Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-12-28

laSG week until N1OuOdy ONOh11AS' 49,.
paper is printed Monday afternoon.
The annual election of the officers Of
Crescent Lodge. No. Al, /. 0. o. F., Will DC
held Dec 10Th, 1896, and members are re-
quested to be present at this meeting
The Dist. meeting of the Order of the
Eastern Star will be held with Orient
Chapter, No. Is, Jan. 5. Cordial invitation
extended to all members of the order.
The Vermont (Walton's) registers have
come. They are said to be better than
heretofore, and the price has been advanc-
ed little We sell them in the office for
Is cents.
! Ex-Gov. G. S. Page has published and is
distributing his annual calendar Like
Mr.. Page, there is nothing small about it.
1t is of sufficient size to be seen and used
all about the office.
| The annual meeting of the Fair Ground
! Association will be held at Hotel Barton
in this village on Tuesday, Jan. 9th, at 10
| o'clock, a. M. All members, and all in
terested are requested to be present.
Christmas exercises were held at the
Cong. and NJ. E. churches Thursday
evening. The children performed their
parts finely and the Christmas trees were
we'll loaded with handsome presents.
Miss Alice Beckwith has returned from
her visit to Lyndon and West Burke
Mrs. Sam B. Nelson has returned from ST..
Johnsbury; and Mrs. Fred Conner from
Burlington, where she has been visiting
relatives.
The MONITOR is in receipt of pleasant
letter from Geo. III. HENDERSON of South
ern California, who represents the weather
there as being most pleasant and propiti-
Gus 1.-THE rains have been sufficient to prom
Use good crops.
It was kind act on the part of Fred
Rand to pass a subscription paper around
the other day to raise $500 for a school
girl living here in the village, who lost
her wallet containing that amount of
money-all she had.
The regular meeting of the Barton
Teachers Association was postponed on
account of the holidays. The next meet
ing will be held in Room No. 9 of the Bar
ton school building, Saturday, Jan. g.. All
teachers are cordially invited to attend.
Pretty rugged and steady winter weather
since December came in. There has been
just snow enough in this vicinity for good
sleighing, but not enough for logging.
The cold and the storms have been more
severe in some sections of the country
than here of late.
Geo. w. Smith & Son of White River
Junction, VT, manufacturers of the ia
nous Hanover Crackers have just issued
their handsome Calendars for 1897. Ifyou
wish one mail them your name and adj
dress with four cents in stamps and they
will send you one.
There will be a special service and New
Year social at the M. E. church on Thurs
day evening of this week, at 1880. All
of church and congregation cor
daily invited. Members not able to be
present are requested to send Christian
and greetings by letter.
We are panied to hear that James NJ.
Tracy, son of Chester Tracy of Belle Plain,
Iowa, was killed by railroad accident at
that place last Tuesday morning. He left
a wife and two children. Mr.. Tracy re-
sided in town with his parents in his
earlier years and is pleasantly remember
ed.
All our readers who want a paper that
gives the most general, congressional and
other interesting news should have the
Ne,u York Weekly Press. We furnish it
with the MONITOR for only 25 cents
year. 1t is wonderfully cheap! A regular
dollar weekly for % cents. All our sub
scribers should have it.
In order to get BeedIe's orchestra here
to our musical convention in January, it
is necessary to guarantee them certain
sum of money and paper is in circulation
to secure guarantee fund for this pur-
pose. It is on the same plan as the
fund for the lecture course, and
it is hoped it will be as successful.
John E. Skinner, mail route agent, was
quite severely hurt some days ago by be-
ing thrown in his car. The car WIS: un-
struck by an engine vita such
force as to throw him down. Mr.. Skinner
and his daughter Gertrude move to
Springfield, Mass, where it is more con-
venient for him to have his home and
headquarters than here. Sorry to have
them leave us. i
Our advertisers and others, who are ask.
ing every little while to have their notices
and advertisements s'put in among towrr1
Iocals,'' are informed that we cannot do !
this We dislike to refuse any request,
but our reading columns must be kept
clear of matter which properly belongs
elsewhere. There is nothing more pro-
x,cI,;pcr in q r,opor than the frau6 that iS
in some papers by sandwiching
in ads. and paid matter with that which
purports to be something else Let us keep
our columns clear of this sort of stuff.
South Barton.
Christmas exercises passed off very pleas
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