Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-06-18
CALEDONIA COUNTY

"A. u. RANKIN, Iof many years |
clerk of Caledonia county, has re-
signed, and is to move to Cambridge, |
Mass.
COUNTY CoURT.-The case, Weeks
VS.. town of Lyndon, was for an al
legged injury by defective bridge.
The case had been heretofore tried
and Weeks was awarded $500 dam
ages. 1t went to the supreme court,
was sent back to the county court
and this time the jury bring In
damages of s2500.
A. E. Judevine VS.. A. w. Weeks,
action Of trover to recover $50 sap
buckets. Jury decided that Jude
vine was entitled to eight buckets,
but gave him the privilege of footing
the bill of costs, which will make the
buckets very expensive.
The grand jury found several true
bills as follows: Hiram Keyser for
stealing a melodeon out of church
in Hardwick George and Eugene
Heath of Danville for attempting to
poison the Rankin family Marcellus
Woodward for stealing a horse Joe
Lemere for assault and perjury
William Davis assault; John n.
Gale, embezzlement {; Adeline Wood
row, William Stafford and Mary Ann
Orcutt for adultery.
St. .Johnsbury.
w. J. Bray, contractor and build
er, has forty-thlee men in his employ
and is putting up houses both in and
out of town. He has taken contracts
in Newport and Derby. Among his
foremen who are taking charge of
gangs of help we notice that Wallace
Dow, who moved here from Barton,
has prominent place.
Lyndonville.
The Free Baptists are using extra
ordinary efforts to raise money to
free their seminary from debt.
The Good Templars and other tenn
perance organizations meet at the
grove here July Fourth for a grand
| celebration.
A telephone is to be run from the
Vile to the farms of Messrs. Harris
and Vale west of the Center. This
is to be christened Telephone Hill.
Mr.. Ordway, L. B. Harris fore
man, and his family are compelled
to relinquish their job on account of
Mrs. Ordway's health. 1t is proba-
BILE that they will move back to Or
leans county.
West Burke.
Beedle & Prindle showed here to a
good house.
Alboin B. Crouch lost two fingers
at the steam mill recently.
0. L. Leonard's little daughter
died the 10th, after a long sickness.
n. S. Colby has closed his black
smith shop and is at work with L..
Warren.
Miss Flora Carr, daughter of E.
Lear, who has been dangerous i'll
at Derby, is better.
j. F. Ruggles and H. NJ. Moulton
attended the Grand Lodges of masons
at Burlington last week.
The Third District Union I. o. G..
T., will meet with the Barnet Lodge,
June 26. A rally of good templars
is expected.
We beg through your columns to ex-
press our grateful thanks to our many
friends who so kindly assisted us in the
sickness and death of our dear little
daughter and for the sympathy in our great
bereavment. May the good Lord bless
and reward them.
o. l.. LEONARD.
n. o. LEONARD.
A. L. Aldrich has just finished a
piazza on the front of his house,
E. Alexander is building a piazza or
front of his house,. S. Bigelow is
painting his house, Charles W. Ad-
ans is the painter.-R. G. Bradley
is painting the nj. E. church: he
finds quite job on the spire.
North Wolcott.
Wallace Spaulding's two-horst
team got frightened at Boynton':
mill, ran away with load of slabs
, the neck-yoke breaking, the wagon
slabs and horses were promiscuousl,
: distributed. One horse was badl,
/ used up. Carlos Miller's horse hitch
: ed to q lumber wagon joined in tn,
circus and ran to the village with tn
S wagon badly smashed. 1t was al
exciting time for few minutes.
e A. Boynton had little expert
ence which was not pleasing to him
t recently, though his mill hands seem
: ed to enjoy it. He went on to tn
b pond with boat loaded with tool
to do some repairs on the dam. TIL
current was too much for him and b
i was compelled to jump into the pom,
o to save himself, while the boat an
tools went over and down stream
He managed to get on shore, but tn
S crowd who witnessed the affair loudl
d cried 'cigars."
ORLEANS COUNTY SUNDAY
= SCHOOL UNION.
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