Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-09-04

that the line is to run direct to Island
| Pond
Mr.. Bickford, who has carried on
the b1acksmithing in the O. V. Joslyn
shop the past year, has hired the
shop for five years, and taken in a
partner, who is also an excellent
horse sheer.
That wild storm (which struck this
section on Tuesday was only the tip
end of the big cyclone that sweptoYer
the whole eastern section of the coun-
try We are glad we did not get the
big end of it.
The Peerless factory at Newport, n.
H., has started up and orders are be-
ing sent here for goods already manu-
featured. We hear nothing as to
when this mill is to start up. If not
soon, it will be a job to get the help
together again.
1t will be of interest to pensioners
to learn that the authorities at Wash
ington have backed down from their
position of peremptorily suspending
pensions. No pension willhs stopped,
except on prima facie evidence of
fraud or error. This is the gist-of Gen.
Order No. 24O, Pension Department.
The Trustees OF Barton Academy
and Graded School will be at the Of
flee of F. w. Baldwin, every Tuesday
afternoon from 4:15 to 5:15 to hear
the teachers and patrons of the
school, with regard to anything they
may wish to say about the same.
TRUSTEES.
Miss Carolyn Paddock Of Craftsbury
will give an entertainment at the M.
E. church next Friday evening under
the auspices of the Epworth League.
Miss Paddock is a fine elocutionist
and she receives the highest praise
wherever she goes. Good music will
be in attendance.
MOVING DR.. Newell has moved
from his College Street house and
John Bean has moved into it; O. V.
Joslyn moves to the Bean place, @. w.
Comstock to the Joslyn place, and Mr..
Ford to the Liddell tenement house
vacated by Clarence Comstock; G. G.
w Heath to the F. W. Baldwin tene
ment.
Last year the liquor peddlers did
thriving business about the county
fair and the drunken victims paid
the state large sum for the privilege
of disgracing themselves and the fair.
This year we hope the authorities will
arrest at once every peddler and ev-
police to pull in every fellow who.
shows a bottle Or has any appearance
of being ssfull'' There is noreasona
why the fair should be put into con-
tempt by a lot Of liquor vendors and
rum suckers. .t.e7. IN. 80
Our old and popular agent, MIR. King,
though still in rather poor health, will
be present at the coming fair in the
of the MONITOR. He will be
pleased to see all his old MONITOR
friends and will have receipts for all
paid in, and room for all new
on his list book. We ask
all who are in arrears to take this OPP
portunity to pay up. Arrangements
can be made for club papers. Some
of our low priced papers are going
back on the present low rates. We can
still furnish the Boston Journal, Mirror
and Former and Nelo York Weekly
Tribune with the MONITOR for $500.
Barton horses seem to be Gin it.''
At the recent Stanstead fair, Had
horse, ''Nellie F." won in the
2:27 class, best time, 2:2515; and the
Valley Bros II Guess'' won in the
three year old race; best time, 1929;
Jimmy Mcfarland, who is driving the
horse, expects to get him down below
the thirties before the season ends.
We learn also that John Beams fine
stallion, "Allen Wilkes,' took first
at White River Junction in
race with "Roadster," best time, 1929.
A more important event was the
breaking of all records in Vermont by
the little stallion, Golden, Jr., recent
ly sold by Burt Blake to Dr. Cush-
man of East Charleston. The horse
made the three heats, beating large
field of fine trotters in 2:1734, 2:15 and
2.16A.
Bishop Ash, the old California So
journer, whom we mentioned last
week, made this Office call recently
and related avery interesting expert
ence about his trip from this county
sixteen years ago, when he went to
thence TO California, all the
Way with his team. returning alone