Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-06-26
CLOVER.
IRASBURGH

a. A. Smlth as pastor. lhe committee /
are hard at work trying to raise the
necessary funds to pay his salary.
At the republican caucus on the even
ing Of the 23d inst. to elect delegates to
the State convention there was an unus-
ually large turn out. l.. H. Thompson
and c. W. Wheeler were elected dele
gates; Henry Somers and John L.
Dodge substitutes.
There is to be home celebration here
the 4th of July. Services will be hold
en- in the Congregational church at 10
o'clock a. m. The services Of a band
have been secured, and money raised to
purchase good supply of FIRE works
for the evening.
SALEM
The dwelling house of Erastus Water
man Of Salem. together with about half
Of its contents, was destroyed by fire on
odbuAudgs TIC -tLu 4ueb. LOSS uOI Us
eertained insurance about 500.
NORTH TROY.
Whipple & Kelley have fitted up the
sold armOry'' for their picture business.
The blacksmith shop formerly Occu-
pied by Porter Bros. is being repaired.
The Cong. sabbath school library has
just received donation of $40 from Mrs.
D. A. Brown-ands25 from H. c. Wilson.
The late favorable weather has made
wonderful improvement in the crop
prospects. Farmers are getting ready for
haying.
The citizens of this place are making
preparations to accommodate the large
number of people which they hope to
welcome during the days of the Sunday
school convention, next Thursday and
Friday.
DR.. Haskins and Prof. Mcclure, geol-
ogists and mineralogists from Saratoga,
n. Y, have been making some examina-
tons in this vicinity. They found some
very fine neurological specimens. They
express themselves charmed with our
country.
The farmhouse and barn of Edmund
Ford In Jay, was burned to the ground,
last Thursday night, about midnight
Mrs. Ford and two small children were
the only persons in the house at the time
and they barely escaped with their lives.
Everything in the house was burned.
Loss is estimated at $500 insurance,
very light. Supposed to be the work of
an incendiary.
IVES TLHORE.
The Willoughby Lake House opened
some time since by Gage & Thurber is
already doing a prosperous business
with excellent prospects for the season.
There Is no reason why this most pleas
ant and picturesque loclitya should not
attract to itself large number of sum
mer tourists. The want of a first elias;
hotel, which appears now to be supplied,
has only been wanting to make this
resort for pleasure seekers. Those whC
"tip the fantastic toe" will find oppor
tunity on the evening of July Sd. The
st. JOhnsbury band furnishing the
/ music.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
, Celebrations at LyndOnville and at St
JOhnsbury, July 4.
t The selectmen of Sutton are raising
and repairing the bridge at Sutton HOl
7 low.
The creditors Of Ira Shattuck, bank
| rupt jeweler of Hardwick, accept % cts
on a dollar.
D. W. Aiken. Esq, Of Hardwick, wa
seriously injured. on the 10th, by bein!
thrown from carriage while at Yves
Woodbury..
A little girl about Z years of age
daughter of Stephen Switser Of Sutton
was taken violently i'll in church, Sun
day, June IS. and died the following day
The Republican county convention
J, meets at St. JOhnsbury on Thursda,,
a next. at 10 o'clock a. IN. The towns ar
!. entitled to the same number of delegate
as in the State convention.
5 Those hawkers who swindled the peo
5 pie out of large sum Of money las
!. year, by selling remnants and damage
: goods. are about again this year 50 Loo
out, farmers. do not get caught again
+ The $3.50 excursion to Portland, las
Y week, called out very much larger nun
: Der than the railroad could provide car
:. for. About six hundred made the tri
It and returned delighted.
Hon. n. P Bowman, past master. va
presented with an elegant gold watch
d the late grand lodge meeting held at ;
Albans. Park Davis made the preseE
D. tatiOn speech
Corydon Parker Of Sutton. recent
t cut up the remains Of one Of the moi
n ster pine trees that formerly stood
be town, and found by measure that Il
tree was 40 feet in length.