Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-05-16

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The annual financial canvass is to
be made at an early date.
C. d. French is visiting his father,
D. G. French, who is i'll in Boston,
Mass.
Misses Edith and Pauline Mason
have been spending few days in
Barnet.
Mrs. Blanche Harris was the guest
of Mrs. Paul Morrison at Barnet,
over Sunday.
Jared Jos1yn is building an addi-
ton on to the back of his house, on
North avenue.
Miss Doris Spafford is in Boston
where she will spend few weeks
with relatives.
Mrs. George Kinnie of Charleston,
is the guest of her daughter, Mrs.
Cephas Dupont.
Mrs. Sylvester and son, Raymond,
of Westfeld, spent Tuesday with Mrs.
Florence Porter.
Mrs. Maurice Friday of Amster-
dam, N. Y, is the guest of her sister,
Mrs. c. E. Jenkins.
Mr.. Norris and family of Barton
have moved into the tenement in W..
D. Twombly's house.
Miss Hazel Harris has returned
from Boston where she has been
studying during the winter.
Mrs. G. j. Maxwell is spending a
few days with her daughter, Mrs.
George Hunt, in Evansville.
Bernie Wilson and family have
son has work IN a creamery.
Jim Prue and family have recently
moved into the house he purchased
of E. e. Doe, on South street.
DIR. Hight, chiropodist, will be at
Valley House on Thursday and Fri
day of this week, the 18th and 18th.
Henry Whiting is deserving of a
pension for the improvements made
on the old Luke Day lot, ON Water
street. ~
Mrs. Wallace Sawyer left for
Brightlook hospital today, with her
son, Richard, who is taken there for
treatment.
The baseball game between the
grammar schools of Orleans and Iras-
burg, resulted in score of 5 to in
favor of Orleans.
A reception was given the Moth
er's club by the w. c. T. u, Tuesday
afternoon, at the vestry of the M. E.
and a pleasant afternoon spent.
The annual meeting of the St.
Johnsbury district Woman's Home
Missionary society of the M. E.
church will be held in the local church
May % and 20.
Alton Baird caught a steeIhead
weighing lbs. and / OF. last week,
and Carl Wiley got one that weighed
fraction of an ounce less than lbs,
Tuesday of. this week.
The Orleans Red Cross association
viii hold work meeting in the chap
ell of the Congregational church, on
Thursday, May 18th, from to 5
o'clock. All are urged to attend
Charles Harris has resigned his
position with the B. & M. freight Of
fee at Lyndonville, and goes into the
E. L. Chandler Co. mill Office to fill a
position there.
All those who are saving old pa
pers and magazines for the girls of
the Queen Esther Circle will please
have them ready on Friday of this
week as team will call for them
then.
The local branch of the Red Cross
has recently received a gift of $500
from the order of the Eastern Star,
$1,000 from the Pythian Sisters and
$23.67 from the Incorporation, taken
in at the moving pictures, last We'd
nesday evening.
Dean Mathews who has been at
Norwich University since leaving
| Orleans, will take charge of the work
| in military training IN the high and
graded schools for the rest of the
year. We are all glad of the oppor-
tunity to have him with us again.
The last annual meeting of the Vii
lage Improvement society was held
with Mrs Whipple Monday evening
The officers elected Tor the coming
year are as follows: Pres, Mrs. NJ
| NJ Taplin; Vice Pres, Mrs. Blanche
Harris; Sec, Mrs. C. d. French;
Treas, Mrs. Grace Donaldson.
About noon, on Monday, a horse
owned and driven by Richard A
| Devereaux of Evansville, became
frightened and ran up the track as
far as the first bridge where it was
4 caught in the bridge. A number OF
men went to the rescue and by put
ting nlanks beneath the horse they