Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-11-03

j. o. Robinson has moved from New
ark to the Francis Richardson hotel cot
tage house, which he will run this winter
CALEDONIA COUNTY
~ t. u Ohns buH-y.
Hiram Weeks has bought the Batchel-
der property on Prospect Street for
$4,000.
At the annual meeting of the state bar
association, Elisha May and Frank D..
Hale were appointed members of the com
mittee on admission and Heney G. Ide a
member of the committee on jurispru-
dence and law reform.
The fifth annual convention of the
Christian Endeavor Society will be held
at st. Johnsbury on Tuesday and We'd
nesday, Nov. Hip Sessions commence
at 10 80 a. m, Tuesday, and close with
the evening session, Wednesday. A large
and interesting program is prepared and
many leading workers in the society, from
this and adjoining states will be present.
0. V. Hooker & Son are erecting a new
foundry just east of their machine shop
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AZ by 60 feet and will be equipped with
all the conveniences of first-class foun-
dry. 1t will be well lighted on the sides
and at the top, will be sheathed and sur
mounted by a chimney about5 so feet high.
The building is quite near a siding but
another side track will be laid that will
enable the workmen to load their castings
directly from the foundry to the cars.
The Hookers have had no foundry before
and this building will enable them to do
all their work at their own shops.
LyndOnviIIe.
G. I'll. Smalley is in New York this week
attending a session of the executive COM
mittee of Underwriters of life assurance
association to perfect arrangements for
the next National convention to be held
at Detroit next June.
The tub factory is being rapidly push
ed along, the boiler is set, the main build
ing is up and sheathed outside and the
roof will be put on this week, also the dry
house will be well under way soon.
The only public bequest made by the
late Rev. H. p. Cushing by will was 500
to be held in trust for the Methodist Sem
mary at Montpelier. Mr.. Gushing was a
liberal giver for benevolent purposes dur
ing his life time.
L B. Harris left with his thoroughbred
Hereford cattle for the Lyons, Nebraska,
sale last Friday. He was accompanied
by c. j. Trefen and Joseph Kidder. The
cattle were splendid lot and will I'M
doubtedlY sell at prices proportionate to
their worth.-JOuRdL.
Ha1.dNvick.
Measles are plenty here vet.
Mrs. Hannah Lowell is quite sick.
Emerson Brush has sold his drug bust
ness and stock to o. j. Paquet.
John V. Bridgman of Boston has been
here on a short visit to his mother
A school exhibition is in preparation
for the close of the fall term at the acad-
envy.
The Centennial House has been sold. !
Price, $4,000, including livery and land
on the hill.
The delay in laying the rails on the |
quarry railroads is attributable to delay
in their manufacture.
A teachers meeting conducted by Su- |
pervisor Taylor is to be held at the village |
East Hardwick, Saturday, |
November l.
The Methodist church people are i'm
proving the ground around the church by
grading the surface and moving the sheds
to the rear next to the railroad.
The fall term of school in the Worth
district, taught by Minnie Hill, closed
Friday Oct. oath. There were no instan-
ces of hardness throughout the term, and
Ethel Frazier, Herbert Coolbeth and Will
bur Chandler had no absent marks. The
winter term will commence Nov 10th
with the same teacher.
Ea%t Hard wick
Miss Emily Davis is visiting at C. j.
Bells.
Mrs. n. Remission of Greensboro has
gone to Boston for treatment for deafness.
Mrs. Clfford's mother, an aged lady,
died at the home of her daughter recent
ly.
A. d. Nelson of St. Johnsbury is in
feeble health. He has been visiting friends
in this town, CraftsburY and Greensboro.
In district No. s, where twelve years
ago there had not been pupils enough for
a school for several years, has a popua-
ton of nearly forty under eighteen, with
twenty-four names on the school register.
They do not want to take any steps back
ward in the school laws up there.
C. j. Bell and G. L. johnson went to
the capital on Monday, and Mr.. Bell Wis
tied the experimental farm in connection
with the agricultural college, as one of
a committee from the state grange, and
criticised the management before the
committee on education Monday evening.
Mr.. Roberts, who took the Hanscomb
farm, backs out of the trade, and goes to
work for Walter Chase.
The donation visit for Rev. J. s. Allen,
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thing over a hundred dollars. Mr.. Allen
is doing very faithful work for the church
and his friends appreciate it.
sutton
Among the farmers in this town who
are largely increasing the productive ca
pacity of their farms and making the''wil-
derness blossom" is James Holtham
Jim" is a great worker and neat and
farmer.
If the authorities do not look after the
fellows who are boxing the rum into town
there will be an increase in abandoned
farms" as a result Arrest the man that
brings the boxes from the depot and ex-
press offices.
The long continued troubles in regard
to church matters are sadly injuring the
cause of religion,as well as the good name
of the town. How would general reviv-
al, in which the church and the world
., far