Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-01-27
Orleans News Page
News and Views from This
Hustling Village
C. L. sHAEFFER, Local Editor
C. L. SHAEFFER, Local Editor

The annual donation of the Metho-
dist church was held Friday evening.
A large crowd was in attendance
and it is said the proceeds were up to
the average.
Miss Florence Blackburn has re-
turned to her work in Plainville,
Mass, having spent the past month
at home caring for Mrs. Mertie Perley
who has been sick.
Baseball is again in the air. The
high school baseball committee are
making efforts to secure member of
last years village team to act as coach
for the coming season.
Services in the M. E. church next
ing service at 1890. Sunday school at
l: Junior League at 3. Epworth League
at 6.15, evening service at z.
Everett Wiley has made arrange
ments for the erection of the new
addition to his block on Main street.
The addition will add very materially
to the appearance of the block.
Miss Theda Wellman is home this
week, as the schools in Barton are
!,
there having been considerable expo
sure at the funeral of little child
quite recently.
Do not forget the Lincoln Centenni-
NAL memorial exercise to be held in the
Opera hall February IL. An elaborate
program of music and speeches by many
of our townsmen and toWnSwomen has
been arranged for.
Mrs. Austin, who has been spending
the past month with her daughter, in
Jamaica Plain, Mass, has been Ill
with a slight attack of pneumonia.
Her many friends will be glad to
learn that she is doing well.
Mrs. L. S. Nye, who had been sick
for number of weeks with the grir
| and had almost recovered, has had a
| relapse. At present writing the re.
ports are that she is making steady
improvement towards recovery.
Mrs. Burns Buchanan's brother,
Mr.. Morse, met with very serious
accident on Monday while attempting
| to board freight train. In attempt
ing to board the train he slipped anc
fell beneath the train which severed
| one of his limbs.
D. P. Baldwin, of Marquette, Mich.
cousin of Mrs. E. H. Lothrop, has
been stopping at the Valley house the
past week. He left for Coaticook. P
O.. Tuesday noon, to visit the place OF
| his birth, returning again to Orleans
before going to his home in Michigan
where he has been IN business for the
past "a years.
Clarence J. Ferguson, superintendent
of the Anti-Saloon League. addressed
union congregation in the oper;
| hall Sunday morning. On account o.
| the rain ana bad travelling there wa
, but fair number present. In tn,
afternoon Mr.. Ferguson spoke at the
church in Bloomington village and il
| the evening at Evansville.
The annual district meeting of F.
A. M. held at Newport Thursday wa
very well attended. About i
members Of Valley lodge were present
and worked the first degree at the af
ternoon meeting. An excellent ban
quet was served in the schoolhouse hall
in which there were tables to accommo
date 300, and nearly all of the chair
were filled.
B. 0. Smith, one of our enterprisin
merchants. has adopted new mean
of advertising. He has announce
that for the first two weeks in Febru
airy he will give a certain percentag
of all his sales to the churches. TIL
percentage of the first weeks sale
will go to the Congregational church
and that of the second week to tn
Meth0diSt church
II. B. MCulton, treasurer of the T
l.. Chandler Co., and H. E. Parker
accompanied by their wives, passe
through here on the Air Line on the
way to Los Angeles, California The
will stop at Chicago and Denver ar
other interesting points en- route, an
will be gone about ten weeks. Tn
is the first real vacat ton Mr.. MoultC
has taken in about DO years.
acknowledgement services
the usual hours. Morning service
1890, Sunday school at IL, Christie
Endeavor at $50, evening service
7.15. Midweek prayer and conferen,
meeting on Wednesday evening {
7.30. Subject. .'The Beginnings of tt
Faith. - There was large attendan,
last week. Make a special effort to |
present on Wednesday evening.
Warlanski Zjeswisky, uncle of Wi
liam Zjeswisky, the Polander who w
so seriously scalded at the veneer m
of the E. l.. Chandler Co., visited he