Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-02-02
BARTON LANDING.

Mrs. Duchane is quite i'll.
DIR. Ranney was in Montreal last week.
Arthur Dougherty is sick with bron-
chisl pneumonia.
Minnie Stannard has been under the
DOCTORS care for a week.
Rev. 8. G. Lewis spoke at Grange meet
ing in Coventry last Wednesday.
c. S. Gibbs was confined to the house
several days last week with the grip.
Homer Wilson of Lyndonville gave
another dance here Saturday evening.
Rev. P. B. Fisk of st. Johnsbury Center
visited his sister, Mrs. G. E. Gay, last week.
Mrs. H. ]. Stannard and Mrs. Chas. Bar
rows of Barton visited at Mrs. E. Perley's
Friday.
Whipple, French & Co. had car of egg
coal arrive last week and expect another
very soon.
| The ladies of the Good Templars' lodge
will serve cake and coffee free to the voters
| tomorrow.
Miss May Parlin, of Gloucester, Mass, is
quite ill with pleurisy effusion at her
brothers. here.
DR.. Parltn was at Darby Thursday in
consultation regarding the sickness OF
Mrs. Charles Carpenter.
B. F. Moulton, who has been in the en-
ploy of the Barnet Wagon Co. at Barnet all
winter, has returned here.
Miss Stevens, a nurse living at Albion
N. Y, is coming this week to care for Mrs
F. A. Stafford, who is very sick.
Albert D. Beede has been at Newport
several days assisting in invoicing the
stock in the Lane & Davis store.
Earl Ordway started Saturday for Au-
burndale, Mass, where he will have en-
ployment about the Lasell university.
Mrs. ]. E. Chamberlin has decided te
finish off a tenement in the second story OF
her residence, and G. E. Gay will start the
job soon.
Mrs. l.. M. Fixes, of Carthage, N. Y, ii
to arrive to-day and will conduct dress
making department in Miss Bassett's
millinery store.
gational church served a sugar supper
Wednesday evening, which added 5000
to the society's cash box.
A two horse team load of Hillis's ad
mirers are planning to drive to Newpor
tomorrow afternoon to hear him lectur'
under the auspices of the Y. M. I. G.
Arrangements have been made for tn
Air Line to stop here tomorrow in order tt
accommodate the voters in getting to Bar
ton to vote. Let every voter in this section
of the town be present.
The chimney of Henry Kennison's hous
burned out fiercely week ago Saturda.
and hard fight to save the building en-
sued. Some partitions were heated enough
to catch fire and hole was burned through
the roof.
j. g. Turnbull will be at Burlington TO
month conducting the churning depart
ment of the dairy school during its ses
sion. There are no tuition charges at thi
school, and the attendance is necessariI,
limited to about forty farmers.
Among the list of convalescents we fin,
Mrs. Z. 8. Glib is recovering from al
attack of grip; Irving Joslyn remain
about the same; Ellis Stafford is able to 81
up; and Charlie Harris is considered out O
danger. Fs
J Prof Drown conducts singing schoo
} every Tuesday evening at the schoolhouse
: This is open to outsiders as well as tn
academy pupils. There is now an at
tendance of nearly forty. nominal sur
is charged to defray expense of Iighttn
and heating.
The inclement weather of Thursday eve
ming didn't deter the Rathbone sister
from indulging in straw ride to Mrs. E
M. Porter's and giving that worthy mem
Der of their order surprise party. Durin
the pleasures of the evening a Rathbon
pin was given Mrs. Porter.
The peddling of liquor about the villag
by an unprincipled person for few week
/ past has caused considerab BILE stir anon
. our temperance people, and a move WE
made to bring him to justice, but the Law
breaker got wind of the proceedings an
the flow of firewater was at once checked
a Clarence Wheeler Of Charleston, res
e dent of this place some years ago, has IT
|. turned here and moved his family into tt
{ tenement in the second story of ArthI
q Ordway's new house. He has employmer
o in the Chandler mill. The people
n Charleston gave Mr.. and Mrs. Wheeler
e silver tea service just before In sir dspar,
3 ure, as token of esteem.
e The small pox scare that we've had Il
d past week is very small indeed, really,
o is so small as to be out of sight. The vi