Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-11-09
NEWPORT.

Arthur Rlcn was at nome IrOm
Montpelier over Sunday.
U. S. Marshall Horace w. Bailey of
Newbury was in town on business last
week.
E. c.. Blanchard has been on a
business trip to Manitoba the past
fortnight.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. O. Ward of Lynn,
Mass, visited several days recently
at D. G. Wards.
T. P. Streeter will occupy fiat in
the Aubin block for the present, and is
moving this week.
Daniel Chase. whose severe illness
was reported last week, died at the
home of w. w. True Sunday.
DR.. ]. M. Currier has rented the
tenement recently vacated by E. G.
Hilton to Peter Lippens.
Mrs. S. F. Davis returned last week
| from Cabot where she was called by
the illness and death of her mother
= Mr.. and Mrs. H. S. Root go to-
morrow to Boston, in VIII ch vicinity
they expect to visit for about two
w eks.
J.R. Akin has been in New York
for several days. Mrs. Akin has
| been there for some weeks for medical
| treatment.
Landlord Hapgood of the Newport
house is visiting his parents in South
Acton, Mass. He will also visit Bos
ton before returning.
Mrs. w. N. Kline has gone to New
Rochelle, N. Y, for the winter. Her
residence here will be occupied by DR..
and Mrs. o. B. Gould.
C. A. Davis attended the Dart
mouth amherst football game at
Hanover, N. H.. Saturday as also did
Prof. Burgess and party of students
from the high school.
Miss Blanche Spaulding, who has
been at the Proctor Sanitarium at
Pittsford for several months, is at
home. She is said to be in an i'm
proved state of health.
An examination of rural mail car
riers was held at the Federal building
Saturday for vacancies in the serv
ice at Newport and North Troy.
Seven applicants appeared.
DR.. o. B. Gould is nursing an in
jured right hand While attempting to
cork a bottle of medicine in his office
Wednesday the bottle broke and the
Doctor received bad cut.
Homer Thrasher is i'll and confined
to his home, suffering from nervous
prostration. He was i'll with the
same trouble in the spring, but has
been able to attend to business during
the summer.
At the regular meeting of Lakeside
Chapter No. II, o. E. S., Monday even
ing the degree of the order was con-
ferred on one candidate. The district
meeting of the order is to be held
with Lakeside Chapter, Nov. Is.
E. L. Tracy's Morning Glory Farm
on the Lake Road has been sold to
John Hildreth. Mr.. Hildreth will
not move to the farm until next
spring, continu ng his labors with
Blake & Co., through the winter.
The second lecture in the course,
scheduled for last Wednesday even
ing did not take place, though the
audience gathered and waited some
time, as the lecturer missed her train
and was unable to reach here. The
speaker will probably appear here
later in the course.
The game of football between New
port and Burlington high school teams
scheduled TO occur last week, did not
materialize. 1t is intimated that lack
of proficiency in class work on the
part of members of the visiting team,
debarred so many of the boys that it
was impossible to produce a team at
that time.
The meeting of the Civic Improve
ment association held last week Tues
day evening was as we'll attended as
might be expected considering the
various other attractions on the
boards for the same evening. A very
interesting paper on the subject,
What We Owe Our Boys and Girls, -
was read by Miss Woodruff of St.
Johnsbury.
The w. C. T. u. will meet with
Mrs. c. L. Drown Thursday after.
noon, Nov. 10. The subject for the
meeting will be "Purity." A report
of the state convention held recently
at Bristol will be given by the dele
gate, Mrs. B. o. Spaulding. Eact
member is requested to bring friend
IL Is uOpGu IudG ali u0W IH6IuUGES VIII
make a special effort to be present
Arthur Manning, an employee ir
the B. & Nj. repair shop, was injured
in a peculiar manner last week.
While returning from a deer hunt,
when on the Barton summit he at
tempted to board a moving freight
train and fell behind the van, catching
one finger between his gun and the
rail, completely severing the mem
Der. The wound was dressed at Bar.
ton.
The residence of Charles Moultol
on North avenue was discovered to b'
on fire last week Wednesday,. The fir
caught on the roof, no doubt from
sparks from a burning chimney. A
the wind was high much alarm wa
felt for a time as the buildings il
that section of the village are all O
wood and close together. but promp
action by the fire company extir
guished the blaze before much damag
was done.