Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-04-06
A. G. Goodwin is to close his work for


Lawrence & Lorimer soon.
a Mr.. Human is at work for Wallace
Kendall while Rich. Lindsey is looking
after his sugar place.
Ohe half of the double house owned by
the r V. Hall estate was recently sold to
II. S. Root for $17O0.
Geo. Flint is in New York this week.
Mrs. Story, wife of Clerk Story of the
Memphremagog House, is back again.
Money is being raised to build a Meth
odist parsonage in this town. the present
pastor residing in Derby instead of here.
Mr.. Sisco of the Lake House has Sc
cured the service of H. B. Collins of Bar
ton as cook for the coming year. Guests
will be assured of good table.
A very serious accident was narrowly
averted on Sunday morning: The Mon
treal train ran off the iron on the long
trestle bridge west of the village on &C
count of a broken rail. Fortunately the
cars did not tip over. The water was
from fifteen to twenty feet deep, and few
would have escaped drowning had the
train fallen into the lake.
Some of the friends of t. t. Stewart
now of Washington, d. c., made him an
anniversary visit on his iftieth birthday,
Mar. "a. The occasion was very pleas
ant one. Among the exercises was the
reading of poem which very neatly and
faithfully recorded the events of his life
and paid compliments to his character.
Mr.. Stewart is now employed in the cen
sus office. The length of the poem for
bids that we use it in this connection.
Newport Center.
L con Cowell is taking the district cen
sus.
Parties are contracting their butter for
20 cents per pound for the season.
Fred Sherman has gone to Boston,
Mass, where he expects to find employ
ment.
Harvey Whipple and d. L. Hildreth
are quite sick. Other sick ones are on
the gain, except Reuben Niles and Mrs
Carter.
Clarence Crandall is getting out timber
to build a repair shop.-Ed. Woods will
finish off the rest of the house he has pur-
chased this spring.
At the annual school meeting, Geo. w.
Rogers was chosen ctmmittee. Voted to
have 80 weeks of school in each depart
ment, to raise 30 cents on dollar Of the
list, and to reseat the lower rooms, etc.
Will Armstrong gave sugar party at
his house Thursday evening, inviting the
young people of this village and district
No -, of whom about sixty persons
were present and had good time.
Nelson Hardy has hired ont to run the
creamery at West Charleston and will
move there soon. The creamery here
will not be run. We understand that the
required number of cows could not be Sc
cured.
Truman Kittridge moves in with Mrs.
Howard Morgan; Geo. Stone into A. C.
Harris house; Harlow Carr into the
house he recently bought of DR.. Erwin
Sidney Davis and Will Allen into S. ID.
Meacham's house near the covered bridge,
and Frank Morse into the creamery build
ing.
Mrs. Sophronia Blake and daughter re-
turned this week to their home in Laco-
MIA, n. H.-Miss Mabel Perkins, who has
been at home on visit has returned to
Newport to her work at Mrs Lees. She
has been employed there now nearly a
year and we understand has gived excel
lent satisfaction.
North Troy.
H. B. Parker's daughter Mabel has gone
to Burlington to school.
Miss Burgoine of Coventry intends to
have a class III music here soon.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Lewis were
visiting friends in Newbury last week.
o. p. Hadlock has been appointed by
the probate court as guardian of Ithman
Hadlock.
The treasurers of the several school
districts may procure their orders for
public money due their respective dis
tricts at the store of f. T. Seaver.
w es<tlEeId.
A. Dawson has been in this section of
late buying cattle
NJ. S. Stone went to Burlington last
week where, he will teach mathematics
in the university.
A. NJ. Aseltine has engaged to work for
the International Company at Newport
for one year.
The spring term of school in South
Westfeld commenced Apr. 6, with Miss
Joslyn as teacher.
At the annual village school meeting
held last Tuesday night, it was voted to
have thirty weeks of school during the
year and w. B. Gilpin was chosen COM
mittee. Miss Elva Farman has been en-
gagged to teach the spring term.
OF the pupils who attended the primary
department of the village school, taught
by Miss Joselyn, the following received
no absent marks during the term just
closed Della Benware, Willie Benware,
Wifred Clement, Harold Farman, Eva
Herrick, Maude Miller, Earle Reed, Char
lie Ostout, Lille Trumpass, Leon Roberts.
CALEDONIA COUNTY,
St y OhnSbuI'Y Centre
VIM. Nugent, the recently convicted
rumseller, was ''pulled" last week for
having liquor in his possession with an
intent to sell. He lost his liquor and paid
fine of $40 with costs. His business is
becoming expensive. A West Randolph
lad of % years recently was convicted for
over 200 sales of liquor. He will get a
long term at Rutland
A little son OF Fred Salmon, between
and four years old, was choked to death
March &c. He was lying on the floor
playing with a younger child, when the
mother heard him choke. She took him
up and did everything in her power to
relieve him, but he died in few minutes.
An examination was made by doctor in
Canada, where the child was taken for
burial, and it was found that death re-
suited from small screw which had
lodged in the child's windpipe.
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