Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-11-03
on Third St.; and Frank Thompson in til e

on Third St.; and Frank Thompson in til e
Bean tenement on Central st.
Guy Hubbard, graduate of Ranney &
Co.'s printery, takes F. N. Bilodeau's place
in the Express &; Standard office, the
latter needing to apply his whole attention
to his DO bbin manufacturing business.
Gardner Pratt has been summoned back
to Boston as witness in a lawsuit caused
by an electric car accident at the time he
was motorman. He but recently returned
from Boston with his two cousins, ALA
and Sadie Pratt.
The supreme court and bar association
meeting at Montpelier caused an exodus
of legal gentlemen from this city last week
and left the Temple of Justice to the ten
der CD mercies of Register Spear and
Stenographer Cattanach.
The village blacksmiths have agreed
upon a new schedule of prices on
account of the hig ner cost of iron and
steel. The blacksmiths of Derby, Charles
ton, and other towns in the county are
uniting on the same basis.
Margaret Fletcher, who has been board
ing at Mrs. B. F. Moore's, is going to
begin housekeeping this week with her
mother, who has moved here from
Canada. They will occupy the Revoir
tenement on Lake street.
Congratulations to Harry Black, who
successfully passed the examinations for
admission to the bar, held at Montpelier
last week. He will be eligible to become a
full fiedged lawyer by next August, as
then will be completed the required time
of his being law student.
G. H. Green is continually receiving
additions to his large stock of undertaker's
supplies. He has thirty-five varieties of
caskets, and modern system of exhibiting
them. In taking charge of funerals he
provides extra chairs, and his interment
lowering device is of the latest pattern.
The latest novelty in the growing estab-
lishment of True & Blanchard Co., is an
electric clock in their jewelry department.
This is connected by telegraph with the
observatory at Washington and announ ces
the standard time at noon. 1t is an auto
matte affair, setting and winding itself,
and is really wonderful invention.
w. E. Kipp is hunter, as is we'll known,
and record breaker on variety. Here's
what he bagged in few hours hunt: two
partridges, rabbits, skunk, and a weasel.
1t is calculated, however, that bigger
story will have to be told when he and
Patterson return from the wilds OF Maine,
where they are going in few weeks.
Will Hight has sold his steam yacht to
Henry Reynolds of Cedarville. Commo-
dore Hight says this puts Capt. Warren
Hines, who was chief mate of the "5ea
GULL" out of job. Well, by judicious
wire pulling Warren can capture one of
the new state offices or commissions which
the Montpelier slogans are inst1tuting.
There were over forty in attendance at
the young mems meeting at the Congre.
gstional church a week ago Sunday. The
renewed interest in this class of meetings
is an outgrowth of the revival services
and permanent organization will be
ma lie at once and room engaged for hold
ing regular services, which Will be inter-
UNCONVENTIONAL. The time OF meetings
will be Sunday afternoon at $3.50.
During the past week the foundation
for the new government building gained
good Roadway. The steam derrick is In
position and the whistle of the derrick
man as he signals the engineer is a merry
sound, and assures the eagerly waiting
public that the foundation will soon be
ready to hold that drst story of famous
Proctor marble. Cement and crushed
stone are being used as base for the foun-
dalton.
The finding OF few days old infant on
Causeway street, near the railroad track, a
few evenings since, has caused sensation,
DIR. Ellie, while driving that way, dis
covered mysterious bundle, which proved
to be girl ba by alive and WELL He took
it to his own home and had it cared for
AS yet there is no clew to the unravelline
of the mystery. AS the infant was found
in West Derby precincts it is a case fol-
Derby authorities to investigate.
| A sweet place is Capt. Jerre Lam bert's
confectionery es5a bills hment on Bayview
street. This is not at all strange when we
find that he manufactures the 'sMemphre-
| AAo6OS hAooOc, bOOUu5OIuO connection
which is bound to attain renown. He
does jobbing business in other lines OF
candy, and therefore furnishes a variety.
The new delivery wagon which he bought
in Boston is very handsome; but the
muddy season does not allow him to make
extensive trips with it to surrounding
| towns, where he now has to take orders in
a single team.
At session of the supreme court at
Montpelier Tuesday decision was rem
dered by Judge Munson in the Orleans
county case of John 8. Stiles, collector OF
taxes for the town of Derby, against the
village of Newport. The substance of the
decision was that the portion of the water
system at Newport which runs throug b
the town of Derby and supplies water to
the inhabitants of that town is properly
| subject to taxation in Derby. while the