Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-03-16

through the winter, because his wife
was lover of plants. He did not
state, however, that he rose one
morning toward the latter end of |
the season to find the mercury below
the freezing point, and his geranium
as fiat as Il cucumber vine after the |
September freeze, but such was our |
sad experience last week.
Morgan Center.
Dyer Gallup has gone to Holland
to work in the Tice mill.
Ewens & Hill have finished their
lumber job. Geo. Howard has also
finished his job.
Hugh Maxwell has taken John
Webster's farm for one year. Alon-
20 Ewens has hired the Sisco farm.
w. S. Ransom is having a severe
attack OF rheumatic fever this is the
sixth run of this severe fever that he
has had.
Report says that D. A. Elliott has
taken Richard Maplesden's farm,
and also that he is to marry Mary
Maplesden. This will be pleasant
all around. May success attend
| them.
Newport.
Methodist Ladies, Aid at vestry
Wednesday evening.
Jerry Drew has taken possession
of the Bellevue House.
Mr.. Grout, who has been danger
ously sick, is slowly recovering.
School commenced this morning
with the same board of teachers as
last term.
Mrs. Livermore had full house
Thursday evening, and her lecture
was we'll received.
Will Human has bought the house
on Second street owned by Mrs.
Kelsea, and DR.. Gaines moves to
the house vacated by Mr.. Human.
The 'gum chewers," as A. A.
Earle used to call them, from the ru-
raj sections of the town, were out on
March meeting day and controlled
the meeting, lifting out several Off
Gals who had come to consider them
selves necessities, whereupon the
Express, edited by sd. M. Camp,
chairman" er oticio, in long and
dolorous article, demonstrates against
so dangerous proceeding. We hope
to survive, however.
Lakeside lodge of Good Templars
will hold public meeting at the
Cong'l church on Tuesday evening of
this week, which will be made inter-
esting as social gathering and use
ful to the cause of temperance. There
will be talk on Temperance Work
in its Different Departments, in which
Revs. Folsom and Wild, Messrs.
Ranney, Grandy and others will par
ticipate. The public cordially invit-
ed
North Troy.
Monday night the Eastman Ma
chine Co. works in North Troy were
discovered to be on fire. The means
of saving the building were so mea-
gre that it was soon abandoned and
all efforts directed to saving the ma
chinery, the foundry, excelsior, and
saw mills and the bridges. For
a time the work seemed hopeless,
yet by persistency it was accom- plish-
ed. The Eastman Co. was insured
$2500. Notwithstanding this their
loss is heavy. The fire caught in G..
c. Daggett & Co.'S. shop in the Sec
ond story, occupied in the manufac-
ture of bedsteads. They were not
insured and estimate their loss at near
ly s1000-nothing but the planer was
saved from this shop The hydraulic
pump was in the building and the
supply of water is thus cut off from
1 many families. Power was also com
t municated from wheels in the build
ing burnt to the excelsior mill which
} is now taken away. Both these will
, be remedied in few days. Lumber
for rebuilding is now on the ground
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
St j OhnSbury.
Thirty degrees below zero on Fri
day morning.
The St. Johnsbury House is having
steam-heating apparatus put in.
In digging up water pipes here the
j, ground is found to be frozen from
o 81 to 81 feet deep.
e A little girl of four years was Out
: sliding on Sunday, when she was adj
+. dressed by a boy companion, "Why
1 M, [ should not think you would
: slide Sunday" Looking up enquir.
ingly, she said, ''Why? the sled runs
+ well enough
o Hardwick.
: There was quite a debate on the
o town system for the management Of
o schools, but the project was rejected
9 by very large majority. The feel
ing was SO strong on the subject thai
McLoud, an old, and very acceptable
superintendent, was rejected because
9 he favored the system. The towr
6 / did not vote to sell the town farm
! The town voted to raise ten per CEN
4 on the list to apply toward the ex.
= tinguishment of the bonded railroad
debt
q Our account of the Hardwick fire