Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-05-05

cIuD VIII De ABOUT twenty.
Newport Center.
Asa Harris has let his farm to G.
E. Percy for one year.
The school yard is greatly improv-
ed in appearance by the setting out
of shade trees.
G. L. Drown bought drove of
store cattle last week which he ship
ped from Newport this morning.
James Crawford has exchanged his
place in the village with j. Stickney
for his farm, paying $1,000 difference.
North Troy.
S. H. Page is making extensive
repairs to his farm house.
VIM. Hodgen has gone to New
port to work for w. W. Trne.
j. W. Soonberger has sold his
place on the Coventry road to F. W.
Adams for 5000.
G. P. Hardy has taken possession
of the store recently purchased of
G. W. Seaver & Sons.
Harvey Clough has taken the job
of caring for the street lamps for
ninety dollars per year.
D. W. Kelley is making extensive
repairs upon his house, recently pur-
chased by him of L. w. Hildreth.
E. Durkey, an employe at the
''Creek MILL" lost two of his fingers
recently, by log falling upon them.
A. FL. Porter was brought before
Justice Chandler Bailey last Monday
and fined S. and costs, amounting to
$3.50, for assauIting one Charles
Dusham.
Fred Hammond and Miss Chand-
Ter were married at this place last
Thursday. They will make their home
at Troy where Mr.. Hammond is in
business.
Mrs. Christopher of Baltimore,
gave select readings at the Cong'l
church last Saturday eve. She is an
excellent reader and gave her hear
ers rare treat.
Westffe1d.
Mrs. Thomas Gilbert is quite sick
with heart disease.
Wallace Wakefield has several
workmen on his new house and will
have it completed June 1st.
Lewis Sawyer starts for Califor-
MIA with his family on Tuesday. Mr..
S. has one son and daughter there
now.
Mr.. Kimpton has moved his single
machine from Lowell to Hoyt &
Wakefeld's mill and is busy saving
shingles.
Last Friday, during the thunder
shower, Mr.. Charles LaPlant and
boy were at work in the field drawing
stone, when lightning struck his horse,
killing it instantly. LaPlant and boy
were knocked over. The boy soon
got up and found the horse lying on
his father in sucha manner that it
had to be lifted off to liberatc Mr..
LaPlant, who was carried to the
house in q senseless condition, but,
at this time, he bids fair to recover.
WeStnnOre.
The ice in the lake is breaking up
after having been frozen 129 days.
A Mr.. Cady is moving into the
hop house near the hotel and intends
to haul lumber to Burke.
Porter f. Lyon has gone to Island
Pond to drive delivery wagon and
clerk for his uncle Glib. Clark.
j. P. Lyon moves back on to his
hill farm, and Willard Leland on to
his farm again. E. Colburn moves to
the Gilman house.
A. NJ. Litchfield has let his farm
to Cyrus Skinner for one year and
thinks to 90 somewhere where he can
obtain medical treatment for his wife
who has been i'll for long time.
Rev. S. S. Brigham commences
preaching services at Mill Brook
school house on the 18th inst. at
clock p. M, and it is expected that
he will preach there every Sabbath
until fall.
The violent winds on Friday broke
I'D the ice in the lake and threw it
with great violence on to the shores.
The booms holding the logs belong
ing to parties on Willoughby river
were broken and the logs scattered to
the four winds. The cost of collect
ing and asserting them will be great.
Harry Cheney has returned home
from Kansas, where he went to reside
some years since. Like many Yer
monters Mr.. Cheney was swept of
by the western fever to learn, after
all, that Vermont with its cold eli
mate and rocky hills has some advan-
tages which are not found elsewhere
During his absence Mr.. Cheney bur-
led his wife, whose remains were
brought home to be placed in the ole
burying ground.
| CALEDONIA COUNTY.
r. E. Peabody has at last begun
, to get his deserts, having been sen
fenced to prison at Red Oak, Ia, 70
} six years. Perhaps now "Dick" be
gins to realize that "the way of til,
, transgressor is hard
st. y oflnsDury.
FL. G. Bates Esq. delivers the Dec
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