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KID GLOVES

Our four-button "Chaumont" glove is one of the finest lamb. skin gloves, equal to any s1:25 glove that we can find. It has four large pearl buttons and three row black and self em- broidery, in all the new full shades and black, SI a pair.
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DRESS SILKS

Little has been said by us on Dress Silks as our space in the paper has been limited. We put on sale this week matchless values.
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No better values owned in the State than offer pat at the Berkshire Store doing business One Price Straightforward Honest Basis We do not ask price and
 take another people do They ask 25 you, you have for much You make up your mnd the merchants who do that kind of business
 ing advantage of you the reduction they make you most assuredy before it is taken off We a rich poor young od and that price also guarantee the lowest.
 1 HENCE THE STEADY INCREASE IN OUR BUSINESS.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-11-30
BARTON LANDING CREAMERY.

There is no branch of business that
so directly affects the interests of the
farmers the creamery. The dairy is
today the main reliance of the Vermont
farmer, and a well conducted creamery
saves labor, encourages production, and
offers sure, and fairly remunerative re-
turns. 1t is the good fortune of Barton
Landing to have a creamery under the eff
ficient management of j. G.. Turnbull
Mr.. Turnbull is a young farmer from
Greensboro, who after a years service at
the Glover creamery, came in 1891, and
purchased the creamery of Whipple,
Carpenter & Co., and built up an extensive
business. His product the first year was
40, 100 lbs. of butter, and in 1895 he made
254, 554 lbs. He runs a creamery at West
Charleston, and three separator stations,
located at Bloomington, Morgan and
Charleston. Nearly three fourths of the
larger farmers use the separator for their
milk, and from there the cream is gath
cred. Other farmers deliver their milk
at the creamey. In the year 1895, the
prices for the butter Melted the farmers
from 15 cts. to % cts. per Id. commercial
butter, with an average of 185 cts. per h.
Including the cream gathering, six men
are employed at the creamery. Mr.. Turn
bull sent to the st. Johnsbury fair a tub
of butter, that on the five point test, scored
81, several points ahead of any competitor.
e. L. CHANDLER.
l.. N. Chandler, father of E. l.. Chandler,
came from Berlin to Barton in 1853, and
was successfully engaged in the lumber
business until the time of his death in 1890.
e. L. Chandler was born in 1S49, and is
practically life long resident of the town.
Ho was educated at the Randolph Normal
School and the Green Mountain Institute.
After spending some time in mechanical
pursuits in Boston, he returned to Barton
Landing, and in 1873 became a partner in
the firm of Chandler, French q Co. In
1892 he bought out Mr.. French's interest
in the lumber business. The large mill
was burned last July. Mr.. Chandler is
now erecting dressing mill, 4Sx132 feet,
two stories and basement. 1t is situated
opposite the freight depot, with ample
room for yards and landings, and a side
track on each side. 1t will be supplied
with hundred horse power engine, and
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versity OF Michigan at Ann Arhor in the
spring of 1872. During the winter and
spring of 1853, he took a post graduate
course at Bellevue college. BY the utmost
frugality and perseverance he was able to
start in professional life unburdened with
debt. In 1878, he married Naomi G.,
daughter OF Dea. William Spencer. The
preceding year he had settled in Barton
Landing, where he has since remained
in the pursuit OF an extensive and success
full practice. DR.. Wright is health officer
of the village, and reports recent cases
of diphtheria and only rare and mild cases
of typhoid fever. DR.. Wright was four
years member OF the county board OF
pension examiners. He is member of
the Orleans County Medical Society, and
member Of the Vermont Medical society.
He IS a charter member of Philemon Lodge
x. of P. Mrs. Wright died in 1881, leav-
ing one son, Fred S., graduate OF U.V.M.
at the age of 20, class of ga, and in '96 a
post graduate of Yale college. DR.. Wright
married Helen j., daughter of Dea. S. B.
Parker of Coventry, in 1886.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-11-30

