Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-08-05

vacation with his parents here, has
returned to Skinner, Me.
Ernest Mathews people are enter
tanning friends from New York in
thelrlcottage at Willoughby.
Wright Lowell and family of Lyn-
donville have moved here into c.. E.
Gays tenement on Water street.
Samuel Hall has recently painted his
house and barn. Mr.. Hall visits his
brother in Holland this week.
Asa Harris people have broken
camp at WilIoughby, and have rented
their camp until the first of October.
Mrs. Fairbanks and two children OF
Greensboro were the guests OF Mrs.
Harry Dickens several days recently.
The lawn social at the Congrega-
tional church Thursday evening was
real success, the proceeds being $3.50.
Miss Theda Wellman, central girl at
the Bell telephone Office, has been en-
gagged as one of the grade teachers at
Barton.
Harold Gardyne, Thayer Townsend,
G. K. Harris, Clifton Webster and
Dean Mcclellan will spend a week at
Wilioughby.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. M. Dean spent Sun
day at Willoughby, and their daughter
Island, P. @.
The Christian Endeavor meeting will
be held in the Congregational church
Sunday evening at Z o'clock, Clyde
Locke leader.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. M. Allchurch are
spending a week with friends in Bos-
ton. They will take in the festivities
OF Pythian week.
Miss Juline Rogers is having her va
cation, and will spend some time at
Albany and at Willoughby for the
next two weeks.
Mrs. A. D. Chandler and Miss E. S.
Eaton started Monday for Swamp
scott, Mass. where they will spend a
vacation OF two weeks.
spend several days with friends at
Rockland, Mass, and will enjoy the
Pythian week at Boston.
Miss Marion Spaulding of Maiden.
Mass, and Miss Alice Thompson of
Waltham, Mass, have recently been
guests Of Mrs. c. N. Leonard.
Rev. w. R. Davenport, who has
been away for the past three months
on account of sickness, has returned
and will occupy the pulpit Sunday.
Rev. Mr.. Huntley. who has been
| preaching in the Methodist church for
some time, started Monday for Char
lottetown, Can, having finished work
here.
w. B. Leonard has moved into a
tenement in his fathers house. Mr..
Leonard has been thoroughly repairing
and fitting up most convenient tene-
ment.
| F. E. Scott is taking F. E. Wilkey' s
place in 0. w. Locke's store during
Mr.. Wilkes absence in Melbourne, P.
| O., where he has gone to spend his va
cation.
The regular meeting of Geo. G.
Meade Post and Woman's Relief Corps
will be held August II at 2 O'Clock p.
m. All are invited to come prepared
| to answer to roll call.
| M. M. Taplin is to sell the Evans
vile creamery, the Middlesex cream
cry and the Georgia creamery and all
| of their fixtures at auction next week,
| it being a bankrupt sale of the Ve1-
mont Creameries Co.
Richard Brennan has sold the half of
| the house he owned on Maple street to
his brother William. and has bought
| Frank Andrus' house on Congo hill.
He and his family and Wallace Saw
yer's family have moved there.
Skinner & French will not stock their
mills in Maine this winter, as by the
first of September they will have seven
million feet of lumber ready for mar
ket, and the sales will not warrant put
| ting in a stock. They are already sell
ling their horses.
| The mechanics and masons are at
the school house making repairs. F.
M. Andrus has the job to cement the
baement floor and will use 80 barrels
of cement. The house will be
thoroughly repaired, additional windows
put in and new floors laid.
Arthur Cheney and family of
Marion, O., recently visited his
father, John Cheney, on their way to
Europe. This family will visit almost
all the European countries, as Mr..
Cheney is stakeholder in the Marion
Steam Shovel company, and is there
to solicit trade for the company.
A number of the members of the
local camp attended the great meeting
of the Knights of Pythias at Boston
this week. Among them we mention
B. A. Scott, B. O. Smith, F. H.
Churchill, Ed. Gauvin. H. w. Buchanan,
E. w. Merrill, F. M. Allchurch, C. L.
Whitehill, Guy Hilliard. Bert Moore.
Harry Dickens.
Prescelle, the hypnotist will be the
attraction at the opera house August
q and %, in benefit for the baseball
team. We know what an excellent en-.
tertainment Prescelle offers and large
crowds are sure to attend. A dance
will be in order Friday night after the
show. Secure your seats in advance
at the usual place.
In excavating for the sewer south
of the village bridge this week an ole