Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-10-20
Barton Landing.

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day evening.
Mrs. g. E Gay has returned from visit
in MONTPELIER.
w. c. Twombly is having his tenement
block reshingled.
Mrs. Henry Smith is improving from
her serious illness.
Howard Towle says his penny Posts are
selling like hot cakes.
M. M. Taplin was confined to the house
by sickness several days last week.
F. HI. Skinner and son are having their
barn converted into tenement house.
A. FL. Billiard has returned from Magog
to his employment in the Chandler mill.
Harley Towle has gone to Lowell, Mass,
with carload of cattle for Winslow & Co.
Fred McGoff has left the employ of C.
e. Gay and is again clerking in Locke's
store.
There being no indication of spread OF
scarlet fever, the schools will start again
this week.
Dick and Harley Johnson have gone to
Brownsville Junction, Me-, for two
weeks visit.
Mrs. c. s. Gibbs was at Waterbury last
week to visit her son Arthur, who is in
the asylum.
The Good Templars announce that they
will serve an oyster supper the evening of
Thursday, Now z.
A. s. Whitney is selling his property and
leaves this week with his family to take up
residence in California.
The filing for the abutments of the new
Willoughby bridge is in progress, and the
approaches will soon be graded.
| Mr.. Stafford thinks when the shotgun
won't capture the game, the trap will. He
has lately turned his hand to trapping.
The railroad has stationed liza Currier as
| fagman at the north crossing, he having
begun his duties week ago Saturday.
The building boom is still on. Ezra
Towle has begun the foundation for a new
house on the Clement lot near the mill.
| The deer hunters are planning on making
raid as soon as the law is off, Oct. 22nd.
Several are seen in this vicinity from time
to time.
The foundation wall for Skinner &
Browns block is being rushed and the
filling is being largely done by Ed. with
his own little shovel
The harvest supper at the Methodist
church Thursday evening and the break
fast the following, morning yielded the
sum of $1,000 for the society.
| Mrs. L. w. Hildreth died Friday morn
ing at 200 O'Clock, at the age of seventy
two years. The funeral was held at the
Methodist church Sunday afternoon.
There was a h1sking bee at George Pme's
Friday night. These parties are rare this
season, and the girls who are lucky enough
to find red ears should make the most of
them.
w. w. Fosters fine large barn was struck
by lightning Sunday afternoon and buried
to the ground. All the produce, together
with one horse and four hogs, was burned
with it. aF a' aS os
Efie Seavey, daughter of Cutler Sea wy
of this place, is, rising artist of New
York, having received $1,000 in premiums
for groups of paintings exhibited at the
recent VIII tie Plains fair.
Ed. Dudley of Brownington Center has,
broken ground for a new house on the Let
bought of Dean & Churchill, having The
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underpinning of the house..
Mr.. Cutler Seavey is to move to Irasburg
to live with his son Homer. The opinion
is universal that Mr.. Seavey will he
greatly missed. During hislong residence
here he has won the respect of every one.
Geo. Hoyt says he was out Thursday
night picking his apples by moonlight and
| pir ictf hot 4,
indicate that he was out when the cell pse
of the moon occurred and that orb shed
forth no warmth. stas 81
| f. d. Clement has conducted quite an
extensive real estate deal lately, having
sold a considerable tract of land to MI.
Steele of West Derby, who will eventually
build thereon; also building lot for Ezra
Towle of this place.
Forty tickets were sold at this station
for the Boston excursion last week.
Among those going from this village were:
Mrs. George Ford, Mr.. and Mrs. Bine
Dean, Mrs. Card, Mrs. Guild, Mrs. H D..
Stannard and Mrs. Henry Bassett.
Bert Smith and Erla Sargent were mar
ried last Thursday. A party of friends.
thinking to give them the accustomed
send-off, went to the station and waited,
but their plans were frustrated, as the
welded pair did not leave town by train
Our item of last week regarding MIR.
Hennessy's accident should have read as
follows While measuring load of lum-
Der from wagon to the kiln truck, Mr..
Hennessy stepped on broken plank in
the platform and fell through, dislocating
his shoulder.
Mrs. Ezra Towle and Mrs. e. D. Good
enough, as representatives of the local
Good Templars' lodge, have been circu-
lating petition through this village and
neighboring places the past week, praying
for support of the prohibition law
which has been literally signed and vii
be presented to the legislature.
The band boys would greatly appreciat,
q room where thew could hold repula1