Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-02-03
LOCAL ADHERTISING.

LOCAL ADVERTISING
Advertisements and notices, as promenades,
shows and other entertainments will be pub
Iished under this head fol ta0o cents a word
for first insertion, cent word thereafter.
We shall run no advertisement among local
items. Cash must accompany the order. No
charge 10itJ be made of less Than forty cents.
A few good rooms in Opera Block to
rent. II. T. Seaver.
TapIin & RowelI have just received a
carload of heavy Canada horses which are
on sale or exchange at their stables in Bar
ton Landing.
Barton.
Get your Thespian tickets at Fl. C. Pierce's
at once.
The adjourned session OF the county court
begins at Newport tomorrow.
Trains were delayed considerably last
Wednesday, by series of small accidents
along the road.
E. n. Randall keeps full line Of vegeta-
bles which he will deliver anywhere in this
village. Orders may be left at his house
The town auditors will meet for the set
Element of accounts on Monday, Feb. 1O,at
town clerks Office. Those interested are
ESliuSSISd 10 DS DISSSuO dG UIlaG bIIIlS
Quite a large delegation from this village
attended the S. S. convention at Barton
Landing last week. We give considera bic
space this week to the convention, the S.
S. people being much interested in it.
Get your tickets early if you expect to
get good seats at the Vending lecture,
which comes off on Tuesday evening, Feb.
r. SC To loo no ofoct f.f
the admirable course of the present winter.
The invitation to the public to visit the
new hotel on Tuesday (to-morrOw) after
noon, from It'll o'clock, is repeated. Peo-
pie who ought to know, consider it one OF
the pIeasantest, most convenient and best
finished hotel structures in the state.
The electric light business is hanging fire
over the exchange of the transformers"
first sent for a sort that has been adopted
since the first were put up. Hurry up,
boys, or they will have discovered some
new system of lighting before you get
started.
Miss Florence Perley will commence
work on Monday, Feb. 10, in the store of
Geo. II. Davis. Miss Ada Gorham, who
has been clerking in that store for several
weeks, and who has proved herself very
efficient, finds the work too heavy and re-
signs her position.
A daughter of Frank Brooks, who lived
on the Jesse Virgins place, died last Sun
day morning of what was reported to be
typhoid fever, after confinement to the
bed of only three days. She had been all
ing some days and took cold from expos
ure. She was in her sixteenth year.
NORTH PART OF THE Town - G. w.
Clark has contracted lot of ties and tele-
graph poles and will cut them on his farm
in observation-disclosures crow which arrived
in town Jan. 21st will possibly have cold
feet if he does not return South. School
in Dist. No. 5 closed Jan. PA. P. Rob-
inson of Woburn, Mass, has been in town
visiting friends and relatives.
The old helper engine house was destroy
Fed by fire last Friday night, the fire break
ing out about II 80. The Waterman was
at the coal sheds at the time and did not
discover it in season to stop the first blaze.
AN alarm was sounded and the hose COM
panies responded in fairly good season, but
the infiammable nature of the building
was such that it burned down in a very
few minutes. The hose was run out and
water used to lessen the force of the fire
and prevent the coal sheds and other build
ings taking fire. The building was not
valuable but answered the purpose The
helper engine was out on the road. There
was some loss of oils and tools, and the
Waterman lost his clothing and SO in
money. About 1 400 feet of hose was laid
in one string with a good working force
at the end.
The wedding bells were heard again last
week in this village, Miss Myrtle E. Scott,
daughter of N. NJ. Scott, being united in
marriage to Mr.. Fred c. Browning OF this
place, Rev. w. E. Douglass performing the
ceremony. Mr.. Browning was clerk for
Geo. H. Davis for some years, afterwards
clerk and manager of one of the depart
ments in the Fairbanks store at ST. Johns
bury. Mrs. Browning has been resident
OF this place for several years and has