Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-05-17

has been repaired OF late. making It
much more convenient for the tenants of
the house.
Quite generous contributions have
lately been made for the band, and we
expect efficient service and lots of music
from the boys this season.
eStie1d.
Good COWS are selling from 80 to So |
dollars, cash
Loren Hendricks has bought Fergu-
son creamery and added extra COWS to
his dairy.
WestmOre.
Mill Brook school commences to-day.
J. G. Orne has been appointed post
master for this town.
M. B. Fisk has sold out his lumber
business and returns to Connecticut,
Albert Leland, boy of sixteen, was
injured by having mill-log roll over
him.
School in the Scott district commenced
last Monday. Miss Cole of Charleston,
teacher.
Alonzo Davis and wife from Dakota
were in town last week on visit at
John Hunts
Boating promises to be lively this
season and all hands are getting ready
for the longe season.
The hills were white with snow We'd
nesday morning and the ground was
considerably frozen on Saturday morn
ing.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
The boys recently made Is thousand
feet of box shocks at the Grandy mill
at Lyndonville in IA hours.
Nathaniel II. Eaton, editor of the
North Star, died in Danville last We'd
nesday, aged IS years. Mr.. Eaton was
a man respected for his intelligence and
integrity. The good old Star will
be published, doubtless, by Geo. G.
Eaton. son of Mr.. Eaton.
st. JOhnsbury.
Jerry Drew is running the st. Johns
bury House and has large patronage.
The Supreme Court was in session
here last Tuesday. None of the more
important cases were decided.
1t is believed that "Dick" Peabody
will jump his bail in case the Supreme
Court does not give him new trial.
At the Worlds Fair now being held
in Australia, the Fairbanks Scales have
taken all before them with their collec
tive exhibits. The judges state tina
owing to their superiority over all 9th
er kinds manufactured, this firm should
/ receive some other distinctive notice il
| addition to a irst-class award. Thes
scales met in competition those of othe
) firms from this country, England ant
France.
East Hardwick.
? 1t has been cold time of late TO
| sheared sheep.
The village miller left the place be
| tween two days recently, and there ar
: some financial mourners.
Estus Conant, Deacon Hodge, Devin
: Morse and Nathan Foss, four of the old
f est men in town, have died recently.
South HardNVick.
The town house is to be painted.
: The new bell for the M. E. church
a good one.
e ID. W. Aiken, Jr. is home on shol
It visit from Vicksburg, by jolly.
Gerry Houston is better and wi
y soon be able to work again.
Everybody hurrahs for Edmunds, br
v the third term men are very scarce.
Reform Club adjourned till June whe
Rev. Booth of Morrisville will deliver
lecture.
- Capt. Templeton has lately receive
Sl,560 pension arrears, and gets Sl2
per month hereafter.
Mr.. Joslyn of the Centennial Hou'
has increased the capacity of his liver
" and still his teams are all busy.
Bailey sold large amount of grant
on his western trip, and is adding mo
'o men and new machinery to his shops.
R. G.. Kimball has sold out his butte
r. cry business to Mr.. Stratton of Graft
IS bury. Mr. Stratton is an old butch
re and will doubtless run the meat bu
ness to the satisfaction of the public.
Burke.
is Rev. L. II. Tabor moved last Wedt
y. day to Island Pond. J. M. Tabor, NJ.
er his son, goes to Connecticut to practi
ii homeopathy, next Monday the 18th.
Deborah, wife of Jacob McNeal, "
it. buried Friday she died with drop:
Ill and on Saturday. Mary, only daugh
it of B. F. Gaskill, aged Is, with ct
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