Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-06-25
LOCAL WIS.
Albany.

of paralysis last Thursday.
1. L. Sanders has gangrene in the
left foot, caused by corn.
The Henry Chaffee barn is up and
the frame is a very good one.
w. G.. Beecher, shoemaker, has
moved to this place from Irasburgh.
Walter Burke keeps the crows off
his corn patch by fastening his dog
in the lot. Pretty good use for the
dog.
South Albany
On the 18th inst. as Deacon Mitch
ell and Eliza Mitchell were driving
down hill the horses ran away and
4 threw them out. The deacon was
picked up unconscious and remained
so sometime. Eliza was not badly
hurt. Mr.. Mitchell was driving with
out breeching on his harnesses.
Barton.
A new lot of ladies Jersey jack
cts just received at O. D. Owens.
Some of the two-crop hay makers
are cutting their first crop.
Duncan McDougall though in very
feeble health is able to be out of
doors.
Glib. Ellis informs his customers
that he has just received a car load
of nice St Louis flour.
Rev. S. S. Brigham was called to
st. Adams recently to attend the
funeral of his aged mother.
We learn that Samuel Drew is soon
to set a marble monument in the
cemetery here, to be furnished by I'll.
r. Mack of Hardwick.
Several of the young ladies in this
place and vicinity go to the White
Mountains to do table work during
4 the season of summer travel.
Our correspondents, north, did not
get up early enough this morning for
the mail train, we judge, by the va
cant places in our local columns.
We see it stated that Rev. G. W.
Stowell, formerly of Coventry, will
give up his charge at Peacham and
90 to California on account of i'll
health.
There will be q meeting of the Fire
engine company next Monday eve
ming and unless there is some "change
in the programme, the company will
4 disband.
The horsemen who have about q
dozen trotters are having some excit-
ing private races these days. They
may be fitting up for the Fourth
somewhere.
H. o. Whitcher sells the Clipper
and Warrior moving machines, the
Billiard hay tedder and the Champi-
on horse rake, also repairs for ma
chimes and rakes.
1t has rained nearly every day
since June came in and the ground
is very wet. Rarely have the ponds
and rivers been as high at this season
of the year as they are now.
The lawn party given by the Meth
odist ladies on Friday night was well
attended and appeared to be a pleas
ant affair. The fireworks were bet
ter than the advertisement indicated.
The Powell store, in the Nelson
block, has been enlarged, painted,
etc. 1t is probably the largest store
room in the county. The room
alongside is being put in readiness
for the bank.
Some of the sporting dogs in the
village went on raid some days
since and killed lot of lambs and
badly worried the sheep belonging to
VIM. Cheney. The selectmen were
called upon to settle the matter.
A great improvement has been
made in the village cemetery by tax
ing out trees and bushes, building
fences, laying out lots and sticking
up. The selectmen ordered James
Gould, the sexton, to attend to the
the matter and it is we'll done.
The Beebe Plain camp meeting
will be in session next Sunday
and the Passumpsic R. R. will run 8
train to accommodate the public.
For some years there has been g
great deal of drunkenness and row
dyism at these Sunday excursions.
Joseph Elliott's horses attached te
his stage wagon, broke through thu
bridge running into his barn, one day
last week and there was mixture Of
logs, plank, horses, wagon and maj
that could hardly be distinguished
apart for some moments. Help be
ing near at hand the horses were ex
tricated without serious injury.
c. F. Mathewson made us pleas
ant call on Saturday. "Charley'' ha
been teaching in a Brooklyn schoo
OF college the past year at a goo
salary, and has received a fiatterin
offer to return at the beginning O
the next school year in the mean
time he will be employed by the Mon
treal Air Line railroad managemer
as their agent at the White Mour
talns.
There is a change of train time {
the Passumpsic railroad. The ma
train south is an hour earlier, an
fifteen minutes earlier on ifs n