Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-06-13

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right amount before it can be sent out.
! The carpets on the rooms are taken up
every year and the dust which accumu-
/ lates on one carpet from the filings, etc,
amounts to fromS S35o0-to $4,000. A visit
! to the Claus SpreclzIes great sugar refinery
was very interesting. This refinery has a
capacity of 1, 75O, 900 pounds of granulated
sugar per day. At the time he was in San
Francisco there were 1000 troops there
which were to be sent to the Philippine
Islands. Gen. Merritt, the commander of
| the expedition was there, as was James @.
Blaine, Jr., who is on Gen. Merritt's staff.
The Government was <chartering all the
steamers possible to transport these men
across the Pacific. This route through the
West, across the Rocky Mountains, affords
traveller some of the finest scenery in the
world, and one who can afford the outlay
will never regret taking the trip.
Barton Landing.
Levi ToWle has moved into Mrs. Tripp's
tenement house.
Miss Eva Bartlett of HaverhiIl, N. FL, is
visiting friends in this vicinity.
A good audience was present to hear Mr..
Grilley last Tuesday evening, and an ex-
cellent entertainment was enjoyed.
Joseph Clough is building an addition
to his house.-William Blasdell is improv-
ing his buildings by coat of paint.
a ball game played here Saturday be-
tween the village nine and the Glover boys,
resulted in a score of II to in favor of the
home team.
Mrs. Mitchell has gone to Lowelltown,
Maine, to join her husband, who went
there some weeks ago.-Geo. Cole, Evelyn
Winslow and E. L. Nye go to Lowelltown,
this week,
Remember the meeting of the Republi-
can voters of the town at Barton village
next Friday evening. The delegates to our
district and state conventions are to be
chosen at this meeting and our citizens
should plan to attend it.
The 18th annual reunion of Co. 1, 18th
Vt. Vol. will be held here at the Post room
of George G. Mead Post. No. SO, Wednes-
day, June 18th, 1898, at 10 a. m. The Re
lief Corps VIII furnish dinner for % cents.
All members of Corps are invited to be
present to assist and furnish suitable food
for dinner.
Albany.
Mr.. Loware mas moved to Lebanon, n.
II.
Ira Saunders is putting his buildings in
good repair.
Children's Day exercises passed pleas
antly at both churches.
The caucus for electing the district and
or ta will no of ho TO
hall, Albany Center, Friday evening of
this week.
Mrs. Sawtelle, who has been here on a
visit to friends, has returned to her home
in Observation-Disclosures Butler of Lyn-
don has been visiting his parents the past
week.
One of our citizens has just received a
letter from friend who is in the army at
Chiclamagua in which he states that the
heat there is intense and that the water is
scarce and very poor.
John and Foster Hovey from Hardwick
were guests of E. jackson, recently
Hiram Wells and wife from Cabot, and
Mrs. brennan and children from Wood
bury, are visiting at Mr.. Nelson's.
Geo. Greigs has been painting and 9TH
erwise improving his buildings SO he now
has an attractive residence.-Carl Chaffee
is doing extensive repairs on his house and
will soon have it ready for occupancy.
The members of the w. r. c. desire to
thank the ladies of the town and all others
who kindly assisted in the preparation of
the dinner, and of the exercises for Deco
ration Day And in this connection the
Post and Corps would like to thank the
singers and musicians and the children for
their cheerful and bile assistance.
At the ST. Johns bury district preachers
meeting held at Irasburg recently, we
listened to a very able and profound paper,
read by Rev. S. Donaldaon, which was
pleasantly but sharply criticised. One
minister said he thanked God for the Ian
guages, so if one did not quite understand
a passage of scripture he could go to the
original text, Greek or Latin, and get a
thorough understanding before presenting
it to his people. Another thought that
with his heart filed with christian love
the English language quite sufficient to
reach the congregation in an effective man
ner. A good dinner was furnished by the
people at the parsonage and the beautiful
weather all combined to make it an enjoy
a BILE occasion.
South Albany.
o. j. Cass has sold his buildings to Mrs.
Miller who will take possession soon.
S. j. Elrod and family, who have been
boarding at the hotel for some time, have
gone to their home in New York.
The new Methodist church here was
dedicated last Thursday afternoon.
Presiding Elder Spencer preached a very
excellent sermon. He was assisted in the
exercises by Rev Granger of Irasburgh,
Ic,111r o,fI D.