Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-09-29

The Ladies' Aid Society of the Cong'l
church Will hold food sale at Beede &
Cowles' store next Friday afternoon from
until o'clock. All kinds of food will be
on sale.
Mr.. Smith of the Evansville scythe stone
shop is having Burbank, the W heelwrig hit,
make his wheelbarrows. They'd hold the
weight of half ton, if a man could wheel
as much.
The regular meeting of Willoughby
Grange will be held next Thursday evening.
An entertainment will be given and re-
freshments served. Allmembers are urged
to be present.
Judge F. E. Alfred OF the probate Office
having gone on an extended trip through
to the Pacific coast, R. w. Spear, register,
is now in charge and will call at this vii
lsge and Barton to transact the probate
business during the next month.
Mrs. L. w. Hildreth is very weak from
the shock of the operation she underwent
week ago Saturday. Mrs. Mary Bell
is caring for her. Mrs. Orson Grow,
professional nurse from Bloomington, was
there during and after the operation.
The Masonic officers of the Grand Lodge
of Vermont, who held a meeting here the
10Th, are unanimous in the opinion that
the best interests of Masonry would be
promoted by the granting of dispensation
for new lodge at this place. Grand Mas
ter Montague advises that the local Masons
have hall built in the near future. The
brethren held meeting Friday to consider
the several questions.
"Kid" CassavanJ had the use of Hoyt &
Harris B. & M. mileage book on a trip
north week ago Saturday, and, on re-
turning Monday, accepted the offer of
Toney Sheldon to return the mileage book
to the owners-but, alas! that was the last
seen of the book and Toney also. There
were but so miles used, so Kid is astride
the anxious seat, and making use of the
arm of the law, which he trusts win be
long enough to capture the alleged culprit
and bring him to justice.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. E. Cole attended the
sixth annual reunion of the Cole cousins
at the home of Henry Rickaby, st. Johns
bury, Thursday last. There were repre-
sentatives present from Northampton,
Mass, Island Pond, Cabot, East Hardwick
and Barton Landing, to the number of
twenty seven. They are regularly organ
lied and the officers of the past year were
reelected, namely; president, l.. P. Cole;
| first twice. president, Mrs. A. M. Stone ;
| second vice. president, G. B. Cole; secre-
| tary, Geo. E. Cole; assistant secretary,
Stephen Cole; treasurer, A. NJ. Stone.
vote was taken to meet next August at
Willoughby lake.
| Henry Lyon is gaining notoriety as
| hunter. He is after big game, and to hear
him talk you'd think he had to go pretty
his last capture. Upon going for his COW
| upon recent afternoon itappears he had
| to hunt for her till late in the evening and
then failed to find her in the pasture, and
| he is under the impression that he would
have been hunting for her till this day had
not neighbor given him hint as to
| Noodles whereabouts. This led to his
calling upon Mrs. E. E. Mathews and in
| forming her that she was stabling his COW.
Mrs. Mathews thought she had her own,
| the two looking some aHke, and she
thinks it's hard to tell them apart. Henry
thinks it is a compliment to his COW and
that his neig hbor is good judge of COW
| flesh.
notice an item in your last week IS locals
which think is little misleading. 1t is
true that I was in Montpelier collecting
material for a school history of Vermont;
but the preparation OF this history is
matter which rests entirely with mysel
and dislike to see the responsibility for
its production thrown upon the superin-
| tendent of education. He has never seen
word Of my manuscript, and can hardly
have any basis for judging its merits or
whether it is better or worse than Mr..
| Commits. He is not man to express an
| opinion hastily, and the implication re-
| garding Mr.. Commits book is one that I
am sure he would not like to make. AS a
matter of fact it has long been the only
book that was at all available for use in
schools on the history of the state. My
book will stand on its merits-if it has any
and do not want its reputation built up
| by tearing another mans down.
E. d. COLLINS.
our Item OF last week was not intended
to In any way disparage the work of Prof.
Conant and we are sorry that such an i'm
preston should have been received by our
readers. ED.
Albany.
| Miss Flora Boswell is ill.
| Fred Newton has moved into DR.. Camp
BELLS house.
Mrs. Kimball of Boston is visiting at w.
III. Hayden's.
Roy Badger of Lyndonville made a short
visit in town recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley Paine from Cuba
are in town for few days.
M. B. Chafey has been at Newport all
the week on court business.
| Several of our people attended the fair
at Morrisville and pronounced it good.
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