Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-04-08

Academy Notes.
Roy Bean, ''99 visited at the academy
last week.
A few of the students were ill with the
mumps last week.
A party of students went to a sugaring
off Friday afternoon at the home of Geo.
Porter. A pleasant time and a good walk
was enjoyed by all.
Parents having pupils to send to school
in the first primary for the first time are
requested to send them at once as no pupils
will be taken in the receiving class after
April Goth.
Barton Landing.
Mrs. Gallup is improving rapidly.
W.. Joslyn is making repairs on his
house.
Albert Beede was in Newport on business
last Friday.
Joseph Bartlett has been quite sick but
is improving.
Rev.. J. A. Dixon preached at st. Johns
bury yesterday.
Roy Coburn has finished working for the
E. l.. Chandler Co.
j. G. Anderson is finishing off some
rooms in his house.
Grace and Arthur Austin are at home for
a ten days vacation.
Miss Bowen of Derby Center visited
friends here last week.
Fl. Fl. Twombly and Mrs. Frank Twom-
bly, were on the sick list last week.
w. e.. Twombly, who has been having
an attack of the grip, is back in his store.
Eva Chandler is home from Lasell sem
mary spending a short vacation with her
friends.
Dodge & Webster have their spring open
ing OF millinery on Wednesday and Thurs
day of this week.
Mrs. Lizzie Shurtleff, widow of the late
Hon. s. c. Shurtleff of Montpelier, is visit
ing her niece, Mrs. O.. w. Locke.
George Parker of Charleston, the new
barber who works for j. E. Lyon, has
moved into the Ezra Towle house.
DIR. Wright is having his shed and barn
repaired to quite an extent, both being
shingled and other necessary repairs done.
Easter services were held at both
churches yesterday, at the NJ. E. church in
the morning and at the Cong. church in
the evening.
Barton Landing Camp Modern Wood
men of America will be instituted with
thirty members in K. P. hall Thursday
evening, April %.
Bert Mitchell, who formerly worked here
for J. G. TurnbulI, died quite suddenly
last Friday. He was an excellent young
man and had many friends here.
Austin Blake, who clerks for O. w.
Locke, is home for a couple of weeks in
Lowell assisting his father who is one of
the listers of that town.
While business is a little quiet here at
present on account of the bad roads the
outlook for a prosperous summer in all de-
partments of business was never better.
Ed. Skinner has bought ten cottage lots
on the lake shore at Willoughby in West
more near the cottage of Thomas Buzzo,
where it is expected other cottages will be |
erected.
&. B. Ordway met with quite a serious
accident last week by falling about twenty
feet through a chute in his barn. Though
no bones were broken, Mr.. Ordway is laid
up for repairs for a few days. What
became of the hen?
c. E. Gay will take down the barn
on the Simpson place and erect a
two story house on WilIoughby street, and
he intends to build a smaller house of the
cottage style on Church street. Mr.. Gay
is repairing his tenement house.
George Bush, formerly OF this place, but
now of Manchester, NH, has been awarded
1921. 81 as damages for injuries sustained
in a street car accident May 5, 1900. Mr..
Bush is yet on crutches and If err
ing from his injuries to quite a degree.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. Moulton stopped
here a short time on their way home from
Denver, Colorado, where they have been
visiting a few weeks. Mr.. Moulton is
superintendent of the works of the Parker
& Young Co. of Lisbon, N. H, and the E L.
Chandler Co.. is a branch Of that concern.
While the highways of this village are
muddy, many of the main sidewalks
are as dry and comforta BILE for travel as IN
the summer time. And though they have
been quite expensive to build the people
at this time of the year can appreciate the
advantage of concrete walks extending
over the village.
The reading by Miss Myrtle Aldrlch OF
West Burke and the singing by the school
pupils at the entertainment at the M. E.
church last Thursday evening was highly
enjoyed by the audience. Special mention
should be made of the instrumental music
by Prof Lawrence as among the pleasant
features of the evening.
Albany.
Andrew Miles has bought the mill of d.
o. Gill Of Springfield.
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