good at none" Mr.. Clement makes a
speciality of the optical business, being a
graduate of an Optical College. He has
satisfactorily fitted many complicated
cases. He was born at Irasburgh in 1869,
and came to Barton at four years of age.
He was married to Miss Blanche r. Dodge
of Barton Landing in 1894. His best rec
ommend is that he succeeds.
WATER SUPPLY.
Barton Landing has an excellent water
supply, brought from three or four large
springs to different points in the village,
at cost of about $4,000, and which pays
an annual rental of 5000. A reservoir con-
tanning million gallons of water is stu
ated third of mile distant at an eleva-
tion of two hundred feet, from which wa
ter is run to twenty-four double MIGRANTS,
each within one hundred and fifty feet of
each other. There is well organized fire,
and hook and ladder company; also a
hand-engine for emergencies. In the re-
cent fire which burned the Chandler build
ings it was demonstrated that an ordinary
fire could be very easily controlled. The
water is very good for culinary purposes,
and the village prizes it for that as well as
for fire protection.
Village has no electric lights now, but
has good power site, and expects them
ere long.
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and bring friend with you. Lothrop's
patronage is steadily increasing, which
shows that he runs good house in a live
ly village.
B. F. d. CARPENTER.
Benz. F. Deming Carpenter is son of
Marshall, and Henrietta Deming Carpenter
of Derby. He comes of good New England
stock, his father being a scion of that nu-
merous and noted family, among. whose
members were Matthew Ell. Carpenter,
y. S. Senator from Wisconsin, and Chief
Justice Carpenter of New Hampshire. His
maternal grandfather was Hon. B. F.
Deming, M. G. of Vermont. Mr. Carpen-
ter was born in Danville in 1888. but came
to Derby as an infant with his fathers
family. He was farm bred, and educated
in the excellent schools and Academy of
Derby. Mr.. Carpenter studied law with
Hon. John L. Edwards and Hon. E. A.
Stewart of Derby and was admitted to the
bar at the June term of the Orleans County
Court in 1860. He first practiced law four
years in Craftsbury, and then sixteen
years at West Charleston, where he was
for a time in partnership with Hon. Geo.
N. Dale. During the past sixteen years he
has been located in Barton Landing. He
is one of the senior practitioners of the
county. A man of broad, intellectual af-
fnities, Mr.. Carpenters activities have by
no means been confined to his professional
life. He is an enthusiastic investigator in
historical fields, and fluent and interest
ing writer. He is a valued member of the
Orleans County Historical Society, and we
orr md 70 hi
portant facts of the earlier history of these
northern towns. Mr.. Carpenter repre-
scented Charleston in the legislature in
1668-69, was States Attorney in 1869, 10
and II, and member of the legislature
from Barton in 1884.
DAVID WESLEY HILDRETH.
Mr.. Hildreth is well known in this vi
entity as the genial proprietor of the
Landing" drug store, but is perhaps
more widely known as an ornithologist,
practical taxidermist, a writer of dramas
Tor amateur theatricals, and a poet of no
inferior local reputation. He was born in
1858, came to Vermont at 10 years of age,
and for two years was a station agent at
Thetford. He then came to Barton Land
ing and after some service in the railroad
Office commenced in the drug business in
1879. In 1882 he married Mrs. Ella n.
(Dodge) Flint of Barton Landing. The
same year he built his drug store, 26x40 it.,
two stories with an ell, and a residence on
second floor. He carries an excellent and
very complete stock of drugs, proprietary
medicines, pure chemicals, fancy goods,
ARTISTS materials, and a full line of sta
tionery, candies and confectionery. Pos
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-11-30
BROWN a. SKINNER.

F. G. Brown and s. c. Skinner are doing
a very large business as millers and grain
dealers, having the control OF that bust
ness in this place and vicinity. They sell
an enormous quantity OF feed and do a
large grinding OF custom grain. Their
mill has recently been put in good order,
and the fact that they have no competitors
shows that they do a business which IN
satisfactory to the public. Mr. Brown
looks after the affairs more largely here, az
Mr.. Skinner has heavy numbering inter
est in Maine, which occupies his attention
to a large extent. Brown q Skinner have
been very helpful in all that pertained TO
the welfare OF the place. Mr.. Skinner
represented the town in the legislature a
few years since.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-11-30
L. NJ. CLEMENT, PHOTOGRAPHER.

