Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-12-09

himself and wife spent few days. Mrs.
Dewey remains some time longer.
The religious meetings at the M. E..
church this week will be on Tues5 ay. We'd
nesday and Thursday evenings. L. eaiding
Elder Hamilton is expected the last two
evenings.
MONITOR readers will be interested III
the announcements being made by our
advertisers. This is the time when both
seller and buyer are solving the Christmas
problems.
Barron & Hamblet, who are pretty well
installed in their new store, have put in a
very large stock of new goods. See their
big advertisement in the supplement of
this paper.
Special meeting of Orleans Lodge, No.55
F. and A. NJ, Friday evening, Dec. Is.
Work on NJ. NJ. degree, after which ban
quet will be served. It is expected that
some of the grand officers will be present.
Everybody within reasonable distance
of this village ought to attend the lecture
of Rev. Thos. Dixon, which is to be given
in the course on Wednesday evening. He
is one of the most noted preachers and
lecturers in this country.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. F. Pillsbury and J. M.
Pillsbury leave here to-day for Florida.
They will be accompanied from St. Johns
bury by Mrs. V. n. Spalding and Mrs.
Dudley, her mother, who also go to spend
the winter in the sunny cline.
Mr. Jenkins will meet those who would
like singing school this winter, at the
School-house hall tomorrow, (Tues-
day. evening. Let all who are interested
attend and help the matter. There ought
to be a school here this winter.
Geo. w. Smith & Son of White River
Junction send us their very beautiful pic
ture calendars, several of which they are
getting out this year. They are mildly in
the advertising line, but are SO pretty that
they will be preserved as beautiful pic
lures.
Dr. Nichols has returned from his we'd
ding and visiting trip and will make his
home at the Dewey residence, where him
self and wife take the house, Mr.. Dewey's
people boarding with them. The DR.. will
solicit a share of the business in his pro-
fessiOn.
We shall furnish club papers this year,
as usual, with reduced prices on some of
them. Our agents will be at the post-offices
soon to take subscriptions and club orders.
1896 will be an important year in the af
fairs of this country and papers will be a
necessity.
Mr.. Cotton and the gang Of help which
have been at work on the d. D. Bean barn
and stable, have pushed the work forward
at a doubIe-quick speed and have it nearly
1t shows what can be done
in cold weather and short days when it
becomes necessary.
Harry Lunge, who has been in the en-
pIoy of Fl. II. Seaver for the last three
years, has had good offer to go to Ken
nebunk, Me-, where he will go into a
hardware store as clerk, etc. He is a young
man of excellent habits, is genial, honest
and efficient in business. We wish him
deserved success in his new field.
Mrs Betsey Stone has sold the land be-
tween her building lot and the railroad
to B. NJ. r. Nelson for $500. It is under
stood that G. W. Preston is to have the
lot and that he viii build onsone corner of
it in the spring. He will sell the. land to
other parties. There are two or three good
building lots which are conveniently To-
Gated.
Many people in this part of the State
will regret to learn of the death of Rev. G.
P. Taplin an efficient preacher in the
Methodist church. He died at Essex Cen
ter, where he was stationed as pastor. The
work and charge was exceedingly heavy
and he broke down under it. He was 63
years Of age. He had formerly been in the
st. Johnsbury district.
This village is specially favored this
week in having two lecturers of national
repute. Those who hear Dixon will be in
the better mood to hear Congressman
Howard Of Alabama on Thursday evening.
1t was a circumstance of good luck only
that permitted Mr.. Seaver to obtain Mr..
Howard. He is in the hands of lecture
bureau, and was coming to Vermont, and
Thursday night happened to be open and
he comes here.
There wa a very pleasant gathering at
Crystal Lake House last Thursday, when
ten old schoolmates and friends met with
Mrs. Vienna (JewelD Cheney to spend the
afternoon. The party came from Sutton,
Burke, Lyndon and elsewhere. Thirty
odd years ago they were school girls in the
old red schooI-house in Sutton. Since
that time nearlyal have gone away from
the old town. All are married; most all
have children, and some several grand
The gathering was very enjoya-
BILE.
At the annual meeting of Quimby Post,
G. A. R., the following officers were elect
ed for the coming year: Commander, E. III.
S. V. c., o. Dryer; ]. V. c., A.
Skinner; quartermaster, j. n. Webster;
Geo. 81. Blake; surgeon, w.
Simpson: Officer of the Day, o. V. Joslyn;