Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-02-23
DERBY.

Miss Maggie Ruiter is home from St. /
Johnsbury.
Miss Beatrice Merrill of Beebe Plain was |
in town Friday.
Miss Nellie Rush has been quite i'll the |
past week, but is improving.
Mrs. Walker, a former resident here,
was the guest of Mrs. Kate Spear last week
Miss Grace Wilson of st. Johnsbury was
in town to attend her grandmother's
funeral.
Mrs. Dustin Albee spent part of last
week at Newport caring for Mrs. w. Il.
Sails, who was i'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fletcher of Holland were
in town last week with their daughter,
Mrs. Chas. Clark.
John Wood has hired to work for
Edgar Silver and will occupy tenement
in the Bryant house.
Mrs. j. Dickerman of Newport, who was
In Boston, was called to town by the death
of her sister, Mrs. George Colby.
Mrs. George Colby passed away last
Wednesday. Funeral services were con-
Quoted Saturday afternoon at 200 O'Clock.
While at Burlington last W eek, Lawyer
j. W. Erwin slipped on the floor OF the
hotel, breaking or injuring his knee-cap.
Mrs. Chas. Taylor entertained quite a
company of friends in her usual happy
manner at her pleasant home last Tuesday.
Misses Grace knight and Grace Willard
and Mr.. Harold Farman, all D. A. gradu-
ates, 02, were in town to attend the con-
| cert.
The Ladies' Aid society of the M. E.
church will furnish their customary good
dinner to voters at the vestry on town
meeting day.
Mr.. Myron Adams has purchased of c.
K. Carpenter his fine farm which Joined
Mr.. Adams farm. Mr.. Carpenter has an
auction the 26th and Mr.. Adams will take
possession as soon as the party now living
there moves.
The concert given by the students of
the academy Friday evening was highly
entertaining and enjoyed by all present.
Special mention might be made of the
hoop drill by sixteen young ladies, which
was especially pretty.
The pleasant home of Mr.. and Mrs. W.
s. Robbins was well filed with the good
number who attended the Valentine
party Saturday evening. The house was
decorated with hearts of all coIors; bay
window was transformed into a booth
which Cupid was obliged to vacate on
account of the crowd. Music and recita-
tions enlivened the evening. Refresh
ments OF doughnuts, tarts, cake and coffee
were served. Games were indulged in.
In the contest OF pinning the arrow to the
heart Mr.. Harold Barker won the first
prize, large hollow heart with huge
white rose in the center, all tastefully
made of paper. Mr.. Ed. Hastings won
| the BOBBY prize, ''sweet heart' (sugar-
cake). The proceeds were over $1,000.
WEST DERBY.
Matte Boucher is visiting in, Lyndon
vile.
Earl Davis has returned to his home in
| Sheffield.
Mrs. Henry Richardson is very ill with
pneumonia.
The little daughter of Fred White has
scarlet fever.
Benny Wright is working at the steam
laundry Newport.
The daughter of Freeman Blake die d
! Sunday morning after short illness of
pneumonia.
The sociable at 81. ]. Balls last Wednes-
4 day evening was we'll attended and all
enjoyed good time. Proceeds $1O15.
Clara Streeter, who has been spending
the past two weeks with Mrs. Luman
JENNIE, is working for W. G. Burroughs.
GLOVER.
The ladies of the M. e. society will fur
nish dinner at the vestry March third.
The Mothers Club will meet with Mrs.
W. A. Royston Wednesday afternoon at
2:3O O'Clock.
The Ladies' Mite Society will serve din
ner at their vestry Tuesday, Mfrch 3cd, at
the usual price, Is cents. The annual
meeting of the society will also be held the
same day at two O'Clock p. m.
81. L. Dexter's new house is nearing com.
pletion. The carpenter, VS.. Mcdowell, ha:
finished the inside work and Mr.. Cannon
has been decorating the interior. This i:
two story house 3ox3O with bay window
also two story ell 21x35, one and one hall
stories, with veranda front and back. AL
of first floor is finished In hard wood and
the second story in butternut with hare
wood floors. The house he's bath room
furnace and sanitary plum bling, making il
one of the finest residences in town.
We are informed by Judge w. F. Clark
who was at Newport recently, that TIT
county Jail commissioners have awarded
the contract for building the new jail a
Newport to the Pauly Jail Company, the
only exclusive Jail contractors in the coun.
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