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

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house at the Centre is receiving a new coat
OF psint.-Mr. Otis Williams from New
Hampshire visited his neice Mrs. b. j.
Williams recently.-Mr. and Mrs. II. +.
Bean were called to Barneston recently on
account of the illness of her mother.-Miss
Alice Gibson closed a most successful term
of school at the Centre last week.-D. G.
Brooks was called to Newport on business
last week.-The school taught by Miss
tion given by the pupils in the evening was
enjoyed by all present.
NEWPORT.
Harry House of LyndonviIle Is in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. p. Davis are visiting in
Boston.
Mrs. Sarah Humphrey is improving
slowly.
Dora Gates is home from Wilmington for
a weeks visit.
Mrs. Sidney Davis is visiting her old
no me in Cabot.
Miss Pearl Rollins is helping in the True
& Blanchard store.
/ Miss Aurora Vsnier OF Lynn, Mass, is
visiting friends here.
Miss Margaret Lockhart visited in Bur-
lington the past week.
| Samuel b. Horton is in failing health
being confined TO his bed.
Mr.. and Mrs. &. Ii. Green have been
visiting their children In Massac husetts.
The Baptist society held a social at Mr..
Steele's on Ed. Balls farm Friday evening.
j. f. Lambert's tenement block has been
plsstered and is now about ready for the
finish.
Grading is being done for a new park on
railroad property on the site of Sherman &
Brady's block.
Elvira Gibson has gone to Springfield,
Mass, to ,pend the winter with her sister.
Mrs. Jay Fuller.
ii. ). Root mas been elected treasurer of
the school district In place of c. F. Davis.
who has gone west.
L. &. Libby is moving to West Charles
ton where he has charge of the Blair &
DeLarm veneer plant.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. G. Blanchard have re-
turned from their trip to Boston, Provi-
dence and other points.
Lee Wellman, customs officer, has moved
his household effects from Lowell into DR..
j. NJ. Curriers' tenement.
w. j. Avery was in Boston last week on
business. Andrew Robitille had charge of
his store during his absence.
Sucn romance as "Graustark" is sure
to interest both young and old Read the
opening chapters on page seven.
Capt. T. ). Curry, superintendent of con-
struction of the government building. ia
visiting his family i'll Lynn, Mass.
Andrew s. March died Nov. Bird at his
home in Newton, Mass. Recent years he
has spent the summers at Balls bluff.
The chicken pie supper given by the M.
4. church society the evening of Nov. 3rd
was success. About $50 was received.
.. II. Rawson has bought the house adj
joining the Congr church of Gilman & Co.
He has rented the hous g ever since he came
to Newport.
+. F. Spaulding has returned from
Massachusetts, where be has been in the
interest of rebuilding his pulp mill recent
ly burned on Clyde river.
The Odd Fellows district meeting will
be held here the evening of Nov. TO- The
Newport, Barton and Island Pond lodges
are included in this Jurisdiction.
Mrs. o. z. Miller, Mrs. Blanchard. q. Fl.
Prouty, G. H. True and Mrs. John Young
were among those who attended the dis
trict meeting OF the o. E. s. at Island Pond
Nov. 3rd.
Mrs. N. ID. Montague and daughter
Fanny have moved into a tenement In
Myron Blair's house. Mr.. Montague will
soon go to visit his daughter in Fredonis.
trip.
H. F. Place is running a bi-weekly ex-
press or stage between here and North
Troy on Tuesdays and Fridays. The ar
irving time is II a. M, returning. leave
Newport at 1:30 p. M, reaching North |
Troy at 4:3O.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. w. Spear visited In Bar
ton, Burke and Lyndon Center last week. |
AT the latter place they celebrated their |
eighth marriage anniversary in unison |
with Mr.. and Mrs. S. G. Prescott, whose |
anniversary was one day later.
A special train of Boston & Maine Off |
cials, witha Pullman and dining car. was |
mere Frlcay forenoon. The president,
vice. president, general manager, traffic
manager, and other officials OF the system
were aboard on regular tour of inspection.
The lake is beginning to rise a trihe
again. The water was more than six feet
lower than hlgh-water mark. A number
OF launches about the bay have been
grounded for several weeks, and teams can
pass for long distances along the lake
shore.
The prospectus of the Y. NJ. l. c. lecture
course has just been issued from the press
OF Ranney q Co., and makes very neat
booklet. The talent comprises the fore
most orators and entertainers before the
public. Following is the list aud dates:
Nov. 16, DR.. Thos. E. Green; subject, 1.-The
Key to the Goth Century. Jan. 1, Rogers
Grilly Combination. Jan. IA, Rev. Nd.
Hills, subiect, "John Ruskin,s MaSsac,o o.. |