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

hunting deer Tor some days is expected
home today.
Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Black of Coventry
visited their daug liter, Mrs. w. NJ. Wright,
over Sunday.
Mr.. Bi@e3. T., foreman on the section,
has move! his family into one of Oliver
Valleys tenements.
Osman Dwyer left for Boston this morn
! ing with some horses which D. D. Bean
has sold to parties there.
School closes next Wednesday for the
Thanksgiving vacation. The winter term
| will commence Dec. 18th.
George Blair of Jay has moved into Mrs.
John Twombly's house. Mr.. and Mrs. H.
/ w. Blair will board with them.
There was a good attendance at the
| Salvation army meeting in the Cong.
church last Wednesday evening.
| Geo. Hamblet finishes work in the
! Peerless factory this week and will look
! after his interests in the tub factory in the
! future.
| Geo. H. Davis and wife and daughter
were in Boston and New York last week.
Mr.. Davis was purchasing Christmas
| goods for his store.
The superintendent of the M E. Sun
day-school requests full attendance next
Sunday as arrangements to be made
| for the Christmas exercises
The football game between Yale and
Harvard which was played on the Yale
grounds last Saturday was won by the
home team by a score of $50.
A very hard wind and rain storm passed
over this section last Wednesday afternoon
and considerable damage is reported from
it in various parts of the county.
Owing to the fact that the mail train was
three hours late this morning we are
obliged to leave out a large number of
locals that would otherwise appear.
The following letters remain uncaIled for
at the post Office Nov.'26 Please say adver-
tised. Joseph Berthiaume, Margaret Jou-
bert, Orrin NJ. Locke, Mrs. Abbie Nor
rilf. -"
Mr.. and Mrs. T. F. Wright are in West
Glover with their son Charles, who is hav-
ing very serious time with the arm on
which he was vaccinated about two
months ago.
/ II 1t is expected that the legislature will
make it's final adjournment this week be-
fore Thanksgiving SO that the weary leg
islators will be able to eat turkey with
their families. 80
A union Thanksgiving service was held
at the Congregational church last evening.
There was large company present and a
very interesting sermon was delivered by
Rev. Mr.. Sheaff.
Several from this place attended the
promenade and dance given by the Rath-
bone Sisters at Barton Landing last Fri
day evening. Those who went report
good attendance and an enjoyable eve
ming.
There was washout on the b. & NJ. r.
r. between Ayers Flat and Massawippi.
Nearly a mile of the road bed washed away
in thestormt of Wednesday and no train
could be run over it till yesterday. The
Barton section men have been at work there.
Benjamin Mossman, Reuben Devereaux
and his daughter Ethel of this place and
Oren Orcutt and wife of st. Johnsbury
start for California next Thursday. Mr..
Devereaux and daughter will spend the
winter in Monterey with Mr.. Devereaux's
son, Benjamin.
There is to be Thanksgiving dance at
SeaYer's hall next Thursday evening.
Music will be furnished by the Barton
orchestra. Admission to floor fifty cents
per couple; balcony fifteen cents. The |
young people are planning on a good time /
and large attendance is hoped for.
Charles Graves has let contract to A. |
M Drew of ST. Johnsbury to build tene- |!
ment house on a lot near his harness shop I
this winter. The building is to tie 22x30
feet, on the ground and three stories high. /
He will also move his lower tenement
house and make other improvements.
Charlie Clogston and c. w. Tenney |
returned from Maine Friday. They each |
secured two deer, but had to come home |
by Groveton junction and Wells River on !
account of the washout on the Boston &
Maine r. r. I'VE wish to extend our
thanks to Mr.. Tenney for a liberal supply /
of venison. .- |
Fl. F. Pillsbury and his son Fred have |
made plans to stock four saw-mills with |
lun Der the coming winter. They expect |
to handle about three million feet. Most |
of the management will devolve on Fred, +
as his faith erintends to winter in warm
}er> climate. This is big business for
young man to run, but Fred is a hustler |
and has good eye to business.
The pleasant weather since the snow
went off has been utilized by the people |
in banking houses, putting on double |
windows, and otherwise putting on the
finishing touches in preparation for win
ter. A little time and money expended in
this manner each fall will do much toward
reducing the coal or wood bill and also
add to the comfort of the family.