Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-08-07

balloon ascension With parachute
on two days of the fair. Prepar-
ations will be made for an excellent
fair.
Speakingief the newspapers of Yer
mont, Printers Ink says: s'In Orleans
County, Vermont (pop. 22,1 01), the
largest circulation rating is accorded
to the ORLEANS COUNTY MONITOR. A
weekly published at Barton" and that
rating is correct, Mr.. Ink.
A large number of MONITOR sub
scribers are in arrears on their sub
scriptions. Are you one OF them?
If SO, can't you pay your arrearages
and enjoy life better? If we should
! publish the names of all our delin-
| quents there would be a great deal Of
modification among the relatives.
A thief has been gathering vegeta-
bles and doing considerable other
damage in the garden of F. A. Bel
KNAPP. The matter has been investi-
gated and clues gained which are liza
BILE to lead to an arrest. We hope
there is nobody SO mean or so poor in
this village as to make thieving ne
cessity.
Mr.. Murkland has put up the frame
of his new foundry building and will
cover the same this season. If the
'tgood old Democratic times" war
rant, he will put in his melting furnace,
etc., early in the spring. The scare in
business affairs has spoiled for the
present his spool machinery manu-
featuring. The Percival & Baldwin
factory is experiencing dull times just
at present. ->, ~.
HAL Hopkins will move his machin-
cry from his present shop to his barn
building and carry on his knife MAX
ing business there. O. D. Owen will
use the shop as part of a tenement
house, which he will build later, They
say that "Hi," was passing arounA the
cigars last week and that he now has
housekeeper who is running the
house without wages. ~ o+
The editor has received letter from
Col. Redfeld Proctor, saying that he
will be present at the proposed reun-
ion of the 18th Regt. VT. Vols, lat Lyn
donville, Sept.26 if it is possible. Every
soldier of that regiment will want
to see the ssOld Colonel" and every
Vermonter in this whole section will
wish to see and hear Vermont's hon.
ored senator. IL -
The Buswells are raising the roof of
their building, which was recently
moved on to their lot near the depot
store, and will make two story build
ing Of it, finishing it into tenements.
They also propose to erect a new
building on the south side of the lot,
to be used by Mr.. Walcott of Glover
for a grain and feed storehouse. @.
G. Grow has caught the improvement
spirit that is abroad in this village, land
will put some bay windows in the
front of the tenement part of his
block.
We visited the Seminary at Montpe-
lier on Friday and found the new
principal, DIR. Smith and the new pres
ident, Rev. Ell. A. Spencer, very busy
in preparations for the coming term
of school, which commences Aug. 20.
The building and apparatus have been
put in order for the coming year and
the boarding house has been thor
ouhgly repaired within. There is
prospect of full term for the fall.
We notice that G.. F. Wheeler, hook
keeper in the o. D. Owen stofe,S is to
hold the office of clerk in the school.
Several students from this town will
enroll the coming term.
Unclaimed letters remaining in Bar
ton post Office Aug. 5: Miss Lizzie
Ainsworth, Wilbur D. Allen, Miss
May A. Atkinson, Henry Adams, w.
w. BATHS, Daniel Blake, Joseph Bush
ia, George Brooks, Charles aCobnrn,
Miss Martha Clark, N. J. Cawley, Mrs
S. A. Dyke, B. G. Day, Davis, Sewing
Machine Agt., Joseph Direueaux, Fred
Ellsworth, J. III. Folsom, Mrs. Robert
Grant, D. A. Harvey, Miss Cora Leg
gett, E. w. Miller, Gilman Mccoy, G.
R. McMuller, Mrs. Jennie Person, Nell
lie Palmer, andre Pettyson, G. R.
Ring, Geo. A. Smyth.
Summer School commences to- day,
and the teachers and other good peo
pie who are coming among us will re-
ceive a cordial welcome. School will |
be held in the Page Opera Block. For
special attractions this week there
will be directors Day. Tuesday,
with addresses in the afternoon by Mr..
Stone and Mr. Hall to school direct