Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-04-10

exercise in pugll1Sm. You can Tell py
the bruised noses and blackened eyes
who is making the best progress in
the art.
The Lyndonville Journal boys used
thirty four lines more last week in the
matter of stealing items. Now if they
didn' steal % lot of items, as the NOM
TOR stated some weeks since, what is
the need of all the fuss on their part?
The statement was true as we made
it,
John Z. Twombly has rented his
house on Lincoln st. for three years to
Col Cutler, and will move his family
to Manchester, n. H., where they Will
make their home for the present. MIR.
Twombly hopes that his wife's health
NAV be improved by change OF To-
cation.
One of the smart boys of three years
of age, now growing up in this village,
was amusing himself alone in the sit
ting room one day recently, while the
people of the house were engaged
elsewhere. By and by he came out
and innocently remarked, ''you better
be seeing to me, I've been punching
the isinglass out of that stove in
there"
The band boys are getting up a
subscription to raise funds to hire
leader and drill master for the summer
season. They propose in return to
give a course Of outdoor concerts. 1t
REQUIRES no small amount of labor to
maintain a good band in an ordinary
country village, and our citizens are
cheerfully chipping in to help the
enterprise.
Joseph Rattigan has resigned as de-
pot master and express agent in this
place, and will, it is reported, go into
the accident and life insurance bust
ness. Mr. Rattigan has held these po-
sitions here for several years and has
made very efficient and satisfactory
official The hope is expressed that
B. G. Berry of So. Barton be called to
take his place. 4N
Notwithstanding the fact that the
village has recently been opening its
doors to a hundred or more people
who are at work in the new factory,
we believe that those who come here
to attend Conference will find COM
Portable quarters. Board may be OBJ
tanned at from so cents to $50 per
day: meals at one of the hotels and at
private boarding houses and restaur-
ants at % cents.
The school district clerk furnishes
us the following: The whole number
of families in school district No. is
225; the number of scholars of school
age is 24S, about 40 more than last
wear: the whole number of families
having children of school age is 12O,
leaving los families without school
children. It is believed that quite
large number of these children are
not attending the public schools.
truant officer should be appointed at
once and the matter looked up.
The following are the railroad rates
for the Conference, which opens its
sessions April 10: On Concord & Mon
treal- round "trip tickets to Woods
vile for one fare one way. On Pas
sumpsic, ST. Johnsbury & Lake Cham
plain and Connecticut River Divisions
of Boston & Maine-round trip tickets
to Barton at special rates. On Mont
pelier & Wells River-round trip tick
cts to Wells River for one fare one
way. All tickets good April IL to 25.
! Call for Vermont Conference tickets
in every case.
Mr. Scott, sugar weigher, fears that
/ the statement made in the last issue
of this paper by Mr.. Merrill may be
misleading or misunderstood. The
| instructions from the collector require
that blank 342, which is supposed to
have been sent to each producer,
should be filed out by him and deliv-
cred to the sugar weigher when his
first lot of sugar is weighed, the
weigher to forward the same with the
sample sent to Montpelier for inspec
ton. The weigher cannot weigh or
forward samples unless the blank is
made and furnished. Every sugar
maker can select where and by whom
his sugar is to be weighed, the same as
last year.
A goodly number of the friends and
neighbors met at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. III. S. Fisk on the evening of Mar.
20 to congratulate them on their new
home. The gathering was surprise
to the worthy couple, but they rallied
their senses and we're ready for the
emergency. After a social hour, cake