Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-05-19

The snow fall the past winter has
been p feet and inches by actual
measurement.
The M. E. Society have selected
a site for new church at the upper
end of the village near Dana Seaver's.
The Ladies' Mite Society meets
with Mrs. AFRO Williams next Fri
day afternoon, May 23d. Rev. E.
w. Pierce, our former pastor, and
family will be present. All cordially
invited.
C. F. Percival of Barton has rent
ed n. M. SCOTS tenement and moved
his family here for the summer Mrs.
PercivaPs health is poor and she
thinks this better location than her
home in Barton.
The stockholders of the Cong'l
meeting house society in Glover viii
lage are warned to meet at said house
May 9th, at 2 o'clock p. NJ, to
choose officers of the society and raise
money to paint the house.
F. P. Cheney has sold and trans
planted large lot of apple trees this
spring. His nursery is in thriving
condition as he makes a speciality of
mulching and manuring his trees
thoroughly and they show it.
There are about 10000 sugar trees
tapped in the town of Glover, about
half the usual quantity made, average
yield two pounds to tree. which at
eight cents per pound makes the snug
little sum of 5000 loss to the farm
ers of Glover. Quite an item.
We are glad to learn that Decora-
ton Day is to be duly observed by
the citizens of Barton and adjoining
towns let there be a general rally
and that we may pay just tribute to
those who sacrificed their lives in
their country's defence. Ninety-four
enlisted from Glover. Two buried
in West Glover cemetery, Ammon J.
Colburn and George w. Teller and
about twenty in the village cemetery.
West Glover.
B. G. Miles has sold his hill pas
ture to G. w. Woodward, price
$3.50.
Guy Anderson, Jr. has bought a
farm of his father, in Albany, known
as the Dunn farm, and is about to
commence business on it.
Joseph Paquette has sold his farm,
stock and tools to his son, Joseph,
for $4,000. We shall be glad to have
Joe. among us once more.
Rev. G. w. Morse preached his
first sermon here the 18th to a large
congregation. 1t was an acceptable
and timely discourse.
Holland.
Mrs. Stone has recently received
a pension arrears of nearly $1,000.
William Smith has rented his farm
to his son-in-law and has gone to
peddling.
Mrs. Henry Tice is sick with gas
trio fever.-James Smith, Senior, is
sick with heart disease.
E. E. Pinney is to return to Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, where he has an in
terest in the coal business.
1rasburgh.
Mrs. Palmer is very low with cancer
Rev. Schofield occupied the Cong1 desk
Sunday.
w. L. Russell has been buying butter
the past week.
Henry Somers is building a house on
Corley farm.
David Webster is very sick with neu-
ralgia of the kidneys.
Geo. Parker has his big drive of logs
this side of West Albany.
Mr.. Beauclerk is nicely fixing up the
grounds around his residence.
H. E. Jackman is quite smart again
and is running a hulled corn cart.
The Irasburgh cornet band is in good
trim, the best in the county at present.
Hon. E. P. Cotton is expected here
about June 1st to put up his new house.
George A. Beede has taken Geo. w.
Parkers mill to saw and dress all his
lumber.
S. w. Allen and J. d. Cotton have COM
menced work building S. w. Beauclerks
house on the Little farm.
Morgan.
Emily Cummings teaches school in
the Gore.
Arthur Daggett recently had a
horse drop dead in the road.-The
dogs have beed killing lambs for L.
A. Bryant.
Morgan Center.
A boy at Geo. Maxwelrs.
John Elliott recently married Wild
ow Pillsbury of Holland.
A. A. Burroughs has sold his team
to B. F. Moore and thinks of going
west.
II. Bean has moved to his FARM
F. Stems has moved into the P. Hun
toon house.
DR.. Hill recently returned from a
wedding trip, bringing as a bride the
fair and accomplished Zana B. Drew
Hill from Glover. We wish them
success and much happiness.
Newport.
Several citizens have been setting out
shade trees here Of late.
The International Co. are launching
their large barge to-day.
Mrs. Hicks of Lowell, Mass, is visit