Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-01-23

ter farm in Glover to the Sargent b ouse on
Harrison Avenue in this place.
Regular meeting of Orient Chapter, No
13. 0. E. s., Friday evening, Jan. q, 1906.
Open at : o'clock, sharp. No banquet.
For the benefit of our readers in other
states we will tell them that we are having
really very good winter weather of late.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. c. Wnkie and Miss
Ellen Labonty attended the funeral of
Mrs. Patrick Rouin at East Albany Fri
day.
A. F. French has been appointed execu-
tive committee of the National Association
of Civil War Musicians OF this section of
Vermont.
Rev. j. Turcot returned home from
Montreal last Saturday, where he has been
to visit his mother and other relatives in
that vicinity.
g. F. Wheeler has returned to Hotel
Barton, having been in Woodbury. nur-
sing a man who had q limb amputated
several weeks ago.
Miss Louise Benoit of st. Hyacinth,
cousin of Rev. ]. 'Turcot, arrived here re-
Gently and will keep house at the parson-
age for the present.
o. E. Cowles is getting out fine lot of
extension tables. They are made of very
nice, grained lumber and are an ornament
for any dining room.
Ira Grapes has hired the blacksmith
shop on South Church st. OF his brother,
David Grapes, and engaged L. j. Bickford
to work for him year.
Z. s. Foster has rented a room in the
Luther Fairbrother block, now owned by
HI. F. Pillsbury, where he will open bar
ber shop about February first.
The following letters remain uncalled
for at the post Office, Jan. %: Bertha Berry,
Mrs. Agnes Blake, D. P. Marston. Please
say advertised when calling for these
letters.
On account of the scarcity and high
price of wood in this village quite num-
Der of the families who have until recently
used wood are using coal in their cooking
stove
Charles Sisco, who will be Sc years old
on the first of next March, is out with his
team almost every day whether cold or
warm this winter, attending to his farrier
business.
Hon John Burke of Lowell, Mass, who
was here Friday to attend the funeral of
his sister, Mrs. Patrick Rouin, started on
the midnight train for Virginia on pro-
fessional business.
The Pluto staff of the l. o. o. F. of St.
Johnsbury will work the degree at New
port soon. Names of candidates of this
place for the degree will be taken in by
Will Heath or Il. D. Phillips.
Mrs. l.. ]. Bickford went to Evansville
last Wednesday evening, to attend the
donation given for Rev. g. Mcdonald, and
while there she was taken sick and was
not able to return home until yesterday.
One day recently while clearing the
railing of ice at Hotel Barton Mr.. Mears,
the manager, had the misfortune to SO in
| jure his eye as to make it entirely blind
/
| covering the same. Mr.. Mears was push
/ ing the ice from the rail about the piazza
when his foot slipped and the en- q Of the
broomihandle hit him in the eye.
Miss Carrie Lund closed her third term
of school in the Heath district Jan. 18th
I tFhe pupils having no absent maks during
the term were Reid Leonard, Harold
Heath, Leon Heath, Clifton Durham anc
Ernest Blair. The prizes were awarded
Roy Leonard, Hattie Libby, Ruth Leonard
and Lena Baird in spelling and to Jeh1
/ McGrady for the most improvement il
writing.
At tue meeting of the Afternoon Study
Club last Thursday afternoon, with Mrs
j. W. Murkland, the following program
was given: RolI-calI; business; reading b.
Mrs. James Collision on "5econd Period
Revolution" song by Mrs. Bowman, ''Tha
Beautiful Land on High" reading b,
Miss Pomona Joslyn, "From Sleepy Hollo7
legends" singing, "America;" paperlb
Mrs. J. n. Webster, ga Trip to Catalina.
Twenty-six members and four visitor
were present.
Adam Dummett has purchased the DO
mestic Bakery Of 81. Q. Graves and has al
ready taken possession. The deal was close
last Tuesday and Mr.. Dummett took pos
session that day. He will add to the con
veniences of the public and himself as ma
be demanded and we wEsh-him prosperity
Mr.. Dummett learned his trade here an
has since worked in Boston and Barre. II
is well acquainted with all branches Of th
business and is sure to serve the publ
with neatness aud dispatch. Mr.. Grave
has not as yet decided what he will do.
Ira Doolin's son Foster, a boy Nfhe year
! I-of ageewss badly hurt last Monday ever
ing while sliding in Manchester, N. E
At crossing he vas unable to control b
sled on account Of the ice and ran into
sleigh, fracturing his skull. The fractul
in his head is reported to be the size of
silver dollar and the brains were oozin
out when he was picked up. he vi
taken to hospital, where his wound WI
dressed, but up to the last OF the week
had not regained consciousness. Mar