Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-12-08
1rleans County Monitor.
NFW NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Local News.
RARTON.

The Presidents Message crowds us so
Lat we are obliged to let many local
lens stand over until next week
See the new Christmas advertisements
bid Z. E. Rawson and J. N. Webster.
Also the ad. of O. D. Owen, and Austin,
'5pslyn & Co.
DO dny of oar readers acant the Sea-
kkt!tfc Anaerscan nert gear !? If so,
@Icance payment for the Monitor and
$3.50 extra. aciU fetch It, THE price,
hone, IS three dollars.
The aspect of nature underwent quite
change during the middle of last week
ID account of the thaw. The two feet
i snow was nearly all swept away and
he roads in many places were made bare.
Bellewater froze over on the night of
Dec l, and thawed out again during
hst week. This was beating the oldest
hhabitant in two ways: By freezing
Jays earlier than ever before. and by
having out after having once frozen.
A Special Convocation of Keystone
Chapter No. l6 of Royal Arch Masons,
will meet at Masonic Hall Monday eve-
hing, Dec. 18th, for work on the NJ. E.
hnd r. A. Degrees.
By Order.
d. McDoUGALL, H. P.
B. E. RAwsoN, Secretary.
Skating on the rotten ice has COM
penced, and Lewis Douglass, a lad of
bis. village, while skating on Bellewater
ond, which had partially frozen over
be night before, December 1st, came
lear being the first victim. He broke
through. and had nearly exhausted his
trength in trying to get out, when brave
tile Tommy Hartford came up with a
pole and fshed him up.
A new Time Table goes into effect
ibis morning on the Passumpsic R. R.
he mail train going south will be lit
lie later at stations south of Newport.
Il will also be nine minutes later at
hight. The Accommodation Express will
e run as heretofore, except that it will
BE little later up and will start from
Newport going south at 7:12 p. m. The
pther express train is taken off. We
will publish the new time table next
week.
The first lesson of the writing school
b this place this winter, by Mr.. Sanford
Goss, will be given at the upper
south School Room, to-morrow-Tuesday
evening, commencing at half-past o.
lock. All those who wish to improve
heir penmanship will not have better
opportunity than the present one, as Mr..
loss is one of the very best of penn ems,
Is all who have seen his specimens will
testify. 81 wish could write like
that, 3" is what they all say. The cost
s only $3.50 for fifteen lessons in plain,
Or $500 for the ornamental
Charles Abbott, the day before Thanks.
giving, while going down the hill just
outh of Nelson Wrights-on account Of
ONE catch in the sled which prevented
is making the proper turn in the road
rove span of horses and a load Of
good down steep, fifteen-foot bank, in
b the river. Charley and one horse es
aped uninjured one horse. valued a
between $50 and 200 dollars was instant
y killed. Charley says he cut the deac
Horse loose and with the other wadeC
or 10 rods up stream before he coulc
fleet landing, as brave as Genera
Washington crossing the Delaware, anc
hat his courage now is better thar ever
SOUTH BARTON
F. Randall is selling goods in the stor,
IF A. @. Evans.
The o. & G. Steam Mill Co., are nov
having orders for lumber, and intend t.
drive business, both in their mill anC
n the logging line during the winter.
BARTON LANDING.
Rev. P. B. Fisk of IIyndonville, is ex
pected to lecture here next Friday eve
at o'clock. Turn out and hear him.
The score or more of teams usual,
employed III drawing lumber in to thi
place, are having resting spell, tn
thaw having nearly destroyed the sled
ding.
Three seasons were represented las
week. Indian-summer is expected thi
Week.-Mrs. Kate McClary has been en-
gagged as pianist at the coming Musica
Convention.-The school opens well
MI. brldgman announces forty scholar
in attendance in his department an
about thirty with his assistant Mis-
Ella Hall also has large class in mus
c.-Messrs. Bartlett, Twombly and Gil
is are making large shipments of pots
Oes. They get 45c. delivered at tn
epot.-The new text books authorize
by the board of education are to
Ound at Austin & Joslyns.-L T
|lcClary shipped an average of 200 tut
butter weekly.-Competition is the Ii
pf trade. Parker, Austin & Joslyn an
Grandy, Skinner & Parker are both pu
ting in their new board saw carriag,
which are of the Buzzel pattern, mann
lfactured at st. Johnsbury.
TDUENTD