Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-11-29
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Mrs. F. c. Waterman of Hyde Park Wis
tied relatives in this village last week.
Nj. D. Hazen of Dorchester, Mass, visit
ed relatives and friends in town last
week.
Rev. j. K. Fuller of Barton Landing de-
livered very interesting sermon at the
Cong. church yesterday.
Mr.. H. Conner has finished work on
Geo. H. Davis block and has gone to his
home in Lancaster, n. Fl.
III. @. Pierce and son, Fred, left for
Boston this morning where Mr.. Pierce will
purchase Christmas goods.
Miss Laura Nelson is expected home
from New Jersey tomorrow. She will
teach in the academy this winter.
Carpenters have been at work on Archie
McDougall's house during the past week
repairing the sections damaged by the
fire.
The Odd Girls will give chicken pie
supper and an apron, bag, and candy sale
at the M. E. church, Wednesday evening,
Dec. 8+h.
Geo. W. Buzzell, who has been working
in Rochester for some weeks, is very sick
with pneumonia. Mrs. Buzzell is there
caring for him.
Geo. G. Blood, who has been stopping
with his brother, G.. II. Blood, for some
time, expects to spend the winter in North
Carolina, where he hopes to Improve in
health.
Pastor Douglass and family took dinner
at Warren Simpsons Thanksgiving day
and helped make way with that big
turkey which Warren has been stall
feeding for the last month.
Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, was
stormy and disagreed BILE. There were
the usual gatherings and the day was en-
joyed within if not without. The snow
which fell that day soon melted away.
Mrs. E. A Jenkins and daughter Alice
have returned from Burke. 1t is reported
p that they are to move into Archie Nc
Dougalrs tenement house as soon as the
repairs which are being made are COM
pleted.
There viii be a gathering of ladies and
gentlemen at the M. e. church on Tues
day afternoon of this week, for the pur-
1 O'Clock. Come with broom and buster,
or send a substitute.
From letter received in this Office we
learn that Mrs. Mark Nutter of Canon
City, Colorado, is at present stopping with
her sister, Mrs. VIM. Drown, of Beaver
Dam, Wis, who is in very poor health.
Mrs. Nutter and Mrs. Drown are sisters of
our esteemed citizen, Joseph Owen, who
is in poor health.
The people Of this village will be sorry
to learn Of the death of J. III. Corey, which
occurred at his home in New Jersey last
Friday. Mr.. and Mrs. Corey have stopped
at the home of r. s. Twombly in this vii
Iage every summer for fourteen years, and
they have made many warm friends here,
who extend their sincere sympathy to Mrs.
Corey in her bereavement.
Geo. Monkey and VIII Heath have Sc
cured the agency for Orleans and Essex
counties for the sale of the aceJylene gas
lights. This gas is produced by the action
of water on carbide, the carbide being a
compound of lime and coal dust. This gives
a very brilliant light and is said to be a
very safe one, there being but little danger
of the gas exploding. The expense of put
ting the lights in need not be very great
and the cost of running them is claimed
to below.
A letter received in this Office from
Chester Tracy of Iowa, who for several
years was a successful farmer in this town,
states that himself and family are well.
The season has been prosperous one and
most of the crops have been good. Prices
have advanced and times are prosperous.
Mr.. Tracy has 5000 bushels of grain on
hand and seems to be in no danger of