Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-12-09


week.
Miss Fannie May visited friends at New
port last week.
Mrs. Helen Bickford is suffering from
felon on her finger.
Hon. w. w. Miles attended county court
at Chelsea last week.
II. F. Black of Coventry visited at W. NJ.
Wright's last Friday.
Thomas Lowery and family have moved
into Mrs. Fay's house.
Curtis johnson spent last week with
relatives at Lyndonville.
Mr.. Henry BigeIow has been suffering
from an attack of tonsilitis.
Herbert Fay of Boston visited his sister,
Mrs. S. F. Bickford, recently.
Peter Gotta has hired one of the tenements
in the c. NJ. Darling tenement house.
H. p. Cook has moved from the n. NJ.
Scott house to the John Batchelder house.
Repairs have been made on c. G.
Aldrich's store greatly improving its ap
pearance.
Mrs. H. A. Clark goes to Somerville,
Mass, this week to live with her daughter
this winter.
Chester Lahue's little boy, who was four
months old, died last Friday after few
weeks illness.
George Davis and wife, who have been in
Boston one week, returned home last
Thursday night.
Nettie Rand went to her school at North
Troy last Saturday and will hpOin the
winter term to-day.
Francis Blanchard of Salem Derby has
moved into the house belonging to the
Cromwell Boswell estate.
Geo. c. Cook, Who is working in Concord,
n. h, visited his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
II. p. Cook, last week.
party of cattle buyers from Provi-
dence, R. l., were in town and bought
carload of miIch cows last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Comstock and son
are visiting friends in Manchester, n. H.,
and will be gone about three weeks.
Mrs. A. t. BusweII's mother, Mrs.
Needham, who has been dangerously ill
with bronchitis, is recovering rapidly.
Miss Bertha Joslyn, daughter of Myron
Joslyn, formerly of this place, but of late
resident of Boston, returned to her home
Tuesday.
Have you purchased your ticket for DR..
Cadman's lecture tomorrow, Tuesday,
evening? This will be grand lecture and
all who can should hear 1t.
The progressive whist party, about
thirty il number, met at John Batchelder's
last Tuesday evening and spent the evening
playing their favor1te game.
Mrs. L. A. Harvey and her daughter
Emma are back from Stanstead and start
this week for Kansas City. They expect
TO spend the winter in Nebraska.
Because of the unusually busy times of
many of its members during the holidays,
the regular meeting of the w. e. T. U. will
be postponed until the next regular time
of meeting.
This is much earlier than last year, but
the cold wave which carried mercury down
to nearly twenty below zero CONCEALED
the water quickly.
Several lumber teams from West Burke
passed through this place last Tuesday on
their way to Belvidere to work for John
Donahue, who has contract to get out
large amount of lumber.
News was received here last week of the !
death of Will Gordon by drowning. in
Meredith, n. H., last Sunday. Mr.. Cor
don was formerly resident of this place, !
and was a young man about "a years old.
The snow in the village nearly all left US
last Monday and Tuesday, but Tuesday |
night sent us a good supply and sleighing |
has been excellent since that time. Fri
day and Saturday mornings the mercury
ranged from twelve to twenty degrees /
below zero.
A lecture will be given by Mrs. DIR. Rugg !
of Stanstead, p. O., subject, Prohibition" 1
at the Congregational church Sunday eye
ming, Dec. To-, under the auspices of the /
Barton w. c. T. U. Mrs. Rugg comes well 1
recommended and the Union bespeak |
very interesting lecture.
E. f. Humphrey came near being badly /
hurt last Friday. He was letting sacks of
bran down froI' an upper story in his
mill. when one sack got loose and fell
a bout ten feet on to his head, knocking
him down and iniuring him. He was
about his work Saturday, but felt very
lame.
Ii was a most beautiful sight last Friday
morning as the sun came up to see the
frost work on all the trees. 1t is seldom
hat we witness such display of artistic
beauty in nature as greeted Us in the my
RAIDS of icy atoms that :" shone round the
silver snow displaying the delicacy of
nEture's handiwork on a scale commons
urate with the great Artiicer's plans.
F. 3. Lang has returned from New York
where he has been after some of F. d.