state is a quarter of a million
dollars more than the preceding one.
Miss Louise Hoag of Swanton,
about Is years old, died Friday night
of terrible burns received that morn
ing while building the kitchen fire.
She was alone in the house at the
time with an infant sister and just
how the tragedy occurred she was not
able to tell but it is thought she was
kindling the kitchen fire with kero-
sene. People living nearby heard her
snow her dress nearly burned from
her body. Her parents were away at
work, and an older brother, totally
blind, was at a neighbours house.
The body of William Tatro was
found hanging in the window of the
Lamoille county Jail at Hyde Park
early Friday morning. Tatro, who
was As years old, and from Elmore,
committed suicide by hanging him
self with his suspenders, fastening
them to the electric light wires He
had been dead several hours when
found. Tatro was committed to jail
for intoxication, had a hearing be-
fore the assistant judges, having been
charged with having violated his pa
troll. He had been sentenced to three
| years at the state prison for various
misdemeanors. The judges revoked
| his patrol and evidently he became
| despondent. He is survived by four
children and he left a note addressed
to them.
Bradstreet's Burlington office re-
! ports the total number of mercantile
failures IN Vermont for the year 1916
were "a in number, involving assets
Of $267,967 and liabilities of $780,
$40. The year 1915 gave the total
number Of failures in the state as So,
with aggregate assets of $2O9,O31 and
liabilities Of $391,22 Of the total
number failing in 1916, IA of them
represented 70 per cent Of the total
amount of money involved or those
having liabilities of $4,000 or more.
Of the various classes of dealers Is
per cent occurred among grocers, 13
per cent among dealers in cigars,
fruit and confectionery, II per cent
were general store keepers per cent
| handled mems furnishings and a like
/ per cent were manufacturers of gran
tie.