Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-09-01
Barton.

Josiah P. Cobb has been having quite a
severe run of typhoid fever.
The Ice Co. have shipped less than half
of their ice from the big ice houses in
this place.
Rev. Benz. Drumming of Cape Cod, Mass,
has been a recent visitor in this place and
vicinity.
Regular meeting of Orient Chapter, No.
I3, O. E. S., Friday evening, Sept. ., at
O'Clock
The Kendalls, supported by the Glover
Dramatic Club, will give "Joshua Whit
comb" at Opera Hall next Monday even
ing.
Four good candidates for town repre-
sentative and very lively contest threat
ened. In army parlance it will be well
to start with four days rations.
The weather last week was rainy and
unfavorable for harvesting purposes.
The rainy season seems to have set IN
early.
George Smith, son of John N. Smith,
who went to Lynn, Mass, recently, finds
a good position with a civil engineer in
that city.
A Young gentleman is canvassing this
town for Il book entitled manners, Gull
ture and Dress which appears, from ex-
aminations made and endorsements CIV
en-, to be a very valuable work.
The democrats will run Horace P.Cook
for town representative. Strange some
of our good fellows in that fold do not
.'come in out of the cold"
Some of those people who have been
breaking and defying law will have their
cases heard before the grand jury at New
port next week, with every prospect OF
Indictment and conviction later.
The annual meeting of the Conn. ano
Pass. r. r. Co. will be held at Newport
on Wednesday. Those who are fortunate
enough to own stock will be treated to
free ride excursion to that place.
Our readers should not forget the fail
which is to be held at Lyndonville Sept
Is and II. The Harris, Vail, Bemis ant
other noted stock will be on exhibition
and the show will be excellent in every
respect.
A special train will be run on this rail-
road on Wednesday and Thursday OF thl
week to accommodate those who wish t.
attend the big fair at Sherbrooke. Train
leave Barton at IL, morning, and arriv
back in the early evening. Fare only 81.
so.
Base ball is fine and popular sport
but when it becomes necessary to play
on Sunday in respectable communities
the complaints of law-abiding citizen
will he heard and the boys will have
shat" with the law. The state will
pretty sure to win IN that game
The contest for representative on Tues
day promises to be interesting. 1t VII
at least. be a four-sided affair, with sew
eral dark horses saddled ready for I'll
race. Fortunately, so far as leading car
didates are concerned, there is no DANCE
that the town will be badly served.
Ouimby G. A. r. Post of this villae
recently received a gavel from Capt. A
Grill of Westmore, the oak OF which II
made having been brought by him fro
Lookout, Mountain, Tenn. rebel
Union bullet is embedded in it. The Pc
also acknowledge the gift of gavel fro
J. W. Hall of this village, who cut Il
wood of which it is formed from the o
stOckade at AndersOnville, Ga.
Benjamin B. Norris, long time res
dent of this village, died at his hon
here on Monday last. aged 81 years. NJ
Norris moved to this town from SUITE
about thirty-five years ago. purchasing t
orist-mill. He built a house across /
river from the mill where he has since
sided. He leaves a wife and one sc
Funeral services were conducted on We
nesday by Rev. John Forrest, and the
mains taken to Sutton for burial.
Some forty or more of our represen
tive farmers met at the Humphrey scbo
house on Friday afternoon and forme'
Farmers Alliance organization. The