Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-12-24

Mrs. Milo Owen and her children
will go West soon after New Years
to visit her parents.
The Congregational Ladies' Society
is invited to meet with Mrs. 0. D.
Owen, Wednesday,, Dec. Goth.
Send or bring in your money and
get the MONITOR and club papers paid
for as soon as convenient.
The Oldest inhabitant will have to
scratch his head to remember a more
agreeable week in December than the
last has been.
Our village merchants have put
their show windows in very attractive
dress for the holiday trade. People
ought to find something to suit their
tastes.
There was a hearing here before the
Probate Court in the matter of the in
solvency Of NV. Mathie on Thursday,
in which several lawyers and witness
es participated.
Get the Vt. Register and Pamphlet
Laws at MoNIToR Office and call for
Demorest's picture Of the Kittens.
MONITOR subscribers furnished free
with the picture.
1t is expected that the installation
services Of Post, Corps, and Sons of
Veterans will be held on the evening
of the same day of the regular meet
in gof Post and Corps.
The growth and Improvement made
in the thriving village of Newport, as
recorded by our correspondent, is
very creditable to that place and the
enterprise of the people.
Edward Bellamy, the author of
"Looking Backward'' is to tell in the
next issue Of The Ladies' Home Journal
what he believes a christmas in the
Year 1900" will be like.
Frank P. Ufford is home from Cor
nell University to spend the Christmas
vacation. = Misses Ida and Mabel
Miles and Elmer Webster are home
from the vt. University on a vacati on
visit.
Our village people ought to attend
the exhibition which Miss RaDneY and
her pupils are to give at Opera Hall
on Friday evening Of this week, out
Of respect for a good teacher and to
"home talent"
The Pamphlet Laws, published by
the Watcb2eGo Co., are very well
J.o &c h Ivv
thing for those who want q copy of
the laws OF the last session of the leg
isIature. We shall keep them on sale
in this Office. &Fe
There will be a dramatic recital at
Opera Hall, on Friday evening, Dec.
%, by Miss Elsie NJ. Ranney and her
pupils. Miss Rauney has been giving
course Of lessons here and some
have been DESTROYS that the class give
an entertainment, which, without
doubt, will be Of much interest.
Neighbor circuit of the Express and
Standard has been scolding about US
and the MONITOR of late, for just what
reason does not appear. We should
dislike very much to pull hair with
our neighbor; he is what the world
calls ''good feller." He says the
kindest and softest things possible
about the people of the county, and
makes just as good a newspaper as he
can, his way Of doing things consider
ed. He says he is going to enlarge his
journal, which might and ought to
improve it, unless, as in the case of
erysipelas, the more surface it covers
over the worse it becomes. Keep in
pacific state of mind, Brother.
The NeaOs and Citizen proposes to go
on to the advance pay system Jan. 1.
The people Of Lamoille county and
vicinity will have the NeaUs any way,
and Bro. Lewis will get a large list of
advance payers. We had hoped to
put the MONITOR on the advance plan
this next year, but nearly all of our
neighboring papers refuse to adopt
the plan and we are forced to contin-
ue as heretofore. We are trying to
get a financial inventory of our de-
linQuents and shall strike off such as
from inability or disinclination do not
pay for the paper. We are carrying
too large number who will never
pay US, except by forced collection,
and they must go out and "stand from
under.''
During Last Fair time, Felix Gay,
character who had run a grocery and
bad hole in this village, imported some
liquor here from New Hampshire to
help lubricate the fair. The officers