Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-10-04

the district is made up of the counties of
Orleans, Essex, Caledonia, Orange, Wash
ington, Windsor and Windham, including
the same territory as is included in the
second congressional district. The head
quarters are at Newport; the sub ports in
this district are North Troy, Derby Line,
Island Pond, Beecher Falls and Canaan.
Twenty-three persons, including all the
living children of Philander and Betsey
Wright, met at Mr.. t. D. Kendall's, at
West Newport, last Friday for family
sotial and autumn harvest and chicken
pie supper. 1t was no anniversary and
nobody's birthday; no speeches We're
made; no poems read; no songs sung and
no presents given or received by anyone;
but all enjoyed themselves rehearslng their
past good and bad luck and future antici-
pations. Mr.. Kendall has large and well
titled farm, and the tables, laden with an
abundance of well prepared provisions,
gave no indications that this was an off
year for crops. The following persons
were present: Mrs. Betsey Wright (85
years old, hale and hearty as most women
at SOY, and her brother Charles S. Batch
elder; Mr.. and Mrs. II. D. Kendall, Mr..
and Mrs. E. II. Webster, Mr.. and Mrs. o.
P.,E.P., Z.G.and Will o. Wright; Miss Mel
lie Wright and friend Miss Sophia Drew;
Harry o. Kendall and wife, T. Dickson
Kendall, Miss Bessie Kendall, and Mrs.
Ethel (Wright) Elkins and daughter.
Newport Center.
Mrs. G. w. Rogers is on the sick list.
Mrs. E. w. True is at Newport on visit.
Frank Hildreth has returned to Phila-
delphia.
Mrs. Cornelius Smith and daughters of
Lunenburg are here visiting friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Kelley are keeping
house in the Courtney brothers tenement.
Troy.
Grace Albee has the tonsilitis.
Miss Lydia Hartig is in New York this
week. -
Bertha Eaton of Newport spent Sun
day in town.
VIM. Hoyt has moved to West New
port, and Royce Houston has moved into
the house with Mrs. Amanda Baraw.
Matte Galbraith visited her sister, Mrs.
G. E. Young, last week.-Eliza Miller of
johnson is with her sister, Mrs. Mann.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. III. Buck visited in Der
by recently.-Mr. and Mrs. Ed. King are
visiting in z. Q.
WestfieId.
Mrs. II. D. Miller, who has been on the
sick list, is slowly improving.
Mr.. and Mrs. Olin Aiken of Albany
move this week into the house of Mrs.
Betsey Stebbins.
Mrs. Lawrence, of Lowell, has come to
town to stay during the winter with her
daughter, Mrs. E. S. Miller.
Max Miller, who recently entered Brown
University, has secured a position as
teacher in one of the evening schools of
Providence, r. I.
Amos Cross and wife completed thirty
five years of welded life recently, and the
event was celebrated by pleasant COM
pany which gathered at their house.
Miss Lillian Wright was in Montpelier
and Burlington last week.-Mrs.. d. S.
Hitchcock has been in North Hatley on
visit.-Mrs. Amy Pettengill of Manches-
ter, n. III. has been in town visiting her
brother, A. Ell. Hoyt.-Mrs. Laura Gilman
is visiting in Newport. Mrs. G. II. Elkins
of North Troy has been in town visiting
her father and other relatives.
WeStmOre.
There will be a harvest supper at the
church vestry Thursday eve, Oct 7ht. All
are invited.
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