Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-01-30
Barton.

will furnish music for dancing.
Barton
The Literary Club will meet with Mrs.
Joseph Owen Tuesday evening.
Rev. Mr.. Worthen will deliver his lee
ture on Chow to Get Rich" on Friday
evening of this week.
Nearly all of our local news items came
to US this morning, and we have not been
able to set them all up.
4. Olmstead will hire the basement of
the Baxter & Grow mill and will do car
riage work and repairing.
c. F. Percival reports that his outside
business, in the line of upholstered spec
ialties for wholesale trade, is good.
Col. Geo w. Hooker will address the
people of West Glover tonight on army
and other interesting topics.
The annual meeting of the Fair Ground
company will be held at o. H. Whitchers
office, Tuesday evening, Feb. IA.
The NJ. E. Ladies' Society will meet
with Mrs. J. B. Freeman, and the Odd
Girls with Mrs. Henry Gay on Wednes-
day afternoon.
A. r. Cowles, Mrs. Seaver and Mr..
Shaw went to Craftsbury to attend the
singing convention, and were compelled
to remain till Sunday forenoon on account
of the storm.
All persons having unsettled accounts
against the town of Barton are requested
to meet the selectmen at the town clerks
office, Monday, Feb. 6. at O'Clock, a.
m.
The Cong. people were disappointed
Sunday in not hearing Rev. Mr.. Herrick
who was to preach to them, but failed to
reach here on account of the great storm
They dropped in at the NJ. E. church.
The 2lst Annual Encampment of the
G. a. r. Posts of Vermont assemblies at
st. Johnsbury Tuesday afternoon, Jan.
31st. The meeting promises to be of great
interest to the veterans. Half fare on the
railroads. Buy round trip tickets.
We have made arrangements with Mr..
Hubbard of Boston, who furnishes us
weekly market reports, to quote Vermont
kets it will be seen that there is quite a
difference between creamery and best dali
~ butter.
Orleans County court convenes on Tues
day, Feb. 7, Judge H. H. Powers presid-
ing. 1t is not expected that the civil cas-
es viii occupy a great length of time
The States Attorney has quite large
number of cases on his hands, which will
be disposed of as far as possible.
To those interested in the officers of
government, of politics and election mat
tiers. the Tribune almanac, 25 cents, is
thing that is worth far more than it
costs. 1t contains vast amount of
interesting and useful matter. 1t is es-
pecially useful presidential election years
Our thanks are due to C. w. Eaton of
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for a copy of the
Gazette of that city, which contains A
pages, and gives history and record of
that city which shows that Mayor Eaton
has settled down in one of the liveliest
cities of that section. We also acknowl-
edge the receipt of papers from Mrs.
Bowers of Sacramento, CAL, and other
Journals from other parties which boom
the booming cities of the Golden State of
the Pacific coast.
1t has been talked that the new railroad
management contemplates the building
of new depot in this place. The enter
prise and good judgment that they have
shown elsewhere in their effort to put the
in,
the expectation that the old, announcement,
and nasty building used for the depot
here would be removed. The old struct-
nre was built nearly 80 years ago by
company SO poor that it was necessary to
build cheap, and at time when nobody
knew what a good station house was.
We hope that another season will see the
old building torn down and a new one
erected.
One of our western subscribers writes
that he wishes we would give the
weather record weekly. He wants to
know how much snow we have and how
cold it is in northern Vermont. Well. we
do not boast of weather or of roads
this month The January of 1888 will have
an ugly record. 1t is just as cold as it
can be. and SHOWS every day when it is
warm enough. Between whites the wind
blows. If our friends ont West have any
surplus sympathy to extend in the line of
weather severity, we can use it.
The above was written before the
great storm of the week burst upon the
northeastern part Of the country and
we have a subject for an item that might
make an extended one. The snow storm
that commenced Wednesday evening and
ended Thursday night will have history
and record. IL came on from the west
but was most furious through New York
state and northern New England
Snow fell by measure in many localities
from Is to "a inches in depth. A wind
increasing to gale, swept the whole
section for nearly three days, piling the
snow in drifts that blockaded highways
and railroads all through the regions
visited by the storm. Railroads that