Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-05-31
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
WEST BURKE.

OALEDONlA >COON I.
WEST BURKE.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. G. Huntley of STAN
stead, P O., visited friends in town
: w. w. Coe was at home three times
during the past week. He is gaining
in strength quite rapidly and as soon
as the wound is healed will be able to
come home for good.
The Memorial Sunday service was
held in the G. A. r. hall last Sunday.
The number of old soldiers present
was very small, but the hall was we'll
filled with a sympathetic and an ap-
preciative audience. The sermon by
Rev. Mr.. Williams, was interesting
and inspiring. and all present could
not fail to be helped and elevated by
it. Three selections were rendered by
a mixed quartette, consisting Of Mrs.
Nellie Gaskell, Miss Myrtle Aldrich,
Porter Wallace and II. G. Colby. Mr..
Wallace has an unusually fine tenor
voice and his singing added greatly to
the quality of the music.
West Burke was somewhat sur
prised Wednesday evening to learn
that wedding had taken place DUR
ing the afternoon unknown to any
one, except the contracting parties
and their immediate families. It has
been rumored about town that Arthur
G. Way, one Of our promising young
business men, was to be married soon,
probably in June, but Mr.. Way had
plans Of his own which he did not
think necessary to communicate to his
friends in general, and so shortly
M 10 Indf to
carry them out. He left West Burke
LyndonviIle, where he added two pas
sengers, his bride, Miss Bertha Hall,
and friend, Mrs. Howard Thomas,
to his party and then speeded to Bar
ton, where the young couple were
quietly married at the Methodist par
sonage, by the Rev. Mr.. Dukeshire.
! They left on the mail train for Hall
| fax, Nova Scotia, where they will
spend some time, visiting Mrs. Ways
relatives. Mr.. Way has large circle
1 of friends here, and all through this
section whose best wishes will go
with him in the new life which is
opening before him. Mrs. Way has
been for several years popular oper-
ator in the Passumpsic Telephone eX-
change at Lyndonville, and she will
receive a warm welcome from those
who are to be her friends and neigh
bors. Mr.. and Mrs. Way will occupy
the tenement over the Way & Co,
hardware store, recently vacated by
H. I. Foster The happy couple have
the hearty good wishes of a host of
friends in West Burk e, LyndonvilIe.a and
elsewhere.
SUTTON.
Mrs. Lucy Gordon has returned
from St. Johnsbury.
The Ladies Aid will give a supper
in their hall Thursday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Mitchell of
Sheffield were in town Sunday.
Proctor Otis of Coaticook, F. O.,
visited at H. A. Blake's Saturday.
z Freeman Hyde addressed the school
children on the South Ridge Monday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. B. Joy attended
the Adams-J Jerome wedding at Bar
ION Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Leon Kincaid has returned
from Wheelock. Mrs. John Steven:
is expected home soon.
> Mis- Angie Davis is a member O.
the graduating class at Barton acad
envy, the exercises taking place CT
! Thursday, June l..
, Mr.. and Mrs. H. D. Chapman visit
ed their son Ralph; Sunday. One O.
the attractions in Ralph's family nov
is a little daughter, who came t.
. their home May 26.
There will be no service at tn,
church next Sunday as the WheeIocl
association of Free Baptist churches
{ will hold its Quarterly session with
the Sheffield church, June IA.
The library trustees in Sutton are
interes ting all the school teachers
: particularly those ct distance from
the library-in making each district
schoolhouse a branch library. They
, also plan to get the interest and CO
+ operation of one woman living neal
: each schoolhouse SO that the parents
of the pupils may enter actively into
the scheme.