Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-09-18

There is TO be a sociable and antigua
rian supper at the Mill house in South
Albany, Friday, Sept. %. afternoon and !
evening. Admission, % cents. Proceeds
to 60 toward paying for blinds for the
church.
Mr.. VIM. Riley has snapped his resi-
dence and blacksmith shop with Mr..
Chase Of Jay, for farm in the same
town, and Mr.. Chase has sold the same
to a Mr.. Davis. who takes possession the
first Of October.
Mr.. Franklin Pierce, one OF our aged
citizens, has sewed the rags and woven
thirty-One yards of rag carpeting. 1t Is
firmly and neatly done and the colors
are handsomely blended. showing good
taste and some patience and perseverance
for an aged man like our friend, Mr..
Pierce.
BARTON
Charles Preston has purchased a
building lot of Benjamin Mosman, and
has his cellar dug. stills leveled and frame
partly ready for house.
Daniel L. Hunt has sold his dwelling
house to Reuben Devereaux for $1,000,
and bought G. A. UfFord's farm on the
mountain for 1925.
F. A. Field, our effervescing and ir.
repressible greceryman, is preparing to
move from the Twombly building to his
old quarters, in the basement of the
Capt Little block.
Shipments from this station during
the week ending September l6: butter
1926 lbs. merchandise 1854 lbs. ;
cattle and sheep Is cars lumber and
chair stock s cars potatoes 4 cars.
Z. f. Foster, besides being on hand
all three days of the Fair to accOmmO-
date customers, will give a social ball at
his hall on Wednesday evening the
second day of the Fair. A genera
invitation is extended to all who like
to dance Bigelow's band will furnish
the music.
If you want to see the handsomes
chamber-set you ever did see, call a
Barton furniture rooms and see the ont
just painted and ornamonted by Jude
T. Burdick, P. & F's new painter.
You don't say you would like it, cal
around and let us know, and we viii
'chaw terbarker" for week, and that
the meanest thing you could possibl.
ask us to do.
The next weekly village meeting vii
be held next Monday evening. Tn
third and last meeting was held las
Wednesday evening and was adjOurne
about as soon as met until the limits {
the corporation should be fixed; but
new meeting has been called to see
the voters will authorize the trustees
purchase a fire engine, and prOviC
suitable cOnveniences for supplying sal
engine with water for extinguishing fire
keep the ball trundling.
susan M. Grout, wife OF F. w. Ba
dwin, an estimable young woman of tn
village, died this morning at about
o'clock. She had been sick for sol
weeks with typhoid fever, but it "
generally supposed that she was getti
along we'll, and her death was surpri
to the greater part of the cOmmunit
She leavs little boy about three mont
old. Her husband and friends have
sympathy of all, in their sad bereaveme
Services at the house tomorrow Gu
day at 3 o'clock. Her remains viii
carried to St JOhnsbury for burial.
Between the two bridges, between
JOhnsbury and NOrrisville, is h
mile stretch Of track nearly bee-l
straight. Last Friday afternoon. at
Their end of this piece of road were
trains-the Montreal day express no
and freight south-steaming tow
each other at the rate Of 45 miles
hour. The air brakes were immedia
ly applied to the express and it '
stopped, and the passengers quie
cleared from the cars. The alarm
also sounded from the freight eng
but before the brakes could be mann
The two engines-F. NJ. Weld and v
Ihomas-embraced reared up beh
and stopped, the two smoke stacks k
lng each other. Not much damage
done besides the wreck Of the engi
lhe cause was the freight conductor
ug allowed half-hour time on
uoWn express, and he. forgetting
ABOUT the up express The mail {
uue here at GAO p. m. was delayed
I'll TO- Had this accident happened
Where else but on this straight piece
road many lives must have been los
BARTON LANDING.
Last Monday night, the washinl
Chandler Austin was stolen by some
cat who deserves the hospitality of
Qrldge for an ;oda6nska time
L. Q. Grandy has his new Office l
!. " eompleted.-F. A Stafford has