L. NJ. CLEMENT, PHOTOGRAPHER.
A peculiar and underlying trait of the
Vermont Yankee, is his adaptibility; he is
an opportunist, ready to undertake and
do the work that lies nearest his hand. l..
M. Clement is not an exception to the rule.
Born in 1858, and bred upon a farm in Iras
burgh, he has been successfully farmer,
clerk, mechanic and artist. He began his
mercantile experience with the late F. F.
/ Fletcher as clerk, at Irasburgh and St.
Johnsbury. Soon after attaining his ma
~jerity he came to Barton Landing and en-
gagged in carpenter and millwright work.
Ia 1887 call came to him, an irresistible
call, that his future mission in life was the
reproduction on chemical plates of the hu-'
man face divine, and he obeyed the call
He bought out Mr.. Brockway, soon learned
the trade and has since held the field sue
cessfully. All of the Barton Landing pic
lures bear Clements finger marks. He
married in 1891, Carrie, daughter of the
late Abel Humphrey of this town; and the
ssYoung Photographer, y as seen on the 9Th
page, Clyde Humphrey Clement, is the
artist futurus esse.
Extra copies of this illustrated edition
of the MONITOR can be had for six cents
copy, until all are sold except 200, when
the price will be raised. This will be a
valuable edition to secure for future refer
ence.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-11-30

ished and business went down. Mr.. Kim
ball and wife, whose faces had never ceased
to turn toward their native State, decided
to return. They came home and last May
purchased the old Paine - Kimball- home
stead of 225 acres IN Albany. He has mod
ernized the buildings and put on a herd OF
Jerseys. Recently he le. the farm and
established the Peoples Store In Barton
Landing and put i'm large stock OF gem
eral merchandise, dry goods, clothing,
boots, shoes, rubber goods, carpets, house
furnishings, etc. The clothing and ladies
goods will be under the special supervision
OF Mrs Kimball, who is an experienced
buyer and saieslady. Mr.. Kimball will
pay direct from the manufacturer and
WI oner his goods for spot cash at prices .
when win insure and maintain a goodA
patronage.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-11-30
DIR. J. T. WRIGHT.


The medical practitioner enjoys a pecu-
liarly confidential and social relation in
the families of his patients, which enhanc-
es his professional standing, and makes
him valuable factor in the community.
DR.. ]. F. Wright, for almost quarter of a
century, has been located in Barton Land
ing, within an hours drive of his paternal
homestead, and among early friends. He
is one of the ten children of Erastus
Wright, a long time resident and respected
farmer of Coventry. The ten children of
Erastus Wright are all living. Riley E.
and M. Willis are successful lawyers at Bal
timore, Md. Solomon A., veteran of the
9Th Vermont Regiment, is a resident of
this village. Fred is fruit farmer in Or
egon. Hugh is interested in mining in
Colorado. Homer and Harry are farmers
in Coventry. Addie l.. and Mary A., are
living in Maine. DR.. Wright's literary
education was obtained in the common
schools and academy of Coventry. He be-
gan the study of medicine in the office of
DR.. j. M. Currier of Newport, meanwhile
teaching school to help pay his expenses
during his professional education. He
pursued medical lectures at Burlington,
and afterwards graduated from the Uni
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brave Regiment until September, 1864,
when he was almost mortally wounded by
a ball which destroyed his right eye and
passed out at the left side of his head. His
military record was unusually varied and
interesting. Enlisting as private, he was
promoted sergeant, colonel's orderly, Sec
ond lieutenant, first lieutenant, and acting
adjutant, acting quarter-master, acting
captain, and was detailed to special service
| at Brattleboro barracks, and the bringing
| of detachment of recruits to the front,
and finally was commissioned captain.
Capt. JosIyn married in 1864, Miss Susan J.
Fisher of Cabot, and of three children one
daughter, Mabel S., is solace to their la
ter years. After settling his fathers estate
in '65, Capt. Joslyn went into business for
four years at Barton with j. w. Hall. He
then was in trade four years at Barton
Landing with O. Ell. Austin, and later was
in the lumber business and general mer-
chandise with Austin, Collins and Parker.
Their store was burned with heavy loss in
'76 The firm of Joslyn & Collins was in
trade from that time until May, '96, when
they sold to Mr.. Locke. Mr.. Joslyn is
one Of the twelve stock holders in the
Bobbin, Spool and Novelty Company. He
has served the town as grand juror and
selectman, and in 1872, was a member of
the legislature. He was charter member
and commander of the Geo. G. Mead Post.
SO, G. A. r. He is a loyal supporter of all
public enterprises.
VALLEY HOUSE, E. H. LoTHROP.
Go wherever you may, you will nowhere
meet a more liberal and cordial hospitality
than awaits you at the Valley House. Five
years ago E. III. Lothrop exchanged his
fine 300 acre valley farm for the hotel at
the Landing, where, ably assisted by his
good wife, sons and daughters, he con-
ducts good, temperance hotel. The Val
ley House is centrally located, a handsome,
three story, French roof building, with
twenty-five good, large rooms, and a pub
lie hall, 50x75 feet, on the third floor
There is livery stable connected, run by
Geo. Morrill,, also barber shop and bill
lard TIA BILE. The table bill of fare is album
dant and well served. Most landlords
have to hire their help as best they may,
but not SO with Lothrop. He has reared |
his help, farm bred, trusty and cheerful,
nine interesting boys and girls. Come |
and hear them sing and play of an eve |
ming, retire to luxurious couch and have |
pleasant dreams; arise, feeling fifty years |
younger, just in season for fragrant coffee, |
Pay your bill like little man, come again
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-11-30

