Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-05-21

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Cows sold from s16.5O to $500 at the
NIay auction.
William Howard from New York is Wis
ting relatives in town.
The Literary Club will meet with Mrs.
+. w Baldwin, Wednesday evening.
There will be a promenade concert for
The benefit of the band tomorrow CTues-
bay evening.
In one of the athletic contests at Dart
mouth College, f. G. BodweI of this
Down won.
Charles Hamblet is putting his new
building along rapidly Reuben Dever-
eaux is foreman and that means work
avery day.
See article on fourth page for treat
ament of current worms. A few warm
days now and they will put in heiryearly
Anppearance.
Those interested in pension matters
may be glad TO learn that the meeting OF
Examining Boards will be held on Tues
day instead of Wednesday, both Decora-
Ntion Day week and Fourth of July week.
NJ. E. Ladies' Aid will meet at vestry
Al "Wednesday afternoon, with supper from
b to : o'clock. The men are invited in
Nthe afternoon to do some turing and
other necessary work about the church.
We are sorry to learn that Prof. NJ. F.
Varney, well known in this county, now
Of OrtonvilIe, Mimi, is speechless and
almost helpless from the effects of the
Illness which Frustrated him some
Mn months since.
A very neat and pretty catalogue of the
Academy and Graded School of this vii
iage is gotten out by the trustees, and
printed by E. II. Webster. 1t shows
large number of pupils and gives much
useful and interesting matter concern
ing the school.
The Connecticut General issued
more policies in Vermont last year
than any other company working here,
according to the Commissioners state
ment, which indicates the popularity of
their plans and methods of doing bust
ness Just ask Chas. Graves to show
you their new policy
In the recent trials in this village for
intoxication, it turned out that the liquor
was received by express from New Hamp-
shire. This business of the Express COM
pany is a great curse to Vermont. and if
the laws are not stringent enough to pun
ish the company for the crime of bring
MI Ing in liquors, we hope the next legisla-
ture will so enact as to put stop to the
M nefarious business. If Vermont must be
cursed by the greed of the express com
panies, it is about time to drive them out
of the state.
Ethel Bickford, who has been spending
several months in art study at Boston,
is home, and we had the pleasure of see
MI ing considerable of her portrait (pastel
work. at her mothers residence recently
Her other paintings are left in Boston q
few days on exhibition at the Art Club
Rooms. Miss Bickford has taste and
genius for painting, and her pictures are
very true to nature and are finely made
Nh 1t will pay our citizens to examine hel
pictures. We understand she will dc
portrait and other painting during the
present summer, and those desiring first
class pastel or oil work will do we'll tc
patronize her.
The Barton Landing ex-Thespians will
play Ten Nights in a Bar Room a
Opera Hall on Thursday night, followed
by farce. This play is always popular
while it is Il frst-class temperance piece
it has almost everything in it that makes
a dramatic exercise entertaining. W.
have not quite reached that state il
Temperance practices and sentiment
which renders occasional Temperance
W teaching OF no account. Those who pu
this on to the stage will spare no pam
M to make it good. Capt. Tucker, G. H
W Colley and others well known help t.
make up the ''caste of character" Bige
lows band will furnish music. A specia
VI train will be run from Newport, stopping
at Coventry and Barton Landing, return
N ing at the close of the play; half far
N tickets.
The spring term of the Academy an
village schools closed last week with e2
aminations, and exhibition exercises o
M Friday evening. The attendance wa
somewhat lessened by the sickness o
many pupils, but the term was both pleasau
and profitable. The examinations were rig
id and showed good progress. Extr
work has been performed in the Academ
department Marion Currier and Gee
Smith graduated in the Latin course
Mae Robinson, Nellie Case and Matt
Hopkins in the English course. The e,
hibition consisted chiefly of music an
declarations. and was good. The Miss,
MuTkland, who have been giving consi,
cradle attention to music of late, assistt
in the singing. The teachers deser,
much credit. Will give some records al
statistics next week.
DR.. r. B. Skinner permits US to pu
lish the following in regard to his Jers,
cows: During the year ending May
1888, from four cows and two two-yea
old heifers, each of which dropped a CT
during the year, with one month off wi
one COW, he made and sold 1865 pOun
~ of butter. He estimates that the mil
butter and cream used in the family W
more than enough To- have carried t
sum up to 2OOO pounds. These CO
Were fed no meal in the summer seasC
and only pounds each of meal and br
in the winter The butter Melted from
to 26 cents Il pound. During the win
the cows paid for the meal fed them a
Sl3 30 Il ton for all the hay fed the
-Four or these cows have been recen
sold To p rites in Henniker, \. H.,
500 each, the heifer calves dropI
this year reserved TO the seller. This
duces the herd considerably, but the
has three fine bred bnlls and seve