Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-09-23


aunt, Mrs. E. A. Emerson. Mr.. and
Mrs. Ira Gray and family spent SatuE-
day and Sunday in Charleston.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Leland. Mrs. e.
A. Emerson, Miss Mae Emerson, Mrs.
Lillian Odell of Coventry and Mrs.
Annie Going of Charleston attended
the state meeting of the daughters of
Liberty at Lyndonville Thursday.
COVENTRY
Arch Goss is on the sick list.
C. E. Gorham has gone to Hanover.
N. H.
Daniel Gray visited in Johnson last
week.
Mrs. M. ]. Wright is teaching in
Waterville.
Mrs. H. J. Frasier has been i'll with
hard cold.
Mrs. Horace Wilder has been; i'll the
past few days.
Mr. Bell of Boston was in town on
business Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Drake visited in
Newport Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Ware were in
Bloomington Sunday.
Rev. M. w. Hale has returned from
his trip to Massachusetts,.
Rev. E. B. Harris returned from
Brattleboro Saturday night.
w. R. Shippee and daughter Ruth
were in Waterbury last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allie Berry and son Of
Barton visited at P. L. Metcalf's Sum-
day.
Ed. Drake has cut his foot badly and
is at the home of his father, Geo.
Drake.
Miss Lou Hancock of Hanover, N.
H.. called on her mother, Mrs. Esther
Hancock, Friday.
Miss Muriel Wells of Newport was at
the home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. T. Wells, over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Stevens of Beth.
lehem, Pa, have been visiting their
grandmother, Mrs. VIM. Stevens
Mrs. H. c. Cleveland gave dinner
party Wednesday in honor of Hon. and
Mrs. Riley E. Wright of Baltimore,
Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Lapierre and
children OF Derby Center called at H.
j. Frasier's and c. T. Chapman's Sum-
day.
Earl Metcalf of Barton has been
spending few days at the home of
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. P. L. Met
calf.
E. P. Burt has advertised his farm
and stock for sale and expects to move
soon to the house he recently pur-
chased,
Mrs. Carl Noyes of Sherbrooke was
in town one day last week. Her little
Sherbrooke with her..
Miss Josephine Leblanc, who has
been visiting her grandmother, Mrs.
Lewis Mongeon, has returned to her
home in Great harrington, Mass.
The friends of Mrs. Clara Worboys
of West Charleston will be glad to
know that her daughter Olga, who
has been i'll with infantile paralysis is
gaining and is not lame.
A. D. Thurber has received his
: appointment as postmaster under the
civil service commission. On account
of the fact, that under the civil service,
no postmaster can hold an elective
office. Mr.. Thurber has resigned his
position as town clerk, which he has
held for the past Is years. The select.
! men have appointed w. R. Thurber as
4 town clerk in his place.
= Miss Charlena Herbert arrived in. St.
: Johnsbury Sept. l. She was member
l of DR.. Tompkins' party, who have
been spending the summer abroad
g They had toured Italy and Switzer
/. land, and reached Lucerne, before the
. war was apparent. On reaching tha
Y city they found that they were stranded
s there together with 10000 othel
b Americans. For time there were n,
outgoing or incoming mails, bank.
were closed, train service was used fo
troops and red cross commissions, al
+ telegraph and cable communica
tions were of little use. American
meetings were called and an eap
q peal was sent to President Wilson
asking for the protection of the
n Americans in Lucerne. For days NJ
party was able to leave. Finally DR.
Tompkins' party was able to reacl
s London, travelling night and day
Eleven of the company sailed from
O Liverpool on the Canada" August 22
leaving at midnight, accompanied b,
warships until safely out at sea. AVN
+ ings were drawn. portfolios covered
r electric light globes darkened to avoie
danger. Sept. l. the party arrived il
9 Montreal, after receiving many event
, full experiences connected with the
European war.
GREENSBORO
Miss Ida J. Moulton will give an
entertainment at Greensboro town hall
Thursday evening. Sept. "a, at S