Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-06-11
what they want. He expects to open
his store the first of next week.

The following circular has been
addressed to postmasters relative to
postoffice box keys, and the post
masters are obliged to comply with
it or be reported. 1t seems to be
unnecessary, but the postmaster is
not to blame. This must be attend
ed to before July /:
"Postmasters at offices not located in
Government buildings, will require de-
post of fifty cents for each key to lock
boxes rented by them, and on the return
of the key they will refund the amount
from the postal revenue, taking receipt
from the party to whom it is paid"
Some time since quantity of liq-
uors was seized at one of the hotels
and stored in the barn of a temper
ate citizen in the place till the au-
thorities could examine it and dis
pose of it. 1t was inspected and
that which was considered fit was put
into the liquor agency. The balance
was hid in the loft. Recently some
of our fellows, who can scent a key
of rotgut anywhere in the village,
broke into the building and stole the
whole of it. We can cheerfully give
their obituary notices when it be-
comes necessary.
Barton Landing.
Daniel Buchanan is building barn
near the M. E. church.
Quarterly meeting services at the M.
E. church next Sunday, the presiding
elder will be present.
Uncle Daniel Twombly has return
ed from his visit to Boston. His
health is rather poor.
Mr.. Staples fell from building
recently and received very serious if
not fatal internal injuries
Hermon Churchill who has been
out of health for some time is very
low; hardly a chance for his re-
covery.
A box car loaded with dressed
lumber took fire while in the train
last Saturday. 1t was set out at this
station and the fire company called
with their engine to eXtinguish the
flames.
Bloomington
Mrs. Moses Currier has sold her
farm to Warren Bassett.
Mrs. E. Griswold and Mrs. H.
Wheeler ate warm sugar on snow
June 2.
Henry Fairbrother has rented a
tenement at the Landing and is to
work for Chandler & French.
Francis Tinkham, son of S. S.
'Tinkham, has returned from Dakota
and finds employment at Newport.
Charles Smith of Pennsylvania,
formerly of Barton, is in town visiting
friends at Evansville and elsewhere.
He is doing a very successful bust
ness in that state.
Milo Cleveland who went to Hol-
yoke, Mass, some months ago had a
hand badly mutilated by saw re-
Gently and has returned home. He
lost his other hand by an accident
some years ago.
Mrs. I. A. Wyman, who has been
i'll nearly year is failing. Will hel
christian friends remember that "the
prayer of faith shall save the sick, -
and unite in earnest prayer that hel
sickness may not be unto death, but
for the glory of God.
Evansville.
Now we want a blacksmith again.
Harvey Foster has hired George
Bickford's house for two years.
West Charleston.
Mrs. Charles Carpenter is quite
sick with neuralgia.
J. B. Holton is putting a new coat
of paint on his store.
T. B. Pratt recently sold a fat COW
which dressed 922 pounds.
The Baptist society here have hir.
ed the Whipple house at the upper
end of the street for parsonage.
Mr.. Joslyn's broken leg is doing
as well as could be expected. DAM
ell Kilborn of Derby acts as his nurse
Coventry.
Children's Day services will bt
held at the Methodist church mex
Sunday.
We failed to mention in the prope1
season the excellent memorial address
of Rev. A. B. Blake, given on thu
9th ult.
Mrs. Phebe H. Plastridge, the old
est member of the Congregations
church here, showed her love for thu
church of which she has been a mem
Der forty-four years by coming three
miles to the conference held here las
week. She joined this church b,
letter from Cornish, n. II. She il
So years of age and the oldest woman
IN town.
The County Conference of Congre
gational Churches met here last weel
and only needed larger ATTENDANCE
to make it as successful as any tina
have preceded it. Nearly ever.
church of the denomination in tn
county was represented by its pastor
but there were few church member
present, except delegates. 1t is