Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-01-03

Please be in your place next Sun
day at the Baptist Sunday school as
! this is the time to reorganize for the
coming year.
Miss Sylvia Weymouth is able to
ride out, but we are sorry to, report
to gain much.
Mrs. Estelle Wood was taken i'll
and obliged to leave her work at
George Calkins'. Mrs. Myrtle Bailey
is taking her place there.
Miss Albertine Patten was unable
to begin school as she is ill with an
attack of appendicitis. The parents
and pupils are very sorry.
Barbara Pickel, who has been very
i'll for week, is little better. Her
grandmother, Mrs. Lizzie Benware,
of Lowell is helping care for her.
School opens this week in the re-
modelled schoolhouse near John Fos-
ter's. The teacher, Miss White, of
Bennington, boards at Roy Griggs'.
George Piper with Mr.. Nelson's
four-horse team went Saturday to
Montgomery Center to work the re-
company.
Schools reopened this week. The
new bell for which the village teach
ers, Misses Franklin and Patten,
worked so hard, has arrived and was
placed in the belfry Saturday.
Word has been received here that
Mrs. George Montgomery is dead
She lived here several years, was a
splendid woman and made many
friends who are panied to learn of
her death.
The neighbors and friends here of
Mrs. Nancy Allen, who is spending
the winter in ST. Johnsbury with her
son and wife, Mr.. and Mrs. Dyer Gal
lup, will be glad to learn she is we'll
and attending many entertainments
and enjoying other advantages she
cannot have here.
Letters received by friends of Har-
per Pickel, who is in England with a
Canadian regiment. tell us he is
we'll and enjoying himself and has
been appointed a corporal with the
charge of II men. He states that
what he has seen of England is very
beautiful and at the time he wrote
they were having summer weather
and the grass was yet green.
Henry Fletcher, who has lived in
town the greater part of his life. died
of pneumonia at Mrs. Betty Spencer's
one day last week. The funeral was
hello there and he was taken to Cow
entry to be buried in the lot with his
parents. Although in some ways I'M
fortunate, Mr.. Fletcher was always
Industrious, honest, pleasant land
courteous and too generous for his
own good. For many years he has
made his home at Mrs. Spencer's and
they will truly miss him.
CONG. CHURCH NOTES
Sunday morning worship, 1870
Sunday school, 1900
Union service at the Baptist church
in the evening at 7.3O o'clock.
The yearly meeting of the society
will be held Thursday. Dinner will be
served at IL o'clock after which the
business of the year will be transact
ed. All who are in any way connect
ed with the church are cordially in
vited to dinner and the meeting. This
being the week of prayer, union meet
ings will be held as follows, Tuesday
and Wednesday in the Baptist church,
Thursday and Friday in the Congre-
gational church to which all are in
vited.
On Christmas eve Mr. Hamblet
drove a number of the young people
of the Sunday school around to the
homes of the shut-ins where they
sang Christmas carols and left sprigs
of holly and mistetoe and best wish
es for a Merry Christmas and Hap
Ply New Year.
BAPTIST CHURCH NOTES.
This is the week of prayer 7.3O
p. M, Tuesday and Wednesday eve
nings, union services at the Baptist
church. Thursday and Friday union
services at the Congregational church
Sunday, Jan. 7th.
1870 a. M, communion service.
1900 M, Bible school.
7.3O p. M, union service at Bap-
fist church.
Wednesday, Jan. 10th.