Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-05-19

bath School, attending prayer meeting
in the evening, which he proceeds by
lecture upon the topic assigned for the
meeting.
IRASBURGH.
D. S. Taplin has gone to Maine to
spend the coming summer.
J. B. Clement has sold his farm to-
Austin Clement of this town.
Faxon Kidder lost a fine cow, and
Ralph Howard very nice Cotswold
buck last week.
A. B. Carpenter of Coventry. has
leased and is carrying on tho Greek farm
of G. Taplin.
Irasburg has the small number of
seveaaty-seven dogs, OF rather seventy
seven men who claim to own a dog each.
Tappan Pearsons has been making re-
pairs and improvements about his prem
ises, that add greatly to the appearance
of the street on which he lives.
E. P Cotton, L. S. Thompson and W.
L. Barrows have been elected Railroad
Commissioners for this town. They are
lire railroad men, and will look out for
the interest of the town.
The ten or fifteen rods of new side
walk from the school house to the vii
lage, which has just been completed, re-
moves nuisance of two or three years
standing besides greatly improving the
appearance of the village, and adding
to the comfort and safety of the scholars.
At the railroad meeting the 18th inst,
the town voted to aid the Montpelier,
Hardwick & Black River R. r. to the
amount of $4,000. The vote stood as
follows: yeas Sc, nays 81. There were
a good many voters who were not out.
W. D. Tyler, John L. Dodge, F. Ian
don, E. A. Ufford and Henry Somers,
were elected a committee to draft the
conditions upon which said aid should
be, granted, and to report the same at an
adjourned meeting. Meeting adjourned
to May 81, one o'clock, P. NJ.
Mrs. Ada Brown,-daughter of David
H. Webster of Irasburgh,-who is now
living in Hamilton county, Nebraska,
writes as follows concerning the great
storm there on the 18th of April.
1--WE had the most terrible storm
ever witnessed, commencing April 18th
and ceasing on the 18th. 1t showed,
and it blowcd a perfect hurricane. A
great many persons persisted, and much
stock was lost. Our next nelghbor,
west, lost head of cattle; his second
neighbor lost two year old colts and
seven head of cattle, and most every body
else in this vicinity lost more or less
We were lucky enough to have every.
thing under cover and did not suffer any
, loss 1t blowed so that Byron cher hus
band) could not get hay from the stack
to feed the stock from Sunday mig ht un
til Wednesday forenoon | never want
to witness another such a storm Las
night it commenced to rain, and it came
down in streams all night and has don.
cn nt hn 70 %h1
bowling fearfully all the while. and still
continues to do So.
b, Come back to Vermont, Ada, and thel
:. let r howl, if she wants to.
> LOWELL.
The measles have been through tn
town twice during the past winter, an
> now we are having new and better ed
ucated "measle" just up from the MOI
NAL school at johnson.
A large delegation from this tow
went to Morrisville on the 18th, to atten
the railroad meeting. All the town
) along the proposed line of the indian
railroad were we'll represented, an
measures were taken to procure an in
mediate survey of the route. 1t is b,
n lieved that this will be much MOI
feasible route than the Black River, an
e also will be much shorter.
Il At the regular meeting of the Moul
'e Norris Lodge of Good Templars, the fo
Il lowing officers were installed: Ruff
y Klnsley, W. G. T.; Carrie Hovey, v
u Y. T.; W. L. Kinsley, W. s.: Ii
IL Brown, W. A. s.; Eugene Curtis, V
e. c.; W. E. Dodge, W. F. S.; B. Sta
lie nard, W. t.; c. Dodge, W. NJ; Dar
" Brown, W. D. M. The financial con
~ mittees report shows $40 in the treas,
It, ry. There are seventy-two members
a good standing, and the attendance
" the last year has averaged thirty-fve.
ne LYNDON.
re Mr.. H P. Alden and several railros
Is Officials who sent in their resignatit
to take effect on the first of May ha
consented to remain, much to the gra
of fication of their friends, and as we THU
IS. to the benefit of the road.
d. NEWPORT.
zee J. L. Edwards, Esq, has purchased
lot on Sd street and intends to erect
ed dwelling house thereon.
S. The car-house of the M. & G.. Rive
al Railroad has been finished at an expe1
al Of about $4,000.
The Passumpsic folks are filing il
5he the lake between the town bridges. q