Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-12-09
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Now the excitement relates TO an ell
ctric railway which shall traverse the
treets of this pleasant city and reach out
nto the neighboring villages.
The CaIedonian. having moved into its
bew and commodious quarters, has pro-
ured new press, donned new dress, and
S among the very best printed, as well as
rranged papers, in New England. st.
Bloomsbury is excellently served so far as
her newspapers are concerned.
The December session of Caledonia coun-
" court opened Tuesday morning with his
honor Chief Justice Ross presiding, and
Hon. Preston II. Graves and Hon. S. j.
Hastings assistant judges. Prayer was Of
Tered by Rev. H. NJ. Douglas. Out of the
be jury cases presented, II stood for trial.
The case d. n. Beckwith VS.. FL. G. Bliss,
general assumpsit, was taken up, and
Jury impaneIled. The case was taken from
the jury and will go to the supreme court
on agreed statement of facts.
Hardwick.
School opened Tuesday with about 175
pupils in all four rooms. Another room
has been added, which is taught by MISS
Fyler. and the intermediate by Nellie
WEIGH.
Mr.. Rogers & Son, who have an inter-
est in the Hardwick Hardware Co., have
moved into Mrs. L. D. Hathaway's house
on Church Str. S. Hooper has moved
into the tenement over the Gazette office.
A very large and enthusiastic audience
greeted Col. George w. Balm in his lecture
on the ssGoIden Gate'' He is very in
teresting and eloquent speaker and kept
his audience in the best of humOr. The
next entertainment in the course will be
the Shepp Bros, bell ringers, and Miss
Belle Temple at Academy hall, Dec. II.
East HardWick.
E. B. Fay is visiting relatives in Boston.
Miss Lena Campbell is teaching school
Walden.
Mrs j. H. Graham has returned to No.
Londonderry, n. III.
Mrs. J. B. Lovejoy has had hip broken
by fall.
V. L. Whittemore has opened his jewel
~ store in the McDaniels block. P. l..
Hyde, the barber, occupies one side of the
store.
The Sunday School convention, held
here last Tuesday, was success, notwith-
standing the rough weather and the frozen
highways. Rev. Smithers was chairman,
and ]. z. Hancock, Sec. The papers read
were of a high order, relating to the sew
eral departments of Sunday School work.
Mrs. AIlbee's paper on the kindergarten
work with the younger children was of
especial interest. Mrs. Farr's paper on the
ssHome Department in S. S. Work, i" was
first-class one. Mr.. Smither's paper on
'sThe Relation of the Pastor to the S. S."
was fully appreciated by the audience.
Stevens, Graham & Kinney have COM
pleted their mill on the Judevine tim Der
lands, 1OSx48, two stories high, covered
with a steel roofing and has two engines
for power. Roads are made through the
lands and cabins have been built for the
choppers and teamsters and their teams.
The timber is cut full length and drawn
to the mill to be cut up as it is needed.
There is a large mill pond above the mill
and the old Griswold farmhouse is con-
verted into a capacious boarding house,
in charge of Bert Davis. Twenty-Five men
will be employed in and about the mill,
and about the same number in the woods,
under the supervision of Stephen Leavitt
of Craftsbury.
West Burke.
Nathan Hoffman, who has been confined
to the house for many weeks, is able to be
out again.
Quarterly meeting services will be Dec.
18th and 18th, instead of the 7th and Sth,
as reported last week.
The friends of Mrs. Clark Smith were
panied to hear of her death at Hanover,
n. H, where she had been for medical
treatment.
Village schools opened Dec. I'd. with
forty pupils in the higher department, and
thirty in the primary. Same teachers as
last term.
Sutton.
Mrs. Ellsworth Holtham has sister Wis
iting her from Ashland, n. H.
Glib Jessman is going to Mill Brook
Westmore, to work for the Bobbin Co.
Ellsworth Holtham cut his foot very
badly while chopping in the woods last
Friday.
Mrs. Lucy Colby has returned from
Mass, and is going to keep house for
Lewis Gordon.
Mrs. o. E. Harris, Mrs. A. II. Burnham
and Mrs. E. Brockway went to Barton last
Friday to be present at a reunion of old
schoolmates.
VIII o'clock
Independent Grange held meeting at
TayIor's hall last Saturday and elected Of
ficers.
Rev. Mr.. Lyster from Lyndon Center
viii supply here for the present for the
Baptists.
At the donation held at the town hall
Wednesday eve, for the benefit of Rev. S. C.
Inhncnn hOnt 80 Was received