Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-04-11

f. III. Abbott has returned from
Bethel, Maine, his health being too
poor for him to attend to the business
he expected to do
Rev. B. A. Sherwood is away to Bos-
ton, Lowell and Lawrence this week,
and next Sunday exchanges with Rev.
A. z. Tracy, of Lynn, Mass.
Sugar making has been resumed once
more; Notwithstanding the cold wealth
er, quite large amount has already
been made. D. Hayward has made
1900 lbs. from 500 trees. Who has
done better?
H. A. Blake, agent Pacific Guano Co.,
is very busy these days in getting the
guano into the hands of local agents. He
ordered II car loads on Monday of this
week. and when all orders are filled
will have from 1900 to 1000 tons in
Vermont and New Hampshire.
Ezra Perkins, aged IS years has had
two shocks of paralysis and his recovery
is doubtful; Wheaton Campbell. anoth-
er of our aged and respected townsmen.
is also in failing health; Arad Ball,
father of A. H. Ball, is also very poor
ly. A few years must make great
change where there are so many aged
people.
Such going as We have in town at
present In the North part of the town,
it is good sleighing, on the river road,
fair wheeling, aud in other places neith-
er sleighing. wheeling or walking; but
after reading Rev. W. H. Holmes letter
from Illinois, in last weeks MONITOR,
we feel contented to live in the good old
Green Mountain state.
West Burke.
Dan Ruggles of Sutton has exchanged
his Rhodes place in this village for
George Woodruff's pasture in Newark.
The exchange was even.
The Good Templar organization is
now the center of society interest. The
society is composed of working members
who are making commendable efforts to
gather their neighbors from the outer
darkness.
On Saturday last Selim Bugbee was
arrested and examined in lawyer Otis
Office, charged with selling liquor and
getting drunk. For the first offence he
he was discharged, but fined SIS and costs,
S24.l6 in all, for being drunk, and
allowed "a hours to pay the fine or 60
to Rutland l47 days.
Lorenzo Warren, who was reelected
school committee has hired Ida Anger
for the higher department. She taught
the school last fall very acceptably.
The district voted to paint the school
house, to have 80 weeks school in both
departments, to raise 45 cents on the
dollar to run the schools and paint the
house.-Union.
Sheffield.
VIM. S. Mcdowell has commenced on
George Williams barn.
Six of our young men have gone tc
Hardwick to work this summer.
The listers fud no trouble taking the
list, all being willing to give in true
list. Not any one has left town OF
account of the new law.
Herman Simpson, who went to Mont
pelier to attend school. has come home
His health was not good enough to at
tend school, he took cold and came verl
near having the diphtheria.
We understand that j. o. Ingalls, had
hearing last week, his bonds being
placed at $1,000. No one appearing
he was taken back to his clearinghouse
where the underpinning runs up to tn
caves
From the Manchester Mirror we take
the following. which will be of interes
in the Ingalls-Berry matter:
From another source we learn that tn
Berry girl was taken sick with Group, AM
the physicians in this city who attende,
her, did so at the request of the farme
with whom she was stopping, who
| acknowledged to be man of undoubte
| worth. Her sickness was of such dan
gerous character that the operation c
: tracheotomy was performed to save he
r from imminent danger of suffocation
After the operation she raised large piece
; of membrane, breathed more easily, too
some nourishmeDt and slept well, and III
til within three hours of her death Their
was every Indication of her recovery
The attending physicians represente
that, as far as their knowledge extend:
there was no evidence of an abortio
having been performed upon her.
r Stannard.
I James Aston has rented his farm t
$ William Graham of Craftsbury.
r Listing is progressing slowly. On
s man refuses to fill out and sign the oatl
f He had only one COW, one horse, on
v poll and owed 5000
e PeachaHm.
Mrs. Charles Varnum is very To-
with heart trouble; she has been sic
e for some time.
Edward McLachlin and Leon Bills