Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-03-18

Mrs. Horace Story has been spending
the week with her daughter Mrs. w. E.
Brewster. Philip Thompson has been
spending few days in ST. Johnsbury.
The social gathering and oyster supper
at II. FL. Somers' last Tuesday evening was
a very enjoyable occasion. About seventy
five Masons with their families were pres
ent.
The Ladies Aid will meet in the Cong.
church parlors Friday afternoon. Supper
will be served by Mrs. Thompson and Mrs.
John Carpenter at O'Clock. All cordially
invited.
Charles Healey caught a raccoon in an
| apple tree in Joseph Edmund's field last
Friday. He boxed it and and took it home
to tame it. The animal excited a good
/ deal of curiosity among the small boys.
Mr.. W. L. Locke will move back on to
| his home farm, and Mr.. and Mrs. Eaton
will carry on the farm occupied by them
the past year.-Fred Grant has moved into
| Mr.. Smiths house at the village and Mr..
Smith is located on the farm.
Business is on the move in Irasburgh
| Mr.. Fred Sears who has been clerk in &.
! W. Wheeler's store the past thirteen years
| closes his labOrs there soon and a new
firm, "Russell & Sears" will put in good
line Of dry goods and general merchandise
in addition to the stock of drugs and
fancy goods now carried by Mr.. Russell.
They expect to be ready for business in
! three or four weeks.
Lowell.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
| Glen Stone Mar 10.
L. B. WeIlman is in Newport attending
county court as juror.
! The Bakersfield students returned Mon
day.-The Barton students are at home.
Harold D. Mead of the Home Core
! spondence school was in town the past
! week.
Mrs. Mcnamara is visiting at Father
! Pecotte's.-H. ID. Stannard was in town
! this week.
| A deer was killed in Eden Notch on
Tuesday. Many inquiries are being made
/ regarding the cause of its death.
Leroy KinsIey has gone to Canada to
work for Edison Kinney in the tub bust
ness.-CharIes Kenneday and Fred Generess
! have secured work near Boston and have
gone there.
! Bradley Hoadley had the misfortune to
crush his foot while drawing pulp wood
Guy Kinsley is still i'll from the grip.-Dr.
Hill is on the sick list.-L. o. Cox remains
about the same.
The G. E. society gave rainbow enter
tainment at the town hall Friday evening.
The young people of Lowell gave Mer
rinot Durivage a surprise party Tuesday
evening. A good time was enjoyed by all.
Morgan.
Mrs. Gertie Burroughs is very sick with
the grip.
Ernest Cox will work for Henry Rye
through the sugar season. "
Herbert Burroughs has engaged to work
for w. P. Bartlett this season.
Arthur Rood has sold his COWS and hay
to Mr.. Pearsons of Charleston. He is to
sell his farm and move to Newport Center.
Morgan Center.
John CargiIl is moving to the Waterman
farm in Holland.
Mrs. VIM. Delary, of whose sickness
mention was made last week, is dead.
Mr.. and Mrs. HI. F. Bean have returned
from Averill, where they have been during
the winter.
Drs. Ellie and Kendrick were called in
consultation in the case of Mrs. L. HI. Bur-
roughs last Friday.
Mrs. L. II. Burroughs is entertaining a
sister, Mrs. Addie HENDERSON from Wheel
ock, and a brother, George Hubbard of
Wisconsin.
Hiram Elliott is confined to the house
with a spinal trouble G. J. Thomas is
suffering from an attack of sciatic
rheumatism.
Newport.
Miss Anna Maloney has gone to New
York on a visit.
Frank Bedell mas returned from England
where he spent the past six months.
Rev.. Hamilton exchanged pulpits with
Rev. Andrew Bole of Coventry Sunday.
H. G. Humphrey had two of his ribs
fractured by being crowded against the
stall by his horse.
Rev. A. F. MacGregor has so far recover
ed from the grip as to resume his duties at
the Cong'I church.
A veteran gardener, A. j. Bean has re-
turned from Boston and is looking for
bare spot to plant cucumbers.
Miss Ida Blake who was called home
owing to the sickness of her mother, has
returned to her home in Nashua.
Charles Young has moved from J. E.
Lambert's to Derby Center where he has
engaged to work for Ex-Gov. Grout.