Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-13

Business is very lively about the
| @. J. Ufford premises and lot O.
wagons and vehicles are going out
daily.
G. S. Clogston moves into the Bert
Vance house for the present, the
Hardings moving into his house or
Park street.
The members and others interested
in Hose Co. No. 1 are requested tc
meet at Hose House hall on Friday
evening next, at $3.50, sharp. GET
there.
The W. @. T. U. will meet with Mrs
o. D. Owen, Tuesday, May 18th, at
o. m. This will be our annual meet
ing and will the members all make an
effort to be present? There will be
some necessary business to come be-
fore the Union.
The Percival Manufacturing Co. re-
port an unusual amount of business
for this season of the year and the
shop hands are busy. The saw mill is
being run night and day. Mr.. Perez
val is putting up a new building near
his boiler house.
All the teachers, trustees and di-
rectors of the town are cordially in
vited to attend the next teachers
meeting at Barton, Saturday, May Is,
at O'Clock in the forenoon. The
question of new text books will be
discussed. J. III. BARTLETT, Supt.
Work on the destruction, moving and
erection of the American House build
ing commences at once. Mr.. Stone of
st. Johnsbury, the veteran building
mover, will be here as soon as a gang
of help can be got ready, land the main
job of building will soon be let to
some of the parties making bids.
There will be village meeting at
school-house hall next Friday even
ing to hear the report of the Com
mittee on Electric Lighting. 1t is
hoped that every voter and everybody
interested in the matter of lighting
will be present. It is suggested that
it will be we'll at this meeting to select
chief for the fire department.
A few weeks ago an article in this
paper spoke of the great work the
sun would do in the next five weeks
in warming up the Northern hemi-
sphere, etc. The great orb has thor
oughly done his work and this part of
the world has emerged from almost
winter weather to temperature al
most equal to anything the summer
produces. The change of verdure has
been indeed wonderful.
FROM THE NORTH PART OF THE Town:
Mrs. Miles Kent of Hatley, P. O., is
at Mrs. Henry Leland's.
Walter Buck has moved on to War
rem Leland's farm and Mr.. Leland is
working for @. B. Leland.-Henry Lee
land sheared 81 sheep last Tuesday for
Glenn Dodge in a little less than nine
hours.-Fred Gates has taken the job
to plaster the Webb hotel at Lyndon
vile and commenced May Crank
Heath has moved into the house with
his father and is going to work on
the road.
While much else in the line of i'm
provement is going on about the vii
lage, do not forget the cemetery. The
cemetery trustees will commence
work there this week, and they hope
I. oil Lot 10
them in repair to correspond with
work already done, and which will be
done during the season. The trustees
will put the old section of the ground
in order. Mr.. ALL
church, sexton, is doing much already
to improve the condition of things in
the new part of the ground.
After a prolonged dry and heated
period, heavy showers came on We'd
nesday last, nearly one and one-half
inches of rain falling. The showers
we're accompanied by brisk lightning,
which struck in several places in this
town. The barn belonging to A F.
5tockWell in this village was hit by
BOLT which did some considerable
damage to the roof and started small
fire which was easily put out. Mr..
5tockwell and some of the neighbors
we're close enough to the current to
EEL the effects. On the mountain east
Of the village the house of Mr.. Water
nan was struck without serious inju-
y. A bolt ran down in Harry Fisk'o
pasture among his herd of COWS, kill
ng eight outright. Fortunately he
carried an insurance of 5000 on them.
The rain did vast amount of good
% the pastures and fields.
The academy and graded schools