Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-29
BARTON.

Read Mrs. Parker's advertisement.
J. B. Freeman paid out $4,000 for
butter on Saturday.
The postoAice is being moved into its
new quarters in the Robinson block,
to-day.
Oscar d. Owen has been to Boston to
make purchases for full trade and his
new goods have come.
@. F. Davis has put a shingled roof
over his house. Flat roofs are not
adapted to this climate.
Since butter took its last "boom, :"
there has been a wonderful shortening
Of farmers faces in this part of the coun-
try.
See G. F. Percivals new advertise
ment. He has sold very large amount
of furniture the past year, and still it
goes.
Those who wish to obtain an encyclo-
pedia at remarkably low rates, should
read the notice in another column relat-
ing to it.
G. W. Preston will sell the famous
Brooks ink on the Fair Ground during
the fair. This is new ink that is now
being extensively used.
Saturday was one of the busiest days
in business that we ever saw In this
village. Butter, potatoes and hogs were
being taken here in large quantities.
Mrs. Frank Z. Powell, who has long
been i'll with the consumption, died on
Thursday, and was buried on Saturday.
The remains were taken to Craftsbury
for interment.
Read the card from soak Hail." Bos-
ton, in another column. This system
Of doing business is entirely new, and
perfectly successful. Out of a hundred
orders there will be scarcely one
misfit.
Will our correspondents send their
items on Saturday morning? The Mon
day morning mail is now too late fol
US. We shall try. however, to put
in any important news reported to us on
Monday.
Green & Wallace desire to inform
those who owe them on book accounts
that the accounts will be left at the de.
pot store for one week, after which they
will be handed to Lawyer Baldwin fol
collection.
Benjamin Mossman, Esq, left here or
Tuesday for the West and California
He will make some stops in the West
and then 60 to San Francisco, from
hence he visits his children in Southern
California.
We expect to be on the fair grounC
all the time during the fair, and shall b,
In condition to receive new subscribers
and old dues on subscriptions. Remem
Der that it costs money to print news
papers, and that publishers need thei
pay as much as richer people.
A change of time has been made il
the running of passenger trains on tn,
Pasumpsic road. The morning mai
train South is over an hour later thai
heretofore, and the noon accommodation
train is also an hour later. See tim
table above.
The undersigned would here say that no has corr,
Bp0nded with the committee appointed to nvestigat
he Champlain Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Of Burnl
0n and has also examined their books personally an
be would advise all those who were so unfortunate q
10 be insured In this company 10 pay the Is per cen
is Thought best 10y the committee Of investigation
~ hoped this will be sufficient to pay the indebtedness
or the company. but II not and future assessment
made, II can be no worse than now as IL will cost
less to pay up hereafter than now and costs viii sun
NV. BALDWIN.
o. V. Percival. our weather recorder
says that the ground was frozen harde
on Thursday and Friday mornings tina
he ever knew it to be in Septembe
There were LOG days this season b.
tween killing frosts, though there wei
frosts every month. Notwithstandin
the short season all crops. except corr
are exceptionally good.
There will be an excursion to Montre:
and Quebec on Thursday next, eth,
by special train, or regular Montre;
train, with privilege of returning an
time next week. A special train wi
leave LyndOnville at II: 81 p. m, an
Newport at 2 80 p. m. Fare for Il
round trip from LyndOnville and ne:
stations, 1926, from Barton, Bartc
Landing and Coventry. so. 90 to Montre
and $500 extra to Quebec.
Everything today promises We
successful fair. There is a good prc
pect that the exhibition of stock al
farm products will be large, while L
ladies will attend to their dcpartmer