Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-08-30


North Troy, footed the bills.
Caucus next Saturday evening to put
in nomination Town Representative.
As there are several important meas
ures largely affecting the well-being of
this town, to come before the next ses-
sion of the Legislature, large attend
ance is desirable, that the best man
may be sent.
Quite number of the students of
last term do not return this fall to the
Academy, among whom are G. A. Sill
yer, who goes to Colebrook Academy,
Loren M. Jenne, who teaches the viii
lage school at North Troy. Fred s. Gray,
who is engaged in the study of medicine
at Barton Landing, and E. E. Silver
who has been in Maine for several weeks
past in the employ of Robert S. Davis
& Co., publishers of Greenleaf's series
of mathematics, besides several others
who will teach in this and adjoining
towns during the fall term.
The Republicans of the Centre on
Saturday showed their loyalty by erals
ing to the breeze" a Garfield and Ar
thur flag, across Main street, between
E. Lanes new store and the postofice.
In the evening meeting was held at
the town hall, for the purpose of or
ganizinga Garfield and Arthur club,
and of listening to Major j. circuit on
the political issues of the day. The
club was organized with DR.. E. W.
Clarke as president, and W. S. Robbins,
secretary. Appropriate remarks were
made by Rev. Mr.. johnson, followed by
Rev. Mr.. Butler who spoke in his usual
happy way. Major Circuit was then in
troduced to the club, and spoke very
ably for an hour upon the issues of the
campaign. He gave comparative his
tory of the two parties from the time of
their organization to the present, in
Guiding the leaders and leading party
measures of each, and showed the incon-
sistency of the party which promises so
loudly to do the things which the Re-
publican party has already done, as soon
as they are seen to be popular and sue
cessful measures the party which in
Maine and Ohio unites, in the hope of
success, with the very party and prin-
ciples which in Alabama it opposes
with tissue-ballots and shotgun institu-
tions.
Glover.
Mrs. Hiram Phillips starts for the
West this week, to visit her son resid-
ing in Wisconsin.
"Uncle Enoch" Simonds asks the one
who borrowed his buffalo, to return
the same before cold weather, as he will
need it then.
Judge Thompson will speak on the
political questions of the day at the
town hall next Saturday evening, at
z 1-2 o'clock. All come out and hear
him.
School in district No. z. taught by
Miss Edna Fayer, closed with rhe torical
exercises on Friday, Aug. 9th. Whole
number Of scholars "a, average daily
attendance %. There were % having
no tardy marks; those having neither
absent nor tardy marks, we're Lennie
Patterson, Nellie Patterson, Carrie
Spring, Lucy Spring, Winnie Patterson,
Robert Gilmour, Eugene Anderson, IT.
vim Anderson. Those having only one
absent mark were Ida Patterson and
Joseph Spring, Winnie Patterson, lit
tie boy seven years old, has attended
school six terms having neither absent
nor tardy marks during that time.
Greensboro.
DR.. Kilby, from the West, has decided
to locate at the Bend.
j. G. Simpson has sold his house a
the Bend to A. 2. Folsom, and moved tt
Craftsbury.
H. S. Tolman and family are at Peek
Island, and J. A. Crane and family ar
going west on a visit, next week.
Bountiful harvests and good price
for butter, make the farmers>cheerful
therefore the Greenback party offers n
inducements to him, and so the electio
will show.
Holland.
Anna Fletcher commences her schoo
in district No. 3, to-day.
The republican caucus is to be he'll
at the town hall on Monday, Sept. 6.
The democratic caucus of this town
called to meet at the town hall on Sal
urday evening, Sept. 4. Geo. Tice an
Ammon Moulton are talked of as Car
: didates
: IraSburgh.
The citizens will meet at the Coul
house Tuesday evening to hear addresst
, from Hon. L. H, Thompson, Hon. l. \
Cushman and others, upon the issues {
the present campaign. Music will
furnished by the Irasburgh cornet ban'
The attendance should be large. Il
everybody come.