Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-02-13
VERMONT NOTES

Fire in the Norton building on
Main street, ST. Adams, did damage
Of about $500. William B Vinton's
paper mill in Brattleboro was dam
aged by fire Thursday to the amount
of $4,000.
With whole wheat or graham flour
containing at least 95 per cent of en-
tire wheat, siX-tenths of a pound of
wheat flour substitutes is required
with every pound of such whole
wheat or graham -four purchased,
says the Vermont food administrator
The p months old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Sidney Gibson of Waterbury
vas killed February Z. MRS Gibson
left the house for a few minutes and
the child, it is thought pulled the
clothes wringer over it, striking with
sufficient force to cause death. Be-
sides the parents there is younger
child.
The settlement of Sheriff Tracy's
ton coSn5y for 1917 made with Wal
ter Scott, state treasurer, shows
total amount earned Of $3596.74, one
half Of which was paid to prisoners,
$5O9.62 expended for clothing and
other supplies, leaving $1288.75 paid
to the state
Col. Herbert T. Johnson has re-
ceived from Col. F. 3. Thomas the
loving cup which the city of Char
lotte presented the First Vermont
regiment on Christmas day. The cup
is IA inches high, is of sterling silver
and is appropriately engraved. 1t
was presented by the people of that
city through the mayor and will or
nament the Vermont historical rooms
at Montpelier when they are trans
ferred to the new state building.
The family of Loren Brisson of
Richmond are recovering from Sc
we're sickness caused, it is believed, by
eating bread made from poisoned
flour. The flour has been sent to the
state laboratory of hygiene at Bur-
lington for analysis. The symptoms
were not unlike those of the several
families who were made sick in South
Hero a short time ago when they ate
bread made from flour in which was
discovered a quantity of arsenic.
Sales for two days at the Purebred
Live Stock Sales Co., in Brattleboro,
brought the aggregate of $28,755 for
100 head, an average of $287.55. The
highest price at this sale and one of
the highest prices at any of the sales
was paid. The Hayland Farm, Inc,
Of Milford, Conn, bidding $1,000 for
q six-year-old COW which had just
completed a seven-day test and made
"a pounds of butter. The same pur-
chaser paid $1,150 for COW a few
months older.
Receiving an order late Monday
night to be on hand at Bennington
Tuesday to be on hand for the selec-
tive draft, Roy L. Boullais went on
snowshoes Is miles over the noun
tains from ReadsborO to Bennington,
when the mercury stood at 30 below
zero. He failed to pass the eXamina-
ton and walked back home. A man
from LandgrOve who accompanied his
son on foot IA miles to Manchester
to make the trip to Bennington, had
his face frozen.
The following figures given out by
the secretary of state, Frederick G.
Fleetwood, show big increase in the
automobile registrations in Vermont
during the month of January over
the same month a year ago:
January 1917 1918
Cars registered 1905 1920
Motor cycles registered % 81
Dealers licenses issued 70 70
Certificates of hire issued 36 At
Cars re-registered 1 3
Operators licenses issued 40 1900
Chauffeur's licenses issued 27 $50
Fees received 29,407.50 $45 ,096.51
There are no hard times in Vermont
if the above statement is any index
to conditions. People do not buy
autos unless they are prosperous and
believe in the future of their state
and nation.