Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-10-29


meet with Mrs. Geo. Dane, next Saturday
afternoon and evening. The young people
are invited in the evening.
John HiIdreth has gone to Newport to
| work.-W. p. Holton has moved to Canada.
Miss Lillian Griffin and Miss Cora Dud-
ley have gone to Newport to work.
The Isaac Blake Post, No. 104 will hold
campfire in the town hall Tuesday eve
ming, Oct. 80. good drum corps will be
in attendance. Oyster supper in the G. A.
r. hall from $3.50 till 1880. All are cordially
invited.
Mr. and Mrs. Eaton of Island Pond
called at the electric power house one day
last week and were shown about the place.
Mr.. Batchelder of Newport was in town
last week.-Mr. and Mrs. David Cook are
home from the seashore where they went for
their health.-Mrs. Fosters mother, Mrs.
| Darling, has returned to her home in Ma
lone, N. Y.-Mr. and Mrs. Nehemiah Colby
of Derby visited at DIR. Humans last week.
Eva Parlin is home from Masse chusetts.
Mr.. Joseph Moore of Wyoming is visiting
at Steven Cooks.
| Coventry.
| MIS- I1SIUSII Dhu6 qulIc S1Cks
Lillian Virgins of Barton was in town
| over Sunday.
| Herbert Dane has had a telephone put
| into his hotel.
| There will be conundrum social at the
| M. e. church on Friday evening.
| Ira A. Wheelock has hired Orlando Pages
farm in Irasburgh and taken possession.
The young people of this place attended
the Epworth League social at Newport
last Friday evening, and report good time.
Mrs. F. d. Badger has gone to Claremont,
N. H., to attend the funeral of her cousin.
Mrs. S. H. Pearson spent last week at
Montpelier.
The busiest place we saw while in Gov
entry was at Geo. Heerman's mill. Mr..
Herman is employing several men saving
out and dressing his large stock of lumber.
Z. A. Livingstone is home from New
York.-Marion Guilds home from Massa-
chusetts.-Raymond and Warner Guild
are home from Orange.-Mary Brooks is
home from Boston.
The w. c. T. U. will give their annual
chicken pie supper in Cong. vestry We'd
nesday evening, Oct. 31st. Supper served
from half-past six to eight. Every house
keeper will receive present OF the screen
Mountain Cook Book" worth twenty-five
cents. There will be musical and liter
airy program at which time Mrs. Boynton
will give report of the state meeting at
Burlington. All cordially invited.
Next Sabbath morning Mrs. Ida Vose
Woodbury. of Boston will speak from the
pulpit of the Cong'l church. Mrs. Wood
bury is one of the best lady speakers in the
United States. She has the faculty of
gaining and keeping the attention and
interest of an audience from start to finish
with not dull moment for anyone. |
There ought to be large audience present |
as no one can afford to miss the opportu-
nifty of listening to her message. She |
takes up the problem of the Negro of the |
South and also tells of the work among |
that strange people the'' Mountain Whites" |
of Kentucky and Tennessee.
l.. s. Morrill, has shown that farming |
pays. Fifteen years ago he moved to this |
town and bought the farm on which he |
now lives, paying $500 for the same in
Guiding the stock. Ten years ago he built
a large barn at a cost of about q, 800. He |
is now building a nice two story house
28x38 feet with an ell 1Sx40. The house is
well made; several of the rooms are to be
finished in hard wood and it will be sup
piled with all the modern i'm proven ents
The house will be heated with a Murkland
furnace which will also warm the water for
the stock. When the house is completed |
Mr.. Morrill, will probably have one of the
A.xiI -, L.
expects to move into his new house in
few weeks. When he first moved on to his
farm he could winter but thirteen head of
cattle; last winter he wintered forty-five
head of cattle, four horses and seventy
sheep, which shows that he has improved
the land as well as the buildings.
Craftsbury.
Beattie Taylor is laid up with a cut on
the knee which he received while CHI opping
for Mr.. Patterson.
Mrs. Josie Anderson from Winooski is
spending few days with friends in town.
Mrs. Dillingham; is entertaining frien DIS
from Burlington.
Several of the young friends of Miss
Alice Keiser made her surprise visit last
evening, it being her birthday.
All report very pleasant time.
Regular meeting of Craftsbury Grange
will be held at Grange hall Friday evening.
Four candidates are to be initiated in first
and second degrees. All members of the
Grange are requested to be present.
North Craftsbury.
Nellie Sheehan is gaining.
Mrs. A. Paddock has been caring for
Mary Scott the past week.
Lewis LOOMS has moved from the Miller