Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-11-04

! rage repairing and Otner WOrK III bne Aaron
Drown shop, which he has hired.
The name of j. B. Cassidy's new block
is ''Columbia .'
columbia, the gem of the ocean,
The home of the brave and the free,
The shrine of each PATRIOTS dev 1On,
A world offers homage to Thee.'
w. n. AIdrich and wife of Glover haze
hired the rooms in the Nelson block occu-
pied of late by Miss Orne. Mr.. Aldrich
is on the road for Silver, Burdette, & Co.,
and will make his headquarters here. Mrs
AIdrich will do dressmaking.
The w. r. c. held their inspection last
Wednesday, Mrs. Adams of St. Johnsbury,
inspecting officer. Quite a large delega-
ton were present from out of town, in
Guiding several from West Burke, Sutton
Lyndonville, etc. The gathering was a
very pleasant one.
The drouth continues. The year has
| been remarkably dry in this locality, SO
far as heavy rains are concerned, and the
/ streams and springs are very low. The
! fall rains have not come and the prospect
for winter, unless rain soon falls, is not
! pleasant one for many.
The village trustees have completed the
electric station building and it is in
readiness for the wires, transformers, etc.,
which reduce the strong current that will
come here from the dynamo at Clyde
Falls. The Iinemen were stringing wires
in Bloomington last week, and the pole
setting is nearly completed.
J. j. Hill has obtained the agency for
''Our Family, Its Record and Guide" 1t
is book prepared for writing in the fam
lily history, covering, if desired, several
generations. A very convenient and use
full thing. The book also contains several
essays on the s'IdeaI Young Man and Wo-
man.
Cyrus Bradish, of Wisconsin, formerly
of HardWick, and at one time popular
singing master and musician in this part
of the state, is spending a few weeks in
| Vermont, his wife accompanying him.
He expresses qualification in the growth
and prosperity of the old Green Mount
ain state. He attended singing cOnven-
tion in this town more than fifty years
ago.
D. d. Bean has purchased the old Barron
& Hamblet store building, and the lot near
FL. 0. Whitcher's, on to which it was to
have been moved. The foundation will be
enlarged and Mr.. Bean will build good
house on it. The old building will either
be moved down to make a barn for Mr..
Bean, or will be sold and converted into
tenements by someone who buys it and
moves it on to a new site.
Charles Mcclure of West Derby has
Io+ 0f n "
JosIyn residence Of B. G. Howe, and will
put up residence with extra rooms to
rent. He has brought carload of lumber
here, and, we understand, is to commence
building operations at once. All right,
Mr.. Mcclure, catch on while the boom of
the town is progressing. Mr.. Howe who
sold the building lot, has several more in
the vicinity.
We see it stated in an exchange that
''the coon season is over" The skunk
season in this vicinity is still on: A neigh
Dor living a short distance west of the
village has caught about twenty of these
mal-Odorous animals. several boys and
others have caught less than a dozen each,
while citizen Of West Glover has trapped
over thirty. This is not very exalted or
skunk skins selling at good price. Next
year these skins will be back here made
into rich garments, to be sold as Siberian
furs.
Mr.. G. III. Horton, chairman of the
ST. Johnsbury Lecture Course, writes in
regard to the course here as follows: ''Your
course is certainly very strong one. Be-
sides your entertainments, which ex-
cellent,i it would be hard to select four 9TH
er lecturers from those now before the
public who would bring to you so much
that is new and satisfying as will Dixon,
Denote, Conwell and Vending. I am
sure that the people of Barton will hearth
ly support so worthy a course, and make
it possible to continue it from year to year.
No better investment can be made by the
people of any town."
Another slight accident occurred on the
BE- NJ. railroad at the summit below Bar
ton, Monday night. A freight train with
the helper engine from Barton reached the
top of the summit, and as has always been
their custom, the helper uncoupled and
went ahead to back on to the side track
and let the train by with the train stop
ping. This time they miscalculated and
before the helper got out of the way the
train came into it, smashing the sides of
DOGn engines cOnS1dera Oily. IL IS against
the rules for them to do this without the
train being at a full stop. Thereby the
engineers are both at fault.
The above appeared in the columns of
neighbOring newspaper and shows what
the scribe can do when unrestrained: The
''top of the summit is good, and is prob
ably considerably higher than the bottom
of a summit. ''Their custom" Just who
the pronoun their is talking about is hard
to determine. If the helper, the train and
the side track were guilty of breaking the
rules of the road they will be discharged,
doubtless. To be running by one another