Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-11-09

on the mail train week ago Saturda
evening.
q. +. Dean of West Burke has bough
out j. B. Flint's interest in the Flint .
Mathews grain store and has moved hj
family here into Frank ChurchilPs tene
ment.
There will be Menagerie and cobwe
party at the Congregational Church Tues
day evening Nov. 10th under the auspice
of the G. z. Society. Come and bring
friend.
Valley Lodge, A. F. and A. M, hav
in vited Orleans Lodge of Barton to attent
their meeting Thursday evening, Nov. 19
to witness the exemplification of the M
M degree.
Merrick Taplin is passing good deal O.
his time in Wheelock since the firm o
Taplin & RowelI have bought up severa
timber lots in that locality. They will
lumber there this winter.
E. K. Baraw has enlarged his business
quarters, taking in another room, thus
separating his tonsorial apartment from
his jewelry shop. He has also add ed q
new lathe bench, desk and counter.
| Irving Connor is wiring the Methodist
church for electric lights. Parties from
st. Johnsbury are doing the kalsomining
and new stained glass windows are to
come from Patteroon, N. j., for the
| church.
A large number of articles being left
over from the rummage sale of last week
the sale will be continued Friday, Nov. 13.
during day and evening. Among the
articles to be sold are winter jackets and
wa lists.
Mr. and Mrs. j. B. Winget and daugh-
ter Gladys went to Strafford last Tuesday
to attend the wedding of Mrs. Win
gets youngest sister, Ruby Desilet, and
George Preston of that place, which oc-
Cured Nov. 4th.
Bert Shedd, employed in the Chandler
mill, and Miss Lena Gray of Charleston
were married at the latter place last
Thursday. They are to commence house,
keeping in tenement in George Ford's
house on Maple st.
Last Tuesday Colby Stoddard found a
dead buck deer in a swamp north of the
village, that was filled with several charges
of buckshot and had been dead several
days. He secured the horns which was
the only part of the carcass worth saving
Fred Wiggins has sold the Churchill
farm to Mr.. Heath of Canada, and has
bought George Rollins's farm. Mr.. Roll
lins's family are to move into the Towle
house on Cottage street. George is con-
templating trip to Delaware for the pur-
pose of prospecting.
The water commissioners of the village
have completed the work Of extending the
water system to the yard of the Chandler
Co.'S south mill. placing three new by
drants there, which gives the company
emple protection against fire. This cost
$500, the Chandler Co., divides the expense
with the village.
M. M. Taplin was in Pawtucket, R. l.,
recently for few days selling building
lots In the suburbs. There were seventy
one plots to close out for one concern. and
in the time he was there Merr1ck got rid
OF $4,000 worth. He returns this week to
close out the remainder of the real estate
Dudley Prescott, the noted impersona-
tor and entertainer of Boston will give an
entertainment in Valley House hall the
evening OF Nov. 18th. under the auspices
of Valley Lodge of Masons. Mr.. Prescott
is very highly recommended as an i'm
personator, musical mimic and ventrilo-
quist. He constitutes a whole theatre
troupe.
The watchman of the north mill of the
Chandler Co. sounded fire alarm at about
three O'Clock Thursday morning which
summoned the village brigade to his as
sistance to check small blaze that had
started in the mill. This promptness
probably averted a serious confederation.
This is only the second call the local fire
company has had since its organization
last summer.
There are now two hundred and ten
men upon the payroll of the Chandler Co.
New boilers are being put into their
"feeder" mill at Irasburg, and a new
feeder is being installed at Sheffield, de-
manding another boiler and engine
Another dry lin is being finished at their
back factory and new heating apparatus
is being put In. Progressive changes are
being made daily.
Austin Ballard, the ten-y years old lad
who was run over a week ago Fliday by a
team loaded with 5000 pounds of gravel, is
getting along nicely. His interior must !
be composed of India rubber to stand |
such a pressure without fatal results. |
After the rear wheel had passed over his
body and one arm he got up and ran to |
the Stafford block where he lives before he |
showed the need of any assistance.
The Book and Thimble Club met as |
usual on Thursday afternoon. On account
OF the stormy weather there were not as
many out as usual. After current events |
Mrs. Lyman read from Stoddard's lecture |
on Canada. Mrs. Wheeler read ''Mon |
frere Camille" by DIR. Drummond, and
Mrs. Martin read "The French and Indian |
Wars" from Collins History of Vermont.
The next meeting will be with Mrs. A. D. |
Chandler Thursday Nov II, at 2 80 O'Clock