Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-04-07

Miss Carrie Fisher has taken school in
the town of Coventry.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Grant have been visit
ing friends in Bakersfield.
Charles Counter is at work for Mr..
Cham berlain in the creamery.
Miss Helen Somers was at home from
Burlington for the Easter vacation.
Philip and Sidney Thompson of st.
Johnsbury will spend the week in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Perley Brewster are living
at w. l.. Locke's and assisting in the farm
work.
The heavy stone bridge near the Brighton
schoolhouse was carried away by the recent
high water.
The ladies will servea chicken pie supper
to the Ma5ons at the Cong'l vestry to- NOR
row evening.
The many friends of Mr.. F. A. Buchanan
will be pleased to know that he is recover
ing from his long illness and is able to be
about the house.
Quite a company of the friends of Miss
Anna Fisher gave her pleasant surprise
visit March 9th, aud made her a present
of nice gold ring. Refreshments were
served and the occasion was much enjoyed
by all present.
Rev. and Mrs. Knapp and daugh May
90 tomorrow to st. Adams to attend the
NJ. E. conference. 1t is expected that Mr..
Knapp will continue his work here as pas
tor of the NJ E. church and his many
friends will look for his return.
The Easter service at the Congregational
church March 3Oth was very pleasantly
carried out and the speaking and singing
by the children was nicely done. The
church was made especially attractive with
cut flowers and ported plants and the air
fragrant with the perfume of Easter lilies
and carnations. Many thanks are due Mr..
Fred Kidder for the large and choice vari-
ETY. of potted plants sent from Sunderland,
Mass. Both churches united in the service
and also in the evening at the Methodist
church, which was also prettily decorated
with plants and flowers.
Morgan.
Ora Burroughs has been appointed
school director.
Porter Lyon is stopping with his sister,
Mrs G. L. Moore.
| Will Vinton has job saving shingle at
the Bartlett mill near Island Pond. Il
Joseph Revoir is making arrangements
to rent his farm. A good place for soma
one.
! Miss Olive Dutton has again been hired
! to teach the Corner school. Miss Dutton
is a very successful teacher.
Ora Burroughs will have larger num-
Der of patrons on his cream route the
coming summer than formerly.
VIM. Farr has made three pounds of
sugar to a tree. Others have made only
pound. There seems to be a great differ
ence in the flow of sap in different sugar
places this spring.
E. r. Flanders, having sold his house at
Barton, is in town looking after his farm
and contemplates moving back here. We
shall be glad to have Mr.. and Mrs. Elan
ders in town again.
Morgan Center.
G. w. Bryant is on the sick list.
A. A. Burroughs is very sick with rheu-
matte trouble.
Gerald Gilmore is having a serious time
with his hand on account of an abscess.
M. G. Burbank and family have returned
from Franconia, N. H., where they have
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Harry Scholes.
l.. NJ Dutton, who recently went to Pike
Station, n. H., to see his brother, Kirk,
who was dangerously sick, reports that his
brother died soon after he arrived there.
Newport.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs William
Spry March 30.
Miss Annie Daniels of st. Johnsbury
was in town last week.
Miss Pearl B. Rollins visited friends in
st. Johnsbury last week.
Mrs. Arthur c. Fairbrother is visiting
relatives in st. Johnsbury.
Mr.. Wilmer Adams and his mother from
st. Johnsbury are in town.
DR.. o. B. Gould, of Maiden, Mass, has
returned here for the summer.
Miss Ella Wright of st. Johnsbury wa
the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Whitaker, las
week.
| Mrs. Alice Chadbourue of st. Johns
: bury is visiting her brother, John A
Lorimer.
Miss Mildred Moore from Lyndonvillt
; spent few days at Mr.. Milo Shattuck'
last week.
p Mrs. P. J. Farrell and family, from
Washington, d. c., arrived in town Thurs
day night.
Miss Alice Bean, Walter Dane and Err
nest Scott are home from the U. V. NJ. a
Burlington.
Miss Inez Miller goes to New York to
day, where she expects to meet her m othe
and brOthpr