Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-11-25

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be a campfire in the evening.
Religious meetings will continue this
week at the M. E. church, being held ey-
cry evening except Thursday ano Sc turday
THANKSGIVING services will be helc Thurs
day forenoon, Mr.. Douglass preachin; The
sermon.
Owing to the breaking out of typhoid
fever among the students of Montpelier
Seminary, the school has been suspended
| five weeks No fever case has resulted ia
tally and the patients have nearly all re-
covered. The schools commence again
next Monday.
While in Hardwick recently, we called at
the office of the 'iGazette." Mr.. Allbee
has moved into new quarters and is now
very pleasantly situated. He has purchas-
ed new press and intends printing his
whole paper at home soon. He reports a
very good business for the year.
Our town was well represented at the
State Teachers Association, held at ST.
Johnsbury, Nov. n, % and %. The town
superintendent and all the teachers of both
graded schools, besides several resident
teachers, being in attendance. They report
pleasant and profitable session.
Rev. A. G. Swain closed his pastoral la
bors for the Cong. church yesterday and
will go to Massachusetts,. Mr.. and Mrs.
Swain have been much esteemed for their
Christian character and their kind and
genial qualities. Their friends will long
remember them with kindest feelings.
John Moulton, the well-known horse
man. who was talking Of establishing
training stable here, has gone to Lyndon
Center, where he will make use of the old
Universalist church as stable. Well, we
are sorry to lose John or any good thing,
but we must not expect the earth. We
have some pretty good drivers and horse
men left yet.
The telephone wires are being strung to
Clyde Falls. A part of this village will be
lighted with arc lights, a part with in
candescent lamps, at first, to give the peo-
pie chance to see which seems best to be
used There is considera BILE discussion
here, as well as elsewhere, as to the rela-
tive merits of the two systems in lighting
country towns.
We learn from Western paper that Hi
ram B. Hovey, who was born in Troy and
who was for several years a resident of this
county, but for forty years or more had
been in the West, lost his life recently by
falling from the roof of building on
which he was at work. He was 20 years of
age. His wife was sister of Judge Hum
phrey of this town.
The ability of the Vermont winter is still
sufficient for the purpose Wednesday
forenoon it was as warm here as Septem-
Der and the grass on the lawns was clean
and fresh. During the afternoon the wind
turned to the north and the snow fell to
the depth of four or five inches, while the
wind piled it up in big drifts Thursday
was rough winter day.
The Tub Mandatory people have re-
Gently received orders, outside their for
mer line of customers, for two carloads of
tubs each month during the coming year.
This means about 700 tubs day beside
what is used by the old line of customers.
They have put up a large storehouse during |
the fall and propose, if possible, to keep a
stock on halndsto fill emergency orders.
The many friends of Rufus, King, for
some years a pastor in this county, will be |
pleased to learn that the report of his
death was mistake. He writes somebody
that he is alive and we'll. The report got |
aboad in Lowell and vicinity, just how no
body seems to know, and his good friends
set about writing up his obituary. He will
have opportunity to read his own fiatter-
ing obituary notices.
Typhoid fever prevails in many localities
and is found in most of the neigh boring
Has it ever occurred to the citi-
zens of this village that the bringing of
water from a mountain stream, not always
free from roll and the color of leaves, has
been great blessing in the line of health?
If we mistake not, there has not been
single case of typhoid fever or of diphthe-
ria, which has originated here, since the
water was put in.
The end of the year is near at hand when
4 large number of our subscribers will re-
new their subscriptions. We hope they
will begin at once to make their renewals,
their club periodicals. The ex-
ira work that clubbing makes the pub
Usher is such that he needs all the time be-
tween this and the new year to do it in.
AS will be seen by our combination club
'eading matter will be cheap this year.
As 1896 is presidential year, and will be an
important one in business affairs at home
md abroad, everybody will need the news
papers.
SHoo FLY.-Bro. Dodge of the Burling-
on Independent, who holds fat Office
lnder Grover, claims to have dropped
Town on this innocent and unsuspecting
7illage recently and to have found la
nentable state of affairs. The people are
-ery busy in the line of business; they are
putting in an extensive electric light plant,
building lot of houses, increasing their ,
and ten or a dozen of them
re putting up a big prohibition hotel