Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-06-04

Mr.. and Mrs. Botan are visiting at Allen
| Cushman's.
! Our road commissioner, G. w. Skinner,
has commenced work on the road. Fred
| Parlin works with him.
Evansville.
Miss Kate Marshall is quite sick.
B. j. Carter is smiling over the arrival of
little girl.
| Lulu and AIonzo Smith spent Decoration
Day in St. Johnsbury.
l.. A. Drown has improved his buildings
with a coat of paint.
Several from this place attended Decora p
tion Day services at Barton Landing.
T. A. Randall has bought farm in Shelf
field and intends to move about the first of
July.
d. HI. Randall and J.. r. Woodland went
to Willoughby one day last week and
caught eleven pounds of fish.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Bard have adopted
little girl and Mr.. and Mrs. John Bard
have adopted little boy.
George Hunt is working for H. Foster
in the bObbin mill.-H. Durham has gone
to work for the Pike Manufacturing CO.
E. Black has finished work in the stone
factory and has gone to Woodsville to
work.
Mrs. Addie (Lapierre) Folsom of Mont
pelier is here visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. III. Lapierre. = Charles Foster was
home from Woodsville, N. H., last week.
He is working for B. &. M. r. r. and likes
his work very much.-Rev. Dixon of Bar
ton Landing visited at the Methodist par
sonage last week.
East Charleston,
We notice a call is out for democratic
caucus, to be held at West Charleston, Sat
urday, June 9th.
Ray Piker and Emma Beck were married
last Tuesday at the residence of the brides
parents. Congratulations.
West Charleston.
Miss Lillian Griffin is sick.
The Cobweb social was a very pleasant
affair.
Dan Walk is going to st. Johnsbury
where he has secured work.
Mrs. Henry Dyer is home from Coventry
Miss Myrtle Dow of Cabot is in town.
There will be a picnic in the Preston
Clark grove July 4th. The program will
appear later.
T. j. Pratt has moved into the DR.. Brown
house. Mr.. ParIin is moving into the
house he purchased of t. j. Pratt.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Lyon and son Geo.
have gone to Willoughby Lake camping,
where they will stay for some time.
Mrs. John Kettle died last Thursday
morning. She had been a great sufferer
but bore it with Christian fortitude to the
last. The family have the sympathy of all.
Funeral was held at the house Sunday,
Rev. Ellington officiating.
Union Memorial services at the Cong'l.
church Sunday May 9th, Rev. j. Billing
ton delivered a very able sermon. Mrs.
Ida II. Read, state president of the w. c.
T. U. of VT. gave the veterans very in
teresting and sympathetic talk on what
she saw in the south land.
Coventry.
Memorial Day was observed by the
schools with appropriate exercises.
There will be a social at the NJ. E.church
next Friday evening. All are invited to
raised to help pay for the pews.
Mrs. Chesney Brooks has a hydrangea
that has twelve blossoms. The blossoms
are twelve inches in diameter and there are
four more buds nearly developed.
CraftsburN.
Several cases of measles are reported in
town.
w. j. ShiIletto is working for r. A. Pat
terson.
H. F. Graham is building an addition to
his barn.
Annie Macomber is recovering rapidly
from an attack of measles.
Childrens' day will be observed in the
M. E. church next Sunday.
E. c. Stratton took a day out last Thurs
day with hook and line, returning with 100
fine trout.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. II. Kinney went to
Lowell last Thursday to attend the wedding |
of Miss Eva Kinney.
z. H. Hanson has just received a carload |
of wagons and harnesses from the Ex- |
celsior Co., Watertown, n. Y. %
The smallpox case which was reported |
from Hardwick has been denied and pro-
nounc.d case of chicken-pox. Quite a
relief for this town.
The Ladies' Aid society will hold a
straw berry and ice-cream festival at the
vestry of the NJ. E. church next Wednes- |
day evening. Proceeds to go for the church |
carpet. Everybody invited.
The Memorial Day exercises were carried |
out just as planned and all appeared to |
enjoy the program very much. Rev. Mr.. |
Marvin from East Hardwick gave an inter