Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-11-11

Arthur Buswell and Ralph Laird
brought in seven birds and rabbit
from their Saturday afternoons hunt
last week and report good partridge
hunting this season.
Several Barton people went to st.
Johnsbury on Monday night to listen
to the lecture on Happiness by
Helen Keller, who is perhaps the
most wonderful woman in America
The following letters remain un-
called for at the postoffice. Please say
advertised when calling for these
letters Mrs. Isabel Parker, F. Arch
er, Albert Blake, Robert Ingraham.
One of the best advertisements we
of Fl. T. Seaver's store. where cleo
trically driven dummies show the old
fashioned and new methods of washing
clothes. V
The Woman's Alliance will have
business and social meeting at the M.
E. church on Friday evening. A
chicken pie supper will be served at
o'clock at rs cents each. Everyone
invited.
Mrs. Arthur Drew and her sister,
Mrs. Bert Blake, have returned from
Boston, where Mrs. Drew has been
spending several weeks at sanitori-
um- Mrs. Drew is somewhat i'm
proved.
''Ted'' Lee has Joined a party of
hunters from Orleans and goes to
Wenlock near Island Pond for the
hunting season. Last year "Ted' was
the one fortunate man in the party,
bringing in ten-point buck.
Saturday evening is the first electri-
cal snow storm many remember with
steady fall of snow. 1t lightened and
thundered several times Whether this
is direct result of the war or of
politics we are as yet unadvised.
Miss Harriet Austin is moving this
|! week from the Mrs. Colby house on
Church street to Mrs. Mary Freeman's S
home on Eastern avenue. in order that
she may have more room to go on with
her work of caring for infantile
paralysis patients.
We read in lengthy account of the
wedding of Miss Corinne Hunt, grand
daughter of John Twombly of this
place. at the home Of her mother in
Springfield. Mass. Wednesday evening,
Oct. 8. Miss Hunt is known by
number of people in this place.
The present business conditions of
the country have made it necessary for
great number of factories to curtail
their production. We have fortunately
been about the last to be hit, but it
has been deemed advisable for the
! Peerless to run on half time for the
present.
Mrs. Emma Drown received quite an
ovation in honor of her birthday on
! Nov. 3. after the missionary meeting
at the home Of Mrs. M. HI. Drumming.
Refreshments of cake, waters and ice
cream were dispensed by Miss Esther,
and congratulations were in order and
wishes for many happy returns of the
day.
The stock company who were here
last week were unable to draw much
of crowd and the third night they
decided not to give their show and
refunded the ticket money. There
were rather. too many entertainments
here last week and some were bound
to suffer.
4 The w. c. T. u. met with Mrs. H.
i T. Seaver Tuesday afternoon with
twenty members and two visitors
present. 1t was a very interesting
meeting, the chief features of which
were fine paper by Mrs. w, w.
Reirden on ''Our Country and It's
Perils. Intemperance. Mormonism.
Immigration, and an able address by
Mrs. Seaver, on Franchise Work in
/ Vermont Today" Mrs. Seaver was en-
4 thusiastic in her subject. to which she
d has given much study and her address
was fully appreciated by her audience.