Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-01-07


Harry L. Gale, mail clerk, was hom,
on a visit last week.-W. Richmon.
and wife spent last week visitin,
friends in Albany.
d. r. StetsOn has moved his stock
Of fruit and confectionery into the
store vacated by Mrs. E. E. Wallace
in the Memphremagog House.
Ned Thrasher goes to Worcester
Mass, to-day to enter school; his
mother, Mrs. J. O. Thrasher accom-
panies him and makes a visiting trip
The following officers were elected
for the Cong. Sunday school the en-
suing year: President, John r. Aiken;
vice president, E. @. Blanchard; Sec.
and Treas, Geo. F. Root. Largest at
tendance the past year, 1877; smallest,
81.
Tom Allchurch is back from Boston,
where he has been at work in a store
spending few days visiting friends.
Arthur Wells has been in Hardwick
the past week visiting a brother.-E
Blaisdel of Jay is visiting atiIra Park
er's.
North Troy.
George Magoon has moved to the
creek mills.
Aunt Martha Abbott has gone to
to live with her sister.
D. w. Porter is on the gain from
his injuries by being burned at the
time his barn was burned.
Alvin Aiken has bought of G. c..
Dagett building lot and will put up
a tenement house next spring.
FL. G. Chaloner is now the sole own
er Of the Hill telephone ladder and has
had patents for Improvements on the
same granted him; it is now a good
article and must meet with a ready
sale.
Mr.. E. f. Livingston and Miss Kit
tie Hunt, were married at the brides
parents on Jan. 1st at 7.30 p. M, Rev.
d. Wallace performing the ceremony.
The presents were many, rich, and
useful. The happy pair have gone to
Boston to live.
A. S. Jones, our meat man, while
driving near the track recently got
mixed up with freight train. The
horse was thrown about rod, it is
said, and escaped with few light in
juries. Jones is just as pretty as ever;
the car has not been heard from.
D. W. Porter's premises were again
the scene OF fire on the night of the
22nd ult. Flames were discovered is
suing from the northwest corner Of
a barn few minutes before nine
o'clock and in less than thirty minutes
the building and contents including
10 head of stock were a mass Of
smoking ruins. Mr.. Porter, who had
leaped from his bed at the
first cry of alarm, rushed to the barn
and made desperate attempts to
release the stock. The frantic efforts
OF the neighing and believing animals
to escape prevented him from unloos
ing them, and Immediately sheet of
fame surging down from above threw
him backward. A moment later he
emerged from the billoW of smoke
and fame on his hands and knees
nearly suffocated. The crowd worked
and succeeded in saving a
greater part of the contents of the
granary which adjoined the barn and
was also consumed. The stock de-
consisted of seven horses and
colts, six COWS and one yoke of oxen.
The loss is total as there was no in
surance. There are various theories
as to the origin of the fire none of
which seem Of any value toward trac-
ing it out. Mr.. Porter's hands and
face were badly burned and he re-
ceived a severe injury to his back.
He has been confined to his bed ever
since, but at present he is more COM
Portable. Palladium.
Westfie1d.
gate from the W. r. @.
A delegation from the Epworth
League attended the convention at
Irasburgh last week.
Mrs. Betsey @. Stebbins has pur-
chased fine monument of a Hard
wick firm, to be placed in the ceme-
terry next May.
The Epworth League and Christian
society have purchased of
A. R. Cowles an organ for the hall.
They will give union social soon to
raise money to pay for the same.
Eva Papineau died Of bilious fever
at the home of Victor Roberts on the