Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-07-06
Barton.

Barton.
ID. Bean will return West this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Heath are on
the sick list.
Will Baird is building an addition to
his barn.
The Fourth passed very quietly
here, without incident or accident.
Sara D. Stone and her son, Charlie,
are visiting in Barre.
Grout Camp, No. 40, S. V, hold
their next meeting July II, 7.3O p. m.
The Home Missionary Society will
meet with Mrs. H. E. Hopkins on
Tuesday afternoon.
o. " Joslyn has made application
for over one hundred sugar makers
licenses.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. w. Chamberlin
of Irasburgh, visited at P. L. Webster's
last week.
is at home spending few weeks with
his mother, Mrs. J. Owen.
1t rains and it rains, as everybody
knows; and the farmer waits while
the green grass grows.
Mrs Lucy Wells, sister of William
Wilson, had a severe paralytic shock
recently, while visiting at the Landing.
Among those recently remembered
by government, as worthy of pensions
are John Heating and Orlo H. Austin
of this town.
There are a large number of horses
and colts entered in the stakes of the
Eastern VT. Breeders Association
which will be held at Newport, Aug.
IL, u, ID.
The heavy rain on Saturday morn
ing dampened the shirt collars and
the crinoline of lots of young people
who left here for Lyndon, but their
enthusiasm was equal to the occasion
Geo. II. Bickford was particularly
fortunate in his graduating at Middle
town, receiving S195 in prize money
and highest honors. We understand
that he will go to Pennsylvania anC
engage in the profession of teaching
We hope our people will visit the
new Park. They will not appreciate
the beauty of the situation until they
go there. Another spring trees can b'
set and some more work done to i'm
prove the surface of the ground, etc
All members of the Chautauqua Cir
Gle are requested TO meet with Mrs
Betsey Stone next Wednesday even
ing, to make arrangements for a pic
mic All who have ever met with tn
Circle are invited to join them.
Master Frank Bean entertaine
thirty of his playmates last Wednes
day afternoon. The tables wer
spread in the orchard with goodies
dear to the hearts of the little folk
and they spent a very delightful al
ternoon.
The Caledonia county fair will b
held on Tuesday, Sept. s, 9 and II
The state fair will be held at Burling
ton the week before on Sept. 1, 2,
and 4. The state horsebreeders' ex
hibition will be held at White Rive
Junction, Aug 25, 26 and q.
AS it has become dangerous to e1
press liquor packages into this villag
certain parties who are getting read
to take a term at marble polishing
Rutland, are having their liquor con
to So. Barton. These fellows seem bel
on disgracing themselves and dete
mined to run into the tolls of the la'
F. w. Baldwin, who has a sms
strawberry patch in his garden shoN
us specimens that are remarkable
size and excellent flavor, one measur
4x41z inches in circumference STRAY
berries can be grown in this count
if one has the time to attend thel
that are larger and better than a
which are imported from Boston
elsewhere.
VIM. G. Hawkins contributes gen
rous quantity of ''Pure Rock MAJ
Sugar. to this office, which was ma
in a Champion evaporator that
about up to the best we have
compared with average sugar it mig