Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-01-18

of last week for Florida for the re
mainder of the winter.
There was a special meeting of
Mempbremagog Lodge F. and A. nj.
Thursday evening of last week to con-
fer the Master Mason degree.
Cleveland Chapter conferred the M.
M. P. M. and M. E. M. degrees at its
regular meeting Friday evening.
There was a large attendance.
F. S. Tinkham, who has purchased
the Cunningham place, better known !
as the Fogg property in Derby, will fit
the house for three tenements.
A half mile track has been made on t
South Bay for horse racing, and races
| were held there last Saturday after
| noon. Prizes are offered by scme of
the leading merchants.
Rufus Percy, who has been in Wash
| ington. D. c.. for two weeks prepar
ing for the West Point entrance ex-
animation, returned home Saturday.
He took tie examinations at Fort
Slocum. N. Y, Jan. 10.
M. E., H. S. Root, grand high priest.
and several members of Cleveland
chapter attended the annual convoca-
ton of the fourth Masonic district of
Royal Arch Masons held with Has
we'll, chapter No. II, at st. Johnsbury
Tuesday of this week. =.
The famous comedy. 1.-The Time,
The Place and The Girl" is the at
traction at Lanes Thursday evening.
Jan1 9. Seat prices are from rs cents
to 81. so and special train will run
from Stanstead. Seats emit on sale
Mon day, special reserve tions being
made for out of town part es.
The ladies of Lakesida Chapter, o.
E. S., have accepted a invitation to
attend the meeting of Interval Chap:
J ter at Orleans Thurs 3ay evening Of
/ this week. The trip will probably be
made in teams as the price Of a spe'
cial train for party of the size ex,
pected to go is nearly prohibitive.
Swift and Company have begun tt
fill their ice house, and the new hoist
ing machinery works to perfection
. About 5000 tons Of ice can be stored
while large quantities are shipped
:: away. A large quantity, probabl!
l over 200 tons is usually stacked with
: out covering, for use during the colo
weather.
= The annual meeting of the Mem
= phremagog Yacht club is warned TO
k Tuesday evening, Jan. 81 at the room
! of the Young Mems improvement
is club. The annual meeting of this III
stitution was formerly held in Apr
but the date was changed at the las
meeting, later date being though
better for the interests of the club.
n The annual meeting of the Ladie
social union of the Congregations
+ church will be held at the church pa
- lors Friday evening. Jan. goth. SUI
per will be served in the dining roo
n at 6 o. M, to which all are invite
In the evening there is to be an el
81 tertainment Of literary and music
nature.
49, Alton Harvey, son of Frank Harv'
u of Bay street, died very suddenly la
week Friday. Mr.. Harvey, who was
in civil engineer, was engaged in rallro
ci- work on a branch line some thr
hundred miles west of Toronto, Or
:. His body was brought home by
is brother Roy, arriving Sunday on Il
ne Montreal express. Beside his paren
Mr.. Harvey is survived by his Wi
,rl who was Miss Helen Kimball of Il
lip town. He was graduate of the u
versity of Vermont and had been {
az gagged in engineering pursuits. sin
ey his graduation. He had many frier
'ry here who will grieve with the fam
over his untimely death. The fune
las was held Monday afternoon.