This special edition of he MONITOR Is
published just i'm season TO note the incep-
tion of several new enterprises, OF which
we here mention the opening OF the "Peo-
pies Store" by s. G. Kimball at Barton
Landing. Mr.. Kimball was born and
reared on farm i'm Albany. AZ the age OF
"a he began his mercantile career, by SELL
ing goods, drawn inland several miles 60
Albany. Later he resolved TO seek "fresh
fields and pastures new" With his fru-
gally saved nest egg OF capital, himself
and wife, nee, Selma NJ, daughter OF the
late John B.Hovey of Albany went 90 Puy-
allups, Wash. They arrived just in season
TO be let i'm on the ground floor. Every
thing was booming. The Vermonter
chose to sell goods rather than speculate.
He first opened a store with a stock OF dry
goods, afterwards adding other lines until
he carried a stock of $4,000. He had six
busy and prosperous years. He saw his
town double in population; but the blight
of the hard times came, population dimin-
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-11-30

two eighty horse power boilers, and with
the best modern machinery. He will EN-
ploy from twenty-five to fifty men and the
business will be more important factor
than ever in the prosperity of Barton
Landing. The mill is for the manufacture
of boxes, sounding boards and dressed
lumber. Mr.. Chandler has saw mill at
Bloomington, one at Barton Landing, and
one at Irasburg, as feeders to the new mill,
and expects to handle from four to six
million feet annually. He is a man OF
much business energy and ability.
ELLIS e. STAFFORD
Among our reliable merchants who have
been in business several years is Mr.. STAFF
ford. He was in trade when the big fire
on the east side of the river swept out the
buildings there, and suffered heavy loss.
With characteristic courage he set about
rebuilding and put up good store block,
two-stories with basement and attic
rooms. He made two large departments
on the first floor, one of which was rented
by Hoyt & Harris a clothing store. Mr..
Stafford keeps good line of general mer-
chandise and has a class of reliable GUS
toners, who have confidence in the word
and goods of this merchant.
H. S. WEBSTER
Henry Webster is one of the best known
of our younger business men. His father,
l.. ID. Webster, has been resident of this
place quite long time, and his son has
grown up among us, interested in our
growth and progress. He learned business
here, and under the first Cleveland adj
ministration was made postmaster, to be
re-appointed on Clevelands resuming
power. He is registered pharmacist and
runs good drug store, his patronage be-
ing extended. Mr.. and Mrs. Webster are
useful citizens in various spheres.
DIR. e. G. STEVENS.
DIR. Stevens is the only dentist in the
place. He was born in N. H., went to
Boston when quite a young man, spent
five years in first-class office of dentistry,
came to Coventry in 1870, worked one year
at his profession there, then came to the
Landing where he has since resided. He
has the reputation of being an excellent
dentist and has wide patronage.
H. B. SMITH.
Mr.. Smith was an original Derby man,
who got good common school education,
drifted West for time, returned later to
Bloomington, came to Barton Landing i'm
1891, and started in the meat business. He |
has built up large business, runs two /
carts and covers a large surrounding /
territory. His meat market is in the o. II.
Austin block.
HOYT e. HARRIS.
Here is very live firm of young bust
ness men, who came here a few years \
since and have built up large business in I
clothing, gents furnishings, etc. They
keep very heavy stock for country VIII
lage, and their custom is wide. Genial,
attentive to business, accommodating and
honorable, they deserve and win patron
age
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-11-30

