Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-09-23
Of land of W. Sargent. for $500.

Dwight Harding recently split open
his foot with an ak.
James Brown will make starch at his
factory. He pays 20 cents bushel for
potatoes.
The North Troy boys played a match
game of base ball with the "Gum Pick.
ers" of this place, on the 9TH, and got
whipped, with score of to 25.
NEWPORT.
Geo. G Gilman has commenced some
repairs on his house which promise to
materially change itgeneral appearance.
Prouty&Miller are now shipping more
lumber from their mill than at any time
since they began operations. They have
more orders than they can fill.
NEWPORT CENTER.
Lewis Peabody had two lambs stolen
from his pasture recently.
And now the ripe strawberry appears
at the Centre. Is it not getting monot-
onous?
Last Saturday Asa Knapp shot and
killed crane on the wing which meas
ured six feet from tip to tip of wings.
O. Williams has moved his Lanpher
house and barn on to his Butler lot in
the village and is building an addition
to his dwelling-h house.
NORTH TROY.
Two frosts the past week. Get out
your furs and ulsters.
J. W. Currier and wife are shortly to
start for Florida to spend the winter.
A young man named Durkee was
knocked down and robbed of $l5 near
the cline house." recently.
M. T. Hatch of the Palladium is
indicted for libels rejecting on Judge
Redfeld and Emmons Raymond.
A new South Eastern locomotive has
been christened "North Troy" The
first appearance of the engine was ac-
knowledged by large concourse of peo-
pie, who met the train at the depot with
the band.
SOUTH TROY.
The potato crop is very light, and is
rotting badly.
D. H. Buck has been appointed town
clerk in place of his son, who has moved
west.
Politics are quiet We shall give
Circuit majority in November. Town
matters turned the tide before.
H. E. Powell who has been practicing
law for two years past, has removed from
this village, and will hang out his shin
gle at Milton.
The Western fever has struck this
place badly. About IL have left for
Grand Rapids, Mich, and still there
more to follow.
WESTMORE.
Hops are all picked. yielding only a
light crop.
Rev. A. B. Blake, of Derby, preached
here on the 10Th, in exchange with Rev
H. 7. Jones.
A horse belonging to J. Gillian
dropped dead last week, after being driv.
en- two miles.
The starch factory Will not be rur
this season, owing to the short crop anG
high price of potatoes.
The town is building and repairing
the new piece of road leading to Soutl
Barton. When will the Sutton folk
build their part of this necessary piec
of road?
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
West Burke is beginning to tall
Musical Convention.
/ The Passumpsic r. R. gave their EN-
ployees free ride on Saturday last.
Ansiel Miles of Lyndon Center, pre-
poses to run an ice cart next summer.
The Changers have changed the tim
of their fair to Oct. I'd, one week earlier
The grangers fair at Lyndonville vii
be free affair, no gate fees will b
collected.
Friend Chase of the Union is goin
for skunks with a big stick. Hit 'e
hard, Chase, they have no friends.
l The County fair opened Tuesday wit
b an immense crowd. The stock exhib
y was excellent, but the advertised balloc
ascension was fizzle.
The corner stone of North church,
: Johnsbury, was laid with appropria
} services, on Monday afternoon last,
Governor Fairbanks. Pres. Bartlett,
6 Dartmouth, delivered the address.
. Franklin Davis of Sheffield raised t
present season, 40 bushels of wheat fro
IS 2 bushels sowing, and James McDona
L threshed the same in 40 minutes.
good crop and smart threshing.
it A little daughter of Riley Roundy,
81 Sutton, who has been sick for sever
Is weeks. has been in condition more
sembling death than life for the last fo
le weeks. She has been deaf, blind, n
s. tionless and nearly unconscious, duri