Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-23

Oscar Owen is putting up . large
building adjoining his store on the
north, for horse-shed and store room.
Reuben Devereaux is doing the job.
The Brick church has lately been re-
paired on the inside, by painting white
washing and papering, and now looks
as pretty and CHEEKY as new church.
There will be appropriate exercises
with Christmas trees at both churches
on Tuesday evening. The Catholics
hold high mass on the same evening at
their church.
Winter. according the calendar, began
Saturday last, at 5:4S p. m. On the
same afternoon the first real snow storm
of the season commenced, and winter
set in for business.
N. M. Whitney, the cooper, will work
in the Devereanx chop this winter, and
and will get out large lot of cedar
wash tubs and sap holders. Let those
who want holders put in their orders at
once.
Charles F. Mathewson, who has been
home from Dartmouth college on short
vacation, returns to Hanover this week.
Charlie not only leads his class, but wins
the best first term record that has been
made in the college for some years. We
are pleased at his success.
That excellent Democratic paper, the
Boston Post, will be furnished to our
clubbers at very low rates. See above.
The Post is among the very best papers
published in New England and we
cheerfully recommend it to our Demo-
cratic friends, or any others who want
good paper.
Luther Colburn, who is now 63 years
old, has lived in the Baker school dis
trict so years, and now lives within a
half mile of where he was born. He
has never been 50 miles from his birth
place, and knows little of the wick
ed world. He has raised family of
nine girls, all of whom are married his
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Oliver Valley, a very industrious and
worthy young man, died on Lake street
early last week of typhoid fever. Since
he was taken sick little child in his
family died of the same disease. Oliver
has worked in the chair factory ever
since he was ten years old, and was one
of the most faithful hands in it. His
funeral was held on Wednesday at the
Catholic church, and the chair factory
was stopped that his friends might at
tend the funeral.
The Sunday School Convention held
here last week, was well attended, con.
sidering the bad state of the roads, and
was unusually profitable and interesting
Most of the persons assigned to specia.
places on the programme were present
and their papers and addresses were very
commendable. Of the clergymen of the
county present, we mention Messrs
Morse and Chaplin of Albany. Haley anc
Webb of Irasburgh, Clapp and Wild O
Newport, Wheeler and Boardman O
Craftsbury, Thomas and Dickinson o
Glover, Butler of North Troy. Phelp
of Lowell. Nickerson of West Derby
Johnson and Phelps of this village
All of the exercises were good
and some of the addresses and paper
very excellent. We shall give the Sec
retary's report next week, which vii
give a more detailed account of tn
meetings. The officers elected for tn
ensuing year are, Geo. H. Blake of Bar
: ton, president; B. F. Paine of Jay, re
cOrding secretary A. J. Albee of Derby
corresponding secretary. Rev. g. S
Butler, Troy, z. E. Jameson, Irasburg
and H. W. Chafey, Albany, executiv
! committee.
BARTON LANDING.
Library meeting at the school house
Thursday evening.
Oscar Rice Is turning 100 rollers o
t which to move the Riverside hotel.
e A. D. Bigelow has snapped his hou'
s with H. 7. Jones for the Hammond plac
A. F. Brockway hangs out large ne
sign, which is fine ornament to ii
front of his store. Brockway is SO mac
that he must have good thing or notl
ing.
! s. A. Peck has lots of table castor
h glass ware, cutlery, lamps, fruit baske
II and another lot of fine parlor stove
4 Those wanting anything in his line wi
=. do well to visit his store.
The Thespians did their level best {
Friday evening, and had good hous
Jack got up good supper, and tho
who wanted dancing remained, Ito cha
the glowing hours with flying feet
l. BRO WNINGTON.
H. Blanding's pig weighed 552 lbs.
al Homer Bradley has sold his place
Willard Aldrich.
A singing school has been opened