Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-10-18

church last Friday evening. There was a
fair number present and good time was
reported.
Ten of the members of the Rebekah of
this place went to Lyndonville last Friday
evening to attend meeting Of that or
ganization there.
The w. r. G.. will give chicken pie sup
per and social in G. A. R. hall on Wednes-
day evening of this week. Everybody in
vited. Admission, 20 cents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Smith of ST. Johns
bury visited in town last week. Mr.. Smith
has recovered from his recent Illness end
will resume his work soon.
A special town meeting has been called
for Wednesday, Oct. II, at p. m. to elect
an agent to deed some school property
which the town has voted to sell.
Mr.. and Mrs Thomas King left for their
home in New Jersey last week, Mrs. King
having so far recovered that her physician
thought she was able to. stand the jour-
ney.
Mrs. M. F. Prime, who has been in Bur-
Iington for medical treatment, is much
improved in health and has gone to Wor-
cester, Mass, to visit her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Shaw.
The teachers at the Academy were away
Thursday, Friday and Saturday of last
week, attending the annual meeting of the
State Teachers Association, held at Wood
| stock.
| Mrs. Betsey Stone has returned from ST.
Johnsbury, where she has been visiting for
he no ct fovu 1UooIyc Charles Stone accom-
panied her here and visited friends over
| Sunday.
The weather has been very pleasant for
| some time and the people have taken ad-
vantage of this fact SO that most of the
| farmers have finished their fall work and
are prepared for the winter.
The woods abound with hunters this
fine weather, most of them apparently
being after cartridges. Some of the hunt
ers are quite successful while others, we
understand, have no success at all.
Miss Kate Kilgallen and Mrs. Maggie
Brown, while driving last Saturday, col
lided with a loaded team on the West
Glover road and the two ladies were thrown
from their carriage. Mrs. Brown was Sc
verely injured but Miss Killgallen escaped
with few bruises.
There will be a masquerade promenade
and dance at Sewers hall next Friday eve
ming. Promenade from s till 10 o'clock
and dance from 10 till /. Potter's orches-
ira will furnish music. Masquerade %
cents; dance % cents extra; gallery Is
cents.
DR.. and Mrs. J. A. Pearson left this
morning for Boston, where the doctor is
to attend the meeting of the Northeastern
Dental Association, which is to be held
there Wednesday and Thursday of this
week. The doctor is to read paper on
s'What shall we do?" before the society.
They will return home the last of the week.
The usual auction sale of seats for the
lecture course will be held at Sewers hall,
Tuesday evening, Oct. &c, at 1880. Not
more than six seats will be sold at any one
bid. Seats not sold at auction will be on
sale at 81. G. Pierce's store after 9 O'Clock
Wednesday morning, Oct 81. The course
promises to be as good if not better than
any we have had here, and there will be a
large number of seats sold at auction.
CARD.-We wish to thank those friends
who sympathized with and helped us dur
ing the sad trial attending the death of
of our little Ellen, and especially to the
quartette who furnished the music at the
funeral. May God comfort and help you
to bear your losses when He shall call your
own loved ones, is the wish of
HARLEY FERRILL,
MRS. Fl. FERRILL,
VIM. BERWICK,
Mrs. VIM. BERWICK.
Some complaints are being made because
of the town library being closed SO that no
books can be taken out. The committee
are trying to make up list of books to be
purchased, and as soon as this can be done
the books will be bought and list of all
of them made out. The library will
then be divided, part of the books being
taken to Barton Landing, where branch
office will be established. Anyone having
a choice of books which they would like
to have in the library, will favor the COM
mittee if they will hand them a list of
snch books.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harley Ferrill's little
daughter Ellen, 10 months old, died last
Thursday evening, after an illness of but
"a hours. The trouble seemed to be cholera
infantum. The funeral was held Saturday
afternoon, Rev. Mr.. Douglass officiating.
Mr.. and Mrs. Terrell and the grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Berwick, have the sym
pathy of the community. By peculiar
coincidence this death makes the third in
as many houses adjoining within a few
months, Mr.. Blood, father of Station Agent
Blood, passing away in the early summer
and the sudden death of Mr.. A. G. Jewell
occurred the last of July.
F. w. Cutting has nearly completed his
house on Cutler Hill and is moving into it.
The house is pretty one and inside every
thing lis arranged in a very convenient |
manner. The kitchen, dining room, sit |