Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-12-12
EAST CHARLESTON.

Mr.. G. W. Lang is improving from hi
late illness.
Eddie Royce has gone to Manchester, n
H, to visit friends.
It is reported that the church will soor
be wired for electric lights.
The inside OF the church is being deco
rated, painters from Newport doing the
work.
The MONITOR agent will be at this post
office all day Thursday, Dec. 18th. Try
and see him and arrange for club papers.
Mr.. Charles H. Chase, who left here Dec
1st, to spend the winter in California
reached " innipeg, Man, Saturday at one
o'clock in the afternoon. He found ten
inches of snow and intense cold.
Through the efforts of the teacher, Mis-!
Mabel LaRoche, and the scholars, money
| has been raised with which an organ hRt
been hired and a library of two hundred
volumes purchased for the use of the vii
| lage school.
WEST CHARLESTON.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Wiley of New
port, n. Il are at Wilbur Aliens.
! Mrs. Marietta Foley of Richtord, is Wis
ting her daughter, Mrs. Preston Clark.
! Miss Bessie Davis of Newport, who has
bsen stopping at W. J. Forts, has re-
| turned to her home.
| Mrs. w. j. Fort, who has been visiting
| her daughter at Montgomery for a few
weeks, has returned home.
The MONITOR agent will be at this post
oH Volr To-
to see him and renew your MONITOR and
order our club papers.
| The Ladies' Aid will hold sale OF aprons
and fancy articles, at Wilson's Hall Friday
Dec Is at two o'clock, p. m. The articles re-
naming uusold will be sold at auction in
the evening. There will also be popcorn
social at the same time and general good
time is expected. Admission 10 cents Any
| wishing to contribute to the sale are re.
| quested to leave the articles with Mrs. Will
son or Mrs. Holton. Mrs. Holton's charade
social has been changed from Monday to
! Tuesday evening.
CRAFTSBURY.
Mrs. W. s. Tillotson is on the sick list.
Mrs. 9. j. Barker, who has been i'll, is
better.
| N. H. Kinney spent last week in Mont
pelier.
| Howard Skinner returned to Montpelier
last Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Keir were in Barre the
| last of the week.
Homer Parkhurst Dec. 4.
Rev. L. A. Dixon and wife Of Hard wick
visited at the parsonage on Friday.
Fred and Percy Keir are home from
Goddard Seminary for the holidays.
g. N. Sprague of Union Village called on
friends in town last Wednesday and Thurs
day.
r. A. Patterson has purchased the tim
Der on the Lyon farm and will work on it
| this winter.
NORTH CRAFTSBURY.
A birthday party was given Mrs. Litch,
| last week, to celebrate her eighty ninth
| birthday.
| The children are rehear sing for Christ
mas cantata under the direction of Mrs.
Woodbury., Mrs. Wheeler, Mrs. Cowles
and Miss Pike.
I
| for several months, died Saturday morn
| ing. more extended account will ap-
pear next week.
COVENTRY.
Arthur White of West Derry, N. H a., is
in town.
There will be Christmas tree and exer-
cises in the Cong. church.
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to visit her SOD, Q. A. Barrows.
! A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
Ware Saturday evening, December 10.
Warner Guild is teaching school in the
Wright neighborhood, South Newport.
Bern Cossar is back from Nova Scotia
and resumes his place at Charles Putney's.
Asa B. Hancock has been made life SUBJ
scr1ber to the New England Homestead
for being the father to the largest umber
of children of any OF its subscribers.
For che town Sunday school work the
following officers were elected: President,
John P. Wheelock; vice president, E. T.
Bryant; secretary and treasurer, Ira
Wheelock.
The w. c. T. U. met with Mrs. Will
BROOKS u65UHy HIG6TuOOus CCC' W Al
| though few were present, it was very
| interesting meeting, Mrs. Bryant presto
| ing.S 1t was decided to secure good lee
turer for some date in the near future.
very interesting letter was read from the
! county superintendent on physical cui'ui0
and the subject was discusse1.
| A very pleasant social was held III the
Nj 2. vestrv last Friday evening. Prayer
was offered by pastor; rsottstions by Elsie
! Herman and Lucy Hancock; select read
ings by A1rs. Harry Manley and Mrs. Ira
! Wheelock; song by Mildred Gorham and
| Lennie Metcalf; song by Alma MetcaLf and
| instrumental music by Emma Herman
| an interesting talk on The Sunny SOUTH
by Asa Hincock.
DERBY.
! Miss Hackenbery Of Boston, Mass, IS
the new teacher at Derby Academy.
Misses Maud Wakefield and Hester
4 Coourn spent Sunday with Miss Alice