Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-07-29

Ouf people VINO are interested IN the
welfare OF the academy talked the matter
over on Friday night and signed 81 900
toward a $4,000 endowment it is hoped
to raise for the benefit of the school,
Lill and Mary Chandler are spending
their vacations in town.-Hoel Camp and
family from Wisconsin are visiting here.
"A brother of Rev. Mr.. Wilder is here
from Dedham, Mass, and preached Sun
day evening.
West Derby.
A boy baby at AL. Calkin's.
Mrs. C. S. Magoon and daughter and
Miss Carrie Morey have gone to Old Or
chard beach.
d. M. Bisbee and wife, Mrs. o. S. Dane
and Miss Ella Merrlck made a trip to
Quebec last week.
Glover.
The Mite Society meets with Mrs S. F.
Wiley, next Friday afternoon.
The original Comical Brown will play
in Institute Hall, Tuesday eve, July 80.
Rev. Mr.. Jenne will be at home next
Wednesday and expects to occupy the
pulpit Sunday.
Henry Cutler and wife have returned
from the West.-Reuben Cheney and fam
lily are home for a visit.
Go to Barton Saturday evening to the
band concert. The Barton band boys will
do their best on that night.
At the republican caucus Saturday
evening, c. A. Barrows received a major
ity of votes for postmaster.
Charles Wright of Boston is spending
a short time with his aged mother.-Mrs.
G. S. Parker has gone to New York to
care for Mr.. Parker's mother, who is dan
gerously ill.
Greensboro.
1t is seldom we catch weasel asleep,
but j. B. Calderwood cut one in two with
his moving machine last Thursday.
John Simpson is still very sick and his
friends have doubts as to his recovery.
His brother Alex. from Illinois is with
him for a while.
Two custom house officers were thro'
here last week trying to scoop in a cou-
pie of Frenchmen, but the last we heard
they were still 'snuffing the wind" and
Frenchy was a little ahead.
Holland.
Mrs. Charles Clark of st. Johnsbury is
in town visiting ut Judge Fletcher's.
A. 3. Moulton has mare that dropped
colt having only three legs; it was per-
feet every other way.
l1.aSburSh.
A new girl baby at Will Farrington's.
DR.. Rowell and C. w. Wheeler have
gone to Caledonia Springs.
Mrs. George Beede is no better with
no prospect of recovery.-Mrs. Ord is no
better.
Mrs. w. D. Tyler has returned from
Plattsburg N. Y. where she has been Wis
iting friends.-Rev. /. P. Chase is in town
visiting old friends.
There will be a competitive examina-
ton of such as seek scholarship in the
Norwich University in this place on
Tuesday Aug. Is, 10 o'clock a. m. Can.
didates must be at least fifteen years of
age. The examination will be in Eng
lish grammar, geography, arithmetic
and in United States history.
Lowell.
The good people of the village had a
picnic in Hazen's Notch, July %.
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are visiting here.-Bradley Sanborn is at
home.
During a thunder storm recently the
barn of A. d. Mills was struck and one
of his horses killed.
Newport.
Cora and Agnes Wedgeworth, the daugh-
tiers of our former pastor, are visiting
friends in town.
The corner stone of the new Congrega-
tional church was laid last Saturday at 2
O'Clock p. M. with appropriate services.
Loren Pratt had his foot badly damned
last week while engaged in laying the
foundation wall of the new school build
ing.
Prof. Bishop of the Montpelier Semina-
ry gave an excellent address on 'FChris-
tian Education in the Methodist church
last Sunday morning. A good audience
was present, and all were pleased with
the speaker and the subject.
The Sunday School of the Methodist
church intend to have boat ride and pic
MIC to the Mountain House on Wednesday,
Aug. Z, if the weather is favorable. 1t
is expected that the school from Derby
sion. All are invited.
Tuesday morning, just as the morning
mail train from the south was leaving the
depot, it was discovered that one of the
axles of the driving wheel of the locomo-
tive was broken squarely in two. Upon
examination it was found that a flaw had
existed for some time. Had the break
happened while the train was under high
speed, the consequences might have been
disastrous.
N ewpOrt Center.
Clifford Titus, employed in the Girls
Industrial School at Middletown, Conn,
is home on a visit.
Mrs. B. L. Brown started last week for
Colorado to visit her adopted sister living
there, and will be absent several weeks.
The Misses Tillie and Minnie Eden
benz Of New York city are here visiting
at Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. w. Rogers. They
came here six years ago, again five years
ago, as fresh air children, and come now
by invitation of Mr.. and Mrs. Rogers.
They have now grown to young ladies.
Ernest Bartlett returned home last week
from Providence, r. L. He went there
last November and has been attending a
commercial school during his stay in the
City,. FL. Williams of Providence, r.
l., is here visiting friends and cutting the
hay on his farm here.-Mrs. Nellie Critch-
EFT of Nashua, N. H., who has been visit
ing friends and on business connected
with her interest in the Aaron Critchett
farm, returned home last week.
Mrs Litchfeld, widow of the late Jo-
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