Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-11-04

the Wssloughby Wood & Lum ber company
steam mill. where the undertrack crossing
is being constructed.
Crescent lodge, No. Al, l. o o. F., will
meet to- morrow evening. Sunbeam Re-
bekah lodge, No. IL, l. o o. f.. will meet
Wednesday evening, and Olympic encamp-
ment, No. IL, |. o. o, F., will meet on
Friday evening of this week.
We call the attention of our readers to a
poem by Rev. W. A. War er on another
page OF this paper. This poem was sought
after by some OF the magazines but Mr.
Warner gave US the privilege of first
putting this bit of rhyme into print.
Every member of the Barton Telephone
Exc 'arge Co. should remember the spe-
ciaf meeting called for Wednesday evening,
Nov. 6eh. as noted In last weeks MONITOR
1t is very important that there be full
| attendance. j. A. PEARSON, Secretary.
little real sport is all right on Hallow-
cen night but when it comes to the
destruction of property the offenders
should remember that the law forbids
| that. No one objects 70 ''fun" but W hen
outside of that the boys should go slow.
Cook & Skinner of South Church street
| have purchased the coal and lumber busi-
ness of G ". Tenney. They have engaged
| Mr.. Cobb to work for them. This is an
| increasing business az will make the next
| firm good business. Mr.. and Mrs. Ter
ney expect to go South this winter.
A. r. Robinson and n. M. Hubbard,
who have been hunting in Maine for three
weeks, returned Friday night. They
| hunted 60 miles from a railroad, going 80
miles in a canoe. Before their return the
stream frcz ), and they left their canoes and
walked nearly 60 miles coming out.
George H. Davis and Harry D. Graves OF
fhs G Fl. Davis Co. were in Boston and
| New York recently on business trip. IL
is understood the company have taken the
agency for the Rambler 1908 automo-
| bile. They will push the sale of this
machine in this vicinity another season.
Be sure and attend the great business
mems carnival entertainment Tuesday and
Friday erings OF th s week. See ad1e
I'll eme nd flyers. This will be the hit of
| Ihe.season and the program is entirely diff
ferent each evening. The ladies' in charge
| have put great deal OF time and work in
to this enterta inment and its success as an
entertainment and also financially is as
sured. Don'G forget. Tuesday and Friday
evenings. Seats at Pierce's.
The Woman's Literary club met with
MRS. NJ. Blake Wednesday evening,
Oct 80, Is members and two visitors being
present The topic was "Child Labor"
and most excellent paper regarding the
suppression OF this evil was given by Mre.
e. r. Cutler. This was followed by a
paper prepared by Mrs. Davis ard read by
Mrs. Blake, in which the dangerous
results attendant upon the employment of
children in factories were ably presented.
song by the hostess, "Ah, Let Me
Dream," gave pleasure to all present. One
new member was added to the club.
The Alec Benton farm on Elm street has
been sold to a. F. PiIsbury & Son. This
property has been in the Benton family for
over 50 years and never before offered for
sale. The heirs at last decided to sell it to
the highest bidder. There were several
buyers in the field, but Pilisbury with the
help of Mrs. Norris won out and secured
the property at long price. We under
stand the farm will be subdivided into
, house lots and put on the market for sale
The property is close TO the csnter o.
the village has several very desirabl
lots and viii make nice addition to Bal
ton. We are glad to know that the Pills
burys have confidence in the future of Bar
g ton.
A very enjoyable meeting of the After
noon Study club was held with Mrs. o. II
t Mossman, Thursday. Oct. 31st. Thirty
|, two memb bers, tenavisitnrs, and fifteen .
: the young people and children were pres
y ent. Roll call wss responded to witt
g conundr1nls. Two irt sresting paper
Y were given, one by Mrs. Robinson, sou
Presid ent's Family, ,''and 'sQueen Wet oria,
q by Mrs. Underwood. After social hou
n the following program was given: TW'
a selections by q1artette composed c
Misses Barron, Bickford, Page and Hamb
let. Piano solo by Gladys Nc tarIant
= Song by Marion Bickford. Refreshmeni
consisting of ice cream and cake wei
served.
Academy Notes.
"a Several in the school have parts in tt
or business mems carnival.