Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-06-18
Local News.
GENERAL.

lished to-day under Coventry head) and
preparations are being made to have
meeting worthy of the County. 1t will
be picnic. and all temperance people
are invited to assist in making it sue
cess.
ALBANY.
Franklin Pierce erected new martin
house last spring, one side Of which APP
pears to be occupied by martin birds and
the other by swallows.
The Congregational society has engag-
ed the services of Rev. S. w. Chaplin,
graduate from Bangor Theological School.
He comes highly recommended by the
president Of the school, and is engaged
for one year.
BARTON.
Crops look well, though grass is fee
bic as yet on dry ground.
Skinner & Drew sell the Wood now
ing machine again this year.
You can get your moving machines
repaired at the Machine shop.
Two or three showers came last week,
greatly to the benefit Of growing vege-
tation.
f. A. Stafford begins work to day on
the Batchelder buildings near 1. X.
Drew's.
The Boston and Montreal day express
over the Passumpsic railroad will be
put on to-day.
Rev. Mr.. Thomas Of Glover lectures
at the Vestry, this evening, on temper
ance The lecture will be good.
Meetings will be held at South Barton
and at the Hiram Cass district next
Sunday, 3 o'clock p. m. by the AssO-
citation.
The ladies of the Barton Congregation
al Society hold a Strawberry Festival
at their church Vestry on Wednesday
Evening June 81.
To insure insertion for the next week,
advertisements should be brought in,
not later than o'clock Saturday morn
ing, of the week previous.
1t is proposed to meet at the Village
Hall this evening to make arrangements
for the formation of "rag rufian"
company for July 4th. Go.
A little boy in this village was pois-
Oned nearly to death, few days since,
by eating currants from bushes that had
been treated to white hellebore.
A Burlington man says that Stacked
lime is sure death to potato bugs. He
sprinkles it upon the vines and uses
about barrel after it is Stacked to the
acre.
William Anderson has a goose that
has laid rs eggs since she began to lay,
late in the winter. He has undertaken
to make her sit, but she refuses to "shut
down"
An ice-car is set in to this station
every Saturday morning, and those
bringing in butter on Saturday can
have the same stored in the car until
it starts for Boston.
Whitcher & Hall will pay so cents q
bushel for potatoes delivered at the de-
pot in this place and at the Landing
during this week, and this is the las
chance to dispose of surplus potatoes.
The stockholders of the Barton Foun
dry Company are requested to meet a
the Office of W. w. GrOut next THURSDAY
evening, at s o'clock. 1t is necessary
Tor all stockholders to be present.
@. J. UFFoRD, Agent.
Harry Cutler has been appointed
night ticke~agent on the Passumpsi,
H. H. He wiz be stationed at st Johns
bury. Good sqr Harry he is faithful
young man and h's given considerable,
time to the acquiremoet of knowledp,
OF how it is done abous railroad ant
telegraph stations.
The Advent camp meeting at Beeb
Fiain commences next Saturday, an,
holds about ten DAYS. Tho k~---.'-
grove IS In excellent condition and goo,
preaching and courteous attention will
be afforded. Special tickets are issue,
on the Passumpsic and P. g. o. Road
at half rates, and special trains will b
run.
There was little excitement yesteI
day morning on High street, on accoun
Of the discovery made the night before
of man in the house of a neighbOr VIII
had entered by back window for som
purpose not legitimate. He was "clOthe
In white" and was in his stocking fee
The screams Of woman and the presenc
Of an excited peddler frightened the in
truder out Of the house. The pistol
have all been loaded.
The lovers of feet horses i'll hav
opportunity to witness good trotting o
Roaring Brook Park July 4th, as tn
managers announce by advertisement
and posters today. Horses have bee
engaged, and extra trains aud half-far
provided. The managers of this Par
have won reputation for doing wha
they advertise, and intend to do a squar
thing every time. They will try to max
the races "a successfuI IA anv ovo. -,