Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-11-11

Not an absent or tardy mark in the repis-
ter. Miss Comstock is engaged for the
winter term.
Greensboro.
At the Haines auction things sold fairly
well. Cows sold for from 10, % to 81 dol
lars and yearling heifer sold for S22.
d. c. Melvin hitched up his horse the
other morning, and as he was going out of
the village his lines broke and the horse
run away and demolished the wagon. No
one was severely injured.
Some parties high in authority are tax
ing the fish out of Caspian Lake and strip
ping the spawn, some to be left in the wa
tiers in town and some to be taken away.
About 500 were stripped on Friday and it
was the handsomest sight we ever saw.
Holland.
Peter Harper has bought the Calvin
Bennett place, paying $500.
Harry Huntoon of New York is in town
and will probably spend the winter here.
Daniel Hall of West Fitchburgh, Mass,
is in town looking after his farming inter
ests.
L. A. Wheeler has gone to Newport for
the winter and John Wheeler is in the
meat market.
Mrs. E. Smith of Providence, r.. l.,
sister of ID. L. Jenness, has just returned
to her home, after a few days visit with
her friends. - Mrs. Sylvia JOY of Island
Pond is in town visiting her brother, ST.
mon Marsh.
Irasburgh.
All the Irasburgh schools, except such as
had lost time to make up, closed last Fri
day.
The Ladies' Aid society will meet at the
Cong. church vestry Friday afternoon.
Supper as usual.
Mr.. Carter of Westfield, Mass, recently
visited his father-in-law, S. Stanford
Mrs. Julia Knight and children go to
Greenfield, Mass, for short visit.
The New England Telephone Co. have
taken down the line between here and
Coventry. This will save maintaining
five miles of poles, without crippliug the
service.
The la st of the seasons cheese has been
shipped, and Mr.. J. f. Tetrault has re-
turned to his home at West Shefford, Pc.
The August cheese dividends gave the
patrons Ga cents per hundred pounds of
milk.
Miss Myrtle Aldrich of West Burke will
give recitals at the town hall, Tuesday ev-
ening, Nov. 18th, after which there will be
an oyster supper. Admission, 25 cts. Miss
Aldrich is graduaterof the Perkins Insti-
stute in Boston, and later attended the
Montpelier Seminary, where she graduated
with honors last June. In both of these
institutions she made elocution a study.
The Phoenix speaks of her graduation es-
say as follows: 'AIiss Aldrich is a natural
writer and an effective speaker; she kept
her audience in perfect silence while she
held before their vision "The Brighter
Side" Her rhetoric was charming, her
thought pure and elevating; her presence
an inspiration. Many of her audience
were moved to tears"
Lowell
Bradley Sanborn has let his farm and in
tends going to New York.
DIR. and Mrs. Hill are home from Mon
treal and the doctor is doing an extensive
job of repairing and charging his house.
Mr.. Joseph Labounty has returned from
New York City, where he has been the
past summer Miss Annie Bowen from
Mass. is visiting her sisters, Mrs. James
and Joseph Labounty.
Morgan.
Luther Cobb has returned to Chicago,
Ill.
B. f. Moore and wife of Newport have
been visiting in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Bartlett of Brighton
were in town recently.
John Bullet has moved in to the house
with his brother, Theodore.
VIM. Taylor has been in town recently,
buying maple sugar, paying 10 cents per
pound.
Morgan Center
Mrs. Carrie Danforth of Lowell, Mass,
is visiting in town.
The Kings Daughters will meet with
Mrs. d. A. Elliott next Wednesday after
noon.
L. H. Burroughs has been appointed
post-office clerk until new postmaster is
appointed.
A. A. Burroughs and family have gone
to Lowell, Mass.-A. O. Elliott has gone
TO Lowell, Mass, to work.
Newport.
Miss Anna Green has gone to Boston.
G. NJ. Kendall has moved from his
mothers farm to Sutton.
Rev. E. N. Haynes, ID. D., of Rutland,
preached in the Baptist church Sunday, |
Nov. TO-
The village schools closed Nov. Sth, for
vacation of three weeks, as there are a
lew cases of scarlet fever in the place.