Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-11-23

finished work In the MONITOR Office.
Secure your seats early for the Conwell
lecture on Tuesday evening, Dec. sth.
X. ID. Burtt, manager of Hotel Barton,
has been passing few days in Boston.
o. ID. Owen has purchased the Marcia
Skinner estate property on Church street.
Miss Fanny May will teach the winter
term Of school in the Keating district.
Mr.. and Mrs. @. e. Cook of Concord, n.
II, will pass the week with relatives in
town.
Mrs. G. A. Drew went to Derby last Fri
day to visit her cousin, Miss Malinda
Colby.
The post Off &c will be closed from to
O'Clock p. m. and after p. m. on Thanks
giving day.
W.. j. Campbell has finished work for F.
| W. Comstock and has now started a cart
for himself.
Miss Susie Cunningham of Lyndonville
was a guest at the home Mrs. Martha
Nelson last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. r. Cook spent Sunday
with their son, Roy P. Skinner, and
family at Newport.
Mrs. F. @. Burdick was seriously ill sew
eraI days last week, but is now slowly i'm
proving in health.
Charles Wllkie and wife of Lyndonville
spent Sunday with their parents, Mr..
and Mrs E. c. Wilkie.
DR.. f. NJ. Nichols was called to Derby
Center last Friday to see Miss M. NJ.
Colby, who is seriously ILL.,
Mrs. Flavilla Hathaway OF Holyoke,
Mass, is visiting her cousin, Mrs. Sarah
May.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Croft of West Char
lesion visited their daughter, Mrs. w. B.
Bowman recently.
Miss Ina Hayes, who went from here to
California last summer, was married re-
Gently to someone residing there.
Mrs. Orange Mills and daughter Ruth of
Msssiwippl, P. @, visited Mrs. Mills's
niece, Mrs. Stella Goo 70, the past week.
A chicken pie supper will be served in
the Catholic hall tomorrow Tuesday,
evening, from 6 to $50 o'clock. All are
cordially invited.
Several members of Sunbeam Rebekah
Lodge attended the district meeting at
Newport last week. They report a very
pleasant meeting.
Miss Annie Waite, teacher of music and
drawing at the academy, has gone to her
home in West Boylston, Mass for the
Thanksgiving vacation.
c. ID. Traverse was in Irasburg last week
placing a steel ceiling in the Masonic hall
there. The Masonic society has had its
hall thoroughly repaired.
L. j. Bickford's little son is gaining
slowly. Mr.. Bickford is now at work in
his shop. There are no new cases of diph-
iberia and the danger seems to be nearly
passed.
Considerable snow fell in this vicinity
last week and sleighs are being used to
quite an extent. On Saturday morning
mercury registered from six to eight de-
grees below zero.
The following letters remain uncalled for
at the post Office Nov %. Please say ad-
vertised when calling for these letters:
Mr.. Wade Dutton, F. P. Day, Miss Annie
Fisher, Mrs. Geo. l. Wheeler.
Mrs. Ida Reed, state president of the w.
Z. t. u, will give an address in the NJ E.
church next Sunday evening. 1t will be
union service. Mrs. Reed will give a par
lor talk to the w. G. 7. U. at the home Of
Mrs. o. d. Owen Saturday evening.
Mr.. o. E. Barber of Boston has been
visiting his brother, Mr.. Henry Barber,
for the past few weeks. Mr.. Barber came
here with the intention OF hunting for a
time, but was taken i'll and has just re-
covered. He return ed to his home today.
The Foreign Missionary Society of the
CongI church will hold Thanksgiving
service at the church parlor next Tuesday
afternoon at three O'Clock. An interest ing
program will be given. Ladies of the
congregation are cordially invited to at
tend.
Mr.. William 8. Hibbard of this village
and Miss Mabel 8. Thorpe of West Glover,
were married at Glover last Monday. The
ceremony was performed by Rev. ].
Mcdonald. Both Mr.. and Mrs. Hibbard
are estimable young people and their many
friend in Barton and Glover will unite In
wishing them happiness and prosperity.
Miss May Hammond, eldest daughter
of MIR. and Mrs. Chas. Hammond of this
village, died at Lebanon, N. H., last week,
and her body was brought here for burial.
Miss Hammond had been ill with a severe
attack of neuralgia, which was followed
by shock. The funeral was held at the
home of Mr.. Hammond on Wednesday
afternoon, Rev. w. G. johnson officiating.
The following program was carried out
at the last meeting of the Woman's Liter
ary Club with Mrs. F. w. Cutting on
Wednesday evening: Roll call, favorite
quotations; "Charlemagne," written by
! Mrs Stannard read hu Mra pntahoIda..