Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-05-07
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Lewis Smeade has sixteen White
Chester pigs, four weeks old May Is,
which he will sell at $500 each.
Barton.
The village schools close next
week.
Are you going to set out any trees?
if so this is the week.
JIG. Hall and Orville Rowell have
a lot of good apple trees for sale.
Read theiI adj.
The county examination of teach
ers will be held at Newport next Fri
day and Saturday.
Heavy rains last week and warmer
weather are helping Mrs. Spring to
spread her green carpet.
The postoffices at Irasburgh and
East Hardwick will be made postal
money order offices July 1.
The selectmen meet the highway
surveyors at town clerks office on
Tuesday, May 18th for settlement.
The M. E. Ladies' Society meets
with Mrs. Orange Mossman on We'd
nesday afternoon. All cordially in
vited.
Teachers who desire county Ii
cense will remember that the county
examination is to be held at New
port on Friday and Saturday of this
week.
The bear and his two assistants
gave an exhibition in our streets on
Friday. The Frenchmen seem to
improve from year to year under the
training of the bear.
Mrs. Thomas has a new millinery
advertisement this week. She has
been to Boston and New York, and
has large and excellent line of
goods. She makes her politest bow
to the public, at her opening on the
9th, 10th and 18th of May.
Remember that Miss Murkland in
vites every lady in this vicinity to
visit her millinery rooms on Wednes-
day, Thursday and Friday of this
week. Her store is in the second
story of the Nelson block. right over
the rooms she has heretofore occupied.
Do you know that G.. w. Preston, in
the McDougall block, keeps a good
line of stationery, and lot of things
not to be found elsewhere in town
He has a large stock of groceries,
and is making a speciality of new
brand of coffee which is really an ex-
cellent article for the price.
We are pleased to say good word
for G. F. Percival, furniture dealer.
He has, not to use the extravagant
language of an advertisement, very
large and elegant stock of goods in
every line advertised. 1t will pay
you to visit his rooms, whether YOU
wish to purchase goods or not.
Remember that j. B. Freeman is
agent for the Pacific guano. Many
of our farmers have used this fol-
some years past with very good re-
suits. w. H. Martin, who has useC
it four years and has bought tor
this year, says: 81 have used the
guano for potatoes, corn, beans and
other crops, with very excellent re-
suits. | am satisfied that it is very
good fertilizer and can cheerfully
recommend it as such.''
Mrs. Betsey ID. Stone has sold hel
COW to Byron Clement of Barton
Landing. This COW has the best but
ter record of any ever kept in Thu
town. During one year when an &C
cuFate record was kept, she mad,
over 800 pounds of butter and furn
ished a family with milk. There i
much trouble hereabouts with the new
4nilch cows. G. w. Jenness has los
d valuable one, W. /. Robinson i
liable to lose one, and others hav
been sick.
The new town (tower) clock pun
CHASED by the trustees of the villag
is being put up in the tower of tn
Congregational church. 1t cam
from the celebrated Seth Thoma
mandatory, Thomaston, Conn, an
is, apparently, perfect piece of ms
chinery. Every part of it appears to
thoroughly and most skiIlfully made
The work is as highly finished as
watch. The work of putting it u
will be done in few days and W
expect the village will be proud {
the best public time piece in IL
county or vicinity.
At the examination of teache
Saturday, there were thirty-one cal
didates examined, of whom twent-
three answered the required per cen
necessary to receive certificate
Those whose general average in &
the branches was over 80 per cen
are Ida M. Jones 50, Lettie A. Bel
%, Edith V. Bryant 80, Jennie \
Bryant SO, Mary A. Turnbull 8
Annie l.. Stone sc, Ida Ruggles 8
Inez b. Gould "a, Gertrude NJ. Ne
rill "a, Nellie A. Whitley S3, MINI