Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-12-09

: Geo. Day OF NORTH Troy bought the y.
P. Grant place, paying $500.
: Fl. S. Fuller is going to move to the
!, Marrs farm recently bought by his son.
Fred Barrows has a fever.-Mrs Hen
i ry Nichols has been sick for several
weeks.
Mr.. Brewer, father of Geo. Brewer, a
resident of the east part Of the town, died
f of apopexy recently.
Joseph Watson's pig, months old.
dressed 389; Joseph Kidders, same age,
397; Geo. Livingstones hog, little
over year old, weighed 563 H. Collins
532; VIM. Brooks, 529 J. P. Wheelock's
SIT.
We ought to have mentioned the death
of Mrs. Bacon, wife of the esteemed pas
tor Rev NJ. Bacon. She had been i'll for
some time and her death was unlocked
for. She was much esteemed and her
death was sorrow to this community.
Craftsbssrv.
Inquire at A. A. Burdges for the lost
meal.
c. C. Conant is in Athol Mass, selling
fruit trees.
The Loyal Legion will give soc liable at
Mrs Russell Cowles Sat. eve, Dec. II.
James Leavtt's spring pig weighed
337 3 lbs. and others dressed 325 and up
ward.
r. Patterson recently mashed several
of his fineers.-Charles Merrill got hurt
from fall from his new shop building.
Frank Bemis was home to Thanksgiv-
! ing.-Fred Templeton has returned from
Middlebury.-M P. Randall is home
from her visit.
Charles Hatch set his trap in his cellar
for a muskrat and caught mephitis
Americana. He will go out of the trap
ping business as soon as the scent clears
up.
Mrs. Mark Andrus is suffering with
severe lgia.-Horace Rawson is
quite feeble this winter.-Dr. Bemis is
better and able to go out round.-Mrs.
Guy Goodrich is improving from a very
severe Sickness.
The students of Craftsbury Academy
will give Recital in the Cong. church,
Wednesday eve, Dec. 49, Doors open at
Z; exercices to begin at ~; admittance |
10 cts. After the exercises the Earnest |
Workers will give an oyster supper in the |
Academy Hall; all for the benefit of the |
Academy.
Belle Hartman commenced the winter |
term of school in the Chase district Dec.
ter school on East Hill the same day
Jessie Chamberlain has gone to Jay to /
teach this winter.-Alice McCrillis will |
teach the winter school in the Goodrich
district.-Miss Katie NARROW teaches the |
Mill village school.-The village school
commences Monday, Miss Viola Allen
teacher.
Derby.
B. T. Grout has purchased an engine
lathe which he can use here.
C. A. Doody is putting down deep
well. He will place good force pump
in it.
Major Grout has built an ice house of
sufficient capacity to supply his creamery.
which he intends to start next season.
He proposes, we understand, to take the
Cooley cream-gathering system. The
Franklin county men who are talking of
putting in a creamery have got site
near the Albee shop where they get power
to run their machinery. They have a
sufficient number Of cows pledged to
make the enterprise successful.
Glover.
The Ladies' Aid society meets on Thurs
day next There will be an auction sale
of lot of things usefula and ornamental
in the evening. Go in and bid on the
silk quilt.
The Board of Agriculture meetings
were well attended and were of much
interest to all. The members of the Board
were present and their addresses were
practical and interesting. We will give
a further account next week.
M Editor Il see in some of the pa
pers accounts of large doings in sheep
husbandry, and will give you little of
my experience the past year. l wintered
81 ewes and buck lamb; 40 ewes
brought 60 lambs-20 pairs of twins and
20 single lambs. Three lambs died and
l gave away three twin lambs, which a
neighbor raised, leaving 81 which we
raised on the sheep. l sold them at SO %
per head, amounting to $780,; AZ sheep
cut 306 lbs. wool at 25c per h., $76.50;
total in wool and lambs, 1852. The
sheep averaged 7.2S lbs. wool per. head,
or 81 80 head in wool, and including
lambs Sc piece. E. F. HINKLEY.
West Glover.
Rev. Mr.. Phillips of West Derby will
give lecture upon India, uuder the au-
spices of the Y. P. S. c. E., in the church
on Thursday evening, Dec. 10, at seven
O'Clock. Mr.. Phillips birthplace was in
the country which he has chosen as his
subject for the occasion. The lecture
will be free to the public and all are cor
daily invited to come.
Greensboro.
A family by the name of Webster has
moved on to the Whiteaw place and Mr..
Webster works for G. L. Baker.
We learn that Geo. Howard of Crafts
bury has been appointed assignee IN the
Kier insolvency case in place of John
Simpson, deceased.
Nellie Clark closed her school in dis
trct No. 8, Nov. 80. Scholarship as fol-
lows: Lizzie Church, Julia Batchelder,
Mabel and Edwin Esdon 95 per cent;
Percy Remission 80 per cent. Lizzie
Church and Edwin Esdon missed no
words during the term; and those having
no marks were Lizzie Church, Edwin Es-
don and Percy Remission.
The friends and neighbors of Miss
Mary Burpee are sadened by her sudden
death Sunday, Dec. lst. She was not
thought dangerously sick till within a
few days of her death, when the disease
went to her brain. Mrs. Burpee has been