Buckeye mower and binder, and the Cham
pion rake. He WHOLESALERS sugar, kerosene
oil, lime and nails, and he also conducts a
lively retail trade in the line of general
merchandise. He occupies practically,
two floors of his building 30xS0 feet. By
steady industry and attention to business,
good judgment and square deal, he has es-
tablished good business and amassed a
substantial competence He is support
er of all public movements that conduce
to the moral and material advancement of
the town.
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sessed of an original and ingenious mind,
some years ago he commenced his travels
and collections in ornithology, and he now
has mounted between 200 and 800 speci-
mems of Vermont birds, collection rarely
equalled. In his strolls among the hills
of Vermont, the Rockies and elsewhere, he
has struck many legends of adventure,
that have furnished clues which he has
worked up into plays for the amateur
stage. Perhaps the most successful and
well known are "PIacer Gold, % laid in Yer
mont; ssLone Tree Mine,' among the
Rockies; 'sPride of Co. G.,'' war drama,
and the comedy Joining the Tinpanites."
He has travelled quite extensively in the
prosecution of his researches, and is wide
ly read in the technical magazines devoted
to his pursuits. He is a member of Mem
phremagog Lodge of Newport, F and A. M,
and was a charter member of Philemon
Lodge, K. of P. of Barton Landing and is
a broad gauge in his social activities. He
has written seventy-fve or more poems,
some of them of much note.
wHIPPLE, FRENCH & co.
In 1892 a trio of pushing young men,
Ell. M. Whipple, G. D. French and E. Ell.
Perley, formed the general and hardware
firm of Whipple, French & Co. These
young men are here for business, and they
are full of it, SO full in fact, that the sub
ject of pedigree is quite neglected in this
sketch. Mr.. Whipple is a son of c. A.
Whipple of Lyndon, came to Barton elev-
en- years ago, and with a 81, 900 stock COM
menced in the line of stoves and tin ware,
which business he successfully conducted
until the partnership in 1892. Mr.. Whip
pie had then just completed his substan-
tial three story block. More than 2, 800 fit.
of floor space. The first floor is occupied
as their salesroom. There is a general
store-h house 24x45 it. connected in the rear
of their block. There are few country
stores which exhibit such an amount and
variety of goods. 1t needs to be examined
to be appreciated. 1t comprises furniture,
house furnishings, carpets, wall paper,
lamps, crockery, modern and antique,
glassware, tin-ware, stove brushes, the
wood stoves, a fine and varied line of I'M
dertakers' goods, plumbing and plumbers
supplies, hot water and steam fittings, sug-
r-makers' supplies, carpenters tools and
general hardware. With such a stock
pushed by three masters, the business runs
up to the handsome sum of $4,000 per an
num- well conducted tin shop is a val
BILE and convenient feature. This firm
conducts the undertaker's business, which
is an extensive one, embracing consider
able of the surrounding territory.
F. D. CLEMENT.
Frank Clement or as he is more fire. |
quently called, Clement the Jeweler,
started in business in Barton Landing |
about six years ago. Commencing Eat the
bottom of the LADDER with a few tools
and a small stock of jewelry, he has stead
lily advanced until at present he has one of
the best stores in the county. He carries
nothing but the most reliable goods and |
devotes his whole time to the jewelry and |
kindred trade, believing it to be better to
be good at one than "a Jack at all, and |
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TAPLIN & RowELL.

MerriclS M. Taplin and Geo. b. Rowell
are dealers in carriages, sleighs, harnesses,
robes, horses and cattle. They started In
business together, Feb. LIST, 1888, I'm Iras-
burgh under the firm name OF Taplin a.
Rowell, and continued there until April,
1891, when they came to Barton Landing.
Since that time they have had a steady i'm
crease in trade and are at the present time
one of the heaviest dealing firms of the
kind in the State. They have made the
st. Johnsbury wagons a speciality In the
carriage line, having sold over seventeen
hundred of them in twelve years. They
sell warranted work, as they consider the
best the cheapest i'm the long run. They
need no photographs in this issue, but you
will surely see them IL you are in want OF
a carriage.