Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-04-01
Barton.

Rand's at present.
Get ready to greet the listers with a
warm hand and true inventory!
The Odd Girls meet with Miss Cora
Ruggles next Thursday afternoon.
The Chautauqua Circle will meet with
Miss Marion Currier, on Tuesday evening.
Tonight; Opera Hall, Fanchon the
Cricket, by the Curtis Star Comedy Co.
See adj.
Frank Rice mounts the peddler's cart
this week, and starts on his summer cam
paign. Save your rags and old shoes.
Mrs. C. H. Stone and three children, of
North Bangor, n. Y, are here on visit.
Mrs. Stone is sister of Mrs. Peterson and
Mrs. j. n. Smith.
There will be Fast Day religious SER
vices ut the NJ. E. church on Friday, at
10 :45 a. m. Subject, ''Our Needs" 1t
is hoped that there will be a large attend
ance.
The New York Weekly Grdphic-a hand
some illustrated paper, the regular price
of which is 81 per year-will be given
with the MONITOR for 50. 40 for both pa
pers.
Johnnie Prindle has sent number of
comic songs, which he has had published
in neat sheet music style. They are orig
inal. We understand that Mrs. Prindle
at Glover has them for sale.
There will be a sugar party at Cong.
vestry, Wednesday evening, under the
auspices of the Ladies' Society. Sugar
will be served from 80 to 8 80. For
further particulars see small bills.
E. A. Cook of Glover. who had been at
Lawyer Miles office, had both bones of
leg broken on Park Street Tuesday, being
tipped from a sleigh. He went immedi-
ately home, and Drs. r. B. Skinner and
Templeton set the fractured limb.
March, like the other months of this
unusually mild and pleasant winter, went
by without disagreeable and ugly weather.
The first three weeks were favorable for
sugar makers in warm localities, but the
last week was too cold.
Mrs. Mary Jane Niles, who had been
living in the James Boswell tenement,
died suddenly last week probably of drop
sy. She had been ailing some months, but
died unexpectedly at last. She had many
friends in this vicinity.
Rev. Geo. w. Kelley, who has preached
for the Cong. church the past year, closed
ed his labors yesterday. He has done
good faithful service, and has many
friends in the denomination and in the
community who will be sorry to have him
leave.
Those Vermonters who have money
which they are thinking of loaning West,
or elsewhere, at high rates of interest,
should be extremely cautious. We under
stand from pretty good authority that
many of those mortgage and loan claims
are risky. Go slow.
Mrs. Knox, of the New Hampshire w.
c. T. L., gave an excellent address at the
NJ. +. church, Monday evening last. She
gave a very encouraging report of the
work of the Union and much information
regarding the various branches of work
done by that organization.
Our correspondent in the northeast
part of the town has a very compliments
ry word for DIR. Prime and his practice
in that vicinity. He says the great won
der is that so bright man could make up
his mind to commit political suicide, when
he became a naturaliZed citizen of this
great Republic.
c. W. Eaton of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on
renewing his subscription for the NOM
TOR, says: '.We are fairly into spring,
the leaves are coming out, and the wealth
er is fine. l am writing with open doors,
and find it comfortable. With such a
winter as we have had, we need no Cali
fornia trip. Business is quiet, but Iowa,
like Harrison, is ''ail right
The first postmasters to be appointed
in the country under the new administra-
ton are Urbin A. Brown of Evansville
and Robt. Smith of Greensboro Bend.
Mr.. Brown runs a store, and his office
will be in convenient place and will be
well kept. Mr.. Smith is depot master,
and the Office will doubtless be put in the
depot, from which it was removed under
the Atkins rule of four years ago 1t was
a poor political move, and democrats see
the mistake which was made in taking
the office away from Mr.. Smith.
Mrs. j. b. Freeman, who recently
bought the Mrs. Largis millinery estab.
lishment, and moved to the large rooms
in the Stone block, opposite the post-of-
fee. is in Boston getting few points in
the line of the trade and purchasing goods
She intends to buy larger and more com
plete stock than has been seen in thi.
village for years. Mrs. Jewell will dc
dressmaking in the same store, employing
such help as will be necessary to do TIL,
large business in this line which she ex
poets the coming season. Mrs. Freeman