Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-03-13

house lately vacated by David Baird. III
has hired to ]. E. Chase & lSon for the
coming season.
III. G. Banister & Son have started theil
mill, hoping to get good portion of the
lumber down where they are to set the
mill this coming summer.
Lowell.
Lewis Cox and wife visited in Troy two
days last week.
Roy Kinsley cut his left hand quite
severely at the Curtis shop on Wednesday.
He got his hand on to a chisel on the lathe.
Mrs. II. d. Stannard has been very Ill
again. having had relapse of her former
complaint. She is slightly better at this
writing.
The pIay presented here ION Thursday
evening by the Eden people was not very
well attended, owing to lack of judicious
advertising.
Quite party from here attended the X.
G. society meeting at Mr.. Roots in West
fieldglast Thursday evening, and report
very fine time.
Town meeting passed off very quietly,
with no great change in the board OF
officers. A. 1. Stebbins was elected to:the
school board, Milo Hines retiring. tax
of Il rs was voted.
While at work in his barn recently, John
Finnegan fell from a ladder, striking
upon his back on the floor lin the bottom
of the bay, and was quite badly injured.
I1I1t
Finnegan's age makes tumble like this
quite serious matter.
A. S. Cover has moved from the La
plant house to the Peter Martin tenement.
Dennis Hines has taken Milo Hines farm
for another year.-George Stewart has
traded farms with Lewis Smith OF Hyde
Park and will move there soon.-Mr.
Smith has sold the Stewart farm to Brad
lev Hoadley, who has been on the place
the past year.
Edison Kinney's horse, attached to a
pung filled with milk cans and driven by
Leon Shufelt, took flying trip down the
long hill and capsized near the tub shop.
The result was a combination OF milk,
cream, and boy, which looked like an ami
mated neutrality-suspicious.. The horse
was caught without injury. The cause OF
the runaway was the usual excuse of ia
broken harness.
o. B. Landon was in town last week
looking after his creamery business here
and at Observation-Disclosures Wellman went
to Burlington again last Monday for sur
gicaI treatment. He returned Sunday
P. Guild of Barton Landing has resumed
his trips for butter buying. He ex
poets to be here each Friday forenoon at
the usual place.-W. E. Curtis was in Bar
ton Thursday on business. Geo. Curtis
attended the musical convention at Bar
ton Landing. Miss Lucy Yaw has been
caring for her mother, Mrs Isaiah Yaw,
the past week.
Morgan.
G. 1. Moore has bought and lis repairing
the store that he has occupied for the last
few years.
Cards are out announcing the marriage
of Miss Nettie Cobb to Eber Humphrey.
Her many friends extend congratulations.
w. III. Calkins recently received news of
the death of his brother Horace, in Wor-
cester, Mass. He waa a former resident of
this town.
Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Cobb of Island Pond
visited in town last week.-Mr. and Mrs.
A. M. Gray visited in Stewartstown, n. II.
Lord is home from Bar
ton, where she has been at work.
Fred Cox is at work for E. K. Lord
Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice Burbank have been
engaged to work on the poor farm in
Charleston.-Geo. Call<ins will work for |
Scion Gray.-Ina Rood has gone to New |
port to work for B. F. Moore.-Mr. and |
Mrs. Devereaux will work for Arthur Kid |
der the coming summer.
Newport.
Geo. West has returned from Montreal |
and is working for B. F. Moore & Co.
F. d. Winslow, former resident of this |
town lost his stock of groceries at the re- |
cent fire in LyndonviIle.
The schools in the lower departments |
closed Friday. The higher grades will be |
in session two weeks longer.
John Farrant is getting ready to put in |
a good line of plants, cut flowers, fruit and |
vegetables in the store occupied by Miss |
Hall.
Mrs. w. II. Kenyon has sold out the |
tailor business to E. G. Brooks of st. |
Johnsbury, She will continue the cloak |
and dressmaking business.
Fred Davis lost a good work horse in
Prouty & Miller's mill yard last Monday.
While crossing the railroad track the cars
hit the horse and broke the two fore legs.
Mrs. Short of Portland, Me. was in town
Alice Lorimer is in Dicks
vile, P. Q. on visit.-Mr. and Mrs. c. III.
Green visited in st. Johnsbury last week.
Carroll S. Page of HYDE Park was in town