Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-03-12

Hyland Hopkins and Fred Rand
have been negotiating for some time
relative to the sale of the Hopkins
place to Mr.. Rand. We understand the
writings have been made. Mr.. Hopkins
expects to move to Morganif he leaves
town
Henry E. Dixey, the great comedian,
with a company of about sixty peo-
pie appears at Howe's Opera House,
ST. Johnsbury, next Friday evening,
Stanstead and st. Johnsbury, return
ing after the evenings performance.
The listers of Orleans county are
requested to meet at the American
House in Barton Village,o on Thursday,
March %, at 10 O'Clock a.. M, for the
purpose Of fixing uniform rates OF ap-
praisals, and consultation concerning
their duties. A full attendance de-
sired.
The county court which was ad-
journed from February was in session
last week and will continue this week.
We received a report of the proceed
ings O late to appear in this issue,
but it will appear later. The case Of
Ed. Bowen of Jay, who was tried for
assault with intent to kill n Archie
Mcdonald, and resulted in acquittal.
The liquor agent, Mr.. Belknap, fears
that our statement last week conveys
a wrong impression in regard to the
amount of liquors purchased and sold
by this agency. The purchases
amounted to 81, so; the salary OF
the agent, freight and other expenses
amounted to $179.66; profits, $4SO.O8.
The sales this year are about $40 less
than last year.
w. T. Richardson, who left here
with his family early in the fall to try
the climate of Colorado, in the delu-
sive hope that he might regain his
health, passed away in Pueblo, in
that state, Feb. 26, aged "a, years. He
moved to this village from Browning
ton a year ago or more, and was Ill at
the time with consumption. His wife
writes hat she has been kindly dealt
with in the far away stranger state.
Much sickness prevails and the
physicians are hard driven with work.
There is no particular change in the
condition of Joseph Owen and Merton
Lewis, but they are both in a very
dangerous condition; Will D~evereaux,
who has had a hard u Of pneumonia,
is reported better, and it looks as
though he might get up; Helen Kim
ball, who has suffered exceedingly
all winter with sc~iatica, is now worse
from the effects of a severe cold.
Mrs. Mary (Abbott) Taplin, Of Og-
den, Utah, died Mar. I'd of heart troub-
lie and her remains, accompanied by
DR.. D. S. Taplin and her brother James
Abbott, arrived here on Saturday and
the funeral services were held yester-
day at j. G. C~hapman's, Rev. w. @.
Johnson officiating. The burial will
be in the cemetery at Barton Landing.
She was the daughter of the late D. S.
Abbott of this town. She was a prom
member Of the church in Ogden
and a lady much esteemed by all who
knew her.
The annual March meeting passed
Off quietly and resulted in the selec-
ton of a good board Of officers. There
was some talk about the published re-
BORT and a vote was passed in regard
to a change in the method of account
ing for and paying out the different
moneys used in the different depart
of the finances of the town.
The existence of at least four individ-
.al corporations or parties within the
to whom the tax and other
moneys must go, beside the general
funds of the town, make it quite a
difficult thing in accounting to keep
each fund in it's proper place and to
it to it's lawful use. The
auditors had given the matters of the
accounts and reports of officers a long
md careful investigation and present.
ed a report as free from errors as
be expected, where the COM
plications are as many and the law as
Uncertain as it now is in the matter
IF the schools and the highways. Very
few ballots were required in the cleo
ton Of officers, whose anne appear
n another column. OF the minor
officers we give the following:
Poundkeepers, w. @. Brown, b. r.
Cook, J. Heating, A. Humphrey, J.
Forrest, Jr., G. W. Clark, Q. A. White,
G. Leland, JOS. Bartlett and Harry
Fisk.
Sections: Village, o. S. Dwyer;