Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-12-10
Barton.

other goods too numerous to mention.
f. A. Norton, Auctioneer.
Barton.
The Chautauqua Circle will meet at
printing office on Wednesday evening.
Mr.. Town, the groceryman, is just out
from a short run of lung fever.
Mrs. Mary Cobb has been in Haverhill,
n. H., the past few weeks on a visit.
She returns this week.
Jennie Wilson goes to Montpelier to-
day in company with Lila White to attend
the Seminary school.
Horace Hyde is here making a brief
stop, while on his way to Hot Springs,
Ark He is troubled with rheumatism.
The annual meeting of Orleans Lodge
No. 80 f. and \. NJ, will occur Friday
eve, Dec. 18th. All members requested
to be present.
The Orleans County Musical Associa-
ton will hold its annual convention at
Newport in the second week in January.
Posters and circulars will soon be out.
past week, but the snow does not come
for shedding. There are hundreds of
teams in the county waiting for snow to
start timber hauling.
The Relief Corps and some of the Post
boys gave very pleasant entertainment
at Post hall, with singing and speaking
exercises, Saturday evening, for the ben
eft of the Sons of Veterans.
Those wishing copies of the report of
the Board of Agriculture for the last
two years, can obtain them by address
ing w. W. Cook, Burlington, VT. Farm
ers will find much useful information in
the Report.
E. X. Locke, the old army singer, well
known to most soldiers, and noted as
lecturer, music composer, song singer
and whistler, will give an entertainment
at Opera Hall on Tuesday of next week.
The entertainment promises to be of
great interest.
Marcellus jerks, Albany: Rufus Kius-
ley. Lowell; Ambrose Alard, Lyndon
Vile; Erastus Slack, Glover; and George
ed pensions. Pensions are the most pro-
fitable things that men can have these
hard times.
We publish to-day the prospectus of
the New York Tribune, Il great national
newspaper. The character of the paper,
its opportunity for getting the inside of
matters political, its able editorials, its
great variety of matter and its truthful
ness always make it standard.
The odd Girls of the NJ. +. Society will
have fair at the vestry tomorrow
Tuesday afternoon and evening. They
have lot of useful and ornamental arti-
cleS, suitable for Christmas presents, etc,
which will be put on sale at low figures.
They extend a general invitation and will
be glad to see Il large number present.
Cake and coffee viii be served in the ev
ening.
The water charter of this village was
so amended by the legislature as to per-
nit the raising of $780, 900 bonds and the
calling of meeting for the purpose OF
supplying the village with water at any
time The whole matter is in the hands
of the village as heretofore. Some new
surveys and estimates made some weeks
ago, show that a thorough system OF
works can be put in for considerably esi
than>the $4,000.
Mrs Mary Ann Blake, whose illness
has been mentioned in these columns
died last week, and the funeral was helC
at her late residence on Friday, Rev. Mr.
WOrthen attending. Mrs. Blake was
rery capable, energetic woman, and al
excellent neghbor. Her suffering TO
the last months has been extreme, anC
death came to be welcomed at last Sh
leaves an aged mother. two sons and 9th
or relatives to mourn her loss.
The roadway under the railroad tract
on Lincoln Street has been completed
The delay Of the r. r. Co., and the larg
amount of stone used, more than wa
first talked, has been Instantaneous t.
the village, and will largely increase TIL
cost of the work. The opening OF thu
road under the track. however, will be
perpetual benefit to all who desire to trav
cl that way, and to the property in TIL
Twombly section of the village. Tia
cost, though heavy, viii be borne bu
once.
A. A. Earle has sold out his paper a
White River Junction to his ofcie fore
man, C.. r. jameson, and will retire from
the labOrs of newspaper life Dir. Earl
has been in feeble and precarious stat
OF health some years and his retiremen
will be great relief, and, we hope, bene
tit to him. Mr.. Earle always welded
pungent and able pen, and learned how t
make paper financial success-a thin
all publishers have not learned. May hi
life be spared, and his remaining years b
full of joy and blessings.
AYe accidentally omitted to speak las
week of the very excellent lectur
by Mrs Knox, wife of Rev NJ Y
Il. Knox, which S,as delivered in the n
T. church on 4 recent evening. Mr. Kno
is making tour around the glese, an
Syhen last heard from was in India. Meas
while Mrs Knox is engaged in W. C. 7
L. work, chiefly in New Hampshire. I'll
lecture was on "Chisdren's Rights" an
was most timely and useful presents
ton of the rights of the children an
youth In brief,it was set forth that the
had right to be born, and to be bon