Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-08-17

Mrs. o. w. Locke.
Ed. Porter is furnishing the stone for the
foundation Of the houses which the E. L.
! Chandler Co. are to build.
Mr.. Sheldon has moved from the SiIas
Sargent tenement house into a tenement In
| the Whipple & French block.
DR.. Charles Bartlett, a professor of Yale
college, is here visiting his father, Joseph,
and his brother, John Bartlett.
Mrs. Diantha McKown, who has been
very sick, is improving and it is now hoped
she may regain her usual health.
G. A. Dean and his brother in law from
Massachusetts spent some days on a fishing
excursion at Magog Lake recently.
Frank Clement has built an addition on
to the back of his block and is finishing
porch and two woodsheds in the new part.
| Helen Richmond soon closes her work as
stenographer for ]. G. Turnbull, having
secured position nearer her home at New
port.
Silas Sargent is moving his tenement
house back from the road and is planning
to build new house on the site another
season.
Rev. Mr.. Knox preached very excellent
sermon to the old soldiers in the grove here
at o. m. last Sunday. He preached at Iras-
burgh in the morning.
The E. L. Chandler Co. shut down their
shops last Friday to give their help an
opportunity to go on the excursion to Bur-
lington and Lake Champlain.
The Fats and Leans are to play game Of
baseball next Tuesday afternoon. All who
wish to enjoy little fun and to help the
local team are invited to be present.
! Two Mason meetings will be held again
this week. The one on tuesday evening
will work the E. A. degree, and that on
Thursday evening the NJ. NJ. degree
There was an auction at Taplin & Row
ell's last Saturday evening, closing out
some household goods and store effects
which belonged to the E. E. Stafford estate.
Miss Bertha Royal, who has been visiting
at Geo. Ford's. has returned to her home in
| Somerville, Mass. Miss Royal is book
keeper for Sprague & Hathaway and fills
efficiently her responsible position.
The excursion which came off Friday was
a real success. One hundred ninety adult
/ tickets and eleven chiIdren's tickets were
! sold at this station. The day was as quiet
as Sunday and very little business was
| done.
Arthur Austin, the genial clerk at Web
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prudence. He also deals out perfumery to
the young ladies of his acquaintance with
equal care but pe rhaps with less prudence.
| The other night he struck a new line of
goods from travelling stranger with full
supply of samples. A skunk had obtained
access to their vegetable cellar, and like
I others of the same nature with less legs
and brains it was unable to get out where
it went in. Arthur is man of peace and
not wishing to hurt the poor prisoner or
stir up its mind to anger, through fear that
| it might bite him he decided upon STRAIT
egy. He would open wide the doors and
| give standing invitation to this wayward
sister to depart in peace. Like many a
we'll laid scheme of mice and men this plan
did not provide for contingencies. When
he opened the door of the inner sanctum
he found this runner safely located in a
barrel and unable to accept his kind invi-
tation. But Arthur was not to be baff1ed.
Donning his regimentals, which in this
case were not his Sunday, go-to- meeting
clothes, he descended on that barrel with
malice prepense in his eye but with the
milk of human kindness in his heart.
Carefully covering the barrel to prevent
the escape of single drop of the precious
| ointment, he deliberately shouldered that
skunk, barrel and all, and without BAN
ners, music or even drum major they
started in a solemn pr ocession for the
woods. Then with parting kick (at the
| barrel not at its contents) he rendered to
his guest the freedom of the city. The
perfumery has not yet been placed on sale.
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