Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-06-04

AeONs n1OISO hdo LuONCO AuOO OCuCAoVu
pwles new house.
The NJ. E. Quarterly meeting will be
eld at the West village on Sunday
une 10. Presiding Elder Pufer will be
resent.
Don L. Curtis from Lowell is supply
ng the Cong. church pulpit at present,
ouch to the satisfaction of all who hear
i'm.
BARTON.
Have you seen Young Fearnaught?
Read what oney Hawkins says in
is lad"
Attend the Reform Club meeting at
be Vestry this evening at o'clock.
IL takes whole column for Oscar
owen to tell about his new goods and
ow prices this week. Read it.
The large barn lately erected by Sum-
er Warner was consumed with an OK
nd one other animal on Friday night.
Cause Of the fire unknown.
Look out for counterfeit $50 bills of
be Central National Bank Of New York,
nd for spurious half dollars.-Ea-
hange
We are not in the least danger.
Religious meetings will be held by
he Association next Sunday at o'clock
}. m. at So. Barton. and at the Deve-
-eux district. All workers are invited
. assist in these meetings.
The drought was broken for the pres
ut by two gentle showers on Saturday.
POOL weather has retarded the growth
f crops, but they are now coming for
ward with unusual rapidity.
Competition is lively among our mer-
chants and they are selling goods cheap,
unless they tell awful fibs. Now J. w.
Hall g. Co. announce that they are I'M
ierselling the whole county. Read.
Earle pretends to be indignant be-
cause his boarding. master has taken a
negro to board and places him at the
table beside the editor Of the Citi zen
Guess Earle can stand 1t if the Niger"
can. We have profound sympathy for
that black fellow.
Decoration day was observed in this
place by patriotic lady who is now
more than 20 years of age. She took
her way, unobserved and alone, to the
graveyard, a distance Of half mile,
scattered flowers on the graves of the
few soldiers buried there and returned
Examine your potatoes; the bugs are
around this year sure. They may b
discovered on the potato vines almost a,
soon as they get out Of the ground. They
first cut scallops in the edges of the
leaves, while they have a hole and
retreat in the ground. where they lie hid
Very soon they glue on a mass of eggs
to the under side of the leaves, which
hatch out in few days and produce Q
very large family Of voracious children
which will completely devOur the vinel
if they are not destroyed.
We surrender four columns of spac,
to Mr.. @. Green, so that be can do BIZ
advertising all up in one paper
He merely announces that he i
now ready TO show his new store
and his large stock Of goods to the public
Mr. Green has really the best stock o
goods in his line, (and that embraces
good deal) that we remember to hav
seen in this part Of Vermont. You ca
find anything you desire at this estah
hshment. from a splendid silver tea serv
er. to clothes pin. 1t will pay to G
in and see Mr.. Green's store and good,
The trOtting horse, "Dan Rocket
which Dan Young owned last year ha
been the cause Of not little newspap5
comment in the sporting columns Of th
Boston papers. At a late race he wa
entered in the 2:34 class, and with Ii
utmost ease won the two first heats owe
his three competitors. The horse mer,
ly logged around in 1886 and on exam
nation was found to be as cOol as a c,
cumber. not having exerted himself
all to make the above time. Now can
the trick. The pool sellers we're on Il
ground and the betting had been hea,
on Rocket, while the field" had so
low. Rocket was taken Que side, al
as was supposed, dOsed with ether by 4
owner or driver. and otherwise "dc
tored" so that he could not make dece
time IN the third heat. The race we
on and Rocket was ssnowhcrn''