Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-01-12


Farrow, at Morgan Corner. The pas
tor will give us some talk about Eng
land and English people. All are in
vited.
Morgan Center.
Ed. Pencil and wife are cooking
in the woods for Ewens and Hills
lumbermen.
f. A. Gray's people were recently
surprised by the advent of a 11H ID.
girl baby.
There is much sickness in this To-
cality in the nature of diphtheria and
sore throats.
On the Goth day of December O. [.
Hackett caught some maple sap and
made some maple sugar.
F. c. O. Bush gives an oyster sup
per on Tuesday evening, Jan. Is, for
the benefit of Rev. Mr.. Farrow. Let
there be good attendance.
Newport.
The depot restaurant has again
changed hands, being now run by
a man by the name of Butterfeld.
Merit. C. Grandy has gone to Bos-
ton, to take course of instruction
at business college.
Will. Batchelder, who for the past
year has been travelling salesman for
C. J. Hubbard, will take the road
this year for Fletcher of st. Johns
bury.
Hhe locating committee for the
county buildings were in town last
week. 1t is said that they decided
upon the Robinson lot on Main street.
The price which the Robinson es-
tate asks for the lot of land on Main
street which has been thought a suit
able place for the county buildings is
said to be $4,000.
At the recent jollifcation meeting the
following resolutions were adopted:
We offer our sincere thanks to Mr.. John
A. Prouty, our representative in the state
legislature, for the honesty, skill, and
courage with which he managed the case
| for, in tic, hot
We remember with thanks, too, the
dignity, independence, and perseverance
with which the Editor of the Express and
Standard has uttered his views and used
influence towards securing the end now
reached.
And we find it in our hearts to mention
at this time, as worthy of our especial
regard, Major Josiah Grout of Derby,
who for twelve years or more has made
this matter careful study, and who by
his energy and faithfulness in advocating
our cause in the legislature and elsewhere
has earned onr lasting gratitude.
We assure all these gentlemen, and
others of our own town and other towns
who have aided them, that we are mind
full of the service they have rendered us,
and we cannot cease to be grateful for it.
And we unite with them in ardent wishes
for the best prosperity of our County of
Orleans and the highest welfare of our
beloved Commonwealth.
Submitted in behalf of the citizens OF
Newport, by
III. S. Roof,
o. c. MILLER,
E. LANE, Com.
w. N. WILBUR,
Z. P. WILD,
Newport, VT, Jan. l, 1885.
Newport Center,
The good templars will hold re-
union at this place Jan. 10Th.
Rev. S. w. Cowell has closed his
labors with the Baptist church in this
place.
Elton Rollins is clerking for D. L.
Hildreth, and Heman Bates for w.
H. Wiley.
Miss Edna Litchfeld has been
obliged to leave her school in the Bal
ley district on account of sickness.
Both of the Sunday schools of this
village attended to their regular an
nual reorganization last Sabbath.
The Baptists elected G.. W. Rogers,
supt; d. L. Hildreth, asst supt; III.
! L. Smith, treas John Kilby, libra
| rian Fred Sherman, sec The Meth
odists elected j. G. Dawson, supt
James Cawford, asst supt; w. f.
Dawson, sec; Nettie Sleeper, treas
Leon Peabody, librarian; Nettie
Sleeper, organist.
Westmore.
, Services at school house every
Sunday at II o'clock a. m.
Harry Howard, assisted by Eu'
gene Moon will give an entertain
mental Mrs. Atkins hotel in West
more, on the evening of Jan. 10
Oyster supper at midnight, 80 cents
couple. Good music furnished fol
dancing.
Two children of Mr.. Cady, ONT
about two years old, and the othel
about seven, died of diphtheria las
week. There are several other child
rem in the same neighborhood sicl
with the same disease.-Rawsor
Hunt is dangerously sick with infiam
nation of the bowels.
j. G.. Orne comes to the scratch or
his bet. He bet with Francis Rich
ardson against the election of Cleve.
land, and, if he lost, he was to pay
the oysters to all the legal voters Of
the town of Westmore. He has Sc
January 18th as the day to meet tina
obligation, and the invitation is ex
tended, not only to the legal voters
of the town, but to their wives as
well. The supper will be served a
the Willoughby House.