Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-11-26


to Magog last week to attend the funeral
of Mrs. Squires' sister.
! Lester Magoon is home from Oxford, n.
H., on a VISIT. G. Turnbul was in this
place last Thursday on business. Arthur
| Chappell is in town on visit.-Mrs. Flora
Howe has returned to her home in Barre.
Her mother, Mrs. Kilby accompanied her.
! MF. Phillips has moved from his village
residence to the place which he recently
purchased of L. F. Pea body. Martin
! has moved into the N o. Blake residence
in the villages. o. Whipple has moved
into his residence.-Dana Farrar has taken
Mrs. Wealthy Litchfield's farm and is to
move there soon.
Newport.
Nat Bisbee is doing office work in the B.
& M. freight office.
J. w. Burton and Mr.. Webster are the
new clerks in the Gilman & Co.'s store.
Mr.. James Peters parents of Magog
have come to spend the winter with him.
The district meeting of Odd Fellows
was held here Tuesday, Nov. 20, with a
good attendance.
Thad Powers was recently run into by a
boy coasting on Cross street and received
compound fracture of the left leg.
Victor Drolett has closed his labors in
the blacksmith shop of E. Nolett and is
now at work for Fairbrother & Gale.
M II. Brown has closed his services as
weigher of mail between here and Spring
field, Mass, and is back in the post office.
The fire-alarm sounded at 1:30 p. m.
Friday. Fire had broken out in one of the
schooI-rooms but was extinguished with
but little damage.
Mr.. Barnard and family of California
have moved into L. E. Thayer's honse on
Sd St.--Paul Cassavant has moved from
the Revior house on Lake st. to tenement
in Observation-Disclosures Waters has moved
from w. B. Hyers' on Pleasant st. to a
tenement in Tuck block.
From the appearance of the yard of the
International Lumber Co. after the wind
storm last week one would think a western
cyclone had struck there. Lumber was
scattered about, one end of the shingle
shed was moved fifteen feet and a portion
of the iron roof was blown off the boiler
house. +.'s.fsf+ %1-+ - f..
j. F. Lambert has engaged Joseph
Darion to take the place of his former
baker, Mr.. Hitchcock, who has gone to
Providence, r. L., Mr.. Darion is an ex-
perienced maker of confectionery. A new
feature will be added and home mad e
candy will be found in the near future at ,
the Newport Bakery.
Mrs. Humphrey has returned to Barton
after spending several weeks with her son,
Harley.-Roy Moody has returned to Mont
real having made short visit at Mrs. JUL
Jus Richards. -Mrs. E. D. Burns and
daughter from West Burke are visiting at
Albert Burns'.-James Harvey of Ports
mouth, n. H, is the guest of his brother,
Frank Harvey.
DR.. ]. H. Gaines has gone to New York
to attend horse show.-Mrs. F. P. Gates
has gone to Portland, Maine, to visit her
ughter.-Mrs. Jane Stewart has closed
her house and gone to New York to spend
the winter with her daughter.-Mrs. Felix
Taylor and daughter have returned from
a visit to Barre and interchangeable.
Gokey has returned from Hardwick
where he has been at work in the stone
sheds.-Mrs. Truman Hurlburt has gone
to Enosb burg to visit her former home and
spend Thanksgiving.
~ estfieId.
M. Winslow Farman lectures in Johnson
on the evenings of Nov. % and 26.
Miss Dolly Trumpass is home from West
Derby for short vacation Helen
Wakefield is home from North Troy. 1|'A"
Oscar Wright moves this week into the
house vacated by Roy Martin. He will
board Alton Tower, the expressman.
The village school closes this week. It
will be taught this winter by Elmer Web
ster and Miss Minnie E. Gilpin and Will
begin Dec. IL.
On the evening of Nov. 10 there was
Wallace H. Gilpin's in honor of his seven
tenth birthday. @
On the evening of Nov. % jolly COM |
pany of people gave Roy Martin and wife |
a surprise party as they were about to /
move from town. Rev. J. LII. Cone in be- ;
half of the company presented Mr.. and |
Mrs. Martin with a silver cake basket and
other tokens of appreciation and respect.
Mr.. Martin moves his household goods |
to Troy.
Miss Winnie Farman who is teaching in
Hardwick is home for the Thanksgiving
Foster Kinney is here from
Hardwick visiting her parents.-Rev. Mr..
who is candidating in the
Cong'l church in Lowell, visited Rev. J. III.
Cone last week. They knew each other in
Bangor seminary.-Mrs. Howard Wallace
mas returned to Massachusetts.
The c. e. society reorganized Nov. 18th