Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-12-18

MISS FfeQa SCearnS returned Sat
urday from U. v. M. to spend the
Christmas vacation at home.
Mrs. c.. L. Munsey was called here
from st. Johnsbury by the death of
her mother, Mrs. Eunice Simpson.
Miss Clemma Converse and her
friend, Miss Grant, of Ayers Cliff, p.
O., spent the weekend at her home.
Christmas dance and concert at
Orleans opera house Monday evening,
Dec. %. Old and new dances. adv.
Lynn Eldridge went to Ryegate for
the weekend, and returned home
with Mrs. Eldridge Monday morning.
On Tuesday, December "a, Orleans
library will be open from 1 o'clock to
p. m. and will be closed in the eve
ming.
Mrs. Thomas Lynch and Mrs. S. D.
Parker of Newport visited Mrs. Ger
trude Parker on Wednesday of last
week.
Mrs. Ella Wilson and daughter,
Katherine, of Concord, N. H., are Wis
iting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. E. D.
Stafford.
William Brewster and his son, Per-
ley Brewster, stopped with his sis
ter-in-law, Mrs. George Howe, Mon
day night.
T. B. Jones, the superintendent of
the Burlington Street railway is
spending a two weeks vacation at
the Valley House.
Orleans library has just added 100
new books, nearly all juveniles. More
ho in, LOTT CT
be mainly for the older readers.
Mr.. Sargent has completed the re-
pairs on the dam at Levi Lothrop's
ice pond and returned to his home in
Glover.
Mrs. Juline Rogers was called to
Burlington Saturday afternoon by
the illness of her father, Jesse B.
Rogers.
| Mrs. Edna Gauvin went to Lisbon,
N. H., Saturday to spend the week
end with her husband, who works for
the Parker Young Co.
Mrs. C. D. French, Mrs. R. A. Bean
and Miss Ruth Richmond visited the
family of their brother, Fred Rich
mond, in Barton Saturday.
The Sunshine Circle held a social
in the Congregational vestry Friday
evening. A good number were pres
ent and all enjoyed merry time.
Harlan Sears returned from Nor
witch university Thursday and began
working in the Central Savings Bank
& Trust company Friday morning.
Among the men who have return
ed home during the past week, hon.
orably discharged from military duty
are Preston Shepherd and Walter
Gregory.
Mrs. Perley Brewster came to the
home of her brother, Guy Shepherd,
when on the way to attend the fu-
neral of Mr.. Brewster's mother at
Irasburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Warner of
North Troy spent the weekend with
their daughter, Mrs. Ray Shaw. Mrs.
Shaw returned home from Brightlook
Saturday, much improved in health.
The Christmas Roll Call of the
American Red Cross is under way in
Orleans and good reports are brought
| in every day by the captains, who
supported by their able assistants,
are canvassing the districts assigned
them.
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Mrs. Elsie Brewster, wife of VIM.
Brewster, and a former resident of
Orleans, died at the home of her son,
Perley Brewster, in New Haven, Sat
urday. She had been ill only about
a week of influenza. Burial at Iras-
burg on Tuesday.
How would you like to be in hos
pital with nothing to read? Give
books to Library War Service so our
wounded soldiers will have plenty of
reading matter. Several books have
been handed into the library for this
purpose and we want many more.
Mrs. M. M. Taplin returned home
from Yonkers, N. Y, Friday, after
spending a week with her sister,
Mrs. Perry Hanscom, who went to
Battle Creek sanitarium Wednesday.
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