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

Meeting OF the w. II. Z. wednesday
evening at 7 O'Clock.
Some of our people took in the Sher-
brooke fair last week.
Remember that the village taxes must
be paid on or before Sept. Is to save dis
counts.
o. A. White is talking of taking a lum-
bering job of Caswell & French at their
mill in Maine.
The Barton and Albany ball clubs play
ed game at Albany Saturday. Albany,
8; Barton Is.
The NJ. E.Ladies' Aid Society will meet
in the church vestry Wednesday after
noon. Gentlemen invited to tea.
Orange Mossman is building barn and
a large yard for his horses on the lot he
recently purchased of D. d. Bean.
The 18th Dist. Union, 1. o. G. T. holds
its next meeting at So. Troy Saturday
next. A large attendance desired.
The long drought was sprinkled little
on Friday and Saturday. 1t was becom-
ing very dry, dusty and disagreeable.
A special meeting of the w. c. T. U.
with Mrs. J. p. Baldwin this (Monday)
evening at o'clock. A good attendance
desired.
All those wishing stalls for horses to be
entered at the fair, should notify G. n.
Farley, Barton Landing, previous to Sept.
10Th.
Osmond Dwyer had a great toe crush
of stone while at work on the village
water works.
James Cassidy has bought two building
lots of Mrs. ]. f. Skinner, adjoining the
Melvin Elliott lot. The water scare does
not seem to effect James great deal.
Charles Boswell has built good stone
derrick, which the water commissioners
are using in building a stone dam at their
reservoir. 1t will be a very handy thing
to have in town.
+. NJ. Hunt, tailor, of whom the MONI-
TOR spoke last week, has arrived and
hired good rooms in the Nelson block,
where he will be glad to have the people
call on him for anything in his line of
business. See his ad. next week.
The Barton Cornet Band will give a
concert and promenade in opera hall,
Tuesday eve, Sept. 18th; also a social
dance Wednesday evening, Sept. 18th.
Bigelow's full orchestra will furnish mu-
sic. Your company with ladies invited.
Mr.. Harris has started his new paper al
Hardwick, and his first issue showed en-
terprise and fair workmanship. One side
of it is home print, and the patent con
tains much that is desirable. Mr.. Har
ris is genial, and his paper will not be
dull. We wish him and the town mucl
good from the new enterprise.
Our kind friends who furnish the notices
for the local Ladies' Aid Society entertain
ments must be patient with US If we d'
not always distribute them correctly. w
rack our memories and brains great,
over these, and never miss one ifpOssible
but occasionally they go wrong and the
well, pity the poor editor.
Some of the pipe for the mains in tn
village water works has come and tn
work of putting it into the bitches wi
commence at once. The ledge cutting {
the reservoir is done and the resevo
dams will be finished in few days.
the balance of the pipe comes in due SCI
son the work will be finished in
few weeks.
]. n. Smith, who has been running I'll
ice business in this place, is troubled c
account of being out of ice. In ear
spring, at the time of very high waite
the water undermined one side of his i
house and let the air in so that he lost
large quantity by melting before he cou
make repairs. He has very small qua
tity left which will be delivered to su
customers as must have it for spec
uses.
The following are some of the thin
our friends in the north part of the toy
are doing: C.. B. Leland has already h
vested 20 loads of grain-Henry Leila
has a sucking colt that weighs 425 lbs
Mr.. and Mrs. A. III. Allard are at We
field yisiting-G. w. Clark thinks
bows who pulled up his cucumber vii
and stole his green corn were ''spiritu
"" aided He rather they would not
so again, as he does not wish to
names.
There is something peculiar in the
mosphere about Newport; 1t so ezhl
ates and entrances that those who
there with honest convictions and
solves for particular labors, come a
with entirely different views and feelil
So good a man as e. G. Benedict
there recently in the interests of the
eral government for the appointment
few officers to run the custom offices,