Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-11-23

week with stock OF clothing.
Newport.
Seymour Lane is in Boston on bust
ness.
Mrs. VIM. Hall OF Chicago, III. is
visiting Mrs. j. r. Hall.
w. w. Hutchins has returned from
New York, where he has been TO buy
new goods.
F. j. Pelky has secured a position
as travelling salesman for a Boston
firm.
t. @. Gale and II. @. Blanchard are
to be candidates for the post Office
under the new administration.
John Farrant has added two new
greenhouses 16x35. John Is a live
man and keeps at the front in his
line.
There is to be morning prayer
meeting at the Cong. church Thanks
giving day, and union service In the
evening.
Thomas Fleming has his old house
on Lake street repaired and fitted up
for two tenements, which are occu-
pied by Mr.. Snow and Mr.. Blanchard.
Tuck & Moore have secured Mr..
Murphy to work for them as cutter,
and they are to go into ready made
clothing business in addition to their
overalls manufacturing.
The annual convention of the Or
leans County Christian Endeavor I'm
ion will be held i'm the Congregation
al church here December and q,
when the election of officers occurs.
The chicken pie supper at the Cong
church last Tuesday evening was well
attended. Mrs. O. G.. Goodrich gave
the Ladies' Social Union n memorial
table with its entire outfit of china,
silverware, linen, etc, and selected
twelve ladies whom she requested TO
sit at this table once a year. At this
supper there were nine of the twelve
present.
Newport Center.
Will Percy, while chopping, cut his
ankle badly.
Judge Rogers went to st. Adams on
business last week.
Ed. Laraway has moved from Hill
dreth's block to East Hin, Troy.
Willie Welch, who has been visiting
friends in Boston, has returned home.
Rumor says that Mrs. Chester Will
liams is going to Barton TO live on
her farm.
ID. J.. Perkins went to st. Albane
before the pension board for exami
nation last week.
The Salvation Army gave n band
concert the 18th inst. at Jenkins hall,
at which a large number were pres
emit.
Westfield.
The Post meeting was held at
Joseph Goddard's last Friday.
Miss Elgie Brown is home from
Hardwick for a short vacation.
Andrew Crawford and Ephraim
Courser sawed $50 logs in a single day
recently.
Nelson Rixford has sold his house
to Geo. Ducharme. Mr.. Rixford has
to w. Derby.
Miss Lora presented the MONITOR
reporter with a dandelion blossom
which she picked Sat, Nov. p.
Luke Miller has returned from
long visit to Conn, and Mass.-Day
ton Harding is home from Bakersfield
academy for a short vacation.
The Woodworths have purchased "A
steam engine and lumber mill In Wal
den, and are moving the machinery
here. They will put in a mill here
greatly enlarging the facilities for
business.
A. Farman finished his school In
Troy village last Friday. He has been
engaged to teach i'm Lowell village
5he coming winter. The school will
begin Nov. 30.-The school on the N.
lill, taught by Miss Anna Thompson
Of Lyndon, will begin Nov. 30.
Enah Stetson, daughter OF Horace
Stetson, aged about seventeen, ran
lway from home, joined Thomas King
ICED fifty five, and the two went TO
aichford where they were married.
The father of the girl being angry,
md it being asserted that King had
obtained a marriage license OF the
own clerk Of Jay by false represen-
alton of the girls age, sheriff Wake
leld was sent after King who Is llv-
ng at Jeffersonvllle. He was brought
afore Ahe stahea- attnrnev it amman