Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-02-17


week to live with his son.
G. E. Colby has been appointed mu-
steal director for the devotional meet
ing of the Epworth League.
Harry Wheeler damned his finger
badly Wednesday while working i'm the
Richie mill at the four corners. The
finger was caught in two pulleys
while working around the double
edger.
The suit, Will Richards VS.. M. L.
Hutchins. was tried Thursday before
Justice King and a jury and resulted
in verdict for the defendant to re-
cover his costs. James G. Simpson
for the plaintiff and Melvin G. Morse
for the defendant.
HOLLAND.
Elk Gov. Bell was In town on bust
| ness Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Engerson are
visiting friends at Newport.
| Lee Hackett spent the day with
| friends at Island Pond recently.
Miss Eleanor Palm spent last Sun
day at A S. Blake's at Island Pond.
Miss Blanche Hackett is spending a
couple of weeks with friends at Island
Pond.
Miss Jennie Lackey spent Sunday
with Don Albee's people at Island
Pond.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray tmes. have return
ed home after visit with relatives in
Richford and Sutton.
The Ladies' Aid society will furnish
their usual baked bean dinner for the
voters on town meeting day.
Francis Hill Jr. slipped on the ice
Saturday and fell in such way as to
, break his collar bone. He was taken
!: to his home in Morgan. DIR. Taylor
reduced the fracture.
IRASBURC.
Mrs. C. H. Hannant is i'll with the
grip.
: Miss Marian Holbrook has been on
the sick list the past week.
! Mrs Frank Wiley has been quite Ill
with bronchitis the past week.
/ Rev. Isabelle Phelps is the guest of
t Miss May Wheeler this week.
Mansel Ciark's youngest daughter
/ has been very III the past week.
Raymond Wiley of Holyoke, Mass,
visited friends in town last week.
N. E. Winget and family of Lowell
: spent Sunday at q. w. Russell's. .
Mr. and Mrs. Dana Clark of Evans
vile spent Sunday at Mansel Clark's.
s Asa Gregory of East Charleston
e visited Mrs. Walden Priest last week.
Several members of F. H. Holdridge's
h family have been i'll with colds the
g past week.
x Mrs. A. c. Curtis has gone to the
% Royal Victoria hospital in Montreal
for treatment.
20 P. L. Webster of Barton was the
q guest of Mr.. and Mrs. George Sylves-
y ter over Sunday.
). Mrs. Mary Webster and youngest
s. daughter of West Burke spent Sum-
s. day at E. P Webster's.
y. A union service will be held in the
Congregational church Sunday morn
As ing. Sermon by Pew. Isabelle Phelps
st Mr. and Mrs. I. S. Drew have re-
u turned from Franklin Falls, N. H..
- where they have spent several weeks.
4 Miss Emma Goss has been quite ill
% the past week with tonsIlitis and was
j. unable to attend to her duties in the
&c Brighton school.
~ We are glad to know that our oblig.
&C ing stage driver, M. A Wells, has
ht again secured the stage route for the
: next four years.
n The funeral services of Mrs. Victor
d. Mason of Troy were held in the Meth.
IN odist church Monday, Feb. 8. Rev.
er E. E. Wells officiated.
We The C. E. society will hold maya.
or zine party at the church parlors Fri.
or day evening, Feb. 10. Fish chowder
he supper. 10 cents. All are cordially
oh invited for a social evening.
~ The remains of Mrs. Hester Carter
III were brought here from West Burke
for burial Friday. Mrs Carter wa!
sister of Mrs. Moses White and was 8
resident of this place for many years
= A most pleasant evening was spent
at the home of C. H. Woodward last
Ak week Tuesday evening when about 13l
of his friends from Irasburg, West
az Glover and Orleans called on him al
60 his pleasant new house on the Wes
Glover road to give him a genuine
housewarming. The evening was
~ pleasantly spent in games and must,
IL by the Irasburg band, of which Mr.
Woodward is a member. Rev. E. e.
so Wells in his pleasing and witty man
It. ner presented Mr.. Woodward in be-
half of the friends several pieces OF
furniture. Mr.. Woodward expressed
x his appreciation of the gifts in few
me well chosen words. Refreshments Of
te. caka and coffee were served and at
ed late hour all turned their steps home
tie ward feeling that an evening had
,rt been spent long to be remembered
"A good audience was in attendance
,st at the Lincoln evening entertainment
iss Friday evening at, the, town hall, and
ut. very pleasant. and profitable program
mt was rendered oy the vi1iage scnool as