Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-03-10

elected.
Asa Livinston has engaged to d. w.
Kelley for another year in his drug store.
George Todd has gone to Grand Rapids,
Mich.
w e@tEEeId.
Mrs. Rebecca Brown, who for some
time had been helpless with paralysis, re-
ceved a shock Friday morning, March 7,
and died shortly after.
George Todd has gone to Grand Rap
Rapids, Mich, where he has employment.
Miss Carrie Miller is at work in Glover.
Mrs. Sally Brown of Island Pond is visit
ing relatives in this vicinity.
The creamery stockholders held anoth-
er meeting Saturday evening, March 1st.
At this meeting it was decided that the
creamery should be changed to a cheese
| factory. G. w. Bryant was chosen to su-
perintend the putting up of another build
ing in connection with the creamery build
ing % X soft.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Hard wick.
| Our physicians have been busy night
Darling is reported to have charged S287
during the months of Jan. and Feb.
| Miss Susie Joslyn who has had pleurisy
fever which resulted in empyema, after
drawing away three quarts of pus from
| her side and the insertion of a rubber
tube for drainage, she appears to be
| gaining. Susie has attended the academy
! here and has many friends who will re-
| joice in her recovery.
| Hon. d. w Aiken the oldest and one
of the most prominent citizens of this
| town, died at an early hour March Z.
| Mr.. Aiken would have observed his
ninety-first birthday anniversary on
| March %, and has been in his day one of
the leading men in eastern Vermont. He
! leaves three sons and a daughter, the
ton. He had a personal acquaintance
with the administration of every presi-
dent since and including John Adams.
We see it stated in some of the papers
]
! decided to put in the spur railroad running
up toward the quarries. If our people
! see their opportunity, as outside parties
see it, they will clear away the obstacle
| of land damages at once and make the
4 road an assured thing. We must not
stand in our own light. The growth of
Barre is phenomenal, and there is no rea-
| son why, with greater variety of stone,
and an unlimited quantity, we shall not
| become a formidable rival to that town.
SuGton.
The towns poor bill last year was only
$12 70.
Ammidon Brockway who is cared for
by the town, has gone to Silas Gray's to
live during the next year.
Ed. Roundy has moved to West Burke.
M. A. Taft has sold one of his farms
to his father, Dea. A. p. Taft.
d. p. Beckwith of Ludlow, Mass, was
in town one day recently. Harley Whip
pie and wife were here several days last
week.
saw-mill here soon, and is gong to South
Wheelock to run the mill he purchased in
that town recently.
O. E. Bundy, who has for a year been
suffering with an abscess on the back, re-
Gently had an operation performed, and
as soon as able will go to a Boston hos
pital for treatment.
Ed. ROundy, who recently surrendered
his farm and personal property to his
creditors, has moved to West Burke and
expects soon to get job firing an engine
on the railroad He is q hard working
man. had paid over $1,000 on the farm,
added to it's value, and was at last obliged
to surrender to his creditors. There is
too much protection to suit the average
farmer Union. Too much Cunningham
in this.
Eas Hard wick.
John S. Farnham died March 2, aged 81.
Miss Joslyn, daughter of Joseph Joslyn,
| is in a critical condition.
Mary Blake is a little better, but does
not improve very fast.
Emma Campbell was married to a Mr.
Straight of North Fairfax, on Wednesday
eve, and with her aged father has gone to
her new home.
WheeIOck.
J. II. Ingalls, is better and gaining
slowly.
Geo. Barber will carry on the Ward
sugar place and Harry Squires will work
| for him.
Bessie Nelson, Abbie Taylor, Eta
Rogers and Leon Garland will attend
school at Lyndon.
w est Burke.
Mrs. Myra Alexander has inflammation
of the stomach.
A. L. Aldrich has gone to LyndonviIle
to work in the r. r. shops.
For sun-burn, tan rough hands, battle with
Johnson's Anodyne Linlment at night; wonderful.
Herbert Ward, the African explorer, in
collaboration with ID. d. Bidwell, begins
in the NeaU York Ledger of March l a Sc
ries of valuable and entertaining articles
descriptive of canoe journey of $500
miles IN the Upper Congo. A more ro-
mantle and startling experience could
hardly be conceived of than the explorers
adventurous trip, with his thirty reckless
Zanzibars and five Soudanese soldiers, in
two war canoes, through the heart of
equatorial Africa, ranged by bands of can
nibals, and infested with gigantic and fe-
rocious beasts and reptiles, scarcely ia
miliar to even the naturalist. OF his