Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-12-27

in earnest.
ALBANY
About 20 couples attended Mr..
Darling S Christmas Ball.
Take care there Such things make
bad local items for the newspapers.
Lizzie Mccartney is home from
Newton, Mass. w. K. Annis, Jr.,
is also home to spend the holidays.
Lumbermen are complaining about
the log scale measure used by the In
ternational on the logs purchased in
this town.
Fred Wheelock of Eden Mills was
recently arrested here and fined for
being drunk. Why was he not made
to disclose where he got his liquor?
The party who sold the liquor was
equally responsible.
East Albany.
Mrs. S. V. Cowles is slowly recov-
ering. Mr.. Cowles' people are very
grateful to neighbors for neighborly
kindness.
Mr.. & Mrs. Amos Gould are each
confined to the house with serious
illness and lameness, and Robert
Hannant, from Mass, has come to
help care for them.
South ALBANY.
The net proceeds of the donation
for the benefit of Rev. j. F. Wright
were $40.
w. L. Dow has bought 10 acres of
land of L. Marnock. William Will
liams has sold 20 acres of land to
Rob't Buchanan.
Mrs. Alma (RowelD Jessamin
was here last week packing her goods
preparatory to moving to her new
home in Littleton. She sold her
house and land to Geo. Vance.
(By a set of curious Circumstance
es, for. which no one should be blam-
ed, mistake was made in our at
tempt to give notice of donation at
So. Albany. We much regret it. If
our readers knew just how many OF
these things reach US on the morning
of publication, which have to be look
ed after with all other work, they
would not be surprised to find some
mistakes. We always intend to give
notices of this character, and would
publish every one of them correctly
if possible. EDIroR.)
Barton Landing.
Fred Brown and wife spend the
holidays in Boston.
Will Joslyn has put Baldwin
planer in his shop, much to his con
venience.
Don't forget the siege of Richmond
and Pittsburgh at Cong. church, Tues
day eve, the 28th inst.
The ladies of the M. f. Church
filed a barrel with supplies for thu
home mission in connection with thu
Christmas work.
The Christmas exercises at tn,
churches were unusually good thi'
year. The singing of several chill
dren from the Lothrop family wa
equal to that of the Shepard family
The W. C. T. U. at Joseph Bart
let's, Tuesday afternoon regula
meeting of the Post Tuesday evening
Mr.. Knox gives his lecture Tuesda,
evening also.
The will be a donation visit an(
oyster supper at the M . E. Churcl
in this place, on Thursday evening
Dec, 30th, for the benefit of Rev. w
I. Todd. 1t IS expected that Rev. Mr.
Chase of Irasburgh will be presen
and deliver lecture; also there will
be musical entertainment and gen
eral good time is expected. All ar
cordially invited to he present.
South Barton.
How would it do to keep the peace
, study the ten commandments, exer
else spirit of charity and forgive
ness, and let the unpleasantness o
the past be forgotten?
| Ora White is drawing from tn
Pillsbury lot and buying a larg
, amount of lumber to be sent to New
port. The R. r. Co. is unable t
furnish cars to do the work, and Nj
! White is suffering great inconven
, ence on this account.
z On the 10th inst. large uumbe
S of the friends of Rev. John Forl es
/ met at his place for visit and sper
+ the hours very pleasantly. Abor
$50 were left in token of esteem an
for services rendered as preacher
, Mr.. Forrest has preached for som
months acceptably. The family e,
, tended grateful thanks for the pres
ence of friends and their expression
! of esteem.
: Bloomington
!. Prayer meeting at at A. w. Sc,
S vey's Thursday evening.
: S. Burrows has his new hous
j boarded ready for inside work.
: Herbert Gray has gone to Cover
; try to work teaming for S. S. Bar
= lett.
S. Maxwell has moved to j. Bar
let's and will work in the mill durir
+ the winter.
g David Chase has sold about OF