Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-12-17
Barton.

barton.
Miss Katie Heating closed IL very sue
cessful term of school in district No )
the 9TH inst.
Chautauqua meeting postponed until
next week, on Wednesday evening" at Mrs.
b. ID. Stones.
The few days of cold, rough, winter
weather of last week ends up with
thaw, rain and mud to-day.
John Wells has gone to Washington
Territory i'll quest of labor and a future
home, if prospects are favorable
The NJ. Z. Ladies' Society and Odd
Girls meet with Mrs. j. W. Batchelder
on Wednesday afternoon and evening
next.
Special communication of Orleans
Lodge No. 30 F. and A NJ, Friday eve,
Dec. 81 at o'clock. Installation of Off
GERS and work on Sd degree. Let every
Mason attend.
Ned" Dutton, who worked in the de-
pot here some years since, spent day or
two in this place and Irasburgh last week.
He has Il position in the Page Betting Co.
of Concord, n. H., at good salary
We mail our subscribers to-day, an ssEX-
ira" containing the laws of the last SEES
sion of the legislature. 1t is the largest
bundle of session laws ever issued. 1t
will be well to keep the supplement for
the new school law, if nothing else
Charles Gilman is on the sick list
again.-Mrs. Cush Waterman for some
time sick is better.-Nelie Smith, who
has been i'll with the rheumatic fever is
better.-Alex Trip recently got badly
hurt by stepping through a scuttle hole
in the stable.
The odd Girls fair was we'll attended,
and large share of their goods were dis
posed of at reasonable prices. This so
ciety is great help to the church in mat
tiers of finance and otherwise. They will
put the articles they had left from fair on
sale in Mrs. Largis' millinery store, at
cost.
Read the prospectus of the Boston
journal on the second page The Jour
nal is the most popular city paper in all
this section of Vermont, and is as re-
liable as any paper published. We are
giving our MONITOR subscribers the week
Iy for 40 cents, if prepaid cIubbers.
Our advertisers are crowding our col
umns somewhat with holiday advertis-
ing, and our readers will do well to read
what they say. o. d. Owen has an
announcement that will be useful His
big store is crowded full of goods of all
kinds and it will pay those coming into
town to visit it. The circuit Clothing
Store adjoining, presents an attractive
appearance and is an excellent place to
find all you want in the line Of clothing
etc, and to purchase it at very reasonable
rates. On the south side Of the block
Horace Pierce has thousand beautiful
things that the little and the big folks
will find useful and acceptable for the
stocking or the Christmas tree Across
the way in Opera Block, L. NJ. Hubbard
has in his jeweiTy store Il line of useful
and beautiful articles, that are particu
lhrly suited to holiday purposes. OF
cpnrSe all our leaders know that they
can iind 4 class of goods at Fl. T. Seav-
er's which sill be useful these days.
We call their special attention to crock
cry, china and glass ware. which will be
fOUGd in great variety. Those living in
THE Valley" cannot make themselver
fully happy without visiting the AseI-
tine, aHd tiic Stephenson stores i'm Low
ell, where special pains i taken TO sup
ply the wants Of all ia The line of holiday
goods. Those who can by CONVENE nee
or possibility reach the Wheeler & Locke
store in irasburgh will find opportunity
to get almost anything that can be found
in the country store, either for the
Christmas tree, or for family use. Over
at Craftsbury our friends Leonard anC
Allen are stocked up brim full and expect