Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-06-11
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

The St. Adams reform club is now occu-
plying its newly furnished rooms.
Between seventy and eighty cases of
measles are reported at West Townshend.
The second annual reunion of the Sec
ond Vermont will be held in Burlington,
June Goth.
Thirty-nine members have been added
to the Wells River Congregational church
since March
An old counterfeiter's press was recent
ly discovered in the woods at Berkshire,
buried in the earth.
1t is said that the creditors ofthe North
Troy furniture company will realize about
sixty-fve per cent.
The late Hon. Thomas Allen, of Mis-
souri,, bequeathed $500 to the Bennington
| battle monument fund.
Stannard post, G. A. R., of Burlington
Melted $500 from the war-songs concert
on the evening of memorial day.
Four car loads of Norwegians passed
|
on their way to Kansas via Montreal.
pike weighing over fifteen pounds
was recently caught in the Connecticut
! river. It measured three feet in length.
Alfred Kemp of Bellows Falls has car
ried the mail from the depot to the post
office in that village for thirty-four years.
Mrs. S. Fl. Rowel of Randolph won the
second prize offered by the Rural Neev
Yorker for the best article on the subject
Of Ginning in the Old Times and New"
Parmas Pope, the miner injured by a
falling rock in the Ely mines Thursday,
died Thursday night. His age was 81,
and he was but recently married.
julius G. Fassett, a prominent hard
ware dealer of Bethel, died Wednesday
Of meningitis and blood poisoning due to
an internal abscess at the base of the
brain.
Gen. J. G. Mccullough, president OF
turned to Bennington for the summer,
and occupies the family residence of the
late T. w. Park.
, A man who gets his living by having
fits in pnblic and then passing around the
a hat has certainly very original method
q of saving his muscle, but this is what
Horace Barney of Marshfield is said to
do.
Ex-Governor Horace Fairbanks wa:
e present by invitation at the opening o
Y the great bridge between New York an(
e Brooklyn, and afterwards attended tn,
reception at Engineer Roebling's resi-
e dence.
:. The new electric light building at Bel
l. lows Falls will stand on the foundation
6 of the old machine shop. The light viii
e be used by the village, the paper mills
o the machine shops and some of the meI
e chants.
IL Rev. Church Tabor, who was recent
assigned to the pastorate of the Metho
dist church in Richford, will be unable t
d. take the charge on account of the contiI
re ued ill-health of his wife. They wi
10 probably go to Dakota.
:" At the annual meeting of the stockhold
ers of the Lincoln iron company Redfel
Proctor, w. FL. Dubois, J. c. Dunn, Rocl
wood Barrett and w. A. Patrick were II
= elected directors; r. Proctor, president
= R. Barrett, clerk and treasurer, and "
- A. Patrick, superintendent.
70 E. c.. Carrigan, known in Vermont b.
q cause of his sensational work in come,
ton with the John P. Phair case, all
nd who is now Gov. Buffers law partne
s+ has been nominated by the governor an
m confirmed by the council member of ii
q Massachusetts board of education.
The fast express over the Central We
he mont railroad made the run from We
he Randolph to White River Junction recen