Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-10-07

all the hay, straw, three loads of corn,
moving machine, horse rake. wagon
and other farm implements. Insurance
$500, cause of the fire unknown. Mr..
Metcalf is very unfortunate in fires. as
this is the third time he has been burn
ed out within ten years.
LOWELL.
Joseph Blake and Mrs. Pettee have
gone to Kansas to spend the winter.
Carlos Farm an and wife will also go
West on visit soon.
The Lowell second 9, beat the Brow
nington boys on the Fair Ground at Bar
ton on one of the days of the fair, by
score of 20 to 16.
The potatoes crop is not very profta-
BILE in this section. AS sample we
give John Lawrence's "score." Acres
one and ahalf; seed planted 2 bushels
crop dug % bushels.
For taceuty .tfve cents Ue a0iN send the
MONITOR on trial from noU till the be-
ginning of 1879.
,SALEM
Mrs. Mary Fuller has left this town
to find home with friends in the West.
Mrs Calvin Richardson was severely
injured by falling down stairs. few
days since.-Mrs. John Karney broke
her ankle last Thursday morning.
SOUTH TROY.
A temperance club has been organized
and meetings will be held every Tuesday
evening.
K. W. Adams mas rented his farm to
Charles Marsh and has gone to work for
G. P. Stevens & Co.
A. A. Washburn knows how to raise
corn, judging by the fact that he has
raised 70 bushels of ears from 60 rods
of land.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
The Changers Fair will be held at
Lyndon Center, Wednesday, October 8.
There will be large gathering and a
fine show.
Luther Hemingway, of Waterford,
has raised 100 baskets of IL rowed corn
on one acre of ground. This will amount
to 90 bushels of shelled corn and is the
best yield we have heard of in a long
time. Mr.. Hemingway has this season
raised 26 native lambs from 16 sheep.
The most of them were CARED last Mon
day by Horace Hastings who thinks the
26 would weigh $500 pounds.
Harley M. Hall of East Burke was
taken seriously sick on Wednesday last,
and continues very dangerously i'll, with
little hopes of recovery. From an ex-
animation made by Drs. Billiard and
Cahoon, it appears that fatty tumor,
which has been growing in the lower
part of his bowels for some years, has SO
surrounded the intestines as to cause the
present serious troubles.
On Tuesday of week before last Ben
jamin Greenbanks and his son went into
room in their wooden factory at South
|
Danvillc, where they do the coloring
and there was some material there which
had generated gas. While there the
} gas exploded and the two men we're ter
ribly injured. When picked up they
, were unconscious, but the young man
. began to recover and will come out Of
it. Benjamin, it was thought Wednes-
day night, could not recover.-U Union
2 One of the most laughable things tina
occurred at the band tournament a
Owls Head, was an adventure of til,
big editor of the Lyndon Union. Heav
7 lily weighed down with the responsible
ties of the occasion, being the only news
/ paper reporter present, he trod witt
majestic stride, his ponderous feet max
ing the ground tremble at every steI
y No serious results occurred, except tina
few unwary Canadians were crushe
! under his broad ox-hides, until he al
tempted to cross the bridge that span
ned the chasm between the wharf an
the hotel OF sudden there was
great crash, and amid dust, and debri
and flying timbers the dusky form {
the editor disappeared. There was COZ
I siderable excitement and alarm {
the loss of so valuable member of tn
company. but he was rescued at lengt
and taken into the house, where acti1
stimulants, a good application of col
water (and soap, restored him to col
70 seriousness. Hereafter he must be take
70 around ordinary bridges, like the ell
u plants of other menageries, if his oW
safety is desired.
e LYNDoN.-Don't forget the Gran!
u Fair on Wednesday of next week.
" A Mr.. Beede of Barton has NOV,
into Judge Bakers house at the Centr
g Stephen Platt, of st. Johnsbury, HI
r opened BARRIERS shop in the basemel
- of Mathewson's block.
Loren Prescott has moved into
house at the Centre. and Sanborn b
" moved into Moses Miles house.
d The Lyndonville Methodists are i