Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-05-25

/ Post in the evening. Every member of
both organizations earnestly requested to
be present.
Regular meeting of Orient Chapter, No.
IS, o. E. S., Friday evening, May 20. All
| BANQUET and other members are requested
to be present at 6, as there is work on the
supper degree.
The Newport boys came down here Sat
urday to play return game of base ball,
FORGETTING the game and leaving the score
nine to nothing in favor of the Barton
boys, on that account.
There will be union service at the M.
E. church next Sunday evening at 6 3d. at
which time Rev. w. E. Douglass will
preach the sermon before the graduating
class of the village academy.
The town is building a good granite
covered bridge across the Salisbury brook
on Main street. There is talk of put
ting good iron bridge across the river
near the Peerless factory on upper Main
street.
Mrs. j. w. Batchelder is here for few
days, repairing her buildings. She has
! been in Boston of late, where her son Leon
is taking lessons in music. He promises to
make very excellent musician. She
| hopes to return here later with her family.
| Among large number of guests who
registered at Hotel Barton last week were
| Superintendent Folsom of LyndonvifIe and
! the Board of Railroad Commissioners, who
stopped there over night. They came here
on the recommend that "Hotel Barton is
the best hotel along the line of the 3. & M.
| r. R."
| The railroad people have done this sec
ton of the county great favor in attach
ing good passenger car to- the 7:45sa. m.
| through freight train going north, afford
ing opportunity to go north in the fore
noon. People in all this section viii bear
| the fact in mind and avail themselves of
| the convenience.
! Will L. Jacobs, who has been in the en-
ploy of Geo. Ell. Blake for some time past,
has bought half interest in the ORLEANS
COUNTY MONITOR, and the new firm will be
Geo. FL. Blake & Co.. The paper will be
run much as heretofore, always, however,
with the hope of Improvement and greater
usefulness.
Simon A. Smith, an industrious man,
VINO WAS LII Tile Gil DlOy I'll I10IIy Gay, CuO
off all the fingers, except the lite finger of
one hand last Thursday The loss of that
part of the hand will be a great misfortune
to him his life long He is a poor man and
needs the avails of his labor every day. A
very bad thing.
The I'd Dist. Committee have just issued
a call for the holding of the convention
for the nomination of a candidate foa this
congressional district, to be held at Mont
pelier, June Is at 4 O'Clock p. M. This
convention is held one day previousftothe
state Convention, which win be heldS at
Burlington, June 18th.
Some of the young people of the acade-
my are preparing to issue in print school
paper, which promises to be of interest to
the friends of the school and the citizens of
the place. They will solicit advertisements
and make the issue of their journal useful
as well as pleasing. Give them a little help
and buy their paper when it is out.
In making repairs on the house now
owned by the Valley Bros. on High street,
quantity of silver and copper coin was
found between the floor and lining among
which was an old Spanish dollar, such as
was in circulation in the pioneer times of
this section. The old house was built and
long used for hotel, and furnished both
victuals and drink to a hungry and thirsty
public.
The missionary address, given at the M.
E. church by Miss Hartford, returned
missionary and one of the victims of the
Ku Cheng massacre of 1895, was very
modest and interesting description and de-
tail of missionary work and of her narrow
escape from horrid death, in which her
scomponions were slain and she was so Sc
verely wounded as to be left for dead by
the assassin.
Mr.. Stone, having moved the old store
building on to its site, on the Catholic lot,
is moving the American House barns to
the new site on the Buswellt lot. The
change will be a great improvement to
that property and to that section of the
village. Mr.. Howe proposes to make a
park or pleasant open way down ito the
water from the sidewalk, and has plans
for the improvement of the hotel build
ings. 5T8 rs
The Memorial services held at the Meth
odist church yesterday were largely at
UouOeu, hSN. 0ouS1doS, doSiSt0u ny New
Ward, officiating. The discourse was time
Iy, eloquent and especially appropriate,
the theme, ssNational Memorials found
ed on the description of the erection of
memorial monuments by Joshua after the
crossing of the Jordan. The house was
finely decorated by flowers, and the choir,
with the assistance of Mr.. Jenkins, sang
very acceptably. f
Charles Chapman, well-to-do and re-
spected farmer, living three miles from
this village, died on Friday last, almost
insta ntaneOuSlv from an unknown cause.