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


town representative.
We are sorry to note that the popula-
ton of this town fell off during the last
decade. This decrease can be accounted
for from the fact that in the three villages
the lumber business, which had been i'm
portant in this town, has largely suspend
ed, owing to the fact that the timber has
been practically exhausted near the vi
entities of the mills In this village, the
chair factory has shut down and quite a
number once employed there have found
business elsewhere.
At the time when the water works pro-
ject was being agitated in this village, 1t
was stoutly claimed by the friends OF the
enternrise that the rate of insurance
would be decreased. Since the works
were in successful operation and used in
actual fire service. ]. N. Webster, insur-
ance agent. has been able to effect large
reduction, running all the way from 10
per cent to 40 per cent and upward. Not
to particularize, we state that one man
pays $3.50 less on each thousand dollars
than formerly, and in certain instances
the insurance is only a little more than
half previous rates. 1t is due to Mr..
Webster to say that he has striven hard
to get the reduction and has succeeded,
much to his own loss in an agents per-
centage. The whole village considered
at this time, the saving in insurance Is
well up, or equal to, the interest on the
water bonds Now let the few who are
not paying water rentals, but who are re
ceiving benefit in protection and in insur-
ance reduction, join hands with the water
takers and swell the rents little higher
that they may meet the interest. We are
getting up in sight of that point already.
When this is accomplished we shall have
a permanent, effective, protective system
of water works, costing US practically
nothing, which is comforting continual
benefit.
Our neighbors at Newport may justly
feel proud of their growth and the I'M
provements that have been made about
the village and vicinity in the last ten
VA
matter, says: ''Of the 3042 people IN
town, as shown by the last census, about
100 are in the village school district.
Ten years ago the number was not fan
from 1000. An increase of 20 per cent is
certainly most gratifying. With this has
come one of the best systems of fire pro
tections in the state, ample sewerage,
growing improvement in sidewalks anc
roadways, the county court house, the lin
est church building in Northern Vermont
betterments upon private residences which
everywhere indicate thrift. Our mer
chants, both in store buildings quantity
and variety of wares are unsurpassed anC
the volume of trade has enlarged to cor
respond with the growth in other direc
tions The railroad business has beer
constantly increasing, and the product
the mills which make this their shippins
point, has steadily grown. The increas
of $50 in the population of Derby is large
ly at the West village, whose trade inter
ests are identical with our own. Her
is an increase of about 900 in populatio
within the radius of mile from our raj
road station, and none of it due to an
speculative boom.
Barton Landing.
Geo. Ford's baby is very sick.
c. n. Farley took a good wetting ;
the Stanstead fair, but he is happy ju:
the same, for he also took the first prem
um on carriage horses.
The 9th annual reunion of Co. L, lot
VT. Vols, will be held at G. A. r. ha
; Sept. 10. Capt. Noyes is expected. A
i Co. 1. boys with their families are r
uuested to be present. The w. r. G. W
}. furnish dinner the same as last year.
The G. A. r. and w. r. G. were invit
to Capt. S. B. fuckers laat Thursday q
ternoon and evening. About % we
: present and enjoyed every moment
l. the time. None of them can ever S
again, II never ate all the blackberrieS
: wanted"
ALBANY.
Ii Mr.. Webster from Wolcott is propc
ing, if the people will help him,to put IL
d frst-class tub factory.
). Mrs. Della Hovey from Lowell, Mas
N is caring for her mother, Mrs. Mary d.
ling, whose health is improving slowly.
- Lightning struck o. Marlow's ban
" Saturday and burned them to the groul
IL Insured in VT. Mutual for S1,10O viii
nearly covers the loss.
10 Geo. Mcdonald and Edie Vance
: attending school at the Seminary at MO
pelier.-Harold Bill has returned to
home in Bridgeport, Conn.
Nelson Brill who resides in Eden,
IN Gently cut nearly the whole end OF
ho foot off, necessitating the taking OF
" stitches by DR.. Campbell.
Mr.. and Mrs. All Page from Bos
III are visiting friends in town.-Mrs. Sa
III Crane from Boston is the guest OF
W sister, Mrs. Azubah Hayden.-F. d. K
OIL ball and wife and Miss Lizzie KIND
are the guests of w. H. Hayden.
III south Albany.
'rt Will Matthews has returned to Nj
W to work.
Mrs. Gray and grandchild are stopp
at A. D. Pattersons.
:. Our school commenced to-day
Miss Glover J. Rowell as teacher.
ON Misses E. E. Patterson, May Marnc
nv and Ida Williams have returned from
Adirondack mountains.
IL D. r. Cobb, VIM. Williams and fan
his attended the encampment at Bost
to They report a good time.
ms East Albany.
i've Mrs. Amos LaFont is quite SICK
L. typhoid fever.
Geo. Sawyer has hired out to Ca
rt, Monkey for three months.-Ralph W
: it has engaged to go with threshing
es, chine for Fred Twombly this fall
ems winter.
e Elmore Currier and family, from d
be and Mrs. d. A. Currier and daughter
Enfield, N H, were the guests of L
es- Sanborn last week. Mr.. Currier
ill, former resident of Morgan Center,