Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-10-04

There will be social dance in the
opera hall tomorrow evening for the
benefit of the new band that has re-
Gently heen7s organized. The music
will be furnished by good orchestra.
Harley Trip has in his store a
pumpkin that weighs 70 pounds and
measures 81 "a inches in circumfer-
ence and 81 inches from stem to
stem. It was grown by Henry Bas-
Sett.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hahn of Boston,
Mass, are spending the week with
their brother, Frank Harvey. Mr..
and Mrs. Harvey are also entertain
ing their father. c. E. Harvey, from
Fort Warren, Mass.
Mrs. Mary Fletcher. who has been
visiting her sister-in- law, Mrs. Cham
berlin. the past five weeks, went to
Boston Saturday to visit her son dur
ing the early part of the winter, GO
ing from there to her home in Virgin
ia.
There will be meeting of the chill
dren of the village next Friday after
noon at 3 80 in the vestry of the Con-
gregational church for the purpose of
organizing Loyal Temperance
Legion. 1t is hoped there will be a
large attendance.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. A. Wilcox of New
port Center arrived in town yester-
day. They will make Orleans their
future home. Mr.. Wilcox and his
brother, Arab Wilcox, recently pur-
chased the Orleans bakery and are
now its sole proprletors.
Fred E. Colburn, who for the past
did cobhling in the basem mt of the
Beede block, and had buir up very
good business, sold out to A. r. Ben
nett. Mr.. Colburn will continue to
do repair work at the same place and
assist Mr.. Bennett.
The Ladies' Aid society of the M.
E. church will serve their annual
harvest dinner and supper in the yes.
try of the church tomorrow Thursday,
Oct. 5th. Dinner. Is cents, children
Is cents. Supper Is cents, children
10 cents. Everybody cordially invited
A party of boys and girls gathered
at the home Of Robert Wells Friday
evening to celebrate his eighteenth
birthday. Refreshments were served
at nine o'clock. Everyone reported {
very pleasant evening. Mr.. Wells re
ceived large number of gifts.
The Book and Thimble club me
Sept. 27 with Mrs. Kinney. Subject
of the afternoon 'The Canadian
Northwest" Paper :,,''Its Geography, ,
Miss Fiske; "Its Resources and De.
velopment. Mrs. Julia Skinner
Reading from dob and the Guides, ,
Mrs. Cotton Adjourned to meet Oct
II with Mrs. Ella Skinner.
Mrs. Jennie Jones, who was a dele
gate from the local woman's mission
airy society of the Congregations
church to the state meeting of tn,
Woman's Foreign Missionary society
held in Montpelier last week, gave al
excellent report at the evening serv
ice Sunday. She also gave a yer.
interesting descrip tion of the pagean
representing the foreign work.
Miss Sessions, representative O.
Kurn Hattin home for homeless boys
who was expected to be present il
the Congrega tjonal church last Sun
day, was unable to be present on &C
count Of the death of a cous in. Miss
ooSSlOHS dEEINou IdSC evening anu VIII
speak in the Congregational church
next Sunday evening at 7:15 at {
union service. Everybody is most
cordially invited. Special music.
One of the appurtenances of the
house recently sold by Frank House
and purchased by E. E. Doe, is al
automobile. Now quite a number o
Mr.. Does friends would like to know
when the breaking-in process is t.
begin. That selfsame auto ha
rather peculiar propensities. one o
which was noted when it ran irto tn
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