Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-11-20

Rev. e. E. Herrick Of Milton, VT,
has been engaged to deliver the Me-
mortal address for Quimby Post, Ct. A.
r.
Austin Kimball Of New York has
been here to look after the matter of
the work being done at the cemetery
by Mr.. Brown.
An entertainment, GA Trip to the
Worlds Fair" will be given in Opera
hall Dec Is, under the auspices of
the Epworth League.
Geo. Reed, who went TO New York
sometime recently as one of the judg-
es in big dog show, reports very
pleasant trip and great show.
T. G. Kimball left IN his will the sum
of 81 900, to be used for memorial
window in the Cong. church, to the
memory of mis- father and mother.
Benz. Mossman talks Of going to
California some time ere long to spend
the winter, visiting his daughters fam
lily and looking after some matters of
business there.
Remember special meeting of o. E.
s. Tuesday eve, Nov. p, for rehearsal,
also regular meeting, Friday even
ing, Nov "a, at which time the degree
will be conferred.
At the regular meeting Of the w r.
c., Wednesday, Nov. %, at 2:3o p. NJ,
Mrs. G. A. FL. Thompson Of ST. Johns
bury will inspect the corps. Every
member requested to be present.
There will be an auction sale of
household furniture, hay, farming
Benjamin Mossman place, on Friday
next, at 1 o'clock, p. m. See posters.
This is the season Of the year when
newspapers, for want of something
better to say, and weather prophets,
who know nothing at all about it,
prophesy a cold and hard winter.
Wait and see.
J. w. Ramsay of the Barre City
Leader was in town Wednesday and
paid the MONITOR Office a pleasant
call. Mrs. Alex Benton, his mother
in-law, was in town with him, visiting
friends and old neighbors.
Silas G. Collision was in town last
week visiting relatives. He has sold
his farm in Lyndon and would buy or
build in this village if he could find
suitable place Or lot. That is right,
Geo. Nye is building a lumber shed
lor5dry house near his new residence.
Charlie Duke expects to put up
house on his lot next season. That
would be a good place to board one of
the Peerless girls, Charlie.
MD. Scott has moved from the G.
G. Grow house to the new house re-
Gently finished by the Buswells. Mr..
J. G. Boswell has moved into one part
of the new house. 1t is reported that
he has sold his place in Sabinsville.
VIM. G. Brown has nearly complet-
ed the heavy job of stone work he has
been doing at the cemetery in enlarg-
ing the Kimball burying lot. The lot
has been extended toward the grove,
requiring a heavy bank wall, which
has been made Of cut granite.
There will be a Sacred Concert in
the audience room of the Cong church,
Wednesday evening, Nov. %, under
Society will be assisted by Miss Mabel
e. Goodwin of st. Johnsbury, soprano,
and Mrs. Henry P. Newcomb Of New
port, organist. Admission 25 cts. Be
gin at 1880.
Those parties who have promised
the tpoor printer" wood, potatoes,
garden truck and other barter are no
titled that he is both cold and hungry
and wants the stuff at once. Promises
are very pretty things to sound in the
ear, but they neither feed nor warm.
Some will readily understand what
this means.
The rhetorical exercises at the hall
on Wednesday evening were very in
teresting and long enough. Nearly all
Of the school participated, beginning
with the trundle bed series and ending
with the academy department.The ex-
ercises were chiefly from Longfellow,
and the recitations showed that the
scholars had been excellently drilled.
The officers Of the Good Templars'
lodge were installed at their last meet
ing. At their next meeting, Saturday
evening of this week, A. L. Aldrich,
G. G., of West Burke, will be present.
The lodge in this place is large in