Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-12-27
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
West Burke.

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The Silsby mill starts upt week.
Ernest. Warren has bought the black
smith shop,
Mrs. Lucy Hartwell has gone 10 Ply
mouth, n. H., to visit her son, Warner.
Miss Annette Silsby has returned from
her visit to Hartford, Conn.
Geo. Dean and wife spent Christmas
with relatives i'm Irasburgh.
Ernest Richardson and Gertie Glines
were married Dec. IS. Congratulations.
Miss Alice Townsend is at home from
Providence, r. l., for the holiday vacation.
Mrs. Nellie Ruggles is in St. Johnsbury,
where her brother, Lawyer Porter, is sick.
Mrs. Ann Stoddard has gone TO board
with Mrs. Johnathan Davis through the
winter.
Mrs. Bert Dean has gone 20 Lancaster,
N. H., on account of the sickness Of her
father, Hiram Goss.
Misses. Florence Locke and Celia
Spencer are at home. from MI. Hol-
yoke seminary to spend the holidays.
The MONITOR agent will beat the post
office in this village Friday, Dec. 81,
from 10 a. IN. till 3 p. m. BE sure and see|
him and arrange for MONITOR and club
papers.
A. e. Glidden has sold out his stock of
goods and business to Alvah Brockway of
Lyndon, who will take immediate pos
session. MIR. Brockway win add a com
plete stock of paints and oils and will put
In q Io rgo enpt,lv of furnffura
LyndOnviIIe.
Col Harley Folsom and wife have moved
to their new house, one of the best In this
section.
Mrs. Ham, wife of Prof. Ham OF the In
stitute, died in Johnson on the 18th. She
was much esteemed while here.
Edwin G. Campbell, principal q Maiden,
Mass. High school, Miss Efie Campbell,
also a teacher in Massachusetts,, are home
for a holiday vacation.
The post-office, under the new postmas-
ter is running as usual. The Weekses will
still handle the mail, and that means
prompt and reliable work
There are about 300 men employed here
by the h. r. Co. Some so OF these run on
trains and the rest work In the shops and N
about the yard. Business i'm the shops Is N
very good at present.
The library has received the appropriation
from the town which amounts TO S271.62.
New books will be purchased with 500 OF
this sum, Prof. w. e. Ranger of Johnson
doing the buying. This will swell the
number of volumes to over 1000 and the
trustees are considering the advisability OF
fitting up room exclusively for the use of
the library.
The Northern Caledonia Fair Associa-
ton find themselves with S1.25 In the
treasury. They are trying TO devise some
means by which they can increase receipts.
Perhaps they will have to doaB other fair
ground people do and run poor fair
where they let the grounds to all the beer
peddlers and gamblers who will buy
place to do business on. a
The village firemen have their arrange
ments for the ball next Thursday evening
all completed and the usual successful
occasion is anticipated. Music will be
provided by BurnhRm q BarBey's orches-
ira, of Berlin, N. H., which will give a
from 8 till 8. The boys of the fire
department need some new rubber cloth
ing and the proceeds of the ball will be
on sale at Dwinelps drug store Monday
evening.
j. L. Rogan, Western Union and b. a.
NJ. telegraph operator In the Office here,
received notice from the railroad
company that his services would not be
needed after Dec. %. The lawsuit brought
by Rogan and III. c. Quimby against the
B. q M. Co. for their horse being killed ON
On the track last summer probably had
to do with this notice. The
suit is for S400 damages and IL is 20 BE tried
1t this term OF county c6drt. ''e' w.
rar fAf hhitt .HuaaMM
st. JOhnsbury.
The new Avenue House, under The man