Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-06-24
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several kinds of rakes with all sorts of
repairs. See his advertisement next week
Barton.
Edie Dewey is home on a school vaca-
ton.
Considerable haying was done in this
vicinity last week.
A. r. Cowles has already sold twelve
organs this month.
Chautauqua meeting at printing office
on Tuesday evening.
The Ladies' Society of the Cong. church
will meet with Mrs. j. E. Skinner, We'd
nesday afternoon.
Joseph Owen and wife spent several
commencement exercises.
Rev. Mr.. Worthen and wife will be
away this week. Mr.. w. attends the
Preachers meeting at st. Johnsbury Cen
ter.
H. X. Dewey has done very thorough
job of painting about his premises.-A.
c. Jewell has painted his house in very
snowy colors.
The village water meeting is to be held
next Wednesday evening. 1t promises
to be lively, if not exciting. Every voter
ought to be there.
The towns all about are complying with
the guide board law, and new boards are
being put up in all directions. Charlie
Pms &c 20
Some characters from this and adioin-
ing vicinities attended camp-meeting at
Beebe Plain yesterday and came back in
mood that was a disgrace to the day
and the community.
School district clerks should return the
registers for the spring term to the SUI
perintendent this week, as the public
money is to be divided the first week in
July. The new school year begins July lst
Lila White returned from the Montpe-
lier Seminary on Tharsday.-JennieW Will
son returned on Saturday. She was de-
layed few days on account of mumps.-
Mary Blake went to Montpelier to visit
Jennie Wilson last week.
Remember that the ssannual" school
meeting, by virtue of new school law,
falls on the last Tuesday in June (next
Tuesday,. There ought to be a good at
tendance in every district, and a readi-
ness to give the new law the fairest trial
possible.
The meeting of the Agricultural Socie-
ty held here last week was well attended
and there was an unusual interest in mat
tiers connected with the coming fair.
Some slight changes were made in the
premium list. 1t was voted to hold the
fair the next week after the Caledonia
county fair.
HAL Hopkins is putting up shop on
High Street for his gun, lock and other
and wants a suitable place to do his work.
He is one of the men who wants a motor
when the new water works are ina
paint and carriage repair shop is being
put up near the Brooks blacksmith shop,
which will have tenement finished over
head.
Children's Day at NJ. E. church was OBJ
served yesterday. Mr.. Worthen preach
ed very excellent sermon on education
in the forenoon. The exercise services
were held at O'Clock. The house, per-
haps, was never more beautifully decor
ated, and the services were of unusual
interest. Thanks to the many who con-
tributed plants and flowers, the teachers,
and those who assisted in the singing and
the preparation of the house.
The following programme will be per-
formed by the Barton Cornet Band, Sat
urday evening, near the upper hotel ::
March, ''Galataea," III. PrendiviIle; quick.
atep, ''Bound to VIM" FIR. Goetz; fanta-
STA, witch Dance FIR. Goetz; waltz,
ssOf the PERIOD" Rummel; overture,
''Viva," Fir. Goetz; quickstep, ''Appolo, >
SouthwelI; waltz, s'Fireslde," Southwell;
quickstep, ''Perley," A. Phillips; quick
march, Company D., w. S. Ripley
Some of our Glover friends have writ
ten US long communications in regard to
StonePond, since we had an article which
called attention to the condition of the
water in that pond. They claim that the
cry respect; that there Is a ledge across
the outlet at no great depth below the
natural surface of the water, and that the
character of the earth is such that it would
be a difficult thing to wash it out at any
event We presume this is all true, but
we visited this pond some years since af-
ter great freshet in the spring and found
that the water had been standing during
the highest flood several feet above the
regular bottom of the outlet, and that il
had run over and cut out some of the
earth embankment which made part OF
the dam. There was a narrow escape al
that time from such a flood as six tC
eight feet of water let through an open
ing chad the dam given OUT of from tel
to forty feet. A stream off pond mile
long that escaped an opening of the widtI
described, would make too much water il
this valley, we are sure. If the water Il