Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-10-27

seen or heard from until the 18th, when
he was found hanging by the neck where
he must have hung II or II days. Mr..
Coburn was man we'll respected. with
apparently pleasant surroundings, his
father being one Of the most wealthy
men in town, and no cause can be assign
ed for the melancholy act.
GLOVER
A sly fox the other night took twelve
of Calvin Aldrichs turkeys.
Mrs. Emma L. Paul will speak at the
South Church next Sunday.
Alexander Shields recently sold calf
seven months old that weighed 750 lbs.
Dir. Cyrus Wiley has taken down the
tenement known as the Anterior house,
and will soon erect on the same site a
dwelling for his own use. He proposes
to cover the building before very cold
weather. giving him an opportunity to
do the inside work during the winter.
Mr. F. P. A. Clark has the past sea-
son raised the largest and best lot of
apples, of any man in town. 1t is
enough to make ones mouth water to 60
into his cellar where some Of the best
varieties are stored. Mr.. Clark has a
hand press and is rapidly converting ap-
pies into cider
GREENSBORO.
E. B. Wedge has purchased one half
of the grist mill of H. X. Kingsbury.
for $4,000.
C. L, Baker is going into the '.tur-
key business largely. He passed
through the village one day last week
with a drove of three hundred or so.
which be had driven all the way from
Cabot. He intends to market about one
thousand
HARDWICK.
A. E. Judevine has moved into the
new and costly house which he has been
building for the last three years. This
house, with the large and excellent barn
and other buildings, make the finest set
of buildings in the county if a very few
at st. Johnsbury are excepted. Mr.. Ju,
devine has spent much money, care and
time in their erection, and if convent
ent. pleasant and costly home can bring
happiness, he ought to be happy.
The new bridge at South Hardwick
is nearly completed, and if it proves as
strong as have been the contentious in
regard to its building, it will be all the
public desire for strength.
IRASBURGH
Great auction sale at Ansel Sears, on
Saturday, Nov /. See advertisement.
On the %, party of eleven ascend
ed Jay Peak. The day proving pleas
ant one the views obtained were very
fine. The scenery was not only beauti-
full, but the cloud shadows resting on
the hills below were delightful to the
eye.
LOWELL.
John Sawyer is building new saw
mill on the Metcalf brook about three
fourths of mile above Works & Crafts
mill, and intends to have it ready fol-
, logs this fall
Kempton & Crafts are completing ar
rangements which they have for som,
time been making. for the manufacture
: of rakes in the basement of Works &
Crafts mill. Kempton is an old hant
in this business, having manufacture,
rakes once in New Hampshire. The,
calculate when they get a-going tina
0 they can turn out something like 800
In the course of the year.
$ A. Hagar has had some bad Luck thi
summer, as we'll as other folks. In tn
+ fore part of the season he lost the bes
cow in his herd, valued at sixty-fv
dollars. and soon after fine yearlin
helfer and bull calf from the same COW
which he would not have parted wit
for anything like reasonable price
But he yet has one animal ON his farr
which he may well look upon with pride
1t is a four years old colt which he ha
refused 5000 for. 1t is handsom
beast weighing over twelve hundre
pounds; gentle, kind and strong as a
!. OK. When it was a yearling it weighe
750 pounds and when a two years oil
1910.
Jacob Greenwood, wheelwright b
trade, owns some land about one mil
! south of the village upon which h
planted this year, about seven acres {
!, potatoes. A week ago he had not con
menced digging them. and his neighbol
began to hint to him that if he was M
careful he would have them ..all fro1
IL up" in the ground, but his only repl
/ was that he would have them dug b
Is fore any Of the neighbors did theirs.
. And sure enough last Wednesday
went to work and dug them all out
le about 700 bushels-in one day. But
T. aid him in his labor, be and friend
% his went to Eden" not many miles
the south the night before, and procure
ut several demijolns of 'tanglefoot'' the
st. being none for sale in Lowell, viii,
fhnx rooponro1 70 borao x,..kl +,