Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-07-27

There will be union services in the
grove August I'd In the morning and at
p. m. II the weather is favorable.
E. W. Merrill jammed the third finger
on each hand SO badly the other day that
ne is obliged to keep out of the hay field
for spell.
The baseball team at Lowell played the
local club here a week ago Saturday, the
score being eight to fourteen In favor of
the visiting team.
Mrs. Martha Green Of Boston, who has
been visiting her sister, Mrs. David Harri-
man, the past three weeks, will visit
friends In Barton Tuesday.
Glenn Dodge has been about the couutrv
buying up cattle, having about five car
loads ready for shipment. The average
price paid per head was s25.
Twombly & Cotton have one of their
tenement houses on the Irasburg road
ready for putting on the finish, while the
other house will soon be plastered.
Remember the special village corpora
tion meeting next Thursday evening, as
important financial matters are to be
acted upon. Let every voter plan to at
! tend.
Henry Webster has put another new
ssiient salesman" showcase into his store,
and 1t Is filled with fine array of new
new articles that surely ought to sell on
sight.
The new clarionet player from Sher-
brooke played with the band in Thursday
evenings concert for the first time, and
proves to be valuable addition to local
players.
The Good Templars are preparing to give
a lawn party on Ed. Stafford's lawn next
Thursday evening, weather permitting;
otherwise the entertainment will be given
in Valley House hall.
The band boys have decided to have
| their weekly outdoor concerts held on
Wednesday evenings hereafter, regardless
OF meetings or entertainments that NAV be
appointed for that same evening.
While employed at the dry house of the
Chandler mills Monday Alfred Hiland was
| hit In the side by lum ber truck and sew
eral ribs were cracked. He is doing well
under the DOCTORS care, however.
Prof. Bullard has the contract again this
year for playing at the Sherbrooke fair,
which begins Aug. 20, and he is selecting
some of the best players about the state
the larger number being from the local
band-to make up special band for this
occasion.
Z. 5. Foster, successor to w. M. Little In
the shoe store, has tact at window dressing,
believing In an artistic arrangement of CAV
colors to attract the eye of possible pur-
chasers. Mr.. Fosters speciality is shoes.
He Is to close out his side line of tobacco
and cigars.
| The horse that Laura Gay was driving
last Friday forenoon stumbled and fell
near Winget's shop and pitched the occu-
pants OF the carriage all in heap. Several
men ran to the scene and unhitched the
animal before 1t could rise and do any
more serious damage. Miss Gay and
her companion were uninjured beyond
scare and shaking up.
The devotees of the game of baseball are
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near the village upon which to play and
practice. They now have to go a long
distance to have games, when it really
does not seem necessary. 1t seems as
Though some real estate owners on the
village outskirts would be willing to let
the boys have room for a diamond.
! Dean Rogers, one of the oldest men in
the village, has a garden :of which he is
Justly proud. His bean vines are fully ten
feet high and his peas are as high as man
can reach and well podded. The other
garden stuff is in equally thrifty condi-
tion. Although Mr.. Rogers cannot walk
except by the aid of two canes, he has had
the entire charge OF the garden himself-a
commendable example of perseverance.
| M. M. Taplin was at Brandon last Fri
day and there met Max Marx, one of the
| most successful real estate dealers of New
| York, who made arrangements with Mr..
| Taplin to sell the Forest Park Stock Farm
at Brandon on the 18th and 10th of Au-
| gust. The stock will also be sold at the
| same time. There is but one farm equal
| to this in the entire state and that is N. T.
| VaiPs at Lyndon.
| Gove's latest window dressing made
very realistic picture. The scene was a
mossy bank upon which was mill with a
| real water wheel in operation, then
brook led to pond. There were windows
| in the mill and the scheme of electric
lighting in the evening produced very
| pretty effect. The meat of the whole nut
| was contained In a placard worded thus:
''This mill has to be kept running night
and day to keeb us supplied with ice
cream"
| The Barton Landing Cornet Band are
arranging to run an excursion on August
14th to Burlington and on Lake Cham
plain out among the north islands. 1t is
| expected that the excursion will start
| from Barton or possibly LyndonvilIe.
| They expect to have special cars that will
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