Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-11-26
LOCAL WIS.

ment in regard to clothing.
Read Baxter & Grows big ad. in
supplement to-day.
G.. f. Percival is building pagoda
near his furniture store.
Scion Currier advertises thanks
giving groceries. See ad and read.
Henry Gay closes his carding sea-
son at his mill Dec. /, but his sales
room will be open all winter.
Mrs. Fuller has returned to this
place from Glover to the Mrs.
Jones house, where she will do dress
making, make coats, vests, pants,
etc.
The festival at the vestry on Friday
evening was well attended and the
exercises, as well as the chicken pie
and other edibles, were greatly en-
3 joyed.
Put it down in your memorandum
that the thermometer stood at 20 on
the 22d day of November, 1888.
The past week has been remarkably
warm for the season.
There will be Union Thanksgiving
services at the Cong. vestry, Rev.
Brigham preaching a short sermon,
on Thursday forenoon. Let the ser
vices be we'll attended.
N. M. SCOTS new ad. appears to-
day. MI. Scott, as all know, always
has a very large stock Of goods US
ually kept at the 'depot store" and
to-day he invites the public to read
his ad. for a few specialties.
The item published by the Union
and quoted by the EGpress, to the eff
feet that V. n. Spalding had leased
his hotel to Francis Richardson, is a
little too previous. There has been
some talk of trade but no writings
are made.
The County Sunday School Union
will hold its annual meeting at this
village, Tuesday and Wednesday,
Dec. Hip. All interested are re-
quested to extend notice and assist
in making the convention interesting
and useful. Programmes soon.
The j. E. Dow place on the Glov-
erroad, bid off by Mr.. Ufford was sold
last week by Ufford to W. G. Brown
and by Mr.. B. to Joseph Owen 1t is
reported that Mr.. Owen will move up
there where he can have a little more
room for his colts, and little more
work to do.
During week before last, Geo. D.
Bickford drew at three loads, with
one pair Of horses IA, $40 pounds Of
butter from Glover village to the de-
pot in this village. The loads aver
aged 4,847 and the wagon weighed
1000 pounds making total weight
to the load of 5,847.
A Martin Crane, formerly of GLOW
er, but for many years in the Inter
nal Revenue service, has lately been
assigned to a southern department,
having his headquarters at New Or
leans. He has just recovered from
q severe term of sickness. Mrs.
Crane (Trufax) is giving our read
ers an interesting account Of the
Louisville Exposition.
The Orleans County Musical AS
ISOLATION will hold a four days
convention, beginning Jan. 20, al
some place to be designated hereaft
er. Mrs. Martha Dana Shepard has
been engaged as pianist, and bel
name alone is a guarantee of success
The conductor and soloists have no
yet been announced, but the whole
programme will be made out by the
executive committee in due time.
The year 1884 will be an importan
one in national and local politics, anC
the newspaper will be of unusua
Importance. Everybody must hayt
the papers. The MONITOR will TT,
to fill its place in its local sphere
and it will be amply worth its price
We do not find it a necessity to Dol
ster it up with chromos and alma
macs, but for the advantage O
prompt renewals and old arrearage
settled, we shall furnish the MoNITo
with Boston Journal, N. 7. Tribune
Weekly NelCs, Witness, Household
and some other standard and valua
BILE periodicals, much cheaper tina
the same can be obtained elsewhere
Our regular club list as heretofore.
A correspondent in Easthamptor
Mass, sends US an account of an a
fair which occurred at Mt. Ton
Mass, which was very similar in n;
ture to the story we all read in OF
school days of the adventurous yout
who attempted to scale the precipic
at the Natural Bridge in Virgini
The following is the account sent III
A singular accident occurred in Il
vicinity of Easthampton, Mass
Wednesday afternoon, November
George E. Osgood, student Of w
liston Seminary, and two chums wa
dered up the side of Mt Tom. O
good assembled an almost perpendi
ular cliff to the height of about for
feet when he discovered a projectil
rock directly above him which
could not scale. He had passed oy
such dangerous precipices in goi
up that to return the same way won
be sure death. One of his chul