Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-11-04
ORLEANS COUNTY MONITOR WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER D. 1914

entertainment tonight at the opera hall
given under the auspices of the high
school. 1t will be musical treat
which you cannot afford to miss.
Even up to the very last minute,
political rallies were held here, the
finale being a get-together rally by
non-partisans, with local speech-mak-
ing, of the talk-about- minute order.
There were two Halloween parties
at the schoolhouse the past week. On
Thursday night there was one given
by the high school students and on
Friday night another by pupils of the
ninth grade.
F. M. Allchurch has added a new
! branch to his store, taking the agency
for the Columbia Grafonola, and has
already sold two of these cabinet
monographs, one to F. E. Wheeler
and the other to Ray Eldridge.
About forty of the young peopIe of
the town were invited to French's hall
on Wednesday evening to a Halloween
party, where all sorts of Halloween
games and pranks were INDUCED in.
1t is agreed by all present that it
was one of the events of the season
socially.
John Morley and family of Worces-
ter, who formerly lived here, have
returned and Mr.. Morley will have the
position at the Turnbull creamery
recently held by Mr.. Leonard. Mr..
Morley has been in one of the Turnbull
creameries at Worcester for some time
past.
At the home of Mrs. Lyman Heath
last week Miss Hazel Twombly was
given a surprise shower by about
twenty-five of her friends in town,
Mrs. Demick being one of the chief
instigators. Miss Twombly was the
recipient of many useful gifts and a
very pleasant time was had. Dainty
refreshments were served.
Henry Rogers, who for some time
was clerk at the Valley House and
has been of late at his Willoughby
lake camp, was brought home, from
there the last week in serious con-
dition. and an operation seemed i'm
perative. DR.. Ross was called from
ST. Johnsbury, but Mr.. Rogers did not
rally from the shock and died while
under influence of the anesthetic. 1t
is understood that the trouble was due
to cancerOus growth. Mr. Rogers
was we'll known in Orleans and at Will
loughby lake, where for a time he ran
store during the summer season. He
was man about seventy years old.
BROWNINGTON
Henry Newton has returned to Lyn-
don Center.
Ed. Boden visited his brother, J. C.
Boden, recently.
Over sixty attended the C. E.. social
at G. Newton's Friday.
Victor LoveIand has moved to
George Grows farm.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Young visited
friends in Barton Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. Newton visited
friends in Sheffield over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Grow spent Sun
day at his fathers in Evansville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Parlin visited
hisTparents in Island Pond last week.
Fred Cummings of Lyndonvile visit
ed his mother Saturday and Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sanborn of Derby
visited at w. IL. Doncaster's recently.
E. E. Dutton was in Hartford the
first of the week to attend the funeral
Of an uncle.
The show, which. wassst have been
continued during the week, closed
Thursday night.
Only nine from Bloomington grange
attended the Pomona grange meeting
at Barton Thursday.
Palmer ,Chaffee is spending some
time with friends in Massachusetts,
and New Hampshire.
The ladies will serve a chicken pie
supper Thursday afternoon and evening
at the home of Stanley Marsh.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. A.. Grow, Mrs. E.
S. Kelley and Mrs. George Going at
tended the Sunday school convention in
1rasburg last week.
INTENDED for last week.
Henry Newton was quite sick last
week.
Miss Mabel Parlin has been home
for few days. -s% n
Ernest Taylor of Bolton, Que.
visited his brother, Arthur Taylor over
Sunday.
Miss Berta Crane of Somerville,
Mass, is spending the week with her
aunt. Mrs. E. S. Kelley.
Miss Carrie Going enjoyed week S
vacation recently from her duties at
the Whipple & French store.