Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-01-21

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Several from this village attended the
Old Maids Convention at Barton Landing
last Friday evening.
The law case recently reported in the
MONITOR of E. I. LeClare VS.. S. G. Kim
ball was settled Monday.
Mrs a &. Chester who has been at
work in the Peerless has returned to her
home in Marbleton, P. @.
Miss Addie Pickel, the Misses Maloney
and Anna Green of Newport visited at w.
M. Wright's over Sunday.
Scarlet fever has subsidized to that degree
that it seemed safe to begin the schools to-
day, and they are all running.
Joseph Valley who has been living on
the Noah Brooks farm has moved into the
tenement vacated by Fred Randall.
Mrs. M. A. Upstone of West Derby and
Miss Pearl Young of Newport visited their
aunt, Mrs. E. w. Barron, last week.
Rev. w. G. Johnson assisted Rev. S. G.
Vail of Evansville in a series OF meetings
held at Bloomington Center last week.
The Woman's Literary Club will meet
with Mrs. 81. r. Cutler Wednesday eve
ming. Topic, venetian Architecture.
Geo. Brigham of LyndonvilIe visited his
mother, Mrs. w. G. Johnson, last week.
Mrs. johnson is entertaining a sister and
niece.
w R. Dunmore of Wildwood, n. H., is
here hiring men to work in the woods
numbering for the National Paper Co. of
that place.
The Rebekah lodge, No. II, will install
officers for the ensuing year at Odd Fell
lows hall Wednesday evening of this week
at 7:3O o'clock.
Quite number of our citizens had
trouble with the freezing up of the water
pipes during the very cold snap from Fri
day till Monday.
Harley NJ. Ferriu has moved his family
to Pike Station, n. H., where he has
steady position in a department store up
holstering and cIerking.
The sidewalks of the village have been
exceedingly slippery and dangerous lately
and it is hoped this week will witness
safer condition for travel.
The following letters remain uncalled for
at the post office Jan. u. Please say adver-
tised: Mrs. Lettis, A. D. Fogg, Charles
Grove, Miss Myrtle E. Shute.
Forty-four of the Odd Girls met at Mrs.
o. II. Mossman's on Wednesday, Jan 16.
The meeting was greatly enjoyed by all,
and eight new members joined the order.
It is necessary to do some work on the
electric light line in the village this week
and the lights may go out at times but
they will only be off for a few minutes at
any time.
The Tower Bros. have just put into their
mill rope hoist that they may use their
basement for storing feed. This gives
them storage to the amount of three hum
dred and fifty tons.
England 's.queen, Victoria, was stricken
with paralysis last Saturday and her recov
cry is considered doubtful. The Prince
of Wales has been given power to act in
her place as regent.
The meeting held for men in the Congre-
gational church yesterday afternoon was
very interesting and profitable to the
goodly number who attended. There was
a good spiritual interest, and it is hoped
much good may be accomplished to arouse
the community to see the need Of higher
state of Christian attainment.
Last Wednesday Foster Doolan, little
grandson of H. G. Spaulding about six
years old, while playing in o. II. Mossman's
grist mill fell through the trap door on
the third floor twenty-one feet to 1.-THE
lower hard wood floor. He was quite bad
ly hurt but no bones were broken and he
seems to be coming out all right.
The trial of the three Patterson, N. j.,
men for the murder of Jennie Bosschieter
of that city last October has just been
completed and the parties adjudged guilty
of murder in the second degree. By the
law of that state the maximum penalty is
imprisonment for thirty years. The jury
was out four and onehalf hours and took
fourteen ballots.
A cold wave struck here Friday. In the
on High street the thermometer
twelve degrees above zero, at
noon five above, at nine in the evening
four below, and al eight Saturday morn
ing twenty below. At some places near
the river on the lower streets mercury
thirty degrees below zero.
The improved appearance of the opera
hall was the subject of much favorable
at the concert Tuesday evening.
The absence of the stoves and the addition
of furnace heat makes great improvement
in the temperature. Mr.. Seaver has spared
no pains to make the hall comforta BILE
and attractive and his efforts deserve the
warmest commentator from all.
Sir Knights II. G. Pierce, II. Il. Seaver,
J. w. Murkland, E. FL. Glazier, Geo. H.
Davis and J. A. Pearson attended the
meeting of Malta Commandery No. 10, at