Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-01-07

seems none the worse for the rice.
Regular meeting of Orient Chapter, No.
13, o. E. S. next Friday evening. Banquet
at 80 sharp. Officers are requested to be
ready for work promptly at 7:30, followed
by installation OF officers for the ensuing
year.
At the meeting yesterday the Cong. soci-
ETY. elected the following officers for the
coming year Supt. o. E. Cowles; LIST Asst,
Geo. King; I'd Asst. G. D. Scott; Sec, and
Treas, W. NJ. Wright; Junior Supt., Mrs.
J. F. Batcbelder.
The union meetings will be continued
this week, closing Thursday evening. The
meeting this evening will be at the Cong1
church, also Wednesday evening. Tues
day and Thursday evenings they will be
held at the Methodist church.
Mrs H. a Clark, mother of Mrs. Chas.
D. Hamblet, is home from the west and
after visiting here at Mr.. Hamblets
for short time Will go to Somerville,
Mass, to spend the winter with her
daughter, Mrs Harry True.
Mr. Geo. Rand of Philadelphia is visiting
his bother, Fred Rand. Mr.. Rand left
Philadelphia several weeks ago accompa-
MED by his wife and came to Vermont to
visit. While in So. RoyaltOn Mrs. Rand
was taken ill and died in short time.
L. NJ Hubbard, District Deputy, went to
Island Pond Thursday evening Jan. and
installed the officers of Essex Lodge No.
IS, l. O. OF. c. G. w. Heath was also
at Island Pond the same evening and in
stalled the officers of Ross Encampment.
A letter received from Mr.. E.A. Holtham
who left here some months ago for Cali
fornia states that he is now in Brooklyn,
n. Y, but Will leave later for his destina-
ton. He remem bered his daughter Jennie
at Christmas time in a very substantial
manner.
Several cases Of scarlet fever have been
reported in town and the schools at the
academy have been closed for this week as
a precaution against the.d1sease spreading.
The school building will be thoroughly
fumigated and disinfected and everything
possible done to DO away with further
trouble.
The following officers have been elected
for the NJ. Z. Sunday-school during the
coming year: Supt., E. T. Humphrey;
assistant superintendent, Victor Hunter;
secretary, NJ. II. Drumming; treasurer, L.
J. Hartman; librarian, Clarence Stannard;
organist. Mrs. n. S. AIdrich; chorister, T.
". Cutting.
The C. A. r. Installed their officers last
Wednesday evening. They prepared an
oyster supper and invited the ladies of the
W. Z. Q. to the repast. They report an en-
joyable time. The w. r. Q. presented the
Post with a large number OF rosters for
1891. The Post expressed its gratitude by
a vote Of thanks to the ladies.
There was a hearing in the case of the
State vs.. Ernest Wheeler in F. w. Bald
wins Office Saturday, the oath ult. It ap-
pears Wheeler got into trouble with G.
Esden, and Wheeler was arrested for as
sault and battery. AT the hearing he
pleaded guilty and was fined $1,000 and
costs, which were $6.25, making total of
$16.25.
The Bostonia SeXtette club will give a
concert at Seaver's hall Tuesday evening,
Jan. 10Th. This is the last concert in the
lecture course, the remainder of the enter
tainments being lectures, and it will also
be one of the best ever heard here. The
members of the company are all artists of
great talent and cannot fail to please all
who enjoy good music. Tickets on sale at
Pierce's drug store Dec. 8th at a. m.
The reception given on the evening of
Jan. 1, by the PercivaI Furniture Co. was
attended by about two hundred guests,
"Who chased the golden hours with flying
feet.'' There was mo sleep till MORN"
the banquet. All felt that they had Jared
sumptuously and went to their homes
wishing the new year would come oftener.
In this paper we have another letter
from Mr.. II. F. Pillsbury, who is in Cali
fornia, describing some of the things he
noted while on the trip west. Mr.. Pills
bury gives very interesting accounts OF his
journey and all of our readers will enjoy
his letter which will be found on the first
page of the paper. We shall give another
next week and hope to be able to give our
readers a good number of them during
the next few months.
Walton's Vermont Register, which has
come to be an indispensable hand book
for business and professional men, has APP
peared for 1901. The book was never so
complete as this year, and contains the
latest census Of the State. The calendar,
pages for daily memoranda, lists Of United
States and state officials, officers of various
state associations and societies and all the
other Information about Vermont which
has made Walton's Register such a handy
book of reference for so many years will be
found brought fully up to date. For sale
at this office for 15c.
There was a joint installation of the Of
ficers of Evening Star Lodge, No. 81, 1. O
o. F., Morning Star Lodge No. 2, Re-
bekahs, at Newport Fri day evening