Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-08-11
NEWPORT

NEWPORT
-, The residence of H. S. Root is receiv-
| ing coat OF paint.
Mrs. Charles Crawford is visiting her
daughter Effie in Coventry.
! P. C. Skinner of Orleans visited in
town Friday and Saturday of last week.
w. B. Ranney and family of Pena-
cook, N. H., are visiting at c. F..
Ranney's.
Mrs F. J. Campbell of Lebanon, N
H., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. H.
T. Robbins.
M. H. Green and Mrs. Anna Green
Clark are visiting their parents, Mr.
AMI Mrs. c. H. Green.
D. M. Camp attended the Interna-
tional Sunday School conference at
knowlton, P. O., last Friday.
Mr.. and Mr.. J. E. Foster have been
away on visit to their old home on the
Cape" for the past two weeks.
Mrs. C. H. Woodcock and two daugh-
tiers of North Troy, visited several
days recently at Benjamin Riley's.
Harley Sawyer has given up his posi-.
ton as bookkeeper for Blake & Co.,
and has taken his old job as clerk in
| the postoffice.
Thomas C. Gale went last week
Thursday to Salt Lake City where he
will attend the National encampment
of the G. A. R.
Mrs. w. E. Kipp and Miss Kipp
attended the funeral of E. ]. Belden,
which occurred at North Troy last
week Saturday.
Mrs. Clinton Day is critically ill with
spinal meningitis at her home on
felt for her recovery.
Mrs. B. F. Moore, Mrs. w. B. Bull
lock and Miss Esther Bullock are en-
ioying few weeks outing at Ocean
Park on the Maine coast.
o. C. Miller, with a party of friends
from the west, were in Westfeld one
day recently where they attended a
picnic reunion of the Miller family.
There is to be an excursion to Lake
Champlain over the Canadian Pacific
railway and connections from Newport
this week Friday. The fare is 81. sc
round trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Lambert are so.
journing at Caledonia Springs for a
time for the benefit of Mr.. Lambert
who has not enjoyed the best of health
for some time.
Asa Drown has been driving the
American Express Co. s delivery wag
on for several days, as Mr.. Jones, tn,
regular driver, has been working il
the office during the vacation of SOM
other employees.
Ralph and Percy Buck returned las
week Friday from Denver, Colo
Erastus Buck and the rest of the famil
are about to return here, having foun
life in the far west uncongenial. Thei
many friends here will welcome thei
return.
Work on the new steel porches owe
the entrances to the Federal buildin
was begun Saturday. They will tax
the place of the unsightly wooden cooI
which have "adorned' CD the buildin
for year or more. True & Blanchar
have the contract.
Rev. A. A. Murch, whose minister;
labors here close October l, will b
succeeded as pastor of st. Marks b
Rev. A. C.. Larned of Bristol, R.
Mr.. Larned is graduate of Princeton
has had year at Oxford and has ha
pastorates in England for the past fv
years. He should be we'll equipped fc
the work here.
While on motor car trip one da
last week Governor Prouty had tn
misfortune to lose his watch. TIL
watch was a valuable one, being tn
one presented to him by the senat
of 1906-07 But the governor had hi
usual luck with him for the watch wa
found by George Livingstone, near tn
Soldiers monument in Derby and re
stored to it's owner.
The annual outing of District No. 6
|. 0. O. F., was held in Silver's Grove
Derby, on Wednesday, July %. 1t wa
J one of the best outings held by tn
society and the number present wa
about $50. All sorts of sports wer
: INDUCED in, including potato race
wheelbarrOw race, races for fat me
n and women too, besides ball gam
between Essex and Orleans lodges
: The former won the game
A. Allyn Bishop. the artist, was i
Boston last week attending the conven
ton of the Photographers association O
New England. Mr.. Bishop was award
ed first prize, a gold medal in the grar