Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-11-04

A very successful meeting of Lake.
side chapter, No. 81. o. E. S., was
held Monday evening. A banquet was
served in the dining room at 6 o. M,
about 100 people being present. of
whom IS remained to the meeting and
entertainment.
Owing to extreme low water in Clyde
River the electric light plant is unable
to furnish street lights at present after
nine o'clock and the lights show the
effect of lack of power. If the drought
continues we shall have to depend on
the moon or remain at home on dark
nights.
eo.sWalworth has purchased motor
boat Of the fast type, having report
ed speed of Is miles per hour. lie will
store it In the winter in the Miles boat
house. F. E. Miles is also getting up
new boat for use in the spring, which
is expected to have them going some. :"
The M. Y. C. clubhouse was closed
for the season November l. after
very successful career for it's first
year. with every prospect of better
things to come. The project is on
paying basis and there seems no good
reason why the club may not continue
to flourish indefinitely.
E. B. True, water commissioner. is
sitting at the receipt of customs these
days, it being the time for the semi
annual collection of water rents. No
vember was the last day to save the
discount of per cent and the time of
payment without further expense ex-
nj IN of
supply of water this dry season, while
many of our neighboring towns have
suffered water famine all will no
doubt cheerfully pay up.
Miss Maud Maloney, whose serious
illness has already been mentioned in
this issue, died at about IL O'Clock
Monday forenoon. On Saturday it
was thought that she had safely passed
the crisis in the disease from which she
was suffering but on Sunday change
for the worse took place and she failed
rapidly till the end. She leaves a
brother, Walter MaIoney, and two
sisters, Annie and Mabel. now on their
way home from Denver.
The larceny of a quantity of gin
from a car in the Boston & Maine yard
here occasioned the visit of a railroad
detective, who so far as known did not
succeed in fastening the theft on any,
one. About cases, " bottles were
spirited" from way car brought in
by the C. P. R. way freight from Rich
ford. The thieves must be trying to
age the liquor for bad such quantity
been consumed at once there must have
been evidence of the fact. The sneak
thievin9 from refrigerators etc. here
still continues to some extent and no
one has been caught in the act.
The lecture committee Of the Young
Mems Improvement club have decided
to give the public one more entertain-
ment of the ''good sort" before they
give up their attempts and accordingly
have engaged Ernest Harold Baynes,
secretary of the American Bison socie-
ty and superintendent of C0rbin Park,
New Hampshire, for an illustrated
lecture on "Wild Animal Life Mr..
Baynes is one of those mature fakirs"
who is no fake. and his entertainment
will be unique and interesting both to
old and young. He is expected here
about November "a. Further particu-
lars regarding this entertainment will
appear in these locals later.
The arrangements for the special
meetings are completed. and the
event is looked forward to with great
hope by those who desire spiritual
uplift in the community. The meetings
will be held every evening except
Saturday in the Congregational church !;
the young peoples meetings in the
Methodist church and kther afternoon
meetings in the Baptist church. Rev.
G. T. Schaeffer will be1 asslsted by W.
| II. Collision, singer. Th4 meetings will
begin Thursday evening Nov and
continue for two week. The reports