Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-05-27

The track at the Playground is being put
in condition and the people are allowed to
drive on it as much as desired.
F. Comstock has rented of Nelson Lewis
his slaughter house, which has been used
some time by Andrew Twombly.
Lee Abbott has finished work for the
Peerless Co, and gone to Hudson, n. Y,
to work in an electric light station.
Augustus Paddock of Craftsbury and
his daughter Mary stopped in town Friday
night and took in the Mary Howe concert.
Gilbert Cass drew a load of stone
with Clarence Comstock's team the gross
weight of which was eighty hundred
pounds.
Mr. H r. Mack of Hardwick was in
town last week setting up nice granite
monument on the A. M. Ruggles lot in the
cemetery.
Regular meeting Orleans lodge, No. So,
F. & A. NJ, Friday evening, May 81, at 4:
30 Work in NJ. NJ. degree with usual light
refreshment.
The Barton baseball team was badly de-
feated at the game with the Newports last
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of Newport.
By some oversight we failed to mention
the birth of a little daughter to Mr.. and
Mrs. c. F. Percival, which occur
red May 18th.
Mrs. Ann Baldwin has sold her residence
to J. F. Batchelder and has taken rooms
and will board with Mrs. L. NJ. Hubbard
for the present.
The street parade given by the brass
band with their tall hats, and the fats and
leans who played baseball Tuesday was a
comic sight which was enjoyed by both
old and young.
Oliver Valley had stone on his wagon
last week that weighed seventy-eight hum
dred pounds but his axle broke down
while his teamster was driving along Main
street.
Master Ernest Freeman showed us six
hens eggs last week which weighed
twenty-five ounces. Ernest is looking
after the profits of the hen pretty thor
oughly.
The following letters remain uncalIed for
at the post office May 81. Please say ad
vertised Edward H. Baker, w. S. Bates,
Mrs. Lewis Ford, Miss Ann B. Jones, Miss
Anna Sullivan.
Captain J. G. Peene was in town last
week looking after his business. G. G. w.
Heath carried him to Morrisville where he
bought a span of chestnut Morgan mares,
which he took back to Yonkers, N. Y.
Mrs T. W. Drew and Mrs. Helen Jerome
entertained twentyfour of the Odd Girls
in Mrs. Drew's spacious parlors Thursday.
They had a very pleasant gathering and
their hostesses made it interesting for all.
The village trustees are putting a large
sewer from the upper end of High street to
connect with one of the main sewers at
another point TO carry off the surface
water fro n that section of the corporation.
Mrs. S. S. Johnson and daughter, Nina,
returned last week from five weeks stay
in Manchester, n. H. Mrs. JOhnson's
sister, Mrs. LaPort, and her husband ac-
companied them here and visited them for
few days.
D. d. Bean was in Littleton, n. H., last
week and purchased the stallion, Cardinal
Wilkes, owned by the William Richardson
estate. This stallion has a record of 2
224 and is well known through this section.
His AID. appears in this issue.
J. r. Farrant's team from Newport and
II. J. Balls team from West Derby were
both in town last week and large numbers
of plants and flowers were sold here in the
village. Both these men advertise in the
MONITOR and report good trade through
out this section.
The Valley Bros. are getting out granite
and preparing to put in a good stone
bridge opposite Phil Shields house. They
will also put in a stone bridge on the Bar
ton river near David Collisions and the
bridge on Water street will be torn down
and replaced by a stone one.
T. Scott, who has been gaining quite a
reputation as a scrapper since coming to
town a few weeks ago, managed to get in
to an alteration with Leon Damon last
Monday and found that he had taken the
bad end of the bargain. He departed for
Canada on the Tuesday morning train.
Wewish to extend thanks to the Iady who
called at our Office during our absence, nd
left generous supply of maple sugar cakes
and suggest that if she has more like it she
make a display at the fair this fall, as
such sugar makes a beautiful display to
look upon and would be quick prize
winner.
We acknowledge the receipt of The Er-
Gnttner, paper printed in San Francisco
on May Is, which gives a record of Presi-
dent McKinley's reception when his party
arrived at that city. The paper was sent us
by Hon. G. M. Foster, brother of w. Nv.
Foster of Barton Landing. Mr.. Foster is
one of our Vermonters who has become
prominent among the business men of San
Francisco.