Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-01-23

dren. His body was brought to Glover,
and buried from the Universalist church,
Dec. 31st, Rev. Mr.. Tillotson of ST. Johns
bury officiating. The services were large
ly attended by his old acquaintance and
friends and the townspeople. Con-.
West Glover.
Mr.. Elihu Wright, who sometime
since visited his son, Rev. Reuben
Wright, who lives in Illinois, was
was much pleased with his trip and
not little surprised at the enter
prise, as well as the greatness, OF the
Great West. In the comparatively
small town of Crystal Lake, which
is 43 miles from Chicago there were
several kinds of business outside the
ordinary avocations, that showed, in
measure, how they do things in the
West. An ice firm packs $4,000
tons ice for Chicago, and at pickle
factory he saw bins for holding 49,
900 bushels Of cucumbers, with other
appliances for converting this mass
of cucumbers into pickles and
gherkins. Some of the farmers
were raising as high as fifteen
acres of cucumbers about the
village and vicinity. Some 400 acres
of sweet corn was raised to be steam
ed, Kindred and barreled for market.
Land in that vicinity, improved
farms, sells for $50 an acre. 1t is
needless to say that the soil is excel
lent. Mr.. Wright travelled, across
country, with his son some seventy
or eighty miles and saw the vast
grain fields and the immense farms
that help swell the aggregate of grain,
which reaches almost to the billion
bushels and annually passes through
the great metropolis on the shores of
Lake Michigan. The fences in this
region are largely made of barbed
wire, though there are some hedges.
Among the busy things in this Sec
| ton are the numerous wind mills that
pump, churn, grind, and do much of
the hard work. In this particular
section of the west, wheat is not a
sure crop, but almost everything else
grows to perfection. Mr.. Wright
had safe trip back, and his journey
afforded him much pleasure.
| Greensboro.
Myron Dunn, one of our black
smiths, has bought the Wilson house.
The Greensboro Library Associa-
ton have added about so books to
the library.
Geo. B. Miles has rented his saw
mill at E. Greensboro to d. III. Bedell
of Hyde Park.
Rev. Mr.. Mcbride from Ohio as
sumes the passionate of the U. p.
church, commencing last Sunday.
At the sabbath school anniversary,
G.. L. Baker was reelected superin-
tendent and Rev. Stephen Knowlton,
assistant.
Greensboro Bend.
E. E. and E. T. Brunell have leas-
ed the hotel of 0. O.. Kimball, and
take possession Feb. l.. They will
make their hotel pleasant home for
travellers.
Charles o. Dawson was severely
injured last week, while carrying a
skid On his shoulder in the mill yard.
He slipped on the ice and fell, crush
ing his head between the skid and the
ice. The skid was seventeen feet long
and six inches in diameter. The physi-
clans say that he cannot live.
Holland.
l. X. Lombard is amusing himself
by publishing paper CO called the
Waterman and Alarm. The latter
name seems peculiarly appropriate
just now.
The small pox scourge is again
among us, and Olin Washburn has
died with it. There are several cases
of varioloid, and possibly, one or
more cases of the small pox. Prompt
measures will be taken to prevent a
spread of the disease. The schools
are all closed and the meetings held
by Mr.. Jordan are suspended. 1t
was first thought by the physicians
that Washburne' disease was scar
let fever.
Irasbu1.gh.
Hon. E. P. Cotton is in town.
w. FL. Daniels is drawing Geo.
Parker's lumber to the Landing.
A donation visit for Rev. A. B.
Blake will be held at the M. E.
church vestry, on Wednesday even
ing, Feb. LIST.
| Nathaniel Sawyer has been engag-
ed to board Widow Warren and hel
helpless son, and will move to hel
house soon.
| The person who stole that sleeps
gray cloth off the line at A. Colton's s,
will feel more sheepish than he does
now, if it is not returned.
| Rev. A. III. Webb lectures at Con
gregational church on Thursday ev.
ening of this week. An oyster sup.
per will follow the lecture. All in
vited.
A very pleasing exhibition was
held at Burton hill school house or
Friday evening, gotten up by the
scholars under the thorough direction
of the teacher, Miss Clara Colburn
of Albany. One scholar in this dis.