Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-03-03
NEWPORT.

John Bisbee is quite i'll. suffer- g
from an attack Of grip.
Mrs. M. u. Skinner visited relatives
in Orleans several days recently.
Col. and Mrs. C. S. Emery returned
Wednesday from Washington, D. &.
Henry, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Black, is suffering from an attack OF
measles.
DR.. Harry Hamilton was in White
River Junction the first of last week
on business.
Mrs. Georgiana Cattanach of ST.
last of last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. J. Prouty and others
from town will be in Washington for
the Inaugural! ceremonies.
Mrs. a. P. Hubbard, who has spent
the greater part of the winter with
relatives in Fall River, Mass, is at
home again.
Assistant Postmaster C.. II. Wood
and family returned Wednesday from
Springfield, Mass, where they spent
short vacation.
County court convenes Wednesday
and this with the annual town meeting
and presidential Inauguration ought
to furnish excitement for the week.
S. E.. Hitchcock has been laid up for
repairs for several days owing to an
injury to his hand sustained by getting
the member pinched in his printing
press.
Several of our local sports attended
the hockey game at Stanstead. P. O.,
Thursday night between the Stanstead
team and Bishops college. They re.
port the most interesting game of the
season.
Prin. Stannard Of Barton academy
found it rather hard to travel in slip
perry places Wednesday night as he
received a badly sprained ankle while
, going to the station after the distrlc
! meeting.
The mechanical contrivance. operat
ed by compressed air which raises ant
2 lowers the gates at the station cross
ings, has been frozen for some tim
5 and it has been necessary to station
flagman there.
e Edwin Rickaby, who was 50 serious
ly injured recently by the breaking G
u a side rod on his engine. is able to b
x out of doors, though still under th
e care of physician. His hand an
+ arm will mend very slowly.
I'd Mrs. Verrier, formerly Mrs. J. T
Theroux, of Waterbury, Conn.,. visite
r friends here on Tuesday of last weel
i Mrs. Verrier was called to St. John
~ bury by the illness and death of h
ca father.
ed The sudden explosion of key
O. brewers's yeast at the express Off
o. Sunday morning caused the bystande
to take notice and all on the windwa
side started Immediately in search
beer, without much success.
F. r. Leonard, stenographer for
ts, Frost Veneer Seating Co. for the p:
on two or three years, has severed
,ot connection with the company q
ull will go to Washington. d. c., wis
'ge he has a position in the General La
sre office.
've Erastus Buck returned Stature
90 night from Denver. Col, where he
n ls been for several weeks on visit
ICY his wife. who Is spending the win
our there for her health. He reports M
nes Buck as gaining rapidly at pres
luii with prospects of ultimate recove
~. Mr.. Buck has not as yet deci
w. whether they will continue to m
. Vermont their home Or will settle
the West.
III The town reports are out and she
res. be carefully perused both before
T.
the statements of income and exl
~ diture there is an article by our
trict superintendent of schools
l. will bear careful study. Prof. '
a. son is without doubt the right ma
by this position and the work he is tr.
:. to perform for the good of our sch
. should be appreciated by all. 1t '
III well to profit by hints given in his
mort