Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-02-08

season, hiring competent help to do
the work.
The friends of Mrs. A. R. Cowles
of Newport will be pleased to learn
that she is recovering from her late
severe sickness.
The w. C.TU.ladies will meet Tues
day, Feb. 9, at 3 p. M, in the M. D..
vestry. All members are requested
to be present.
Regular meeting G.. A. r., and w.
r. G. Wednesday evening, Feb. 10th,
at o'clock. Please come, some Off
GERS to be installed.
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Simpson go to
Hardwick, Marshfield, etc., on visit.
Mrs. E. L. Barstow has gone to
Hardwick on visit.
Warren Gregory, an apprentice in
the MONITOR Office, has gone to his
home in Newport Center on account
of q grip attack.
1t is said that the present traffic on
the Passumpsic division of the B. &
u. ~.
in the history Of the road.
1t is expected that the suit, State
VS.. Edwin F. Bodwell, for the alleged
burning of the w. G. Brown barn, will
be tried this week or next at New
port.
The number Of births in school dis
trict, No. 1 during the year Of 1891
were 10, the number Of deaths were
90 This is growth in the wrong di-
rection.
Tower Bros. have put an elevator
in their mill to run from basement to
attic. They are making other i'm
provements for convenience. Their
business is always good.
Winter since it fairly 'caught on'
has seemed to be about up to the av-
erage Vermont pattern. Saturday
morning was the next coolest of the
season-from Is to % degrees below
zero.
Mrs. J. E. Skinner and Miss Grace
Murkland attended the entertainment
given by the Rivals at St. Johnsbury
Friday evening. Miss Murkland Wis
it's her sister Cora at Monroe, n. H.,
before she returns.
At the recent reorganization of the
Barton Republican Club, w. I. Robin
son, F. w. Baldwin, Geo. HI. Blake and
II. T. Seaver were elected delegates
to attend the State League convention
at Burlington, Feb. II.
Our masculine readers, who from
long experience have acquired an adj
miration for pillow shams, will be in
tensely interested in a story found in
another column of this paper. Our
lady friends may not care to read it,
Importance to them ere long.
Unclaimed letters in Barton P o.
Feb. 2. Fred Boyce, Stephen Bartlett,
Louis Duperron, Mrs. Helena F. Ev
ans, John HI. Greggs, Amos Cation, D.
F. Holbrook, Miss julius Harlow,
Mrs. Granville Howard, Miss Hattie
Hazelton, G. III. Lawrence, Charles
NORM, George Nye, Fred Rowe, Lew
is Shonyo.
There will be a pastoral visit, chick
enpie supper and entertainment at
the M. E. church, on Thursday after
noon and evening Of this week, for
Rev. F. w. Lewis. The ladies will
prepare good supper. A cordial in
vitatiOn extended to all. The young
people are invited to attend in the
evening.
Mrs. Nellie (Ufford) Robinson died
at the home Of her mother, Mrs. N. G.
Ufford, on Sunday morning last. Mr..
and Mrs. Robinson had been in Boston
of late, where she grew i'll and sent
for her mother to come to her. Her
mother saw her condition and took
her home with her some days since.
She continued to fail and died as re-
ported.
Carl HI. Jewell, who is chief mailing
clerk of the ST. Louis, Mo-, Republic,
writes us that the circulation of the
weekly edition of that journal exceeds
800, 900. It is mailed out of the Office
on two separate days of the week.
This in addition to daily addition of
about 100000 requires large force of
hands, and places heavy response
bility on Mr.. Jewell. It is position
of great responsibility and labor.
The two very bright stars that have
been coquetting in the western skies
for some nights past are Jupiter and
Venus. The brighter one of the two is
Venus, which is much nearer the sun