Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-03-11
there is a marked improvement at the

there is a marked improvement at the
present time.
At the special village meeting held Fri
day evening the amendments to the char
ter were accepted. The village meeting
will now come the third Tuesday evening
in March and the trustees will be elected
for three years.
The farmers are still drawing large loads
of lumber and wood and the village seems
full of teams. It has been a most excel
lent winter for numbering and the men
are endeavoring to get their work done
while shedding lasts.
A grange was formally organized here
last Monday evening with a membership
of forty persons. Quite number of others
have applied for admission and the pros
poets are that we shall have as fourishing
a society of the order as any in this section
of the state.
Stafford & Smith, painters, who have
their shop over j. B. Winget's blacksmith
shop, have done a large business in paint
ing sleighs and wagons this winter. Be-
sides doing several inside jobs painting for
different individuals, they have about fifty
wagons which they hope to get out by the
first Of April.
G. III. Clifford of this place and Alice
Hitchcock of West Albany were married
at the home of the brides father last Tues
day. Mr.. Clifford took home with him a
large supply of shoes which had the APP
pearance of having seen service previously.
Much happiness is desired for the newly
married couple.
J. G. TurnbuIl has been making about
sixty hundred pounds of butter a week
here in his creamery. Nearly one-haIf of
this is stamped in half-pound bricks and
the other half is put up in tubs and boxes.
Since he started his Albany creamery, how
ever, he is not doing all the work here but
some Of 1t is done at that place.
Your correspondent noticed box in the
railroad station which was presented to
the B. & NJ. R. R. by the w. G. T. U. of
Irasburgh which interested him much.
The box contained cotton bandages, alb
sOrbent cotton and just such things as
would be needed in case of an accident on
the road. Would it not be well for every
depot on the road 20 be supplied with the
like.
G. E. Gay is making preparations to
build three sets of buildings the coming
summer, s. c. KimbaIl is planning to build
one or two sets and j. G. Turnbull will
move his old creamery and finish it off
into two tenements. Several others are
talking of building the coming summer.
It looks now as though tenements will not
be as scarce another year as they have been
this year.
The sixth annual Musical Convention is
to be held here, commencing tomorrow,
CTuesday) and continuing through We'd
nesday and Thursday, closing Thursday
evening with a grand concert. Henri G.
Blaisdell is to be the conductor and he will
be assisted by Miss Anna Green of New
port, pianist; Miss Waite of Boston, So
prano soloist; Mr.. Morse of Boston, hui
morist; A. F. Nevers Concord, cornet; A.
A. Stock bridge, Boston, cello; o. Wheaton,
Boston, flute; Carl BlaisdeH, Concord,
violin. These are all most excellent musi-
clans and with the large chorus which
promises to be present, pleasant and en-
joyabIe convention is anticipated.
Albany.
Mrs E. Bashaw is sick.-Mrs. VIM.
is in poor health.
Miss Rose Campbell has returned to
Syracuse, n. Y, where she has good posi-
ton.
Mr.. T. J. Wallace and son Earl are visit
ing in Massa chusetts, New Hampshire and
Connecticut.
Town meeting passed off very quietly.
The ladies' dinner was success, adding
nice sum to the treasury.
Rev. Mr.. Austin attended Preachers
meeting in st. Johnsbury last week.-Mrs..
II. B. Chamberlain visited in Barton re-
Gently.
A large company gathered at the home
of E. Gallagher recently for social time
in the interest of the r. G. church. A lit
erary program was carried out, bountiful
supper was served and all returned to their
homes hoping they might enjoy more oc-
casions of the kind in the future.
East Albany.
Merton Vance has hired John Denison
for the season.
Geo. Bickford has let his farm for one
year to his son Edwin.
Mrs. Amos Gould and Mrs. VIM. Cham
berlain are both improving in health.
Many have gone to Newport to attend
court on the Gallagher and Clark case.
George Sawyer, who was so badly chilled,
is improving. George would make good
man to enlist in the next polar expedition
as there would be no danger of his being
frozen to death.
Bloomington.
Dan Badger is moving on to farm in
WestmOre.
Mrs. w. F. Gilman is improving as well
as could be expected from her recent