Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-08
ROWNINGTON.

Harvey Foster is building him house
at Evansville.
S. S. Bartlett has returned from his
Sutton numbering job.
A. J. hurry takes the Townshend
sugar place on shares.
Guess Charley Wheeler will not build
new store at the Center this year.
Thomas Wilkey has moved on to the
Spafford farm in the east part of the
town.
Chas. Wheeler collects the taxes for
the town for the sum of $1,000. Too
cheap.
F. W. Alexander is getting ready to
thoroughly repair his barns the coming
season.
There are FIVE stores and five black
smith-shops in town, and yet some people
90 out of town to do business.
The social visit and oyster supper at
I. H. Evans, Feb. 81, for the benefit of
J. L. Marshal, was well attended. The
gifts amounted to over $35, the most of
it in cash. Thanks are due Mr.. Evans
and wife for kindly opening their house
for the visit.
| CARD.-We take great pleasure in
saying, concerning the visit given us at
Mr.. Evans, that the friends we met,
the gifts We received, and the visit we
enjoyed, will be long and gratefully re-
membered. Dear friends accept our
sincere thanks. And may He who ''mak-
eth poor and maketh rio" reward you.
JOHN l.. MARSHAL.
T1RzAH J. MARSHAL.
VEST CHARLESTON.
William Nelson, has rented his farm
to Eleazer Rye for $l25.
Cows are selling at $50 to $50 dol
lars apiece.
Edwin W. Barron opened his new
drug store March 5th.
Daniel Moore tapped his sugar place
Feb. 26th and 9th and got quite run
of sap.
The Spring term of the academy com.
menced Tuesday. March I'd. Teacher
Miss Lydia Human.
J. c. Oliver, administrator on the
; Edison Lyon estate, has rented the Igor
farm and stock to Mr.. Norton of Iras
burgh, for $500.
David S. Cook made maple sugar il
the month of January, and also in Feb
: ruary /: enough each time so that hi
family had meal of new sugar.
There was quite struggle at Marcel
meeting between the east and the ives
portions of the town over the election o
town officers. The greatest difficult
) seemed to be in choosing a town clerk
I The west part of the town succeeded il
e electing their candidate at the fifth bal
lot by three majority.
J. CRAFTSBURY.
d Charles Cook has hired the Mulfor
: Eldridge farm for one year.
R. W. Moody recently drew load Q
posts to Wolcott, weighing one ton, wit
horse that weighed only $50. R. "
loads too heavy.
Schuyler Corey made 5000 pounds {
butter the past year from "A cows. 5 TIVE
years-old and 5 three-years-old heifer
! The butter averaged "a cents pount
. This was good yield, as every dairyma
2 knows.
~ District clerks, who have not alread
= done so, will greatly oblige the Superb
y tendent by returning to him at ont
y their school registers, as he needs the
N in making his report to the State s.
70 perintendent
DERBY.
! The MONITORS history of Derby h;
; been resting for some weeks, on accoul
of the loss of one of the record books
the town, which contained necessary i
formation; the book has been found ar
? the "history" will be resumed.
ID J. G. Elder, general agent for t
no sale of the Rideout Churn and butte
ID worker, is having great sale of the
al useful dairy implements. He has ju
al received orders from one of his agents
ca Maine for % of them, and from Micl
r. gan for lot. Vermont dairymen fro
a. different parts of the state are CALI
bo for them
VEST DERBY.
. Mrs. Moon has returned from her tt
to Boston.
Of Mrs. Adams, widow of the late w;
be rem Adams, is very sick with the me-
a les.
in Clarence Glib has moved into I
MS house with his father-in-law, Russ
be- Burt.
le- The donation for Rev. A. H. Milk
err on last Tuesday eve, was we'll attend
Tas Receipts of the evening, $50.
lot Warren Hackett of Newport, |
'ry bought the David Glib place. payi
me the sum of $500. He takes possess
e" Immediately.
:, Potato buyers have been gathering