Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-04-15

Mr.. S%tearnburg has the contract to carry
the Stannard mail from this place for the
next four years.
Richie & Shurtleff have dissolved
partnership, leaving Mr.. Richie to run
the mill business alone.
Irasburgh.
Mrs. Thompson Is a little more comfort
able.
Mrs. John France cared for Mrs. Chaffee
during her last illness.
The schools in town are expected to
next Monday, April q
Charles Simeno has bought the Office so
long owned and occupied by Judge Thomp-
son.
As there will be no services at the Meth
odist church next Sunday, the people will
be most welcome at the Congregational
church.
Mr.. Burbank is one of the thrifty farmers
in town and has the wall laid and timber
ready for a large barn that he will put up
this spring.
Mr.. and Mrs. Whalen, who have been
visiting Mrs. McGoff return to-day to
their home in Southboro, Mass, where
they are carrying on a large milk farm.
Isaac McGoff, Who has been in the army
at the PHILIPPINES the past year is on his
way home and is now supposed to be in
San Francisco, where they expected to be
held in quarantine three weeks.
Rev. and Mrs. Knapp go to Lyndon
vile this week to attend the M. E.. confer
ence. 1t is the unanimous wish of the
church society that Mr., Knapp be returned
for another year and it is expected that he
will be.
There will be a thank-offering missionary
meeting at the home of Mrs. Templeton
Friday afternoon at 2.3O o. m. The pro-
gram consists of a responsive service with
music and it is hoped there will be a good
attendance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry House, who have
been spending the winter in California,
are on their way home, and after spending
a week in Oregon and making some other
stops expect to arrive in Newport about
April 30. Mr.. House is very much i'm
proved in health.
Those who participated IN the Allard
affair last Wednesday evening may have
felt that they were doing what they could
to put a stop to deeds which they consid-
cred were a disgrace to the town, but they
AVE considered that one wrong
can not be righted by committing another
equally disgracefuI. led.
Mr.. and Mrs. Moses Burbank generously
extended an invitation to the village peo-
pie to a sugaring off at their convenient
sugar camp last Tuesday afternoon.
Messrs. Grant and Webster took up a four
horse load, there being about so at the
gathering. AS usual the sugar was extra
fine, and the occasion much enjoyed by all
present. Mrs. Winget had her camera and
took a snap shot of the crowd. All return
home with manythanks and best wish
es for Mr.. and Mrs. Burbank.
The following officers have been elected
to serve in the M. E. Church for the COM
ing year: Stewards, r. S. Howard, D. H.
Webster, @. F.. Webster, F. A. Buchanan,
F. G. Grant, A. Gilmore, E. w. Keith, Geo
E. Metcalf, e. H. Woodward, Mrs. Z. A.
Chapman, Mrs. A. A. Cotton, Mrs. I. E.
Gilmore, Curtis Collins; recording steward,
D. II. Webster; district steward, G. H.
Woodward; financial agent, Mrs. F. G.
Grant; treasurer, F. A. buchanan; COM
mittee on missions, F. A. Buchanan, r. S.
Howard, Mrs. E. A. Chapman; committee
on church expenditures, d. III. Webster,
F. G. Grant, Z. F. Webster.
The following officers of the Epworth
were elected April 8: President,
Mrs. c. H. Woodward, 1st vice, Mrs. J. E.
Knapp; I'd vice Mrs. F. j. Grant; Sd vice,
F. A. Buchanan, 4th vice, Mrs. Charles
Sylvester; secretary, Mrs. Fred Fields;
treasurer, George Russell; organist, Miss
Leonard, assistant, Miss Carrie
Committees Sunday-school, A.
C.. E. Collins, Mrs. 9. FL. Wood
ward; tracts, Mrs. F. J.. Grant, Mrs. A.
Gilmore, Mrs. A. A. Cotton; temperance,
c. H. Woodward, E. w. Keith, George
Metcalf; education, Mrs. c. H. Woodward,
Mrs. J. H. Cook, Miss Annie Anderson,
Freedmen's aid, Frank Lemus, Oliver w.
Metcalf, Mrs. Jennie Macie; church rec
ords, R.. S. Howard; parsonage and fur
D.. III. Webster and wife, Mrs. E.
A. Chapman, G. w. Russell and wife;
church music, G. FL. Woodward Mrs. F.
Sears, Mrs. Fred Fields; estimating PASTORS
the quarterly conference; estima-
ting amount necessary for conference
r. S. Howard; ushers, Will
F. @. Grant, Leo Cook.
Lowell.
Clarence Parker has bought the grist-
mill of his father, V. M. Parker.
Easter was observed at the Methodist
church by an Easter concert.
Miss Bertha Stickney has returned to
her home at Newport Center.
L. B. Wellman has returned from New
port where he has been on jury for the
past five weeks.