Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-10-15

r. B. Walker raised a potato of the
black variety which measures over 10
| inches in length
Levi Drew has moved on to Harvey
LIE :, is farm and is going to carry it on
the coming year
| Weekly prayer and conference meet
ing Friday afternoon at O'Clock in
| Cong. church vestry.
from Manchester Mrs. Wilbur Scott
has gone to visit her son, Dr. w. Scott.
John Salmon is building an addition
to his barn.-N. M. Lewis has Cupboard
ed his house, improving the looks con-
siderably.
w. Hanson has hired out to Fred
Robinson of Barton and moved his fam
lily there Chaplin Leonard has rented
his tenement to a. Ingalls, of Barton.
Kenneth McLoud, while chopping for
N. M. Lewis few days since, made an
ugly cash in his leg; DIR. Trempleton
dressed the wound and it is doing nicely
MIR. Corliss, an aged gentleman, died
last week; funeral services yesterday
| afternoon, Rev. w. S. Jenne officiating.
Mr.. Corlss has been sick long time
and great sufferer.
VIM. Wiley has put out twenty fox
traps. He estimates that between three
and four hundred turkeys have been Kill
ed in his neighborhood this fall by this
mischievous animal.
Reub Mason recently shot hedgehog
that weighed over 20 pouuds.-C. S. Phil
lips shot il raccoon which weighed Il lbs.
H. w. Phillips shot a hawk last week
whose extended wings measured feet 3
inches, with talons nearly inches long.
The Earnest Workers win give chick
en- pie supper and flag festival, Friday
eve, Oct. 10. Supper will he served in
the vestry from 6 to O'Clock, after
which there will be literary entertain
ment in the church which will be deco
rated for the occasion.
Frank Fuller and family have moved
to Glover village, Mrs. Fuller to work
out with William Tate to do big job
of saving wood.-Ernest Partridge has
moved back to his farm.-John Jerome
and family have moved to Walden.
The sudden death of Mrs. c. w.
Morse at Fairlee on Saturday, casts
gloom over this entire community. She
always had kind and cheering word for
every one she met, and won many friends
during their stay here. We extend our
heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved
ones.
Prof G. w. Foster, late OF Brooklyn,
N. Y, assisted by M. E. Foster and
Miss Linnie Foster of Cabot, will give
a concert with choice selections of read
ing, recitations, ETC., under the auspices
of the Ladies Mite society, at Institute
hall on Saturday evening Oct Goth. Ad-
mission 10 cents.
w est Glover
Robert Buchanan is repairing his build
ings.-Chas. Cook is building an addition
to his barn.
Green%DORo-
Charlie Boardman is sick with typhoid
fever at st. Johnsbury.
Drs. Warren and French removed a
cancer or Il tumOr from the breast OF
Mary Daniels last Thursday.
B. G. Remission, of East Greensboro,
threshed I85 bushels of oats in five hours
for Widow Morrison of Barnet
Mrs. Flanders, who is sick with typhoid
fever, was taken to her home in North
Craftsbury, from ST. Johnsbury, Oct. 10.
Claude Brownlow has gathered 325
bushels of apples this year. He is feed
ing a lot of them to his cows, and says
they are worth about 20 cts. per bushel
for that purpose.
Miss Lola K. CalderwoOd was osreea
bly, surprised last Tuesday eve by about
40 of her friends and acquaintance who
gathered at her home to remind her that
it was her 10th birthday. There was mu-
sic, dancing, etc, and all had good
time.
Two fellows from Burlington came to
our town liquor agent on Sunday, the 9TH
inst, and attempted to procure liquor I'M
der false pretenses. One of them sue
ceeded, and they were consequently
brought before a justice and fined $40
and costs. Others take warning.
1ra~ss,sR-.eH.
L. H. Nye has variety of apples that
keep the year round. He has an apple
picked one year ago that is sound.
Geo X. Hill is pushing the work on his
house fast as possible. He will haye,
when completed, rs convenient set of
buildings as there is on the common.
j. S. Sweet of Newport has bought out
William Fishers interest in the Ranger
farm and moved on; Fisher has bought
the Arnold Caples place in the village.
A. c.. Bryant, who had his hand bitten
by cat last spring, has not been able to
use it much since. He has a good dairy
of 20 cows, and some of the time when
he has bad no hired man Mrs. Bryant
usually milks II or ID, and has MIXED the
whole number.
Lowell.
Campfire at J. B. Powers, next Tues
day evening.
The road from Lowell to Irasburgh is
the worst ever known.
Mr.. Lewis, the artist from North Troy,
is in town again doing work.
Some one took about eight dollars from
L. r. Wellman's store last Friday.
Kinney has put up another blacksmith
shop and is putting in another boiler.
The new street lamps are not only or
namental, but extremely useful.
The Good Templars hold open lodge in
town hall, Wednesday eve, Oct. II. All
invited.
A. A. Aseltine and l. Stephenson, Jr.,
have both been to Boston and bought a
lot of new goods.
M. Freehart cut his knee quite badly
last Friday. DR.. Templeton dressed the
wound and Mr.. Freehart is on the gain
F. II. Skinner has sold his farm to
Alanson Sanborn, who has been West the