Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-06-01
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Barton.
McDougan & Elliott are painting the
Mrs. Stone block.
The selectmen are building a new
fence around the village cemetery.
The Chautauqua meeting will be held
with Mrs. B. d. Stone, this evening.
Owing to the rain and mud the hose
companies did not come out Saturday
afternoon.
Remember the village school meet
ing tomorrow night for the election
of a trustee.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the M. E.
church will meet at the vestry rooms,
Wednesday afternoon. Supper at 6
o'clock.
Mrs. VIII Ford returns to Lyndon
vile, and viii 'Ekeep house, again.
Clara Mcfarland will go there to work
for her.
There viii be a special meeting of
the Good Templars' lodge on Saturday
evening, to which all the lodge mem
bers are invited.
Hezekiah Bickford is seriously, if
not dangerously sick. His son Schuy-
Ter and wife have both had a hard at
tack of the grip, but are better.
Mrs. John G. Hall starts for the
West tomorrow with her daughter,
Mrs. Jones, where she will spend some
months visiting her children and 9TH
er friends.
1t is reported that Charles Dwinen
and family will return to Vermont
from Denver, Col, ere long. They
can make money out there, but money
is neither green hills, friends or health.
The Ladies' Society of the Cong.
church will have a strawberry festival
at the vestry on Wednesday eve, June
8. Cordial invitation extended to all.
Strawberries, cake and coffee served
from to s o'clock.
We notice that a large number of
young people from this county, who
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in a chorus of singers who gave a con-
cert for Farnsworth Post, at Lyndon
vile, Saturday night.
B. NJ. R. Nelson met with a fall re-
Gently which made an apparently
slight injury on his leg, (shin bone)
which is giving him deal of trouble.
The limb has been badly swollen and
he has suffered much from it. He is
confined to the house.
This is a beautiful morning for the
commencement of June. The grass
has a fine start, the trees are heavy
with verdure and the air is sweet with
the fragrance of apple and cherry
blossoms. Those who wish to see Yer
mont in her loveliest attire should
come here now.
The village trustees are doing some
needed repairs on the sidewalks; they
have purchased quite a quantity of
sewer pipe and will lay a sewer drain
from the post-office block to the riv
er, taking off the surface water and
giving sewerage to a set of buildings
badly needing it. Another line is to
be run up Porter st. to take the brook
water and the sewerage in that local
ity.
Charles Graves feels the impulse Of
the village Improvement spirit and
has put his shop and tenement build
ing into bright new colors.-John L.
Twombly is also indulging in new
paint and other repairs on his resi-
dence. D. r. Hunt is out with his
paint and brushes working on his
buildings. 1t is stated that Mr.. Fair
brother will take down the old Elan
ders barn and put a better one in it's
stead.
J. W. Murkland goes to England
and Scotland in the interests of Mr..
Browneu and partners for the dispO-
sal and setting up of the large spool
machine recently built in the machine
shop here. The machines are prov
ing very satisfactory here and it is
proposed to introduce them into the
Old Country. 1t is expected that
Grace and Maud Murkland will accom-
pany their father. They start in about
two weeks.
We hope our people will attend the
meetings of the w. @. t. Union, which
are TO be held here this week. The
cause is one that commends itself to
every well wisher of society. The la
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calities, are women who are willing
to devote time and make no small sac
rifices in behalf of the noble objects
for which they labor. Let them be
encouraged. Their program promis
es a very interesting series of meet
ings.
Sumner Wiley of Greensboro, who
for some time has been engaged in
smuggling and bringing liquor into
this town, Glover and Greensboro, has
made one too many trips for his own
good, to say the least. Officer Moss
man. who has been watching for him
of late, picked him up last week, and
he was brought before States Attor-
ney Miles, and was found guilty by
Justice Mossman of a second offense
in liquor selling. He will languish in
Rutland for few months. He has
been very bad pill"
III. G. Pierce has purchased the Mrs.
Varney place on Lincoln street, and
will hold it for tenement purposes.
Henry Gay has bought the John J..
Twombly tenement house on the same
street and will rent the two tenements.
This means that these two houses will
be put in good repair, and viii help to
carry out the improvements that have