Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-02-09
LOCAL NE w s.
Barton.

say about Canadian overshoes. See
his advertisement.
The Cong. Ladies' Society will
meet with Mrs. H. X. Dewey We'd
nesday afternoon.
There will be spelling school at
the school house in the Taylor dis
tnct next Thursday night. All in
vited.
The weather during the first part
of last week was exceedingly cold
from 30 to 45 degrees below zero in this
vicinity.
The Odd Girls will hold sociable
at the NJ. f. parsonage Wednesday
evening. Refreshments, Cake and
coffee. Old and young invited.
Quite a large delegation of singers
from this place attended the conven-
ton at Newport last week, and report
successful convention and very
pleasant time.
The board of civil authority are request
A ed to meet ut the town clerks office on Fri
n day, the 10Th of Feb, A. d. 1885, at one
O'Clock p. M, for the abatement of taxes
q as the law directs.
j. p BALDWIN, Chairman.
See annual statement of the Con-
necticut General Life Insurance Co.
in another column. Then see Chas.
Graves, agent, at Barton, or G.. H.
Smalley, special agent, Lyndonville.
The lumbermen are having a fa-
vorable opportunity to fill up the mill
yards. They are putting in from 30
to 60 cords of timber day at the
chair factory and lot of it at the
Baldwin mill.
The session of the county court
lasted only four days, closing on
Saturday morning. There were three
jury trials. Receiving our court re-
port this forenoon, we shall be oblig-
ed to defer it until our next issue.
Glib. says: "The mystery in the
Ellis family is how Madam Grundy
knows so much about the weight of
that boy, as he has never yet been
weighed; when the weighing takes
place, come over; till then lose no
sleep on that account"
The Express claims that the peo-
pie of Newport will not go back on
their offer to donate the sum sub
scribed toward the erection of new
county buildings. That there was g
talk on the part of several of so do
ing we think will not be denied.
Mr.. Moore, who came here and
81 started the manufacture of the mon
ltor spring bed, sold out the right OF
the county and his machinery to Sci
den F. Bickford, who will carry Oh
the business and supply the county
with this bed. The work will be done
at the Pat Quinn building on Mail
street and Mr.. Bickford will push it..
The highway surveyors, and all per
sons having unsettled accounts with tn
town of Barton, are requested to NEE
the Selectmen at the town clerks office OF
Tuesday, the 18th day of February, A. ID
1885, at nine O'Clock a. M, and settle tn
same.
J. 2. BALDWIN,
f. l.. CHANDLER, 7 Selectnnen.
G. w. BRIDGMAN,
BY the death of Mrs. Cynthi'
Pillsbury we lose one of the oldes
citizens of the village. She was tn,
wife of Merrill Pillsbury, an old sol
der of the war of 1912, who dieC
some years since in Johnson, though
former resident of Caledonia ant
Orleans counties. Mrs. Pillsbur,
was an estimabe lady and mucI
respected by all who knew her.
The two higher departments of thu
graded school close on Friday o
this week. The pupils of the two de
partments will unite in an exhibition
in the evening in the Opera Hall
The programme will include the dra
ma, 'sBread on the Waters" and til
two farces Taking Photographs
and Gentlemen of the Jury" Door
open at 6.30o'clock commences at z
admission Ia cents. Proceeds to b
invested in furniture for schoo
house hall.
The primary and intermediate de
partments of the village school close
last week with examinations on Thurs
day, and public exercises at schoC
house hall on Friday evening Th
examinations indicated that the chi
dren had been thoroughly drilled o
the branches pursued, and the speaE
ing, singing and dialogues on Frlda
evening made a pleasing entertain
ment for all who were present. I'll
little people did remarkably well.
ALBANY.
Mrs. Tunney died in the west pa
of the town Oh the lst inst, age
about so years.
The lumbermen are improving Il
shedding and are getting large stoC
Of logs to the river landings.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Haydt
have gone to Boston to look aft
their daughter, Carrie, who Is sic
with rheumatic fever.