Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-01-03


Great snow storms and exceeding cold
weather have prevailed.
The Ladies' Floral Cabinet is a
journal, devoted to household
art. flowers and home literature. that
would be very welcome and useful
visitor in every family. 1t tells all
about flowers and their management,
and contains great deal that is of in
terest to ladies. Address Adams &
Bishop, box 2456 Boston, Mass.
The state tax this year is 20 cents on
a dollar. Taxes in Barton are town
SO, state 20. and state school cents on
a dollar of the list. Total 78. See
"Notice" in another column when the
collector, j. N. Webster will meet the
taxpayers. The village school tax is
30 cents on dollar, the village corpo-
ration tax so cents, which added to the
town, state and state school make 1873
all told-large enough.
Widow Polly Fisk. living with, and
sister of, Mrs. Ephraim Taylor of this
town, is in her 99th year. She is in
perfect health, but her intellect has
failed her considerably. Her nezaory
of early events is very clear, but moth
ing of the present fixes itself in her
mind to be remembered any length of
time. She is great reader, but for
gets in few days that she has read a
paper, and reads it all over with the
same interest with which it was read
the first time.
South Barton.
Twenty-Five men are wanted at once
at Crystal Lake mill, to whom good
wages will be paid.
A. o. Blake has returned from Cali
fornia. He found business very quiet
there, and the opportunities for employ
ment not fatterlng.
Business at Crystal Lake mill is very
lively, about $50 men being now
employed in the woods and about the
mill. Over fifty teams are running.
Chauncy G. Drown is not recovering
from his attack of paralysis. Melvin
Drown is home, and will assist in the
arrangement of his fathers business.
Barton Landing.
Stop fighting or we will tell of it.
George Bush, and little son of L. D.
Wilson are sick with the diphtheria.
The former is improving.
There will be a donation visit at
Bloomington Center. Wednesday, Jan.
18th, for the benefit of Rev. O. D. Clapp
of this place.
There were eight deaths in this vii
lage during the last year. The eighth
was that of Goodwin F. Ordway, Tues
day, Dec %. His loss is deeply felt,
especially among the young people.
H. R. Hall harvested 500 bushels Of
turnips on 3-4 acre. Mr.. Hall raised
l6O bushels of sugar beets on little
less than IA acre. These were from
the seed furnished by the Portland Beet
Sugar Co.
MR.. EDITOR The Christmas tree last
evening not only bore for US nice warm
fur overcoat, "with pockets" but we find
that the gold, silver and greenback fruit
amounted to nearly thirty dollars. Allow
US, through your columns, to thank the
kind friends for these, and to express to
them our hope that their happy Christmas
may be lifelong one.
JAMES A. BATES,
SARAH A. T. BATES.
Barton Landing, Dec. 25, 1880.
Bloomington.
Miss Sutton of Canada is here visiting
friends.
Meetings at the Village and Center
every night this week.
Evansville.
The neighbors are getting in a stock
of ice-no discount on quantity or quail
ity.
The Christmas exercises at the school
house, held on Saturday eve, were pleas
ing and interesting. The house was
crowded, and the singing and speaking
was good. The tree was we'll loaded
bearing gifts of friendship to all. A
beautiful bed quilt was presented t.
Mrs. o. d. Clapp, wife of the pastor, by
the ladies of Evansville.
Coventry.
Water is very low in Black River
Mills cannot run all the time.
A valuable young horse. belonging t.
Geo. Mellon. died Thursday night.
The Dorcas Society meets with Mrs
William Stevens on Tuesday, Jan. II.
Our enterprising tanner now has ;
stock of hides, skips, leather and barl
amounting to $4,000.
1t should have been mentioned las
week, In giving an account oftbe Christ
mas gatherings, that Rev. Mr. Stowel
of the NJ. E. church received a mic
sleigh robe, and that fine hanging
lamp was donated to the gallery Of tina
church.