Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-06-12

this section the grass crop promises
to be good.
DIR. Pearson and family expect to
start for Barre and Berlin on visit
Monday, the 10Th, and his dental
rooms will be closed for few weeks.
Henry FL. Leland sheared 40 sheep
for Ira Sturtevant on the Sd inst. in
just eight hours and twenty-five min
utes This is considered a remarka-
BILE days work He sheared one ami
NAL in just three minutes.
E. G.. Shaw reports that he had ex-
cellent success in selling his violins
while in the West. He made several
hundred dollars on the instruments
and in doing repairs. Himself and
wife went to their new home in Wor-
cester, Mass, last week. Sorry they
did not decide to locate here again.
Miss Carrie Whitney will commence
clerking for Geo. Ell. Davis next Mon
day, June IS, in place of Mr.. Fred
Browning, who has been with Mr.. Da-
Wis two years. He has made very
efficient clerk, making many friends
in this town. Mr.. Davis finds it nee
essary to employ lady clerk and re-
luctantly parts with Mr.. Browning.
Mr. Park of the Crystal Lake House
has had the hotel lot south and south
west of the hotel buildings surveyed
and staked out, with proposed high
way running up across from near the
blacksmith's shop to the cemetery
road, and offers it for sale in good
building lots This location is very
convenient for such as desire to make
their homes in the upper end of the
village and near the new factory. The
lots are very easy of access and will
be pleasant.
Ford's theater, the old theater at
Washington where President Lincoln
was assassinated, and which OF late
has been used as pension build1ng,Was
the scene of great disaster Thursday.
1t seems to have been overloaded with
pension documents, SO much SO that
the upper floor gave way ,eaTfy5ng
down the three floors to theeellar.
Two or three hundred clerks were at
work within it, from twenty toythirty
were killed, and large Aumber
wounded. They were mostlyold SOL
diers.
The st. Johnsbatry Daily Republican
congratulates itself on the success of
it's first years existence. 1t has right
to feel well, if not proud, Of it's first
years. prosperity. 1t is no small task
to successfully launch and maintain
daily paper in town of the size of st.
and with constituency that
only by vigorous encouragement and
good treatment can be made to fully
the local daily. The Re-
publican has maintained itself well,
and it deserves a continued and in
patronage. The price is S..
1t will be forwarded with the MONITOR
for $3.50.
The people of this village who
heard the Boston Ideal Banjo Club
asst year will be pleased to learn that
they have been engaged to come
mere again, and are announced for
next Friday evening at Opera Hall.
Beside the ordinary concert attrac-
ions, the club will sing several SOUTH
ern melodies, accompanied by banjo
and guitar Some of our local musicians,
nave been interested in getting, the
club, guaranteeing them specified
sum if they would come. 1t WIFI
concert that ought to draw large at
,endance.
Newton A. Lewis telegraphsss his
friends that his store was burned by
he great fire which destroyed a
arge part of Fargo, North Dakota, /
asst week Mr.. Lewis had other
property in the city and it is feared
hat he suffered other losses. B. F.
spalding, Esq, and family were on
he way here when the fire occurred,
arriving on Friday. We do not learn
What, if anything, Mr.. Spalding loses
" the fire. There are several more
Orleans county people in Fargo that
must be losers by the confagration.
The fire swept away large portion of
he city, entailing loss of from two
O four million dollars.
Children's Day services were held
t both the Methodist and the Con-
regational churches yesterday. At
he Methodist church a patriotic ex-
rcise, entitled "Columbia's Defens-
s." was given, large part of the
chool participating. The house was
BEAUTIFULLY decorated with plants,