Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-05-25
Barton.

Barton.
Almon Gray has an increase of pen
sion.
Regular communication of Orient
Chapter, No. 13, o. E. s., Friday eve,
May 10Th, at O'Clock.
The grip, mumps, hand organ grind
ers and some other unpleasant visit
ants were about last week.
a village school meeting is called
for Tuesday evening, June I'd, to fill
a vacancy in the board of trustees.
The Ladies' Society of the Cong.
church will meet with Mrs. G. P. Jen-
ness next Wednesday afternoon, May
81.
This is the ''between hay and grass"
period in butter, and our buyers were
buying reluctantly at 16 cents last Sat
urday.
Harry Gordon, who has found en-
ployment in Boston drug store, finds
the work hard, the days long and no
Sabbath in the business.
We will thank any party who Will
give us the present address (if he is
alive of A. B. Lunt, who went to Da-
kota some years ago.
Ed. B. Robinson has bought deliv-
cry wagon and will deliver such goods
as his village customers wish to have
carried to their homes.
An exchange notes the important
fact that foot ball had been provided
by popular subscription" That must
be public-spirited town.
All the singers in the village are in
vited to meet atOpera Hall next We'd
nesday evening, at o'clock, to re
hearse music for Decoration Day.
The water commissioners are put
ting in water now, and those who in
tend having the water put in this sea
son will do well to attend to it now.
o. E. Lane, former foreman III
the MONITOR office, who has been
home exercising in the sugar bush and
on the farm, spent the Sabbath here
son Bay country last week almost win
ter cold. Evidently the sun has not
finished his springs work up that way
There are some unpleasant and I'M
slightly things about the streets that
need to be removed. Can't there be
little more Sticking up done before
Decoration Day?
Mr.. Orne's repairs on the American
House will give him several new
rooms, while they add to the good APP
pearance of the house. This is a pleas
ant, well-kept hotel.
Aaron Drown has hired the VIM
Graves place of L. Nj. Hubbard for {
year. The village water is being ru1
up to the house and the premises are
being cleaned up.
Leon White is home from his work
in Boston. He has been in a drug
store of late getting experience il
pharmacy, and will soon enter med
ical college to graduate ere long as al
NJ D.
Special meeting of the w. @. T. U
at the Cong. vestry on Tuesday, p
m. A full attendance is important
Program of Convention next week, il
the w. c. T. U. column, if received il
time.
The Lyndon Union, which has haC
quite a serious struggle with an ole
~ o1
Strengthened ont again and is printing
a much better looking paper thar
heretofore.
When the Board of Underwater.
met at Montpelier recently, one O.
them who had visited Barton, as wei
as all the large towns in the state, re-
ported that Barton had the best sys
tenn of fire protection water works il
the state.
Geo. W. Buzzell is building beauti
full steam pleasure boat for Gen. circuit
which will be run on the Moose rivel
near his farm in Kirby. The boat is o
steel with a powerful engine and pro,
peIler, and will carry from eight t.
twelve persons.
A union service, under the auspices
of the W. C.. t. L. Society, was held a
the NJ Z. church last evening with
good attendance and interesting ex
ercises. Remember the county meet
ing TO be held Thursday and Friday o
next week.
Geo. Norton and wife have boil