Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-01-05
AIRANT

received 500 besides expenses.
BARTON.
Our Household offer is still open to
those who wish to take advantage of it
this month.
The new meeting house steeple is fin
ished- The arrow is up and the stag
ing down.
Temperance meeting next Tuesday
evening. An Interesting subject to be
discussed.
Baldwin & Drew are receiving logs at
the rate Of 80 cords per day and saving
out about 10.
Union prayer meetings will be held
at the Brick church, on Wednesday and
Friday evenings. This is the week of
prayer and it is hoped many will meet
to participate in these meetings
The annual meeting of the Board of
Trustees Of Barton Academy will be held
at the Office of W. W. Grout, Wednesday
evening. January IA. All the members
of the board are requested to be pres
ent. NJ. ". JosLYN.
L. R. Wood, Jr., has finished his St.
JOhnsbury Business Directories. They
are decidedly the best he has made, be-
ing ornamental with his patent metallic
stars and silyer-plated moulding.
{ 1t may interest our distant readers to
know that another thaw has taken our
& snow nearly off and spoiled the sleighing.
We have had very mild weather for the
last month. the thermometer only about
zero upon the coolest days
L. r. Wood, Jr. and Frank Forsaith
have formed partnership and will car.
ry on the sign and directory painting
business on more extensive scale than
Mr. Wood has been able to do alone
They have purchased the Sartle office
, which viii afford them neat and conven-
lent rooms for their works.
Myron W. Joslyn has sold his house
to B. NJ. r. Nelson, and Started for Bos-
ton last Friday, where he is to be en-
ployed by the patent medicine firm Of
> Geo c. Goodwin & Co. Myron was one
of cur most enterprising and stirring
business men,-good neighbor and citi
zen, and will be missed by our village
Price for house. $1,000.
We are very fortunate of late IN the
3 receipt Of Wedding cake The last wa:
received from Mr.. and Mrs. Sylvester J
Holman and we can only wish that theil
lives may be as happy and as blessed
as the cake is sweet and delicious. ",
should put this notice in poetry but al
!, attempt Of this kind a few weeks sine,
left US with such acute pains in tn,
head that We forbear
The depot in this village was broker
into, either Saturday or Sunday night
. and the money drawer robbed of a few
pennies. and about $40 worth of tickets
Mr. Russell, depot master, fortunately
carries the money home nights, onl,
leaving the few cOppers and nickels il
the drawer. An entrance was made in
to the freight depot, through window
and from this into the ticket Office. Tn
desk and drawers of the office were prize
open and broken into But very littl
was taken except the tickets and tn
coin The tickets selected would ind
cate that the burglars intended to visi
/: Boston and New York before long. a
they were for these places.
BARTON LANDING.
Maj Josiah Grout lectures here mex
Friday evening.
Our business men close their stores &
s o'clock this winter, as was their Gu:
tom one year ago.
The lectures of Prof, Nichols are We
attended. and although he uses no rht
toricaI fi0urishes he holds the undiver-
ed attention of his audience.
For your halters, harnesses and whip.
D call on Robert ellis, who has the repr
tatlon Of giving his customers the al
vantage Of the lowest prices He hs
Just returned from Boston with ne
stock; and also with orders from parti,
there. for lot of light and heay
harnesses ellis advertises in the No,
IroK and says it pays, too. We recon
mend those who are in want of anythir
in his line, to give him call.
SOUTH Bart on.
Rev. F. Randall will move his fami
from Lyndon to South Bartou, oceup
ing the A. Q. Evans house.
Hrs A. Q. Evans and Freddie. h
son. starr today for Iowa, where th'
viii Eemain for the year TO come.
COYEYTRT
Warren Mitchell has soid his farm
. Aar1n X Lunt, Of Charleston, for $500
CHARLESTON.
ihe store the present week will
Omitted - account Of its being the we,
!: Of prayes.
Ut hsnjamin J. Campbell. an Q
and FesF@ted citizen Of East CharIesto
died very Suddenly on Wednesday NOR
ING. Of last week He had attended
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