Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-11-27

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A large number attended the venison
dinner at the South Church last Friday
and did ample justice to the we'll cooked
and well served food. Mr.. Cheney of Man
chester, n. H., who donated the venison,
kindly sent cut flowers to decorate the
tables.
The Glover brass band will give a concert
at institute hall next Thursday evening,
consisting of songs, farces and selections
| by gramophone. After the concert there
will be a grand Thanksgiving ball and
oyster supper. Music by Potter's full or
chestra. Admission, concert, ten cents.
Oyster supper, fifty cents per couple. Hall
bill, seventy-five cents per couple.
The ladies' Mite Society hasten to ac-
knowledge the gracious gift of venison for
the dinner the oath inst, also the beautiful
| bouquets of cut flowers to decorate the
tables from our former much esteemed,
townsman, Reuben II. Cheney, now OF
| Manchester, n. III. Though absent, he
does not forget the home of his youth or
his boyhood friends. $40 was added to our
treasury.
West Glover.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Young have moved
to South Albany.
c. M. Dwinel was at Barton Landing
Tuesday and Wednesday attending the
teachers examination.
James Young of Connecticut visited at
David Gilman's this week.-Mrs. Page is
stopping with her sister, Mrs. Preston
Skinner.-Clyde Anderson is home from
his visit OF Waterford
Miss Church is expected to teach i'm the
Anderson district the coming term.-Miss
Kate Barry is home from her school I'm
Barton. She will not teach this winter on
| account of her mothers illness.
Mrs. Agnes Cook has dairy OF ten COWS
which have averaged to make three hun
dred and ninty-five pounds of butter the
past year. She recently sold five calves to
a party in Montpelier at ten dollars per
head.
Miss Cora Chase and James Young were
married at Craftsbury by Rev. J. {. Tay-
lor the 18th. In the evening Mr.. and Mrs.
Young gave a reception at their pleasant
home where about one hundred of their
friends gathered TO wish them joy and
happiness. They were the recipients of
Christie furnished music and the reception
closed with a social dance.
Greensboro.
II. w. Calderwood has taken the Job to
cut the lumber on the Babcock lot.
Edward Holloway will soon move on to
the farm he purchased of w. II. Leland.
Mrs. Wallace Stone has returned after
several months absence. Mr.. Stone is on
the sick list
Verne Pope, who has been attending
school at Barton Academy, has returned
home for a short vacation.
Horace Howelson and force of fifteen
men are working on the Simpson lot, and
boarding at the Lindsay Cottage.
The annual business meeting of the
United Presbyterians was held on Satur-
day, and the ladies furnished dinner at the
church.
j. E. Richards, after threshing three
months in Hardwicll and Walden, has re-
turned to do the threshing in his neigh
borhood.
The new highway in district No. 6, over
which there has been so much contention,
was completed and opened to the public,
Nov. 25th.
Miss Hattie Mcclellan who taught sat
isfactory term of school in Dist No in
the fall, assists Bert Burbank in the school
at the Bend this winter.
c. A. Goodrich has purchased of the
John King estate, the small farm that
joins his.-Geo. Rodgers has rented the
VIM. Spiers farm for another year.
The MONITOR agent will be at the post
office here Monday, Dec. 4, from ? o'clock
in the afternoon till Tuesday morning at
10 a. m. Do not fail to see him at this time
and get your club papers. -Lai
The members OF the Ladies' Home Circle
gave a chicken pie dinner last Friday at
the parsonage, that day being the Goth
anniversary of the organization of the
Cong. church in this town.
Geo. Gebbie and wife, who have been
visiting relatives and friends in town, re-
turned TO their home in Ryegate last
Wednesday, Cuthbertson is i'm
Northampton, Mass, visiting his brother
Henry.
II. r. Mack of Hardwick recently put in
some nice monuments in the cemetery here
for III. S. Tollman and l.. A. Jackson. They
are made from the dark, Hardwick granite
and look very fine. Mr.. Mack is a reliable
dealer and has a good business i'm this
county as well as Caledonia.
The golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs.
Duncan McFarlane was celebrated at their
home last Monday evening by about eighty
of the friends and relatives gathering
and giving them a surprise. Supper was
served to the multitude from the tables