Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-07-24

7 Mrs. Lila (White) Mead is with hel
3 parents f0A short vacation. Rev
]. Mr.. Mead - expected in week OF
two.
The villaEe trustees are making
preparations to place watering
trough net the band stand, opposite
the Owes BLOCK.
| sA1rsaBoseph Owen, Mrs. 0. D. Owen
and daughter Julia, and Mr.. and Mrs.
j. n. Webster are expected home from
the Worlds Fair this week.
j. n. Webster was one of the first,
if not the first, to see the big fire at
the Worlds Fair Mr.. Webster is al
ways on hand when there is a fire.
The Peerless factory shuts down
next Saturday for three weeks. Mr..
and Mrs. Cutting expect to go to the
Worlds Fair during their vacation.
Jimmy Mcfarland, who recently
returned from California, bringing
several horses with him, is putting
them in training for the track or the
market.
The State w. G. T. U. have sent out
an elaborate programme of camp
meeting to be held at New Haven,
(Vt.) commencing to-day and ending
August list.
Henry Gay has bought out Frank
Rice's interest in the old marble shop
building, and site on the Owen lot
on High street, and will move the
building on to it and convert it into a
tenement house.
There has been marked improve
ment in several respects at "the up
per end" of the village the past week.
Nothing like little discriminating
commentator from the public press
to stimulate activity.
Regular communication of Orleans
Lodge, No. 55, of f. and A. NJ, Friday
eve, July %, at 7:3O O'Clock. Import
ant business to be transacted and
work on the E. A. degree. A full at
tendance is desired.
o. V. Joslyn has sold his pleasant
residence on Church street to Clar-
ence Comstock. He will either build
or buy another place. Mr.. Comstock
has needed place where he could
keep team and his ice wagons, tools,
etc.
John A. Wheeler of West Albany
brought a piece of silver into this
office the other day bearing the date
of 1921. 1t was evidently an English
coin, and was found in an old road
bed on his farm. He claims to have
been offered $50 for it.
One of the night freight trains was
derailed north of Lyndonville on We'd
nesday night, causing the destruction
of several cars and much damage to
the freight they contained. All trains
passengers and mail were carried by
in the morning.
Orleans county people, who have
quite large amount of money in the
Passumpsic Savings Bank in St.Johns-
bury, will be pleased to learn that it
has escaped losses by the recent fail
ures in the West and has had pros
porous year so far. See statement in
another column
VIII G. Ufford of Spokane Falls,
cashier of Washington
National Bank, who has been away
from here about three and one
half years, surprised his many friends
by arriving in town last Friday after
noon. He will return to Washington
in about two weeks.
Teachers and others who expect to
attend the Summer School, which
commences here Aug. Z, should make
application for board at the earliest
possible moment to E. Ell. Webster,
Barton. Board can be obtained in
private families for So for one week,
30 for two weeks. In hotels for So. so
TO $3.50.
The families of Henry Larue and
Mr.. Cady, who live east of the village,
On May Hill, have been in quarrel
'or some time, and last week they had
pitched battle in which clubs and
stones were quite freely used. In the
melee Larue struck Mrs. Cady with a
club on the head, causing a serious
scalp wound. Complaint was made
% States Attorney Miles, and Larue
vas brought before Justice Mossman
Ind fined $15 and costs.
Barton Landing.
DIR. Smith and wife of New York
ire visiting at Ell. S. Webster's.
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