Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-05-15
Local News.
dLBANY.

school at the West village.
The village school opened Monday the
sth with thirty-four SCHOLARSHIPS
Myrtle Rowell teacher.
Several men spent good part of the
day last Thursday shoveling through a
snow-drift in the west part of the town.
A good place to eat warm sugar next
independence day.
j. b. Darling is enlarging his hotel
by building wing on to the back side
Of it twenty-four by forty feet. J.. A.
Dow has commenced to paint and fix up
his new stand. With two hotels in full
blast the travelling public will be we'll
provided for in this place.
Deputy d. L. Boyden organized
Grange at West Albany, May s, with
full list Of charter members. Name,
Centennial Grange" John Z. Cham
berlin, master; Schuyler G. Wilcox,
overseer; Schuyler G. Chamberlin, lee
turer; Freeman Reynolds, steward !;
Frank Tenney, assistant steward; Rev.
John Morse, chaplain John f. Tenney,
treasurer; H. II. Hyde, secretary VIM.
Brockway, gate keeper; Mrs. J. E.
Chamberlin, Ceres Mrs. S. G. Wilcox,
Pomona Miss Eta Wilcox, Flora !;
Mrs. VIM. Brockway, lady assistant
secretary.
BARTON.
Read J. w. Halls new advertisement.
1t showed handsomely and resolutely,
this Monday morning, May 10.
Daniel r. Hunt has sold his house
and shop to o. V. Percival Price,
$1,000.
Daniel r. Hunt having sold out his
house and shop request his customers to
call and settle at once.
No Boston mail received here or north
of st. Johnsbury, between Wednesday
and Saturday nights.
Johp Drown has a hen that considers
an egg 6 K 8 inches in circumference
only an ordinary days work.
Tree day was not very generally obser.
we'd in this vicinity owing to the rainy
day on which it occurred. Several per.
sons, however, put out goOdly number
d. B. Russell has bargained his build
ings in this place to Joe. Rothchilds
Rothchilds expects to move his family
from New York as soon as his house il
suitably repaired.
The Centennial spirit of improvement
is still abroad. Last week, it struck OF
the premises Of VIM. Graves and knock
ed down his old barn this week, it viii
put Mansard roof on the house of W
W. Grout.
Our paper is made up with less regu
larity than usual. to-day, on account O.
the non-arrival Of mails in due season
We give in another column the fulles
account possible to obtain, in regard tt
the freshet Of last week.
The few who were able to reach Bar
ton, last Saturday, to take steps towarC
centennial celebration, we're in favo
Of the project, and thought best to ad
journ until Saturday. May q, when i
is hoped the roads will permit fulle
attendance.
II has now been over two weeks sine
a spell of the gloOmiest. rainiest, nasti
est, coldest weather known for this sea
son Of the year, set in. The farmer
have been unable TO pillow, plant or d
anything Of consequence toward forward
iug springs work.
For four days last week, cOmmunica
ton between the main village and tb
Flat was cut of. except by boats. Tn
small ferry ran regularly, except o
Thursday, when there was altogether to
much Of current 10 make the landin
matter Of certainty.
Superintendent Folsom of the Pa
sumpsie, and Dodge Of the Boston, Cor
cord g. Montreal railroads were caugl
between the washouts north and sout
Of this place on Thursday and could NJ
get north or south for several hour
They kept telegraph operator Ford bus
Tor several hours in sending despatchC
% the various scenes Of disaster on the
roads.
George +. Leonard, mail agent, is ell
titled to no small credit for the effoi
made 10 get his mails north to their de
hnation. Finding it impossible to g
by the many breaks in the Passumpsi
railroad. be went from White Rive
Junction with the northern mails to Coz
cord then took the b. @. & NJ. railroa
% Llttleton, N. H., and came from thei
BY coach to St. Johnsbury on Saturda.
Where a train was in waiting TO 60 mort
Joseph n. Webster had narrow e
cape from drowning Thursday; he toe
a small fishing boat and went down Il
tVer to assist a family in getting out
house that was surrounded by water, al
IN bis endeavor to return his boat g
tipped over and he found himself in d
ueeP' rapid current, heavily loaded dow