Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-03-04
Barton.
! Cleveland, enter Harrison.

Exit Cleveland, enter Harrison.
Mr.. Worthen's lecture on Wednesday
night.
The C~hautauqua Circle will meet at
Mrs. G. H. Blake's, on Tuesday evening.
March opened with a most lovely spring
day. The winter, up to this date has been
most agreeable.
The Ladies' Society of the Cong. church
will meet with Mrs. c. P. Jenness on
Wednesday afternoon.
The old republican flag, which went
into the shadows four years ago, appears
again this morning.
Redfeld Proctor will be in Gen. Har-
rison's cabinet, probably Secretary of
War. Pretty big honor for Vermont.
Mrs. H. d. and Mrs. Schuyler Bickford
had a large gathering of friends at their
sociable last Wednesday eve. The sup
per was appreciated.
Myron Simpson who lived on the Mer-
RAM farm in this town a few years since,
has been engaged by the Fairbankses of
St. Johnsbury to 90 on to their dairy
farm.
About , 1000 cords of timber have been
drawn into the chair factory up to this
date. They want about two weeks more
of Shedding to round off the top of the
log piles.
Charles Preston, who has been on the
road as drummer for the last eight or ten
years, has not missed a single trip in the
whole time, making from 500 to 600 miles
every month.
\. r. Cowles wishes us to announce
that his Musical Convention at Beebt
Plain commences We'd. morning of this
week. at 10 O'Clock, instead of Wed
nesday evening, as we announced las
week.
\. b. Stoddard, who moved his family
here from Westmore recently, started FOL
Tennessee last Wednesday where he ind:
employment at good wages. If he likes
the country he will SEND for his family
ere long.
By n letter received from Carl Jewell o
st. Louis, Mo, we learn that Johnnie
Prindle is playing in a theater in tina
city, and the reporters call his success
immense" He really has ex%traordinar.
talent and we are glad that he is success
full.
We notice in a Mahanoy, Penn, pape
a complimentary notice of the bushes
lone in the line of thoroughbred hogs b.
our old towsman, c. w. Smith. Charlie
was never known to nave a taste for hog
while here, and we think the climate nus
have effected him somewhat.
The report of the financial standing o
the town, printed by Mr.. Webster, is pei
haps the most satisfactory and complet
ever prepared. Every voter and cItize
should read it. The report shows tn
present liabilities of the town about SO
as against over $500 last year. The rt
of all officers.
At the special meeting OF the stool
holders of the Barton bank, held on Err
day, to vote on the question of five {
seven stockholders, it was voted that fiv
should hereafter constitute the numbe,
By this vote L. HI. Thompson and job
Bailey, who had refused heretofore I
qualify, were retired. The change WI
made in the line of economy.
The county cour is still in sessio
with the prospect of holding over tn
week at least. The important suit b
tween John Warren, administrator, al
Luman Smith of Craftsbury, was decide
against Smith, by a verdict of S2,112.I
The Glover case between Samuel Vanr
and f.. o. Randall is now on trial al
will be given to the jury to day.
Mr.. Rattigan, station agent, who so
the parties who left for California
Tuesday their tickets, learns that tn,
passed over the wrecked bridge in S
George, Ontario, only a few hours in a
vance of the Inflated train, which we
through a high bridge at that point, nj
lives being lost and many wounded. Il
accident was occasioned by a broken G
CINE tire.
Neighbor Camp, who went out to Was
ington to help Gen Harrison during
auguration week, is expected back [
last of the week with that post-office co