Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-08-05
in their new field of labor at Burling

LyndOnville.
Bragg & Morris of st. Johnsbury
have the contract for the brick and
wood work on bank block and are
now at work on it.
Miss Hume, who has been connect
ed with the schools here for several
years, has been engaged to teach IN
the Union School at st. Johnsbury
She is an experienced teacher and al
ways gives satisfaction.
Miss Carrie Mann, of Chicago, who
has been visiting her sister, Miss Ros-
aline Graves, for several weeks, left
Tuesday for Fabyans, where she will
spend a few days viewing White
Mountain scenery and then return to
her western home.
Lyndon.
w. L. Quimby and wife of Boston,
are in town, visiting parents and
friends.
The Christian Endeavor Society
gave an ice cream and cake social at
was not largely patronized, but furn-
ished a fine time for those present.
Russell & Gage, of East Lyndon,
have dug D bushels of new potatoes
from about 10 rods of land, or an av-
erage of about 200 bushels to the acre.
They report a satisfactory yield and
quality.
Raspberries hold their yielding cap
acity finely this year and many in
these parts are reaping a good har-
vest. There is no better way at this
season for children to replenish their
purses than by persistent industry in
the raspberry patches.
Enterprise Grange will give calico
promenade and box supper at their
hall Wednesday evening, August Z,
from to 10 o'clock. Ladies are re-
quested to bring box containing
lunch for two, and put in the box a
neck tie like their dress.
Sheffield.
Rev. Mr.. Dark preached at the F. B.
J. Mitchell, clerk for Giffin & Simp
son, died Thursday morning. Funeral
was held on Saturday at o'clock.
The Ladies' Aid Association will
hold picnic sociable at Msr. J. Darl-
ing's Friday afternoon, August 9. Ev-
erybody invited.
G. D. Otis and wife of Des Moines,
Iowa, and Mrs. Elliott of R. l., are in
town.-Mrs. Green and daughter of
Newport visited at A. o. Gray's last
week.-Mrs.. T. r. Stiles and son were
in town visiting relatives last week.
Everett Hunter has been in town a
few days.-Mr. and Mrs. VIII Sher-
burn have had friends visiting them.
West Burke.
DR.. Sleeper has the frame up for his
new house.
Mrs. Maud Townsend is stopping at
her fathers, Horace Gilman.
Quite a delegation from this place
attended the w. G. T. q. and L. T. L.
convention at st. Johnsbury Center
last Friday.
The Epworth League will hold a
cake and ice cream social at the M. E.
vestry, Friday eve, Aug. 9th. All are
cordially invited. Admission,1 10 cents.
Chas. Williams and Mrs. Minnie
(WilEams) Luther are visiting former
friends here.-D. S. Townsend is Wis
iting his relatives in Woodstock and
adjoining towns.
Mrs Martha Townsend, who broke
her arm early in the summer, is able
to resume her work in the interest of
the Vermont Bible society, in the
southern part OF the State.
The ladies of the o. e. S. will give
a ten cent sociable in Masonic hall,
Wednesday afternoon, August z. There
will be short literary program with
music and songs. All invited.
The friends of Miss Elva Smith, for
merly of this place and Lyndonville,
now of Pasadena, CAL, will be pleased
to learn of her success. In the Gram
mar grade examination for teachers,
taken by sixty young ladies,she stood
at the head and has been successful
in securing position in the Grammar
school at Pasadena, with salary of
500 per month.
East Burke.
Ike Mathers has moved from this
village to the Frank Harvey farm.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ell. p. Burpee and Mr..
and Mrs. M. III. Gibson are spending
week at Willoughby.