Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-04-03
with E. D. Stafford this season.

The school house caught fire Friday
around the register, on the first floor.
The teachers and boys soon put the
fire out, bringing water from Mr..
Leonard's.
The many friends of @. III. ColIey
will be pleased to hear that Clarence
arrived in Reno, Nevada, all right
and is having all the work he can do
at good pay.
E. W. Merrill has been appointed
deputy collector and sugar weigher,
with headquarters at this place, and
will be at the station every day to
weigh sugar during the sugar season.
He informs those who have sugar to
weigh that they must fill out and for
ward to him the blanks relative to the
old sugar on hand.
South Barton.
Geo. Wheeler returned from Maine
yesterday, where he has been engaged
in the lumber business. He had not
been home for eight months.
Parmlee Duke and Geo, Craig, who
have been numbering for and looking
after II. F. Pillsbury's numbering bust
ness, have closed work for the season,
having put in about 400 cords.
A couple of hunters, whose names
might be mentioned, we're on the
mountains on the II. F. Pillsbury lands
on Sunday, Mar. 10, running deer with
dogs and guns. 1t is not known that
they shot any, but they were break
ing the law and the matter is put
where they are liable to hear from it
later.
Albany.
Elias Searles recently fell and dislo
Gated his left shoulder.
Will Miller is convalescing from
pneumonia.-Mrs. Sylvester Shute
and son, Leon, are sick with the mea
sizes.
Henry Grovro and family have
moved to Barton, and his wife and
daughter will work in the Peerless
factory.
Charles Andrews has moved to the
Phelps house with @. A. Sylvester.
Ira Sanders has rented the place va
Gated by Andrews.
We learn with regret of the death
of Joseph Putnam, formerly of this
town. Mr.. Putnam was the last of the
family of Rev. George Putnam, who
lived for many years in this town.
Father, mother and six children all
are gone. No more able family was
ever raised here. Mr.. Joseph Putnam,
the subject of this notice, had for many
years been a successful business man
in the South. He had been engaged
largely in railroad business, but had
also been q successful inventor, hav-
ing secured many patents for the
products of his busy brain. He mar
ried Miss Helen Peabody, formerly of
Barton. His wife, daughter and two
sons survive him.
East Albany.
G. @. King and David Calderwood
have had their cattle dehorned, E. @.
Butler of this place doing the job 1t
is said that Mr.. Butler is good hand
at the business.
Bloomington.
Joseph Carter has sold his place to
E. NJ. Buchanan.
Warren Bassett has moved into the
house with his son, Henry Bassett.
Austin Lund is dangerously ill with
heart trouble. Miss May Bassett is
sick with the measles.
East Bloomington.
Mrs L. E. Foss has made eight large
rugs this winter.
Carl Aldrich has gone to business
college in Portland, Maine.
A large flock of wild geese were
seen flying north the 9th ult.
Edgar Drown and family from Low
ell, Mass, is in town visiting friends.
Evansville.
Tom Marshall succeeded in moving
his daughter Katie home without any
serious results from the ride.
They are making up for lost time
by running the machinery both night
and day at the milestone shop.
East Charleston.
F. A. Cole is sick with pneumonia at
G. o. Goodwin's
George Cloud and wife were called
to Brighton by the death of Mrs.
Clouds sister.
Charles Morse has broken up camp
in the woods and with his family has
moved back home.