Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-12-21
NEWPORT.

! for the holiday vacation.
Geo. M. Stinehour of Lowell was a
recent business visitor in town.
C. F. Bigelow was confined to his
home by illness several days last week.
Mrs. Peter Porter has been in poor
health of late, but is some better at
present.
Mrs. Florence Campbell Perkins of
Lebanon, N. H., is visiting at II. I.
Robbins.
The Beethoven Circle meets this
Wednesday, evening with Mrs. e. IL.
Newland.
Mrs. F. M. Sherman was under the
doctors care several days recently, but
is now improving.
F. E. Hapgood was in Montpelier
Tuesday and Wednesday to attend a
meeting of hotel men.
Norman Lawson of New York will
spend the holidays with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Lawson.
w. C. Calhoun of Sheboygan, Wis,
was in town recently in the business
interest of the Frost Veneer Seating
| company.
| Over forty of the young people OF
the M. E. church INDUCED in straw
ride to Derby Center last week Mon
day night.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Police returned
! Tuesday night from their wedding
trip, which included Portland, Boston
and Plymouth.
Miss Maude Hurst of the Boston
| Conservatory of music is spending the
holidays with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Richard Hurst.
Repairs on the sheriff's house con-
pleted, and Sheriff Hill will probably
move in this week.
The various stores in the village
will be open every evening during this
week for the convenience of late
Christmas shoppers.
The annual chicken pie dinner of the
Methodist church will be held Satur-
day, Dec. 81. Mrs. Herbert Blake has
the direction of the dinner.
Miss Rosabel Human started Satur.
day, Dec. 10, for Florida, going by way
of Boston. Miss Human is accompan-
led by girl friend from Johnson.
Miss Agnes Daley of the Lane &
Son store is confined to her home by
rheumatic fever. Miss Lita Martin
is assisting in the store for the pres
ent.
No applicants presented themselves
for the Civil Service examination fol-
stenographers, scheduled to be held al
the Federal building last week Tues
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Thrasher go t
Florida soon for the winter, the change
in climate being thought necessary fol
Mr.. Thrasher's health, which has beer
very poor of late.
Mrs. F. M. Sherman, whose illness
is mentioned elsewhere in these local:
was much worse the last of the weel
as a result of which her proposed triI
to California has been postponed.
Miss Grace SearIes, an employee Of
the Gilman store, had the misfortune
to fall on the sidewalk and strain the
ligaments of one arm, an injury which
will probably preclude her working fol
the greater part of the winter.
Representative C. T. Bean and as
sistapt clerk H. A. Black are a
home from Montpelier for the holi
day recess. Their predictions as tt
the duration of the present term o.
the legislature are rather vague.
Supt. E. S. Watson was in Bakers
> Go1I ln Of of
school institute. During the latter
part of the week Mr.. Watson took tn
work in High school of Miss Swanson
who has been i'll at her home in st
Johnsbury.
? The Brotherhood of Railroad train
men held their annual installation o
officers Sunday, Dec. 18, after which
banquet was served in Odd Fellows
, hall. Visiting members were presen
! from Barton, Lyndonville and st
Johnsbury. About 80 sat down to tn
banquet.
Mrs. l.. E. Humphrey, daughter O.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. H. Rawson, who ha
been at the Proctor sanatorium atPitts
ford for treatment, goes soon to Den
d yer, COL, with her husband in hope
| IudG GIlC CudIS6 VI Illdy pLON
y permanently beneficial.
10 The Newport alumni and friends O
(, Dartmouth college will be pleased t
: learn of gift to the college of abou
IS $500, 600 by Edward Tuck of Paris,
a graduate The income from this sun
= about $4,000 per year is to be used i
n Strengthening the teaching staff c
b the college.
!. Master Homer Martin, otherwis
70 known as Fat" is i'll with rheum;
l. tism and his ample avoirdupois an
9 gentlemanly presence are missed b.
y all his associates. James Martin
u Homer's father, has been unable t
- work for many weeks, from the sam
"a affection, but is able now to get abol
10 on crutches.
IL Sergeant Rufus Percy of Company
y who recently passed the preliminal
. examinations at Mortified, has r
y ceived from Congressman Plumley {
% appointment to a cadetship at We
o Point. He will take the entrance e.