Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-10-07

Barton.
E. A Grow has had an increase in his
pension.
The first killing frost of the fall came
last week.
G. A. Drew is putting in furnace to
heat his residence.
The trains commence running on win
ter time to-day. See corrected table.
The Odd Girls are invited to meet with
Sara d. Stone at Geo. Fl. Blake's, next
Thursday afternoon.
The MONITOR is an excellent paper to
steal local items from-so think our es-
teemed contemporaries.
The regular meeting of the w. c. T. U.
will be held with Mrs. E. G. Shaw on
Tuesday afternoon at o'clock.
LisOm Valley, in the DevereauX neigh
borhoood, is building house on the site
of the one burned last spring.
The ''better half and the editor go to
Gettysburg this week. j. n. Webster,
and DIR. Ruggles also 60 from this place.
All those interested in having Literary
Circle here this winter are invited to
meet with Mrs. E. G.. Shaw next Friday
evening.
Orrin Merrill, who for some time has
been suffering from a mental ailment, be-
came so insane that 1t was felt necessary
to take him to Brattleboro.
Speaking of strawberries in October,
Eben Woodward says he recently found
several ripe Strawberries which were as
large as those plucked in June.
The entertainment of the little people,
the Tom Thumb party, was well patron
lied and gave very general satisfaction.
The children were greatly pleased with it.
The balance of the cast iron pipe for
the village water works has come, and
nothing binders the completion of the
work in a short time if the weather is
fairly good. ~
Barron & Hamblett's store door was
broken down Saturday night and forty
four cents stolen from the money drawer.
An attempt was also made last night to
store.
Miss Minnie Collision has just returned
from Concord, n. H., where she has
spent some time fitting herself for first
class dressmaker, and opened rooms in o.
d. Owens block. She will be pleased to
see all ladies needing her services.
Henry Gray, son of Jacob G. Gray, died
on Tuesday morning last of consumption
He was a young man of much promise and
was greatly esteemed by all who knew
him. The funeral was held on Thursday
Rev. III. w Worthen officiating, and the
remains were taken to Sheffield for burial
The Annie Mitchell Co., give an enter
tainment in Opera Hall tonight also to
morrow and Wednesday evenings The
LyndOnuiHe Journal says 'the principa
artists are actors of high order and are
equal to the regular players of any popu
lar city theatre and that ''the perform
ance of the orchestra was the best evel
heard here
DIR. Arthur Boswell is home or a shor
visit. He has been quite successful in hi
special line in the treatment of disease
and has good practice in Boston. III
is a Christian science or mind cure spec
ialist 1t is talked that the Boswell boy
are thinking of selling their land near tn
depot store. This ought to be dispose
of and have a good building erected on il
From the Canon City, Colorado, Neag,
we learn of the death of Mark Nutter,
former resident of this village. Mr.. Nut
ter left this town some twenty years age
and went to Iowa, and thence to Colorad
in 1879. He has long been afflicted wit
lung difficulty and died of consumption