Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-02-07

Martin 2. RiOrdan has been IN this VI
cinity of late visiting friends. He has
formed a CO. partnership with III. w. Love
of Rutland andrwilI 60 TO that place at once
to engage in the law business there. He
has given muen Tina to the study of his
profession, is d young man of good habits
and is more than ordinarily gifted in the
use Of the tongue an Important thing in
| the lawyers profession. Mr.. Love has a
large practice and will find his young
partner very efficient.
Mrs. Sarah Owen, whose death was men
| toned last week, had been a resident OF
| this town for about slxty-seven years.
She married Daniel Owen about 1886, and
thew made their home in this town, and
village all their lives. They raised up a
| family of nine children, Of whom seven
are living, all being present at the funeral
last Wednesday except Sanford, who resides
in Kansas. She joined the Methodist
church with her husband years ago, and
her funeral was conducted by Rev. w. f..
Douglass.
The Orleans County Musical Association
holds it's meeting and singers. festival at
Newport this week, commencing this
evening. Great preparations have been
made, talent of unusual merit has been Sc
cured and no pains has been spared to
make the gathering one Of the most use
full and pleasant ever held in the county.
There will be the usual drills and rehears-
ais, matinees, concerts, promenades, etc.
There will dou btless be large attendance
from within, as well as from without the
county.
Mrs. D. w. Robinson, whose illness has
been mentioned in this paper, died on
Saturday afternoon last. She had been i'll
for several months, and some time since
had hospital treatment, which it was hop
ed would restore her health, but she
gradually failed to the end. She had been
a resident of this village for many years,
and was esteemed for her quiet, kind and
neighborly qualities. She leaves hus
band and daughter, Mrs. Sedgwick, who
reside here, and son, Fred Robinson,
whose home is in Somerville, Mass. The
funeral will be held this afternoon.
Geo. F. Reed took few of his dogs and
fowls to ST. Johnsbury to the Poultry and
Pet Stock Exhibition and was very
fortunate in the winning of premiums.
He won ten first premiums, two sec
seconds and one third; also six special
premiums and one silver cup. His cup
was won on the best collection of Pit
Game fowls: his specials were on beagle
hounds, Scotch coIlies Buff Cochins,
cockerel and pullet; his frsts were
coolies, beagles, Cochins and games. Geo.
has his pockets lined with premium cards,
and has cause to feel little proud from
the fact that he had to compete with some
of the toniest pet and game men in the
State. He expects to go to Boston and
thence to New York during the middle
and last of this month with some of his
stock to put into exhibition at big shows
to be held in those cities.
Just bit of real sunshine and pleasure
dropped into our office this morning. A
thing of beauty is Vick's garden and Flora
Guide, with it's cover of delicate tints, blue,
pink and gold, and the Golden Day Lily
and Day break Aster embossed in bold re-
lief. The many halftome illustrations are
as life-like as possible to make by photog
raphy. One can almost smell the fra
GRANGE from the flowers, and the radishe5
and asparagus in glass dishes look very
tempting. No doubt but this catalogue is
the best one sent out by James Vicks Sons
of Rochester, N. Y, during the forty-nine
years they have been in business, and next
year will be their Golden Wedding ami
versary, and it is their intention to give
handsome souvenir to each customer for
1898. If interested in good gardening
write at once, simply mentioning this pa
Of al
catalogue free.
One Of the greatest storms, snow and
wind together, which has been expert
enced in New England in the past ten
years, visited this part of the country dur
ing the early part Of last week. The snow,
while it fell only few inches here, piled
up to the depth of from II to IS inches in
fered most. There was great destruc-
tion of telephone, Geographic and electric
wires, which caused almost an entire sus-
pension of business. Trains on all rail-
roads were stalled in the snow, and COM
PEELED where the roads were open, to wait
the repairs on the telegraph lines. Elec-
trio plants were silent, and there was no
talking over wires. Street cars could not
be moved and cities and towns were help
less. The damage, estimated in cities, es-
pecially in Boston, is in the millions. Few
of the railroads are opened up yet to make
regular time, while for two or three days
the mail service was stopped or badly
broken up. The saddest feature was the
great destruction of vessels on the sea,
scores of them being wrecked along the
New England coast, with loss of life that
cannot at this time be estimated. In this
section of Vermont the storm was not
worse than many, but the trains were bad
ly delayed by the drifting snow. The Air
Line from Montreal was four hours late