Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-07-18
Barton.


John ArkIey is building a new boat.
Miss Cora RowelI is in Burlington al
DR.. W. Z. Primes sanitarium.
Miss Julia Owen is attending the sum-
mer school at Mortified, Mass.
DR.. Josiah Pearson was in Craftsbury
a few days last week on professional bust
ness.
Mrs. Leon Hurd of Manchester, n. H.,
visited her sister, Mrs. George Nye, last
week.
A meeting of Orleans Lodge, No. So, f.
& A. NJ. is called for Friday evening.
Work.
Rev. w. E. Douglass returned from his
brief vacation last week and occupied his
desk last evening.
Mrs. Sara Cheney and daughter, of Stars-
tead, P. O., are occupying their cottage
across the lake.
A special meeting of the Odd Girls is
called at the NJ. E. church for Tuesday
evening a o'clock.
Fred Percival cut his knee quite badly
last Tuesday while working in the Per-
cival Furniture Co. shops.
The subject of the sermon at the Cong.
church next Sunday morning will be ''The
God that answereth by fire.
Fred Kimball and family of Boston are
stopping at their cottage across the lake.
They will remain here for some weeks.
The weather during the past week has
been very warm and we are now in need OF
rain to save our hay crop another year.
The NJ. E. Sunday school has lately re-
catalogued its library and added So new
books, most of them of very handsome
binding.
Charles Allchurch, who has been visit
ing his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. ALL
church for a time, returns to his home in
st. Adams this week.
F. w. Baldwin started last Saturday af-
ternoon on a business rnd pleasure trip to
Minneapolis, Mimi, and North Dakota.
He will be away about three weeks.
Rev. II. A. Spencer, the new presiding
elder of this district, preached an able SER
mon at the M. E. church yesterday morn
ing. He receives cordial welcome to this
charge.
Mr.. andMrs II. G. Pierce and Fred tooka
carriage drive through Hardwick, andBarre
to Royalton and vicinity last week. They
will return Wednesday or Thursday of
this week.
The Ladies' Aid of the III. E. church will
OTTO Willoughby lake on Wednesday of
this week. Those desiring to go and who
have no means of conveyance will please
confer with the.president or the pastor.
Dea. Daniel Tenney of MorrisvilIe, and
his daughter, Miss Charlotte, teacher in
California, have been visiting G. w. Ten
ney the past week. Mr.. Tenney is 81 years
old, but appears as young as many of the
boys.
Miss Marion Currier has returned from
several weeks visit in Lebanon, n. Ell.
Her aunt, Mrs. Joslyn, returned with her
and will visit here for time. Miss Currier
is much improved in health.
DR.. Sproule, the English specialist, now
located at Newport, announces this week
that he IS unable to receive any more new
patients at present, as his time is all taken
by those he is already treating.
Some of our citizens, considering that
their real estate had been appraised too
high at the quadrennial appraisal which
was completed last week, have appealed
from the decision of the listers. Sixteen
appeals have been made and they are being
considered at the town clerks Office to-
day.
Our base ball boys played team from
Derby Line last Friday afternoon and
were defeated by score of % to 6. The
boys had practiced but little and were not
in good trim for the game, while the op-
posing team contained several college men
and was a very strong one to play. The