Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-02-20


ID go to California to live.
Fred Knights little baby has been quite
lick. DIR. Nichols is treating it.-Roy
Skinner is to work another year at B1ge-
owls drug store in Newport.
Greensboro.
Little Matte Gebbie aged six years, has
attended school every day during the
school year, and had no tardy marks
Turing the winter term.
Irasburgh.
The auditors will meet for the exam1na-
hon of the town officers accounts, Tues
day, Feb. %, at 10 o'clock.
The ladies' Aid will meet in the parlors
hi the Cong'I church Friday afternoon.
All are cordially invited to come to supper
which will be served at 6 o'clOck.-M1ss
Alice Parker has closed her second term IN
the Albany village school and returned
home.-Miss May Wheeler has been con-
fined to the house with German measles
the past week. Quite number in town
have been ill with the same disease.-Miss
Helen Somers was at home from Newport
Center over Sunday.
Lowell.
Mr.. AiIbee, the new butter maker at the
creamery, has moved here with his family.
Quite number of our young people at
tended the entertainment at Eden Mills
last evening.
Grip is still raging. Many new cases
developed last week. Mumps are also
III quite prevalent in town.
H. D. Stannard went to Hyde Park on
business last Tuesday. He reported the
worst storm and blockade of highways and
/ railroads we have had this winter.
The R. C. Society met last Thursday
evening with Rev. Mr.. Maillet. There was
a good attendance this time, owing to the
Improvement in weather and roads.
There will be an old fashioned donation
Il for the benefit of Rev. w. NJ. Morrow, at
the town hall next Friday evening. A short
literary program will be given. All cordial
ly invited.
The cotillion party at the town hall last
Tuesday evening was not decided success,
owing to the absence of the ladies, only
two being present. Our young people will
do well to consult the almanac in the
future before planning any social event.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Sias, who have been
stopping at Chas. Laplant's, have gone to
South Troy, where they will work for Mr..
Shaw.-Mrs. B. r. Covey and sons have
gone to Evansville. They would have gone
before if house could have been rented
there.-Eugene Greenwood and wife were
in town Thursday on their way home from
the musical convention at Newport.-Ed-
gar Coolidge was here from Johnson the
first of last week onbusiness,
Morgan.
Maurice Burbank is sick at James Bull
locks.-S. F. Gray has taken new boarder,
it is little lady.
Myrtle Gray is home from Barton on ac-
count of sickness.-Henry Rye will work
for o. P. Wilcox the coming, season.-
Ina Rood is home from Charleston, where
she has been teaching Theron
Adams and children of Derby visited in
town last week.
Mrs. Byrum Bartlett died Feb. 18th at
the home of Mrs. Geo. Bartlett, where she
has been tenderIy cared for. Mrs. Bart
lett has been for years a member of the
M. E. church. She was a very pleasant
and kind woman, highly respected by all
who knew her. An aged husband and.one
son survive her. The funeral was held
at her late home, Rev. Mr.. Gregory offici-
ating.
Newport.
Oscar Cook is sick at his home in Bar
ton.
Rice's Comedy Company have had full
house nearly every evening this week.
Friday evening there was no standing
room.
Several of the members of the Eastern
Star Lodge attended the funeral of Mrs. n.
T. Ball at West Derby last Wednesday.
She was a member of the order.
The University Extension Club have en-
gagged Rev. Andrew Gillies of Montreal to
lecture Feb. %. ''Some Contributions Of
Vermont to History" is his subject.
Miss Laura Pickle has closed her work at
the Gilman dressmaking department and
gone to her home in Canada.-May Oben
has finished work for B. f. Moore & Co.
James Kinney, former engineer on the
day express, has taken train from Lyn-
don to Wells River. He has broken up
housekeeping and his family has gone to
Concord, \. H.
Ernest Grogan and Mrs. Varrian Of
Lowell, Mass, have been in town the past
week, visiting at E. S. BalI's.-Miss Nc
Arthur of Sherbrooke IS the guest of Mrs.
E. Lane-Mr. and Mrs. Geo. z. Goode and
daughter are stopping at the Newport
House.
Newport Center