Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-30
from Lowell, Mass, into the Silas
Works house.
NEWPORT CEN TER.

Works house.
NEWPORT CENTER
Charley Bartlett, son of Freeman
Bartlett, recently broke through the ice
while skating. and came near losing his
life.
w. H. Wiley intends to build new
steam mill on the site where his old |
mill now stands. He will put in forty
horse power engine.
W. D. Porter of Troy East Hill. has
a grade Jersey, yearling heifer which |
recently dropped calf, and another one
that promises to do likewise. Pretty
young cows!
Mrs. E. P. Doane died suddenly on
Sunday morning, Dec. 10Th. The fu-
neral services were largely attended.
Rev. Mr.. Clapp preached the sermon.
She was member of the Methodist
church. an excellent neighbor and an
exemplary Christian woman.
WESTMORE.
The lumbermen are busy.
E. L. Carpenter has rented his place
for ten years and he and his family are
going to Manchester, N. H.
Harry Cheney, who recently left this
vicinity for Kansas, writes that the
whole party reached their destination
in safety. Since he landed on his prai-
RE farm he had put up small house,
and moved into it. The snow out there
is eight inches deep, which is unusual
for that country. A pair of good horses
are worth 5000, COWS $50 each; wheat
sells for Sc cents bushel, potatoes for
SO cents.
NORTH TROY.
VIM. R. Rowell Esq. is in Boston
where he has effected the arrest of A.
E. Moore the suspected Newport bank
forger.
Lewis d. Adams and son are soon to
leave for Washington D. G. to 60 into
the employ of Geo. G. Lewis in the
picture business.
SOUTH TROY.
Zeb Cleveland has car load of sheep
ready for market.
Waldo Wright recently cut his foot
badly while chopping.
Eight inches of snow, and logging has
commenced in good earnest.
Leander Miller has returned from
Newport and started up his mill.
D. S. Johnson has made $4,000 by
keeping his starch over two seasons.
DR.. Geo. A. Fuller has a singing
school at the johnson school house.
There will be singing convention a
the old church on Thursday and Friday
of this week, with a concert on Friday
evening.
Albert Aldrich was arrested and tax
en- to Waterbury last week on trumpet
up charge for embezzlement. He ha.
been discharged.
Christmas exercises at the old church
passed of very pleasantly. The tree
were we'll loaded and several valuabl,
presents were distributed.
An item in the MONITOR last weel
located DR.. F. N. Emery in Jay. Tn
item was accidentally put in the wrong
place. The DIR. still lives and thrive
in this community.
Christmas was duly observed at the NJ
f. church by both schools. The super
intendents and teachers took specia
pains to have every scholar presented
with useful present.
SALEM
The few inches of snow is maxim,
business lively.
Frank Blay built a new house tn
past fall for his son Joseph.
David Hopkinson dislocated a shoulde
on Friday while loading logs. This
the twelfth time within a few year
that this unlucky shoulder has been GU
of joint.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
The Reading Clubs at Burke Holloy
is reading the Life of Fred Douglass
with much interest Mr.. Douglass ha
risen from the condition of slave t
be one of the noted orators of the coun
try, and now holds the important posi-
ton of Marshal of the Dictrict of Colum
bia.
At Stannard on Mo nday eve Dec
23d the house of Egbert W. and Aim
| NJ. Clark was filled at an early hou
with their neigh bors and friends to th
number of fifty. Mr.. Samuel Winches
ter soon reminded them that it was th
, twentieth anniversary of their marriag,
About 9 o'clock, Mr.. and Mrs. Clar
we're invited into their parlor wheI
they found table we'll loaded wit
choice and useful presents; after whic
they were remarked by 0. G. Cole ESQ
An hour was then spent in singing
! while the kitchen was cleared of tn
stove and other articles, when mine hos