Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-02-17

state. Mr.. Laird gives zen. TROUT circuit
for efficient labor in promoting the inter
est of Vermont at Washington.
Hard
The ''Octoroon" was played last Thurs
day and Friday evenings to crowded
houses.
The Lane Bros. will leave the Dorman
Bridgman farm when their year is out,
and Geo w. Bridgman is likely to move
on to the place.
Lumbermen are drawing a large lot of
logs from Woodbury. mountain and else
where and leaving them beside the river,
to be run to Wolcott in the spring.
Several houses and one or more bust
ness blocks are in contemplation and will
go up this season. Stone and lumber are
already drawn on to the building sites.
Wallace McLoud, who has been suffer
ing terribly from the effects of rheuma-
tism, several years, is now having large
sores on his limbs, which threaten his life
if they can not be healed
I'll the granite dealers in this place are
crowded with orders. The proposed
strike among the labor-union men at Barre
will tend to make business better in this
place where the laborers are rot control
led by the union.
While almost everything else is being
considered, why not talk about the cree
ton of suitable school building, where
all the scholars, and especially the smaller
ones, can be comfortably situated during
the weeks they are in school.
A party of glass blowers hold an eXhi-
bition here during the evenings of this
week. They propose to end each enter
tainment ''with a dance 1t is pretty
safe to consider ali performances that
close with dance pretty cheap affairs.
A large granite company or syndicate
has been formed which will control the
granite quarrics of Woodbury. land under
take to sell stock or to operate the quar-
ries in that section. Win. Voodry sells
out his stock in the East Mountain quar-
ry for $4,000. Mr.. Carter, who has
been in the granite business in this place,
has joined hands with parties in Swanton,
where business will be started up soon.
East Hard NVicIx.
Mrs. HOdgdon has gone to johnson to
keep house and board her two daughters
who are attending the Normal school.
There is much sickness in town; among
the recent cases are Mrs. w. III. H. Stuart
and Mary Blake.-John Farnham suffers
extremely with his broken leg; he is an
old man and his recovery is doubtful
Edna Hovey does not recover from her
fall on the ice at St. Johnsbury in the
early part of the winter.
Thursday night the 9th, the store of A.
B. Hunt was ''broken and entered; a
front window was pried open and an at
tempt to open the safe was made. The
parties took some peanuts and candy, and
two pairs of overshoes, one pair of these
were left on the bridge. At the railroad
station they entered in a similar manner,
gave the express packages an overhaul
ing but found nothing that suited their
purpose; they ate their peanuts and candy
and left, breaking into Hardwick stores
the next night.
w est Burke
C. S. Densmore has been laid by for a
week with sickness.
r. C. Garfield has moved into the Pet
tigrew house and David Hudson into G.
III. Smiths house.
Mr.. and Mrs. Parker of Bloomington,
and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Smith of St.
Johnsbury visited in town last week.-H.
B. Davis of the Lyndonvillc JouTHdE was
in town last Thursday.
NVhe<sIocf<
Chas. Rogers visited in Hardwick last
week.
David Wood has rented his farm to
Willis Wilkie.
Geo. Chaplin, who had shock, has
been moved to Lyndon.
An entertainment at town hall on Wed
nesday evening, consisting of music, dia-
logueS, tabeauX. etc.
DIDN'T KNOW II WAS LoADED.-This,
Monday, morning, John Buckley visited
the house of Mr.. Gerry, and while there
the parties examined Il rifle. As Mr..
Buckley turned to go out of the house,
VIM. Gerry SAID, I'm a good mind to
shoot you" Mr.. Buckley said, "shoot, l
can get pension then" The boy snap
ped the rife and it went off, the ball en-
tering Mr. BIS back and striking the spine.
The bullet was split and one part of it
found, the other remaining somewhere in
the body. The surgeon, DR.. Jones, is
not prepared to give an opinion as to the
final result. Without doubt, Mr.. Buckley
will need "a pension"
sheffield
Mr.. Isaac Pearl intends to build a
house on his farm next season.
M. P. Jenness has bought Mrs. S. Halls
house and will move to the village this
spring.
As Fred Kimban was taking in ice the
other day the tongs slipped and tore quite
a cash in his knee.
Franz Bickford is home with sore
hand. There was fear of blood poison,
but his hand is better.
J. c. King is getting out timber for
new sugar house, and is going to have
one of Murkland's new improved arches
for boiling sap.
The report is that Rev. M. Atwood will
preach here next year. He moved from
here about six years ago to North Dan
vile. We hope the report is true.
Island Pond.
"The Daughter of the Regiment" is in
preparation by the West End Dramatic
Club and will be played soon.
When we hear of railway employees
drawing 1925 a month, as we hear of
them here, there is hope for Vermont yet.
That is as well as one can do West
Much sympathy is expressed for the
youth, Clyde Eaton, who had one leg am
putated by surgeons at the Montreal hos
pital. He is reported as doing nicely.
Rev. Mr.. Rooms writes from Philadel-