Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-09-24
LOCAL NEW s.

Mass, doing the job. 1t is a good
one.
Mrs. Baxter Collins has snapped
her village place with Mrs. John Ten
ney for the Wilcox place on the
Eden road.
Barton.
Remember the Fair Oct. I'd, Sd and
4th.
Webster's is the place to buy your
boots and shoes.
F. w. Baldwin Esq, and wife are
home from Dakota in good health.
The number of pounds of butter
shipped from this place this morn
ing was 25,261.
The Ladies' Society of the Cong.
church meet with Mrs. j. E. Skinner,
Wednesday afternoon.
Are you coming to the fair, wife
dllu Will W SuOW
that will help to make it respectable
and useful
Frank Morehouse, who worked for
Mr. Rawson in the jewelry business
few years since, is home from the
Waltham watch factory on a visit.
Frank has good position and gets
large wages.
Neighbor Case will accept our
thanks for generous gift of apples,
the largest we have seen this year,
and Capt. Percival of Glover also
for pumpkin which ought to supply
the family with pumpkin pies for sew
eral months.
Geo. W. Frost, having sold out
his wood job to Ira Wyman, has
purchased the Capt j. Rice farm in
the east part of the town, getting
tools and one half the crops for
$4,000. Frost will move on to the
place next month.
The farmers in this and neighbor-
ing towns will notice that the Agri-
cultural Society will pay premiums
on strings of cattle of five Jokes.
This was done to encourage large
show of oxen. Every town ought to
have five extra pairs of oxen.
There has been quite a boom in
the butter market of late, which we
are glad to note. Mr.. Freeman pur-
chased about $50 packages on the
18th inst. and during last week 341
packages prices ranged from 20 to
% cents. Other parties send smaller
quantities.
A. n. Mason sowed package of
oats which he received from Phila-
delphia, called the Welcome oats,
which produced at the rate of 1O1
bushels to one bushel of seed, (instead
of 1O1 to the acre) as we made it
last week The oats weigh so pounds
to the bushel.
@. B. Ellis, having put in very
large stock of new clothing and other
goods claims attention to his new ad.
to-day.-Amos W. Scott also desired
new ad. to give prices and talk
about large stock of clothing and
other goods.-Mills, farms and per-
sonal property are offered at private
sale and at auction. Look over the
advertisements.
Our agent will be present at the
fair, and we hope that all who have
promised to pay old arrears will re-
member their promises, that others
will advance the date of their labels,
and new subscribers will try the Mon
IToR for the year to come. We are
always ready to receive money at the
MONITOR Office and to greet friends
there.
The weather the past week was
beautiful and perfect. If it had not
been for the unlucky frosts, corn
and late vegetables would have been
fully matured. Put it down in the
memorandum that frosts are due in
this part of Vermont, one year with
another, as early as Sept. 10, and dc
not plant or SOW with reference tc
later falls.
Erastus G.. Collision has boueh
the Nelson Lewis place on the hill
near r. S. Twombly's and moved
there. This will make good hom,
for Mr.. Collisions family.-Franl
Scott has bought the John L. Twom
bly, house occupied by DIR. Pearson
The DR.. will move into the Maui
house recently purchased, after it i
repaired.
From Providence, R. I. pape
we learn that Mrs. j. X. Barney
who recently visited this county an
vicinity in the interests of the w.
L. U. has been appointed delegate
by the governor of Rhode Island. t
the National Convention of Charitie
and Corrections, and that she ha
also been chosen delegate to repre-
sent the w. C, It. u. in that CONVEX
ton. Mrs. Barney, as it will be RI
membered, had an audience too sma
to count at her last meeting her,
She seems to be appreciated, how
ever, in her own state.
By request of the managers of IL
Fair, L. B. Harris of Lyndon hs