Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-12-31

E. F. Collins of Southboro. Mass, is at
FL. G. SpauIding's. He is buying car
load of new mich COWS to take home with
him.
/ Mrs B. F. Grout and nephew have
been visiting relatives at Lisbon, n. H.,
| and ST. Johnsbury East during the holt
! days.
| The following letters remain uncaIled for
at the post office Dec. "a. Please say adver-
tised: Mrs. Mary Siverite, 2; Mrs. Abby
| Wyman.
Rev. and Mrs. w. G. Johnson presented
| their daughter Marie with one of A. R.
CowIes' nice Malcolm Love pianos as a
birthday present last week.
| W.C. Browns aunt, Miss Nancy Skeeles
of Somerville, Mass, died last week. Mr..
Brown was unable to attend the funeral on
account of the illness of his wife.
DR.. Martin, The oculist, is to be at Hotel
Barton next week. DR.. Martin has made
many visits to this town and is we'll
known to the people of the county.
Miss nellie Foss, who has been spending
the holiday vacation with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs Harlow Foss returned to her
school in Winchendon, Mass, today.
The young people here maintain
skating rink keeping the snow cleared off
so as to be able to indulge in that health
full exercise any time during the winter.
Carl Abbott has finished work for 0. D.
Owen and has gone to AttlebOrO, Mass,
where he has a position with large jew
eIry manufacturing company as shipping
clerk.
The Vermont registers have arrived and
will be found on sale at this office. They
are larger than usual this year as they con-
tain the complete census returns. Price
fifteen cents.
Mrs Ovitt, who has been visiting her
daughter, Miss A. B. Ovitt, at L. NJ. Hub
bard's for several weeks, was called to
Canada last week on account Of the sick
ness of her sister.
There appears to be quite a sale for
maple sugar at this time. E. 9. Darling
shipped carload Of sugar to Seattle, Wash,
Saturday, and n. NJ. Scott also has an
order for
After January 1st the price Of the New
York Weekly Tribune will be sixty cents
and the Tri- Weekly Tribune S1.25 TO all
readers of this paper. Remember the
change in price.
e S. Grow of New York, a son Of S. b.
Grow, was a guest at G. c. Grows last
Wednesday, Mr.. Grow is one of the pro-
fessors in the Clinton high school for
boys a school which mum bers more than
one thousand pupils.
The Women's Literary Club met with
Mrs o. E. Cowies, Wednesday evening,
Dec. 26. The following interesting pro-
gram was carried out: Sketch of Carpac-
clio, Miss Locke; sketch of Titan, Miss
Foss; sketch of Tintoretto, Miss Ovitt.
The Christmas exercises at the NJ. z.
church last Tuesday evening were interest
ing and We're enjoyel by large audience.
The singing and speaking by the children
was especially good. There were three
trees we'll covered with gifts and both old
and young were generously rememb ered.
When Mrs. H. c. Pierce returned from
the festival at the church Christmas eve,
she found the house had been broken into
and her piano taken away. Upon further
investigation she found fine Malcolm
Love piano had been left in place of the
one stolen. No arrests have been made
but suspicion points strongly to a. r.
Cowles.
There was family reunion of the Drew
and Norris families at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. w. W. Norris on Christmas day.
Over sixty invitations were sent out and
fortyOne guests were present. A Christ
mas tree had been prepared for the occasion |
and it was loaded down with presents, |
varying from the small, inexpensive gifts |
to beautiful gold watch. A splendid re- |
past was served and everything was done
by Mr.. and Mrs. Norris to make the day
most enjoyable one.
The Union Twentieth Century Conven- |
ton to be held in Burlington, Dec. 81 to |
Jan. inclusive will be the greatest conven-
ton ever held in Vermont. The program |
will be of unusual interest to all. It is a
mass cOnvention and all are invited. All |
railroads will issue round trip tickets to
Burlington and return for fare and one
third, good going December 31st to Jan
uary End; and returning to January 4th
Visitors will be met at all the incoming |
trains by members of the reception COM
mittee, who will be known by their badges,
and will be conducted to the convention
headquarters, the Y. NJ. C. A. building, and !
assisted about registration.
Several lawsuits have been tried here
during the week. The first was tried in
Lawyer Aldrich's Office on the 24th and
was that of I. E. Leclare VS.. S c. Kimball,
This was for a breach of warranty to re-
cover damages. 1t was tried before Justice
S. A. Hunt of Westmore and a jury. The
jury brought in a verdict for plaintiff.
Damages and costs amounted to SSS.O7.