Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-08-01

says carries conviction to the mind of the
listener. She returns to her home in
Wahpeton, n. D., this week.
The corn market is. gradually getting
corn district of the West and prices will
likely advance in few days several cents
bushel.s Corn is now selling here. at 40
cents per ,,bushel and our grain dealers
have as yet snade.no.advance in price. In
some places in the West the hot winds
have burned the corn so badly that many
thousands OF acres have already been de-
stroyed.
The annualfair of the Orleans County Fair
Association will be held Aug. 80, 81, and
Sept.1 lat Roaring Brook Park. Endeavors
are being made to provide some special
features this year that will add materially
to the success of the fair. The directors
have not as yet decided on what they will
be. but they promise something very in
teresting in that line. The usual premi-
ums will be offered and on the whole the
fair will be one of the best as far as can be
made, that we have ever had.
Wilson & Co. developed plate last week
on which was the photograph Of Admiral
Cervera. The picture of the Admiral was
taken with kodak while he was on board
a ship at Portsmouth, n. H., and brought
here by lady who is now stopping at the
Hotel Barton. The position OF the Admi-
raj is shown in the photograph as standing
in group of officers near the mast of the
vessel and while not large is easily dis
tinguished from the crowd about him.
The photograph is valued very highly by
the owner.
Miss Lydia Colburne left Friday evening
for Newport where she will join Judge
Hitchcock and family of Springfield,
Mass, who will occupy one of the Lind
say cottages on the lake about two miles
from Newport during the next month
Miss iColburne was accompanied by her
sister, Miss Clara Colburne, teacher who
is here from Salt Lake City on her vaca-
ton, and Miss Bessie Howe of New York
City. Miss Colburne expects to be absent
during the month of August.
Last Tuesday the Odd Girls went to
Willoughby for picnic at the Mossman
cottage. They reported most enjoyable
time. The new cottage on the west side of
the lake, erected by Mr.. Mossman and Mr..
Skinner is surrounded by large trees,
while near the house is long white
beach. This cottage and surroundings
furnish an ideal place for picnic. About
thirty of the Odd Girls were in attendance
and the occasion was made SO pleasant
that it was one to be long remembered.
DanaJ Flanders, general passenger and.
ticket agent of the Boston and Maine
r. R., and one of the most prominent Free
Masons in New England, was taken sud-
denly i'll at his office in Boston Friday
afternoon, and was taken to his home in
Maiden on special train. The doctors at
tribute his illness to being overcome by
the heat. Mr.. Flanders condition i'm
proved considerably under the care he re-
ceived at his home, and the doctors think
he will be able to be at his office in few
days.
Members Of the different fire companies
of this village are requested to meet for
practice on Tuesday evening at 1880, at
their various stations. Since the compa-
ries have been organized there has been
very little practice done, and at all times
men should be thoroughly drilled in
handling the fire apparatus. Especially is
this so during the hot dry weather when
a fire would be dangerous to handle while
everything is SO dry. The members of
company No. 8 are especially urged to
turn out in body.
The unusual hot weather here for the
past week made everything very dry
and the rain is relief. Through
out the West and South the temperature
has been exceptionally high and our
soldier boys at Chickamauga have had
very disagreeable time of it, Mr. j. B.
Lyon wrote home from camp that the Yer
mont regiment is expecting. eorders. any
day now. to go to Porto Rico, which is
relief from the monotonous life they have
been living in camp. Mr.. Lyon has lost
seevral pounds of flesh while there but he
reports that the Barton boys are all we'll.
Col. F. G. Churchill and wife of Leba-
non, n. H., were the guests of Geo. FL.
Davis for a few days last week. Col.
Churchill was of the firm Of Carter &
Churchill, the famous overall and shirt
makers of Lebanon, but has now retired
from the firm, and for the past few years
has travelled all over the world. Mr.. Davis
drove over to Willoughby with Mr.. and
Mrs. Churchill yesterday, and they pro-
nounced that lake and the scenery sur
rounding, the most beautiful that they had
ever seen with one exception, Lake Luz
cerne in Switzerland. Mr.. Churchill
and wife thought that Belle Water pond
was not far behind that at Westmore.
The annual encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic will be held in Gin
cinnati this year during the first week of
September. The people of that city are