Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-30

IN the ii. L. S6dVer Iln SHOp, has naQ
very good offer to go to Kennebunk, Maine,
and has accepted the position. He will
leave for that place soon.
Miss Gertrude Skinner has gone to Ben
nington, where she will spend a few days,
and then go to Springfield, Mass, on a
visit after which she will return to Ben
nington, where she has a position in a
! kindergarten school. rfRsE
The widow of the late Charles P. Ellis
died March 18th, in Claremont, n. H.,aged
rs years. Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis lived in Bar
ton for many years and their pleasant and
hospitabIe home is remembered with pleas
ure by the older residents of the river dis
trict and vicinity.
MONITOR readers who wish to see items
of interest in the local columns of this pa
per have only to write them under their
own signature and send them in. Do not
send them as ''puffs'' or as advertisements,
but as items which shall interest some
body. Let them arrive here as early as
| Saturday morning.
Thereduced rate round trip tickets, which
have been placed on sale at the various sta
tions by the Boston & Maine Railroad, for
the annual session of the Vermont Confer
ence Of Methodist Episcopal Churches,
which is to be held at Barre, Vermont, will
be good going April 9th to 18th, and good
returning until April 18th.
All the newspapers are advocating the
idea of using less soap. Personally, we
have never suffered greatly from the use of
soap or water, and we think of several 9TH
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this cause. But if it is really fact that
we are using ''too much" of the dirt re-
solvent we are willing to reduce the guam
tity.
All the wild winds of Alaska and British
America seem to be let loose and to have
rOared down on this part of the country on
Thursday night, Friday and Friday night
last. Every particle of snow that could be
torn up was in the air and the roads in
many places were made impossible. Win
ter is trying to make up in March what it
lost earlier.
In six days recently o. II. MOssman
ground and sold five carloads of corn, av-
eraging 900 bushels each. He sold during
the same time a cOrrespondingly large
amount of other feed. This, with what
the Tower Bros. were selling at the same
time, shows something of the immense
amount of foreign feed the farmers in this
vicinity are using.
Hotel Barton starts up at once with a
good patronage. A large number of com
mercial travellers are visiting it, local Gus
tom is all that could be expected for this
dull season of the year, and quite large
1~fI -
ant home. Messrs. Elliott & Pattee, as
we'll as their wives, ARE proving at once that
they know howto keep. hotel. ffsF
Aunt Katurah Jenness, sister of Geo. w. !
Jenness, who has been ill and great suf-
ferer for some months, passed away last |
Saturday, aged 80 years. Until her last |
sickness, she had been woman of good |
health and great powers of endurance. She |
has made her home with her brother for
several years. She was a good neighbor |
and kind-hearted woman. She united |
with the Free Baptist church in 1856 and |
was help in church work. Her funeral |
is held this Monday afternoon.
The birthday party at NJ. E. church on
Friday evening followed by supper, was
largely attended Notwithstanding the wild
weather. The exercises consisted of music,
speaking, tableaux and readings, and were
of much interest. The months were rep
resented by young people in appropriate
costume, etc. The singing by the older
people and children, the reading by Ida
the grasshopper song, and Shak-
ing Quaker piece, speaking, tableaux, etc.,
were all much enjoyed. Thanks are ex-
tended to all who helped to make the en-
success.
Fred c. Browning, formerly clerk in the
Geo. III. Davis store, but of late with the
Fairbankses of ST. Johnsbury, has opened
a store in the place recently occupied by
N. M. Scott, where he will keep ladies' fur
nishing goods, including a fine line of out
side garments, shoes, etc. He will be as
sisted in the store by Mrs. Browning, who
has had considerable experience in stores
The rooms have been nicely fitted UP and
will be kept in the best of order. The
growth of the business of this village nat
lraIIy makes an increase in the number of
esta Adjustments.
Perley A. Johnson, formerly teller in the
bank here, but now cashier of a bank in
Newport, n. H., and a member of the
Peerless Co., sends paper pu blished in his
town, which gives an account of gener-
ous gift of a citizen toward the erection of
$4,000 school building. Newport seems
20 be progressive and thriving New Eng
and town, which, on account of business
relations, seems to be about first cousin to
this place. We hope the friendship and
the business connections of the two places
may continue to increase. Mr.. Johnson
seems to be an important factor in the af-
fairs of that town.
The adjourned village meeting, held last
Wednesday evening was not fruitful of re-