Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21


off his head recently and got away from
his hitching post. Before he finished tn
job he demolished the wagon.
The contest in regard to building new
school house in the Cowley neighborhooo
has waged quite sharply. The last meet
ing was held Saturday evening.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
HardWick.
Mrs F. H. Mead of Mooers, N. Y, is
making relatives visit in this place.
J.E. Harris has concluded his connec-
ton with the HardWick Gazette and the
assignee Mr.. McLoud, will run the paper.
Mr.. and Mrs Arthur Grant have been
visiting their people in Washington and
Montpelier this week, making the trip by
carriage.
Charles Lawson has moved into the
tenement over the bakery.-O. I'll. Marsh
has moved into his new house on South
Main street.
Mrs. William Jordan recently died leav-
ing an infant daughter five days old. Will
liam Jordan will be remembered as the
colored man who several years ago was
employed by Frank johnson.
The livery stable in connection with the
Centennial Hotel has been sold out by A.
Fisher to Eastman & Morrill,, the present
owners of the Maple Park stable. Mr..
Spaulding, proprietor of the hotel, is also
interested in the firm.
West Burke.
Mr.. Gardner has moved his family to
Island Pond.
R. SoIomon's people have two nieces
from n. Y. visiting them.
Loren Green has bought Mrs. Martha
Fogg's farm, where he now lives.
Dustin Kimball has bought Fred Miles
fran, paying one thousand dollars
Mrs. Carrie Gasl1ilI has returned from
Boston, somewhat improved in health.
Mrs. ]. B. Holton and daugh liter from
Charleston visited at S. G. Otis last week.
The Epworth League had a strawberry
festival on Thursday evening at the M. E.
church.
Mrs. M. B. Parsons and Mabel have
gone to Conn.,, the formers home, on a
visit to relatives and friends.
Mrs. Gertie Burt has returned from a
visit to West Concord Misses Myrtle and
May Aldrich have been visiting at Barton.
Mrs. Whipple is enjoying a visit with
frieuds in Manchester, N. H.-Mr. and
Mrs. Washburn attended the meeting of
the Masonic grand lodge held at Burling-
ton.
There was quiet wedding at the hotel
last Tuesday afternoon, when Miss Annie
Goss, only daughter of Landlord Goss,
was married to Burt Dean of this place, in
the presence of the immediate relatives of
the families. Rev. Hoyt of ST. Johnsbury
performing the ceremony. We wish them
much happiness and the best of prosperity.
WheelOck.
L. N. Cree is expecting to go to Newport
the first of July to play in the band.
d. B. Leslie and wife, who have been
visiting in Hardwick, returned last week.
Alden Rannie is going to shingle his
hotel barn and fix the inside of the house.
Ed. Way, who has been at work in
North Troy, was in town last week.-W.
F. Clark from Glover was here last week
looking after his business.-Flora Gray
from Hardwicl1 was in town last week.
Sutton.
George l.. Bradley and wife of Mime
apolis have been IN town on short visit.
Some of the neigh bors in the other part
of the town frequently see from two to
four deer feeding in the pastures with the
cattle.
The Foster-Duke assault case in which
many in the north part of the town were
more or less interested, was tried at ST.
Johnsbury last week, the jury bringing in
a verdict against Foster for assault. 1t will
be remembered that Geo. Foster who was
drawing in logs at FL. F. Pillsbury's mill,
got into an alteration with Charles Duke
in regard to the scaling of some logs, final
ly ending the fray by hitting Duke quite
hard blow on the forehead with the back
of an axe. The wound was quite a serious
one and Duke has suffered ill health ever
since the fray.
Another important case in the court in
which Sutton parties were respondents was
that of the trial of the Holtham boys for
the forgery of a check, which in some way
came into their possession, made to the
order of Harley Colby. This is the same
case which the government undertook to
convict George and Johnnie Holtham, on
a charge of having stolen the letter con-
tanning the check from the post office. The
boys were not convicted before the U. S.
court, but were turned over to the state on
a charge of forgery, the younger boy, John,
having acknowledged that he forged the
check at the solicitation of the older one
Lii Hung Changes secretary has recently