Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-10-09

s G. Hall to his farm.-Spencer Drak
e to Mrs. Hanscom's house. Foste
Brown is moving to his farm.
Mrs Jonathan Hunter has bee,
!. spending the past week with he
daughter, Mrs. Sherburne.-A.
Giffin and wife have been in Boston
the past week.-Mrs.. DR.. Jones visit
ed here last week.. @. King an6
wife and VIM. Smith and wife star
for Chicago to day.
West Burke.
Fred Frasier has moved TO his farm
the Orcutt place.
Miss Minnie Warren is home from
her visit to New Hampshire.
John Cole has purchased the Newell
Whitcher place near the depot
Rev. Granger exchanged pulpits
with Rev. Dixon of Sheffield, Sunday
Oct. 8.
Newell Colby is painting his house,
and VIM. Anger is having the paint
ing fever.
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carriage house this week. G. KimbaIl
will do the work.
A. L. Aldrich and S. w. Green will
attend the Grand Lodge of I. o. G. T.
that is be held at Montpelier this week.
Harley Ryther, who moved from here
to Worcester, Mass. last spring, has
returned with his family. West Burke
is pretty good place after ALL
Mrs. r. Solomon and Miss Rosa
Meinbery have gone to Boston for
few weeks visit Miss Meinbery will
go from there to New York, where she
will spend the winter.
rem the side hill, between the ceme
terry fence and the road, and will re-
move the cemetery fence down to the
travelled road, which will be a great
Improvement.
Mrs. Carrie Chase and Miss Jennie
Wiilett will go to southern New Harnp-
shire this week to visit friends, after
which Miss Willett will return to her
home in N. B. Miss Maud Otis will
return to her home in Coaticook, Pc,
at the same time.
Warren Gilman and Myron Ham
have gone to the Worlds Fair. = NJ
B. Parsons, Carl Dean, Charlie and
Harvey Silsby started for Chicago last
Exposition, after which Carl Dean
will go to Poughkeepsie, NY. and take
a course in Eastman's Business Col
lege.
o. L. Leonard has hired the Win
chester house for his mother, who will
take possession soon. = John Bailey,
who has recently moved into the Jon
athan Davis house,is sick with typhoid |
fever. = DIN Roundy has moved into |
the upstairs tenement in the Will |
Smith house. : Will Haywood, the
Westmore mail carrier, has moved |
into the Wooster house. Daniel |
Beckwith has hired Mrs. Hibbard's
house and will move in soon.
East HardWick.
The Jersey herd of the Bronson
farm numbers about SO heads with %
COWS in milk, headed by a 371a per
cent Duke, rs, bull, a brother of the
sire Of Brown Bess, the cow in the
Columbian diary that is making the
most butter and giving the most milk.
The COWS are mostly Duke and Victor
blood, families noted for being persis
tent mixers and giving large amount
Of very yellow butter. Some of the
Duke heifers have given a test of 90
per cent butterfat with the Babcock
test. The herd test June was 5.43 per
cent butter fat, for July $40 per cent,
aud for August 5.41 per cent. With
an average Of 25 COWS in milk, besides
milk and cream without
stint for two families Of IL persons,
and starting II calves on new milk
rom two to three weeks, 1875 lbs. of
1utter were made from January 1st to
July, 1898, six months.
Sutton.
G. NJ. Campbell is home from his .
Western trip.
Mr.. McKowan from Canada is NOV ;
ng into his house recently bought Of {
1he Allards.
FL. A. Blake spent several days at
Waterbury last week. He is talking
If going into trade there.
Geo. Willard is moving to the JON ,
lthau Eastman farm and Ju1iuc Par