Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-04-27

load OF horses to sell. They were used in
the lumber camps at SIX inner, Me-, during
the winter. This is an annual custom of
the firm.
DR.. E. G. Stevens goes to Willoughby
Lake next Thursday, to be absent one
week. He wants to be among the first to
cast hook into the lake next Friday when
the fish law is off.
Twombly & Cotton are arranging to
build two tenement houses, one on each
side of the Kimball building, which they
recently bought, located on the sburg
road. This will give them three tenements
to rent.
]. E. Lyon has probably beaten the local
records on chicken Matching this spring.
He set fourteen eggs and 10! fourteen
plump chicks popped out, of the white
game variety. We fail to see how this
can be beaten unless someone has the
cheek to report having hatched fifteen
birds out of fourteen eggs.
Ned Hunt was operated upon for appen-
dicitis Thursday afternoon by DR.. Smith
and assistant of Hanover, also assisted by
Drs. Ranney, Wright, and Stevens of this
village, and Drs. Nichols and Hastings of
Barton. Other complications were dis
covered, but up to the present time there
appears an even chance for his recovery.
1t is very serious case.
The first week in Rev. Mr.. Lewis new
year as pastor OF the M. E. church has
been a very busy one. Among other
affairs he has offic1ated at the following
three marriages: On Monday he married
Mrs. Jennie Dudley and Mr.. S. Eugene
Danforth of this place. On Tuesday after
noon Miss Lizzie M. Maxwell and Harry
j. Robinson were made one at the home of
the BRIDES sister, Mrs. Smith, in the
Stafford block. They have gone to
Massawippi to visit relatives, and on their
return to this village will begin house
keeping in Mrs. Cham oerl1n's new tene-
ment. On Wednesday evening Mr.. Lewis
went to Glover and married Miss Lola
Gray of this place and Henry Clark of
Glover.
The single smallpox ca Sc in town has
simmered down to only a suspicious
instance. DR.. Parlin, who is treating Mr..
McGoff, was satisfied that he did not have
smallpox, but to make the public feel safer
In the matter, he called in consultation
DR.. Worthington of Sher brooke, who has
had two epidemics of small pox under his
personal charge during his extensive prac-
tice, and during the South African war
was the senior medical officer on the
Canadian expedition Therefore the doc
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porter saw this physicians signed state
ment that McGoff had no smallpox
symptoms. However, the patients disease
may be of a contagious cnaracter and the
health officer took the only safe course in
quarantining Mr.. McGoff and two
boarders at his home who had been ex-.
posed and who were employed in the mill.
Mr.. McGoff says that he feels as we'll as he
ever did and would have been about his
work all the time but for the suspicious.
The Good Templars initiated four new
members at their meeting Thursday even
ing and took in two more by card transfer
from West Charleston. The following
officers were elected: w. C., W. j. Joslyn !;
P. c. T., Myron Allen; chaplain, Mrs.
Zalmon Goodnough; N. T., Mrs. Buzzo;
secretary, Mrs. w. J. Joslyn; assistant
secretary, Tnos. Buzzo; financial secretary,
Mrs. Ed. Hall; treasurer, Howard Emer-
son; marshal, Clayton Goodnough; guard,
, Carrie Badger; sentinel, Charlie Stafford !;
8. j. T., Carrie Badger. This was also the
last meeting in the entertainment contest;
, and the entertainment this evening con-
, sisted of six dramas, one dialogue, recita-
tions, and singing. The winning side, of
which Miss Gertrude Lyon was captain,
, won by 5000 points; the captain of the
other side was Miss Myrtle Hogaboom.
the mem bers of the defeated party are to
give the victors supper at the next regu-
lar meeting two weeks from that night.
The new officers will be installed on that
evening also.
> The entertainment given by the Village
improvement Society Tuesday evening
was the most popular affair that has
| transpired in town for many moon, the
Methodist church being filled to its ca
racity. The cornet band was in atten-
. dance and rendered very fine music. The
pupils in Miss Douglas department of the
. academy gave an Arbor day drill, consist
. ing OF dialogues, music, recitations, etc,
which demonstrated hard work and care
full training by Miss Douglas; this was
the leading feature of the entertainment
Then followed addresses appropriate to
the occasion by Revs. Lewis and Lyman
and Mr.. Taplin. About fifty new men,
4 bers were added to the society that night
:. this makes q mem bership of over one
D hundred. There was fs5 in treasury, and
j. the new mem bership fees will bring the
3 reserve fund to considerably over 500
This society has been doing very laudable
. service in our village, beautifying it In
t many respects and making it very
4 attractive to visitors.
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