Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-05-25
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The machinery for the creamery
has arrived and will soon be put in.
operation.
John Hamilton who has been
clerking for j. H. Buck has returned
to Montreal.
Henry Roberts who was hurt in
Lowell by being thrown from his
wagon. is now better.
Our merchants at the village are
brushing up with paint and appear |
to be doing good business.
Ella Clark has returned from a
visit to Chittenden county and is
now at work at dress making.
T. J. Boynton has the inside track
for post-office inspector, instead of
postmaster, as the MONITOR stated it
last week.
Sylvester Morey. is vigorously
pushing the work on his new house
at the village and will soon have it
so that he can occupy it
Last week while H. G.. Reed and
others were mendng fence in the
woods fire caught from their pipes
and burned up some 60 rods of
fence, and their clothing that they
left when they commenced work in
the morning. Moral: Don't smoke.
The death of Mrs. Emory S. Mil
Ter which had been daily expected,
occurred on the 18th. Mrs. Miller
was woman of rare qualities of
mind and heart and of great activity
in all good and benevolent works;
and her death casts gloom over the
community long to be felt.
O. S. Annis has made arrange
ments with the Brattleboro Refo1mer
whereby he gives them about one
dollars worth of reading each week.
Sandy is bright writer and we hope
he will succeed in his new enterprise,
for he had rather scratch paper for
living than the face of mother
earth.
WeStmOre.
The apple-tree man and fishermen
have struck here, so we are looking
for spring.
Capt. Averill has arrived home,
some two weeks earlier than he had
intended, on account of his wife's
sickness.
A town meeting is called, the 28th,
to reconsider the road tax question,
or that which makes the tax payable in
labor, and to see if the town will
vote to purchase a road machine.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
St. JOhnSbury.
The Wheelock quarterly meeting
of Free Baptist churches will be held
with the church in this place Friday,
June 5, continuing over the Sabbath.
St. Johnsbury Center.
Yesterday morning at the Con-
gregational church, Rev. Mr.. Grover
preached a Memorial Sermon in
memory of those who fell in the re-
bellion.
! Stolen from Chas. Cobb, of ST.
Johnsbury Centre, on the night OF
May 18th, one lady's gold watch,
(hunter case,) and chain; one sill
yer watch, (hunter case,) with rib
bon and gold slide attached; also
several breastpins, etc., and about
So in change. Said articles were
stolen by one Hiram Skinner alias
Leroy Berkly; age 1S; weight 1SC
pounds. Whereabouts unknown.
East TIardwick.
Cornelius Cole is sick with pneu.
monia.
Hunt & Rabbit are home from
market.
John G.. Porter raised his new barr
last Wednesday.
The Sunday freight trains are tax
en- off from the railroad.
VIM. Hyde has lost his place or
the railroad bridges, in consequence
of the road changing hands.
Several of the villagers are paint
ing the roofs of their buildings will
rubber paint, and j. W. Harvey il
painting his barn roof.
West Burke.
John Page, who works for S. d
Bugbee, received charge of powder
in his face and eyes last Wednesday
while tamping charge in rocks tina
he was splitting, which confined hin
7 to the house for few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. S. Townsend
were agreeably surprised last Frida.
to find that they had been married 81
years. Their house was filled will
friends and neighbors and a yer,
; pleasant afternoon was spent by all
S. A. Nelson has sold his real es
tate and stock in trade to W. w. CO..
who takes possession of the store a
once. Nelson has the tenement I'm
til fall. Now if Willie was only
good square democrat we should b.
all right for postmaster, but now "w'
can't tell"
East Burke.
Carlton Houghton has gone tt
Newport, for the summer.
Harris Jenkins has returned t.
= Island Pond for the summer.
Mr.. E. B. Gaskill returned from
Springfield, Mass, Wednesday night
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