Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-12-17
LOCAL NEW
Barton.

next.
Ladies wishing to get Christmas
presents for their husbands or friends
should call at Cheney's Clothing
Store.
The Ladies' Society of the Cong.
church will meet with Mrs. Charles
Hubbard on Wednesday afternoon of
this week.
Our subscribers in the south and
central portions Of the county are
liable to see our agents this week.
Get your money ready.
The village clock suffered an at
tack of paralysis on Saturday morn
ing and has not moved hand since,
though it runs and strikes.
Meyers Jacobs is advertising his
goods at low rates, as he thinks of
going out of the peddling business.
Meyers is about rich enough to 90 to
store keeping.
Last week gave US all kinds of
weather, from mild agreeable day
to Dakota blizzard. Saturday was
an exceedingly severe day, No snow
for Shedding yet.
Thanks to Mr.. and Mrs. F. D.
Badger Of East Charleston for gen.
erous slices of wedding cake. May
happiness and prosperity attend them
on the voyage of life.
See club list and special offers on
second page, and read remarks care
fully. Do not ask the benefit of our
special offers if you neglect to at
tend to the matter in time.
Mr.. Harris of the st. Johnsbury
Inder, gets out beautiful pictorial
annual, which is picture book, an
almanac, a receipt book and adver-
tiser. 1t will be presented to his
subscribers gratis.
1t is reported that Melvin Elliott
has bargained to sell his goods and
business to Kendall Hughes of ST.
Johnsbury Center. If Mr.. Huges comes
he will employ as tinsmith Duer
Jenness an experienced workman
from St. Johnsbury.
If we could have given him the
space, G.. F. Percival would have
been pleased to have had large
Christmas advertisement. He states
however, that he shall have special
Christmas sales On Saturday, Monday
and Tuesday next. His show win
dows will be made specially attrac-
tive. There are Christmas goods
enough in town to make all the little
folks in the county happy.
Samuel Nelson, father of B. M.
R. Nelson of this village, met with
the misfortune to break one of the
bones of his leg, on Wednesday last.
He was assisting in taking care Of
sheep at the barn. when they ran
against a door which he was holding
with such force as to throw him
down, and cause the fracture. DR..
r. B. Skinner was called and the
limb was made as comfortable as the
circumstance would allow.
Walton's Vermont Register is
out. On the whole, its typogra-
ply is better this year than usual,
and with its large amount of statis-
tics and other matter, relating to
Vermont and the United States, it
has long since become standard
annual for the people in general and
especially to every business man in
the state, and indeed many out of
the state. They will be furnished at
MONITOR office for Is cents each.
And now many of the people are
going to burning coal. Great as has
been the slaughter of timber during
the last twenty years there is ample
wood, surplus wood, down timber
and decaying trees, which ought to
Il be cut into wood to supply fuel for
many years. The trouble with the
coal business is that it necessitates
the sending away to Pennsylvania Oh
elsewhere of an amount of money.
more or less, that never returns. The
& same paid to the farmer or the owner
~ of the wood lot is retained at home.
1t helps pay taxes, goes to the mer-
S chant, or the laborer who needs it
Il Where is all the money coming from
4 that people are putting into -four
foreign feed, guano, merchandise
coal? The most thrifty men in any
community are those who raise every.
thing necessary that the soil will pro-
duce, and make everything that the
housewife or the husband can make
They make zone hand wash the 9th
en-" The subject of keeping ou
money at home is one that ever,
thoughtful man ought to consider
There was doubtless timber enough
blown down by the storms of July 4
and of Nov. II within two miles o
this village to furnish all the WOO,
we shall need in five years.
East Albany.
The donation visit for Rev. r. w
Collins Melted $113.50.
The Ladies Aid will meet at vestr
of new church on Thursday eve Dec
goth. All invited.
Bro xvnin ton.
Carrie Seavey teaches the schoC
at Bloomington village.
Riley Adams lost horse recent
by an accident in a threshing mach