Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-10-27
to do the butchering himself.

South Barton.
A. 0. Blake expects to be away
this winter where the climate is less
severe, in the hope that his health
may be improved by the change; his
family will move to the village.
Fl. F. Pillsbury has let job to
Charles Cheney to get in 500 thous-
and feet of lumber for him at the O.
& G.. steam mill, and job to some
Frenchmen to clear fifty acres of land
ready for crop next year.
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Mrs. A. P. Buxton has moved to
Barton Landing.
/. C. Smith has gone to Michigan
to visit his sisters and friends.
Charley, Edwin and Walter Muir
ray are at home on visit, also Ar
thur Perley.
There is more sickness in this vii
lage at present, than there has been
before in long time.
Wallace Hanson sowed five bush
els of wheat, and raised eighty BUSH
els. Who beats this?
Allie Hodgkins, the boy that had
his arm crushed in the threshing ma
chine, is slowly recovering.
Mrs. Libby, mother of Mrs. Solo
mon Berry, who has been suffering
from the effect of paralysis, is fail
ing.
Aaron Wiley offers large lot of
stock, hay, grain and other personal
property for sale at auction next
Thursday. See bills.
There will be prayer meeting at
A. L. Willey's Saturday evening,
Nov. 1st. Let all who can attend,
as 1t is the last time their friends can
enjoy meeting with them there, as
they will soon move to their new
home.
Chas. Lapointe and family have
rented the tenement over the store,
and moved into it. He is a good
blacksmith, and will be glad of such
patronage as shall make it profitable
for him to remain here permanently.
East Charleston.
Some of our young friends in E..
Charleston were somewhat excited
over short item in this paper last
week relating to the skating rink in
that place. We think if they will
read it carefully, they will find no
malice or slur in it. We did not
take it in that light at all. Their
long communication, we think, would
do them no credit if published. We
should have given it, however, had
its length not been so great as to
take more space than we could give
In this issue. EDITOR.
Craftsbu1.v.
Guy Goodrich raised $50 bushels
of sorted potatoes on 60 rods of
ground.
The work on the church is progress
ing, and we hope to dedicate in about
a month.
The teachers examination will be
held at the school house, south viii
lage, on Saturday, Nov. 1st.
H. Wheeler & Son of Barton have
taken the grist-mill of A. A. Randall
for a year, and will accommodate
the public six days in the week as
usual. All wishing first-class work
done will do well to call on them.
A. A. Randall, who has been a
sufferer for years with asthma and
lung difficulties, has found relief in
the delightful climate of California.
He has located permanently there.
See his advertisement of real estate
in this paper.
Edmund Weber got quite badly
hurt by bull on Wednesday, Oct.
8th. The bull knocked him down,
rolled HIM down against the fence
and finally left him. Mr.. Weber
by the greatest effort succeeded in
climbing the fence; before he could
get over, however, the bull struck
him again and fastened him over.
Mr.. Weber is quite lame, but not
seriously injured.
Coventry.
Remembe: Salmon Nye's auction
on Tuesday next.
Lewis Hitchcock has bought the
John Enos house, paying $500.
Mrs. Bacon, who has been away
several weeks, has returned home.
Mrs. Brom, sister of Mrs. J. B.
Wheelock, from Mass. is here on g
visit.
Albert French was arrested here re.
Gently for drunkenness and taken te
Irasburgh.
Charles Cleveland, wife and daugh.
ter have gone 10 Hot Springs, Ark
to spend the winter, for the benef
of Mrs. Cleveland's health.
W. III. Tibbetts has lately received
large lot of new goods and invite:
his friends and townsmen to call il
and see the goods. He will have /;
new advertisement next week.
Dogs, supposed to belong to Mr.
Dorman of Newport, have been kill
ing sheep in this neighborhood. Sew
eral belonging to J. Reynolds, ant
some lambs belonging IN the flock o.
Samuel Nye have been killed ant