Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-01-26
o. A. Grow has bought house in Sum
meryille. st. Johnshurv

o. A. Grow has bought house in Sum
merville, st. Johnsbury.
Mrs. J.Gilfllan does not improve. Mrs.
Robert Gilfillan of Burke Hollow is stay
ing with her this week.
The cheese factory at this place receiv-
ed during the season from May 9TH to
Nov. l, $780, 732, 057 pounds of milk, from
which were made IS, 769 pounds of cheese.
The pupils of Bloomington Center will
give drama at the hall Feb. 10, after
which there will be promenade. Music
furnished by the band. A full attendance
is desired.
Some of the friends will be glad to
learn that Clarence Alger, formerly of
of this place, has passed a satisfactory
examination for position as clerk in the
post office at New Haven, Conn.
East Charleston.
L. w. Stevens went to Lowell, Mass,
last week with another car load of pota-
toes.
Fred o. Rand and wife of Lowell, Mass,
have been in town for a few days visiting
| friends and relatives.
j. H. Walcott has moved into his new
house and now somebody ought to have
housewarming.
Mr.. G.. B. Stoddard has gone to st.
Johnsbury to spend a few days with the
family of o. A. Cate. Mr.. Cate is still
very sick, with but little hope Of recovery.
BERTHE F. Adams, who has been teach
ing in Amherst, Mass, for year or two,
has been sick about two months this fall
with typhoid fever, but was able to COM
mence his school again Jan. u.
VIM. Wilson is making arrangements
for building an addition to his barn. The
building will be 26x46 the lower part
will be used for pens for sheep, colts and
calves and the upper part for hay.
A splinter struck B. N. Stevens in the
eye, last week, and it is feared that the
sight will be destroyed'-A. j. Allyn re-
Gently had very narrow escape from
broken limb by being thrown from sled
and dragged several rods with one leg I'M
der the sled.
ciety, on the 18th inst, r. p. Stevens and
wife and G. W. Lang were appointed as
delegates to the quarterly meeting. The
following officers were elected for the en-
suing year: Clerk and treasurer, G. B.
Stoddard; business CON-, r. II. Stevens,
d. i. Morse and G. B. Stoddard.
Crafts bury
Thomas Dunn has taken Mrs. Olive AL
lens farm for one year.
Mrs. Josie Anderson has gone to New
York visiting friends.
E. Boardman and wife have hired to
Rufus Hoyt for one year
S. c. Corey has sold his Albany farm to
E. & 7. Gallagher.
Ambrose Chace is in quite feeble health
Peter Randall is on the sick list.
The telephone wires are strung between
the villages and the instruments will be
put in soon.
George Conant of Minneapolis, Mimi,
is visiting at c.. c. Commits. He has
been absent thirty years.
The donation visit for the benefit of
Rev. r. Noodle, Wednesday eve, was
success. A large attendance, an enjoya-
BILE occasion and $40
Farmers met Friday eve and organized.
President, E. S. Gage; sec, H. S. An
drus: CON-, j. W. Allen; Jas. McEwen;
B. p. Shannon. Will meet next Friday
eve at town hall, at O'Clock. Topic,
dairying.
The barn shed of the Orleans House re-
Gently fell in, smashing one sleigh and
doing other damages. 1t was very fortu-
nate that it did not fall in the evening be-
fore as it was filled with teams. 1t will |
be rebuilt with a hall overhead.
Flint Post, No. 10, G. A. r., will hold a |
sociable with j. N. MCGUIRE, Feb. 5, it |
being the eighteenth anniversary of their |
marriage and his forty-eighth birthday. |
Every member with family is invited |
and earnestly requested to be there. At /
O'Clock p. M oysters will be served.
Coventry.
Elmer Black has moved on to the Keyes |
farm.
Lucius Nye had his shoulder dislocated |
recently.
There is a distemper among the horses
hereabouts that appears like diphtheria.
Mrs. Geo. w. Chamberlin loses her |
only sister by the death of Mrs. Green of
Albany.
The lecture by Rev. G. NJ. Curl was
both useful and interesting. An Epworth |
League was organized after the close of
the lecture.
Derby.
Mrs. P S. Gamis is stopping with her
daughter, Mrs. c. F. Davis.
Miss Annie Moran has finished work at
Derby Line and is at home.
B. F. Grout has gone to Yarmouthville,
Me-, to work in machine shop.
A lfe-size picture of the late Gertle Kel
ley is sent from Washington, D. G. 1t |
was copied by Edgar Adams.
Girl babies have been the rule of late,
but Will Taylor reverses the matter and |
starts of with 1919 pound boy.
An exhibition will be given by the pu-
pills of the academy. Fri. eve, Feb. 10.
lecture and social will follow and good |
music will be furnished.
Quite a number attended the closing
concert of the convention at Newport,
Friday eve. They report fine time and
a good entertainment. The reading by |
Miss Hadley was remarkably good.
Prof. Andrus occupied the pulpit at the !
Cong. church Sunday "a. m, at the Bap-
fist church at II O'Clock and at Beebe !
Plain in the afternoon, thus putting in a
full day as supply preacher.
The spelling match in Academy Friday !
promises to be an enjoyable occasion.
Six prizes, valued at $8, will be awarded. |
An admission fee of ten cents will be |
charged. Proceeds above expenses to |
help buy books for the Academy library.
Uncle Richie, who looks after the pig
gerry at Major CIRCUITS, found himself
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