Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-11-26

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Myron Waterman of Island Pond wa.
here Monday.
| Miss Mamie Uttin has finished worl
at West Derby and returned home.
Miss Annie Rhodes of West Derb,
has been visiting at John Powers's the
past week.
Mrs. David S. Cook died Sunday
morning. An obituary will be giver
! next week.
Bert Hamilton of Woodsville, N. H..
has been here to visit his father and
brother.
Clayton Brooks and family of
Coventry visited at A. M. Temple
| over Sunday.
James Mcnamara is unable to work
on account of severe strain while
loading cream.
Will Farrar of Holland has bought
the Batchelder farm and moved his
family there.
Dane have all had telephones installed
the past week.
Mrs. Herbert Badger and sons
visited her aunt. Mrs. Ella Church, at
Derby part of last week.
Mrs. A. M. Temple has been in
Derby to visit her daughter, Mrs.
Chester Carpenter, and family.
Arved Labor and family have moved
back from Morgan and are again
occupying the Julia Ruiter house.
Mrs. Sidney Davis of Newport
Center visited her cousin. Mrs. Amy
Crawford, nearly all of last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Davis of Derby
have been here part of the week to
help care for her nephew, Glen Coffey.
Vanessa and Airline HoIton of New
port have been recent guests of their
grandparents. Mr.. and Mrs. j. B.
Holton.
We are sorry to hear that Mrs.
Adella Brackets throat trouble has
been diagnosed as cancer and that
she is failing.
Allen Maxwell of East Charleston.
who is building Holton's store addi-
ton, was very i'll part of last week at
Mr. Holton's.
DR.. Parlin of Island Pond, DR..
Aldrich of Derby and DIR. Gaines of
Newport have been here the past week
to attend Glen Coffey.
Arthur Labor and Miss Annie Priest
of West Burke were here last week
to visit his brother Arved and sister,
Mrs. Ellsworth Heath.
Mrs. Hattie Revoir has returned
from Boston to stay in her own home
for a short time She found many
articles missing from her house.
Mrs. Homer Buck and daughter, Mrs
Alice Drew, with her little girl. all of
Newport Center, visited Mrs. Bucks
brother. John Wing, and family and
her niece, Mrs. Fred Bishop, two days
last week.
The report for the third school
month for the village grammar school
is as follows: Enrolment, 20; aver
age attendance. 27 lao. Those miss
ing no words in spelling are Esther
Bnck, Mabel Bowen, Elsie Mcnamara,
Julia Leavens, Elsie Calkins, Geneva
Leavens, Joey Cummings, Walter
Coffey, Raymond Pease and Karl
Ruiter. Those missing no words
during the entire term are Mabel
Bowen, Elsie Mcnamara. Julia and
Geneva Leavens, Raymond Pease and
Joey Cummings. Several have missed
only one or two words during the
entire term.
Friday afternoon the schools had an
exhibit of their school work, food and
vegetables in the school hall here.
Every thing was beautifully done and
nicely displayed Much admiration
was expressed by the 35 visiting
were VIM. Nelson, S. D. Barrup and
Will Leavens. The first prize was
given Eric Royce; second, Austin
Durgin; third, Willie Hayes. The
judges of the cooking were Mrs J. B.
Gray, Mrs. G. L. Kline and Miss
Lizzie Parlin. They awarded first
prize for bread to Ellen Gibson;
second, Flora Davis; third. Olive
Findlay. For cake, Claudia Hamilton
received the first prize; Esther Buck
the second and Gwendolyn Ross the
third There were other nice entries
for the cooking prizes as also there
were other vegetables besides potatoes.
There was crate of bantams also
which was very attractive, especially
to the children. In the evening the
hall was literally packed with people
to listen to the Thanksgiving program
which was lengthy and excellent
Much credit is due both the teachers
and pupils. To many of the smaller
pupils this was their first appearance
in public and all did well. School
Supervisor Mrs. Margaret Ruiter
Kelley was present and gave short.
interesting talk. A social hour and
marching was then enjoyed by all. =.
M. Pickel acted as auctioneer and
disposed Of the food, each child having
the amount their article sold for. The
young men purchasers generously
divided with all who chose to accept
The ninth grade made over $6. 90 on
their home made candy sale and $40 SO
was taken at the door. This will be
used to purchase school room necessi-
ties in the near future.