Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-19
VIM. BARRows, Auctioneer.



VIM. BARRows, Auctioneer.
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Odd Girls meet with Miss Sophia
Drew, on Thursday afternoon.
The Ladies Cong'l Society will
meet with Mrs. C. H. Dwinell We'd
nesday afternoon of this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joshua Little of
+ Stanstead, P. O., have been visiting
& friends in this and adjoining towns.
MAsoNIC.-Work on LIST, I'd and Sd de-
grees Friday eve, Oct. %. All masons in
good standing are invited to be present.
o. V. JosLYN, Sec.
Ezra Badger, who resides in this
Village, 81 years of age, has walked
twice the present season, to his sons
in the north part of the town, a dis
tance of four miles.
There will be a meeting of those
.I Interested in the new band at the
academy rooms tomorrow CTuesday)
evening. Important matters demand
a full attendance.
The Montreal Day Express is
taken off the Passumpsic r. R. to-
day; the mixed train is about two
hours later north, and few minutes
later south. There are slight chang
es in the mail, night and freight
trains.
f. B. Bodwell of Glover has
bought the R. f. Fisk lot near the
Fair Ground and is putting IN a
foundation for a set of buildings,
which he hopes to get up this fall.
John N. Smith is putting in the
foundation by the job.
They are busy at the Murkland
machine shop and foundry getting
out furnaces for heating stores,
houses, churches, etc. Mr.. Murk-
land has really got an excellent fur
mace which is sold at a price which
makes its use possible everywhere.
The farmers and others interested
in the matter of a creamery, to be
built in OF near the village, are re-
quested to meet at Engine House
hall on Saturday evening next.
There is lively interest manifest
ed, and it only needs little work tc
form an organization and carry the
work forward.
Our delinquent subscribers, espec-
tally those who are two or more
years behind, must be getting ready
to meet their bills. We shall send a
man round pretty soon who will tas'
ten right on hard, and 1t will cost
more to get rid of him than 10 pay
up. We are painfully aware that the
times are hard and have tried to be
lenent, but the expenses of news
paper ofiice-larger than most people
suspect-must he met, and hungry
children must be fed.
The Grand Army boys at st
Johnsbury are holding fair thi:
week, commencing to-day, with the
E governor and staff present; on Fri
day evening, Gen. John A. Logar
will be present to address the meet
ing, and extra trains will be run il
all directions 10 carry such as wisl
X to be present. A train leaves New
port at $40 p. m. and arrives at st
Johnsbury at 1920. Round trip far
from Newport S1.00, Barton Land
s inc and Barton and South Barton
\ 70 cents.
The death of Eli Chamberlin 0
Albany which occurred on Tuesda,
last, removes one of the oldest,
not the oldest citizen in the county
and one who has longest been identi
& fed with the interests of his town
1t had been hoped that Mr.. Cham
berlin might attend the reunion a
n Montpelier, but his fatal sickness wa
upon him and he died few day
after the close of gathering whc
would have been honored by his pres
ence. An obituary notice in an
other column will be of interest.
We notice by Missouri pape
that Capt. Fred M. Kimball, former
ly of Glover, but of late postmaste
at Cameron, Mo-, has had his hea
clipped off by the new administration
Capt. Kimball was one of the boy
who braved four years campaign
and his record as a soldier and pair
otism as a citizen, constitute sue
'offensive partisanship" in Nilsson
that he has been turned out of his o.
fee. This is truly time when til
brave men who saved governmer
must step down and out.
The beautiful weather has enable
Mr.. Owen TO forward the work c
his new block rapidly during tt
last week He has the foundatio
all in, the basement story up, an
part of the upper stories raised. I'll
plan, which is made by Mr.. Packar