Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-01-28
Barton

The work horses are having their inn
ings.
Rev Mr. Worthen's lecture, on Thurs
day night.
The Chautauqua Circle will meet with
Mrs. F. W.Baldwin, on Tuesday evening.
Rev. H. w. Worthen delivered three
lectures in Danville last week, large au-
dience attending.
John n. Smith is filling his ice house,
and will furnish ice to those who want it
in cakes, this week.
\ very large number of neighbors and
friends attended the sociable at J. Ark
ley's on Wednesday, and more than sixty
took supper.
John Wells has returned from his trip
to Idaho. He looked the country over
liked in some parts very well, but it was
not Vermont and had no wife and boy
of his in it.
Frank Beard, the noted chalk artist and
humorlst, will give an entertainment in
the Newport Lecture Course, next Satur-
day evening. 1t will be an entertainment
that nobody within reasonable distance
can afford to lose.
The r. r. Co. are running quite gang
of help ut their quarry across the lake,
and will draw a lot of stone across on
the ice just as soon as they consider it
safe. The stone will be loaded on the
cars by derrick.
We desire to collect a $1,000 on our
subscription list before March 1st, and
would be glad to do it without another
dun, or expense to anybody. Look at
your label and see what your part of that
sum is, and send it in.
Read n. M. SCOTS new adj, and remem-
Der that the depot store is the place to
buy corn, feed and flour. Our merchants
have cut down the prices of grain, flour,
etc. to very low figures, land are selling the
largest quantities, probably, ever sold in
this town.
Eight or ten inches of new snow this
morning. The wind, one day last week,
played freak with the snow all about
the fields, rolling it up into balls from
the size of an egg to foot or more in di-
ameter. There were thousands of these
in the fields.
1t may be interesting sometime hereaf-
ter, if one falls upon this issue of our pa
per, to read that E. Z. Liddell was en-
gagged on Saturday, Jan. 26, in painting
his front yard fence. Painting front yard
fences in Vermont in January is not an
ordinary amusement
The annual meeting of the 10th Mason
ic district for the exemplification of the
work and lectures will be held in Masonic
Hall, Barton, Friday. February 1st, at ,
O'Clock, p. m. All Masons cordially in
vited. Let all that can, be present at af-
ternoon session
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From a Southern California paper, we
learn that Guar Rowell, son of G. E.
Rowell of this place,is doing a successful
hotel business in a town some eighty
miles east of Los Angeles. The paper
has very complimentary notice of Mr..
Rowell's hotel and his business.
1t is expected that Mrs. Purple will
give Reading at NJ. f. church, on Mon
day evening, Feb. 4. She is recommend
ed as a very fine reader. Mrs. Purple is
state organizer for the w. c. t. t., and
will try to organize Union here on Feb.
9TH. of which announcement will be made
hereafter.
The following parties have recently re-
ceired pensions or had their pensions in
creased: Luther Battles, West Burke;
Samuel Cook, North Troy; Philip d.
Badger, Greensboro; Fanny, widow of
the late Col. T. V. Randall, Mortified;
Albro Ball, Burke; d. r. Cobb, So. AL
bany; o. p. Durham, Barton Landing.
The following items are from the cor
respondent in the northeast part of the
town: Charles Hillard has moved on to
the Dana Graves place, and works for c.
b. Leland.-Charles Marshall has moved
on to his fathers farm in Bloomington.
Mrs. Eben Durham recently broke a
wrist by falling on the ice.-Beede Dun
ham is preparing to build large barn in
the spring, aud A. III. Allard is framing it.
The following scrap from weather
Journal kept by A. n. Bracket of Lancas-
ter, \. H., dated March 4, 1912, may be
of interest in view of the fact that the
present winter is thought by many to be
1he mildest ever known;
The past winter has been the mildest
OF any Tor ffty-two years. December
was not severely cold, but was good win
ter weather, with sufiiclency OF snow
for business on the roads. The latter half
Of January was warm and rainy, and the
Whole of February was very warm ana