Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-01-21

turns the compliment: one oColuS anu
the other applauds; one thinks himself
the best man in the wide world, and the
other says, yes, except me. The socl-
ETY. is small, but it makes up in self con-
ceit and self praise all it lacks in nnm-
bers. Unfortunately it is so constituted
that growth is impossible
We forgot to mention the annual vii
lage meeting which occurred recently.
The auditors report showed the village
S24O in debt. This was occasioned by
the expense of putting the road under the
railroad at the Twombly crossing The
expense of this work was greatly increas-
ed by the railroad company, in failing to
do the work at the time and In the manner
expected One of the store courts had
discussed the matter of expense on ''the
tunnel" as the thing was called, and some
work was done toward making change
in the board of trustees, but the vote OF
the village showed that the trustees were
sustained, by nearly two to one, and the
old board was reelected. There was
some talk about lighting the village with
electricity, provided it could be done by
plan suggested by G. +. Perc1val. The
matter was referred to the trustees, who
were instructed to call village meeting
to consider the matter, provided they
deemed the prospect feasible. The fol-
lowing officers were elected: Moderator,
II. G. Pierce; secretary, John l.. TWom-
bly: trustees, E. G. Collision, n. M.
Scott and Henry Gay; treasurer, III. {.
Pierce. 1t was voted to raise 20 cents on
a dollar in addition to the Is cents raised
by the town to meet the expenses and
cancel the debts. This makes the village
tax 50 cents, instead of 80 on the dollar, as
it has been the past five years.
Mr.. Edit0r,-In your issue of Dec. IL,
there appeared a letter signed by John
Forrest, Jr., So. Barton, VT" in which
the names of the conference of the
Wheelock @. M. of Free Baptists, their
| officers. and the local church at So. Bar
ton, were quite freely used, and in man
ner calculated to reflect great discredlt
upon all. Permit me to say through your
| COlunUS, ny way VI SAPiohNAAh' -
| half of the conference, that they acted
honestly, upon evidence brought before
them through a properly authorized coun-
Gil and with malice toward no one. If,
however, Mr.. Forrest thinks he has in
anv way been ill-treated or misused by
them. and will take the trouble to bring
his grievance properly before that body
at it's next session, which will be held at
West Derby, Jan. % to p, L presume
they will be sufficiently considerate of his
feelings to give him a hearing at proper
time and place, Notwithstanding the fact
that for reasons best known to himself, he
has failed to avail himself of such an op-
portunity, Offered in his own neighborhooG
We intend to ''be merciful', as we hope
to s'obtain mercy" In regard to my own
connection with the affair, l wish to say
that as an obedient officer and servant Oh
the. conference, 1 endeavOred to do theil
bidding in a brief, concise manner, with
out needless public array Of particulars
If in their Judgment l have been unfor
tunate in the choice of a term which Is
misleading as regards the facts, | an
ready. when so informed, to do all in my
power to repair the injury. Until then
have no retraction to make. As to thu
local church, she is able and ready t.
speak in her defense when properly called
upon to do So II. .. WHEELER
Vest Charleston, Ut, Jan. II, 1889.
Rarto1a Landing.
Id. Webster is quite slck.-Mr. Lew
is Nve is able to be out again.-Mrs. Dan
is no better.-Mrs. George Ford is on tn
gain.
Id. Wilson has sold his house an
land to George Smith.-Mrs. Alden sol
615 acres of land on the east side of tn
river to Mr.. Smith, who now has over l
acres of very choice land.
The G.. A. R. Post installation exercise
: in the afternoon, Tuesday and the suppe
and other exercises in the evening, WEI
enjoyed by a large number OF our cltlzeu
and Others There was quite large del'
cation of friends from Newport, Barto
t and elsewhere. An excellent supper,fre
S to all was provided at the Cong. churc
: vestrv. at which two hundred or MOI
B. were well fed. There was speaking e.
5 ercises, both afternoon and evening,
5 which quite large number took par
Jason Wheeler and wife from Charlesto
: furnished some excellent music afternoo
!. and evening, while the band and the qua
+ tet club enlivened the occasion by sever
: pieces. Taken all in all, it was one {
h the pleasantest occasions we have hf
V here in years.
ALBANY.
q Donation visit at Cong. church nettt
r S95.
n Bert Vance is home from Springfield
Mass.
2 A tramp from Hyde Park, by the nan
ID of Milo Baker, is at T. o. Andrus', la
ND with a frozen foot, and is liable
al lose al. the toes on that foot.
lie F.P. Gates, one of our esteemed CT
e. zens, has purchased an interest in n
re Moulton's marble and granite business
20 Newport. and will move there in
er spring.
DR.. Campbell assisted by DIR. Temp
n ton, recently amputated a finger
le Elijah Stone of Glover. The finger W
ic badly hurt some years ago and has be
ok a constent trouble ever since and Mr..
d. thought best to rid himself OF the anne
Oh ance.
BrOxvnin2-tOn-
E. A. p. Alexander feels that the new
rs is really worth 81 ,O00.l
er- Geo. Smith fell through the scuttle
to his barn, hurting him quite badly.
Oh Singing school opened here Jan.
ay taught by man from Newport.
surprise anniversary att John Z
ney's last week and a good time ENJOY
OF David Phillbrick and wife have gone
~; Boston visiting.-Lilla Rich is visit
friends in town.
- S. S. Tinkham and wife have gon'
Burlington to visit their son
,od Miss Ada Lapierre has gone to N. ID
ax visit friends.