Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-02-08
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Odd Girls meet with Mrs. w. L.
Twombly, Wednesday afternoon.
Regular communication of Orleans
Lodge, No. So, +. & A. NJ, Friday
evening, Feb. II.
Tower Bros. have at last got their
wheat mill running and it is working
Very satisfactorily.
4 The Cong. Ladies' Society will
meet with Mrs. w. /. Robinson,
Wednesday afternoon.
Read the ad. relative to the new
store which is to be opened in the
Opera House block tomorrow.
John w. Murkland has placed
4 Eight iron columns, II feet long,
made at his shop, as supports to the
new Owen block.
The editor of this paper, whose
bones for nearly two weeks have been
squeaking under the pressure of the
4 rheumatic fever, is now convalesciDg,
and a few days more, if nothing new
N sets in, will see him hobbling about
the streets, and another week, WELD
ing the editorial pen with his usual
a gigor.
At the hearing last Monday, be-
a fore Justice Barnard, Pat Heating,
for criminal assault, was put under
$500 bonds, to appear at the county
court next September. In our item
last week we should have given
Sheriff Geo. W. Jenness credit for
terreting out and directing the cap
ture of Heating.
"When are you going TO move?'
is question that is being asked an
unlimited number of times, daily, of
the merchant, the druggist, the dem
fist and the printers. For the infor-
nation of all we will say that the
day is not yet definitely set. Large
bodies move Slow" but we are all
bound to move sometime.
The winter term of our village
schools closed last Friday. There
will be a two weeks vacation for the
higher department and three for the
lower. We hear of no complaints,
and know of no reason why every
thing has not passed along smoothly
and satisfactorily to the parents, and
proftably to the pupils, as has al
ways been the case under the man
agement of Principal Martin.
A young man temporarily stopping
at the American House, who for
some time has been looking on the
dark side of life, attempted suicide
Hast Monday night by taking lauda-
mum. The act was discovered, and
by the united efforts of DR.. Ruggles,
druggist Pierce and Mr.. Miles,
emetics were forced down and by
working over him several hours, his
life was saved. We hope, now, that
he will think better of himself and
look on the bright side for a while,
as death comes soon enough in the
natural way.
The Thespian society of Barton
Landing will present the drama
"Simon Lee" or The Murder of
Five Field Copse' at the Opera hall,
next Friday evening, concluding
with the minor drama, "Slasher and
Crasher." They had a crowded
house at their village and the enter.
tainment is spoken of by those pres
ent as the best by the society. AS
there has been no entertainment OF
the kind here this winter We bespeak
for them a full house. Return
checks furnished to those coming by
fail. See bills.
Jack Frost broke his letters last
week and has been on an extended
rampage. west and south as we'll as
i'm New England, as will be seen by
+ reference to our news columns. The
north pole moved several degrees
south and might have been discover.
ed without an ''expedition," and
Judging by the atmospheric pressure
on nose and ears the glaciers and ice
fields were coming this way with
dangerous rapidity. The low.
est point registered by the thermome-
ter in Barton, that we hear of is 4C
below, Friday night al IL o'clock.
MI. Frank F. French, for the
hst ten years or more an employt
pf the Hayward Chair Co., and one
of our village BARRIERS, at which
trade he worked evenings, died al
his residence last Saturday morning
of sugar diabetes of which he haG
J been running down for more thar
wo years: and which disease h,
fought to the very end with an ener
gy and determination such as few
men have, being about the streets
till the day but one before his deatl
and attending to his work till within
few days. Frank was a genial
kind-hearted and accommodating
man and had many friends who fee
his loss and deeply sympathize will
his bereaved widow. Funeral at TIN
house TO morrow at half-past-two.
Remember the entertainment to
morrow evening by Master Ralp
Bingham, the boy orator This i
his fist appearance in this part O
he state. and no one, old or young
should fail To hear him. The youn.