Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-06-17

move in few weeks.
B. j. Austin has received a pension o
ST. per month with nearly 500 arrears
Maggie King is home for visit.-Ett;
Wheelock has gone to New York on ,
visit.
Mrs. Kinney has returned from tn,
Burlington hospital much improved il
health.
n. f. Hutchinson has bought the bricE
store, and will fit the lower part for
tenement.
Mrs. Winchester moves into rooms over
the brick store and Henry Chase into the
lower part.-Lewis Cross moves to hi:
fathers farm.
George Chanberlin, who went to New
York few weeks ago, was run over by
the cars and lost leg. His mother, Mrs
L. r. Wellman, has gone to take care OF
him. He was driving an ice cart and both
his horses were killed.
Morgan Center.
Gray Gilmore have finished saving
their stock of logs.
S. L. and j. Blake are building an adj
dition to their barn.
Miss Clara Bryant has returned from
Brighton where she has been at work.
L. C. Towle had his hand badly sawed
recently while at work in Gallup's mill.
There will be box picnic in the grove
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will be served; there will be music, reci-
tations and speaking.
Newport.
There was a false alarm of fire here
yesterday afternoon.
There is talk of a stgrand" 4th of
July celebration here.
Tom. Addison has returned from Can
ada and is at work for True & Blanch-
ard
P. j. Farrell has resigned his position
as postal clerk and has formed law
partnership with G. A. Prouty.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. C. Miller were called
to Westfield last week by the serious ill
ness of Mr.. Millers mother.
Ed. Prouty has returned from Boston,
where he has been for the last year study
ing short hand and type writing.
The Campbell Bros. of Sutton have
bought out the meat business of N. G.
Dane. They are honorable and reliable
men.
Mrs. Charles Phillips has been visiting
at Lyndonville.-Jona. Sleeper has return
ed from Lowell. Mass. where he has been
stopping some months.-Mr. and Mrs. A.
J. Miller are away on visit.-Mrs. L. c.
Miller and children are in Canada among
friends.
The mail route from this place to Island
Pond has been sold to John r. Upper of
Gaysville, this state, for the next four
years. The time and manner of carrying
the mail will be very different from what
it has ever been before. There will be
one service daily between the latter place
and here. The mails from Charleston
| will reach here at a. M, and II m, and
will leave here for that place at 1. p. m.
and p. m.
NEWPORT Center
Rev. S. w. Cowell will occupy the pull
pit at the Baptist church for a few weeks.
C. L. Drown has let the job to Wesley
Regain to peel all the bark and cut all the
timber on both his farms.
The Free Baptist Sabbath school have
added $50 worth of new books to their Ii
brary from d. Lothrop and Co., publish
ers, Boston, Mass.
Josiah Litchfeld, former resident of
this place, died at his sons in Coventry,
last Thursday. He had been in poor
health for some time.
The thunder storm on the evening of
June 9th was very heavy in all this vicin
ity and did great damage to the crops,
highways, mills, etc. The water was
never known to be as high before. The
dam at Samuel Meacham's mill gave way,
demolishing his single mill and doing
other damage. At the Buck & Stevens
mill, the stream was diverted from its
course and carried against the repair
shop and the engine house, undermining
the boiler. The debris from Meachams
mill was borne into the lower part of the
steam mill and considerable damage was
done to the machinery. The meadows
were covered with sand and drift wood
all along the stream. At Chandler 4
SINNERS mill a boom was broken, and a
large number of logs let loose to be scat
tered below. The lightning meanwhile
was playing in all directions, and the
thunder peals were terrific. Mrs. Quinn
by's block was struck, the bolt passing
from a chimney into G.. A. r. hall, doing
considerable damage, thence into Mrs.
! Quimby's sitting room, where it scattered
things about strangely. Miss Irvie Quinn
by was considerably effected by the cleo
| tricity, but soon recovered. The barn
was also visited by the fluid and some
damage was done to the goods in Gilbert's
store, where one part of the current
switched off. Another bolt fell on the
| Critchett house, occupied by d. Perkins,
passed down the lightning rod to the
| ground. The current divided and win
| dow near where Mr.. Perkins with
child was sitting was shattered, and the
castings torn off. Strange to tell none of
the family were hurt. The house of Nor
rill Clapper was struck and the effects of
the lightning much the same as at the
! Quimby block. Robert Connects barn
was struck and considerably damaged.
Two or more bolts struck on the D. L.
Hildreth farm. 1t is Il wonder that
the damage to life and property from the
| lightning was so small.
Yves EnO1.e.
Capt Averill is at home again and will
start his steamer soon.
Fl. Fl. Gilman has finished the lake road
in good shape as far as he has worked
The lodges at "Big Bug" are nearly i'm
passable and will remain SO for week or
more. The track at this point has been
settled eight feet already.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
The heavy rains of last week caused
! washouts on the Lake road.