Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1912-12-25
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V. NJ. Parker of Lowell was in town
Friday.
Harry Whitaker is spending the
holidays at home.
C. F. Ranney spent Christmas with
his son VIII, at Penacook, N. H.
4. A. Norton and Mrs. G. L. Chris
tie Of Glover were in town Friday.
FL. Patterson entertained his cous-
in; Carroll Whitcher of Albany, last
week.
Elk Gov. G. H. Prouty returned Fri
day night from a business trip to the
Pacific coast.
MIR. and Mrs. A. W. Edmunds and
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Parker Of Troy
were in town Wednesday. q
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Vincent Jones en-
tertained a party Of friends at cards
last week Tuesday evening.
| I. J. Parker and Mr.. Hagar of West
Main street have recently had electric
! lights put into their houses.
Alfred Gale is at home from ..Worces-
ter, as is also John Young. Maurice
Blanchard is up from Dartmouth.
Mrs. E. F. Humphrey, while safely
passing the crisis in an attack Of pneu-
monia. is still very i'll from other
causes. -e.. "a .. ss-l "A
A chicken pie dinner will be given
at the Methodist church dining rooms
on New Years Day from IL till 2
o'clock.
Percy Fee has resumed his labors
with the local Canadian Pacific office
force, after an absence Of three years
in Canada.
Paul Babel has closed his labors as
chauffeur for Elk Gov. G. H. Prouty
and has gone to his home in Manches-
ter for time. - -~>..,1s .a.z -@...-s~
Sir Knights of Malta Commandery.
No. 10, Knights -Templar, will observe
Christmas at their3asylum on Wednes-
day at II a. m.
Morris Farman returned Saturday
from Lowell and started Sunday morn
ing for Wakefield, Kan, where he will
spend the winter.
Days orchestra will furnish music
for the New Years ball at the Front
Ter house at North Troy on Tuesday
evening, December 81.
Mrs. M. L. Ekins has closed he1
home on Prospect street and went
Thursday to Lowell, Mass, to spend
the winter with her son.
Jack Storrs is at home from his
school in Bordentown, N. ~, anC
Effingham Bartlett from Dean acad
, envy at Franklin, Mass.
Mail trains from Sherbrooke were
badly delayed Saturday by reason O.
derailments of freight trains on both
the Grand Trunk and Boston 6
Maine.
After the holidays practically al
the stores in the village will clos,
every evening except Mondays ant
Saturdays. They will be closed OF
Christmas.
Fire among some waste in a sheC
adjoining the small store in Batesvill
last Tuesday caused an alarm to b
rung in from Box No. Sc. The fir
was all out before the fire companle
could get to it.
Miss Molly Reid has finished he
labors as stenographer for the LAY
firm of Young & Young and has re
turned to her home in Dover, N. H.
whence she goes to Lawrence. Mass
where she has another position.
A five dollar bill was picked up frol
the floor of the post-office lobby Nor
day morning and the loser escaped
Christmas financial shortage throug
the honesty of the finder, who handle
the money to the post-office officials.
One of the most attractive calendar
e for 1918 is that which is being put OF
y by E. F. Humphrey of the Novelt
,r store. The calendar will only be SUI
" piled to stores and other places fir
$. quented by the public as the supply
>, limited.
The Lyman H. Howe Moving Pi
,. lures at Lanes Thursday night we
as good as ever and drew a large pa
ronage, though the house was n
ry crowded The exhibition was Civ
on under the auspices of the Epwor
ON League Of the NJ E. church
las Special Christmas exercises we
ell held at the Congregational church
,rt Sunday evening and a Christmas tr
-. on Tuesday evening was provided f
'f' the children, whereon were display
vt gifts provided from the proceeds
Vt. Red Tag day, about S85 dollars bel
W. realized in this way.