Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-14


evening. 1t is hoped that the members
will make a special effort to be present.
This community is being well served by
the ice-men, Mr.. Twombly and Mr.. Com
stock. They furnish an ordinary family
with an abundance of ice through the
season for 800.
Special communication of Orleans Lodge,
No. 80 F. & A. NJ, Thursday evening,
June 18th at o'clock. Business of i'm
portance to transact; every member of the
order is requested to be present.
Amos Tower and family have gone to
Gaysville to visit their daughter Florence,
and her husband, Rev. Lewis Moody
Mrs. Geo. Tower and daughter Lottie,
have been visiting in Coventry.
Simon Smith and wife will make their
first trip on the road this week. They
will go to East Albany where they will
make some pictures and will then continue
on into Greensboro and to Hardwick.
Francis Jewell has been hired to go to
Montreal and thence to Quebec, and still
further down the St. Lawrence with the
Sherbrooke band, which will participate
| in ceremonies connected with the Queens
jubilee.
It is reported that Geo. H. Davis will
soon commence the erection of business
block on mis- lot south of the Nelson block.
I It will be large enough to furnish room
for offices, halls, and perhaps other bust
ness places.
Elmer and Carroll Webster went to Bur-
lington last week, leaving here Tuesday
night, and taking the excursion train at
Wells River Wednesday morning. Carroll
returns today, but Elmer will stop there
some time.
There is to be a village meeting at the
school-house hall next Friday evening to
see how the village will vote on the ques-
tion in dispute between J. G. Page and the
village trustees as to when Mr.. Page shall
build on the street.
Rev. Mr.. Douglass and wife, Martin
Drumming and wife, and Mrs. w. L.
Jacobs attended the Epworth League
meeting at Hardwick last week. They re-
port a very successful meeting and
pleasant time enjoyed.
John Hopkins has rented his place and
will move to Peterboro, N. H., where his
kins people have been kind neighbors and
good citizens and we are sorry to have
hem leave the community.
Last week was cloudy and rainy one,
heavy rainfall on Wednesday and !
Thursday, raising the streams and in some
localities doing great damage to highways
and the railroads. The grass is growing,
but other crops are Backward -a-a,si
Porter Carpenter, who has been painting !
for &C. Elliott for several months, VIII go
to work for Geo. Pattee and FL. @. Pierce
training and driving horses. There is a
little more excitement on the trotting
track than on the painters staging for
Port ..--
Walter Nye's little boy disappeared last
Monday afternoon and for time caused
his parents considerable worriment; he
was finally found playing on the railroad |
track in this village. He had apparently
of over two miles. -z-1r5E
Cards are out announcing the marriage |
of H. j. Stannard and Miss Nellie Case,
June 23d. Mr.. Stannard has been the prin-
ciple of the Barton academy the past four
years and has built it up to it's present
high standing. Miss Case has been a
teacher in the primary department of the
school for several years, but was obliged
to resign her position this spring, because
of i'll health much to the regret of both |
scholars and friends.
The 94th annual session of the Northern |
Association of Universalists will be held |
NJ T0H
ing and helpful programs has been pre-
pared. Rev. E. A. Hoyt of Dover, N. H.,
will have charge of the speaking; annual
sermon will be delivered by Rev. III. E. |
Benton Of Derby Line. st. Johnsbury
parish extends cordial invitation to all |
who will attend. Those desiring enter |
tainment should write at once to Rev. III. |
H. Hoyt, ST. Johnsbury, VT.
Next Sabbath will be devoted to Child |
the morning the pastor will speak to the
children of the Sunday school and the
Junior League and desires them to sit in a
body on the front seats; all come. In the
evening an exercise entitled 'sThe Young
Peoples Republic" will be rendered by |
the children and young people; it will be
a service of great interest to all. Collec-
tion for the childrens' fund of the church. |
Come prepared to give aid to a needy |
cause.
Editors of the MONITOR.-I am not a |
citizen Of your town and am under no |
obligations to any one for what may say, |
but have been here enough to read your
different local papers, and with the rest |
thesHarriS 5IVeekty land in that have seen
several articles supporting to be written |
by citizen of your town. These letters, |
filed with the vilest slang that it is pos
sible for man to write, are no credit to the
writer or to your quiet little village. AS |