Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-07-31

Yes, Poland has drawn his pocket,
That swallow-tailed, blue-coat. side pocket
And the plan is. as his followers talk it,
To again from the government stock it.
Hrelng newspaper pimps. how he bought EN-!
And chucklng says, Now we've caught en-
Forgetting the lesson once taught him,
That the people do voting next autumn,
When bluecoated veterans. in spite of his pocket.
Will send him skyward as high as a rocket
Barton Landing.
James Wilson has sold his house
and land in the village to Frank
Camel, for $1,000.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society will hold concert at the NJ.
E. church, Sunday, August 6, at 4
o'clock, p. m.
Owen Grant had his fingers severe
ly cut by the planer knives at Chand-
Ter, French & Cos. mill, last Tues
Jonathan Lynn sawed four of
his fingers while at work in the rail
road wood shed, at this place, last
Saturday.
BrONvnin 2.tOn.
Raspberries wanted at Wheeler's
store.
The Center village school, taught by
Miss Laura Bruce of Charleston, has
just closed. She taught very sue
cessful term.
d. S. Colley, brakeman, who is
now on the railroad, got severely
hurt at Sherbrook last week, while
coupling cars.
West Charleston.
Mrs. VIM. Green has gone to
South Ryegate to live.
G. O. Parlin has hired one-half of
the Joslyn shop, and will carry on
the cooper business.
Norman Nye, whose sickness was
mentioned in your last issue, died
Saturday evening, July p.
E. O. Bennett, FL. w. Dane and J.
B. Holton were chosen delegates to
attend the convention at Montpelier.
Hay crop good, after all the cry
about short crops; some farmers say
that they are getting more than they
did last year.
The w. G.. T. U. held a gospel
temperance meeting in the stone
church, Sunday evening, July %.
They had a large and attentive audi
ence, and all seemed well pleased
with the exercises. Temperance
leaflets were distributed among the
people at the close of the meeting.
The interest in the temperance cause
seems to be increasing here, the uni
on has over twenty members at pres
ent, and new ones are constantly
joining their ranks.
Sunday evening, as Blanche Church
was walking home from the gospel
temperance meeting; she was over
taken by a man, who was driving
quite fast, with a colt hitched with a
long rope or halter to the wagon.
Miss Church got out of the road a
sufficient distance, as she thought.
but the colt ran around her, drawing
her near the wagon, and knocking
her down, the wheels passed
over one Of her arms, injuring hel
considerable, though no bones were
1 broken.
Coventry.
Mr.. Trudeau has bought the G. R
Daley house.
The funeral of Hon. Isaac Parker
will be held at his late residence il
Coventry, on Tuesday, tomorrow
afternoon, at o'clock.
Miss Clara Barrows teaches thu
fall school in the West district
There will be schools this fall at thu
Center, north district, and on Barton
river.
Among those visiting in town arr
Mrs. Ella Chamberlin and children
and Miss j. E. Walworth with Ma,
and Bonnie Walworth from Worces
ter, and Mrs. Nettie Guild Crupl
from Boston, Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ambrose Ripley o
Topeka, Kansas, who lived in thi
town many years, are visiting thei
old friends here. Mr.. Ripley ant
his three sons have wholesale gro
Gerry. They like the country yer,
much but think one needs none,
there as we'll as here to start in bus
mess. 5N
CraftSbury.
Henry Hoyt has sold his shop t
Jack Keen.
| Franklin Smith is making repair
{ on his buildings.
A. Paddock and c. c. Hoyt hay
each lost horse recently.
! Charles Wheeler has bought C. c
Hoyt's meadow, paying for the sam
500.
Scott, Chamberlin and Hoyt hay
sold their Westfield timber land t
pal ties IN Westfeld for $500.
Mrs. Orcutt, the oldest person i
town, died on the 26th.-Dr. Dusti
is very low, can live but a few days
Neal Dow will deliver an address
e in the M. E. church Friday evening
e August 4, under the auspices of th
e w. C. e. T. Tickets 25 cts.
> DR.. Huntington of Des Moines, ha
bought Mrs, Isaac Whitney's plac
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