Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-01-23
BARTON LOCAL NOTES

Bert NORM has gone to Burlington
to enlist in the navy.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Lang visited
friends in Lyndon Monday.
Miss Marjory Fisk is spending a
few days with friends in town.
Mrs. David Massey is in the ST.
Johnsbury hospital for treatment.
Miss Leonie Wheeler of Irasburg
was visitor in town over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. c.. F. Cutler visited at
C. F. Wright's in West Glover Fri
day.
Regular meeting of Orient Chap
ter No. 13, O. E. S. Friday evening
at 7.3O
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Churchill of
Orleans were guests at III. E. Paige's
Saturday.
Miss Mildred Dunno is home from
her work in Glover for a few days on
account of illness.
Mrs. W. M. Wright is spending a
few days with her mother, Mrs. H. F.
Black, in Newport.
Mrs. Eva Chandler visited her
daughter, Mrs. Edmund Gross, in
Bloomington over Sunday.
The Odd Fellows and Rebekahs will
hold a joint installation of officers
Tuesday evening Jan. 10Th.
Word has been received of the mar
riage on Jan. 7th of Howard Dow and
Miss Corinne Vancour of Berlin.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. C. Cass of New
port were guests Of Mr.. Cass' sis
ter, Mrs. NJ. H. Drumming, Saturday.
Unreported gifts to the local Red
Cross are, Mrs. w. W. Miles, SIS,
Madame Cutler, 81. Other sources,
81.
II. J. Stannard, who is employed in
the office of the J. G. Turnbull COM
pany in Orleans, was home over Sun
day.
Gustavus Burdicl1 of Bellows Falls
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. F. G. Bur-
dick.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Hanson and
Mrs. Cora Winslow attended the fu-
neral of DR.. G. B. Rowell in Orleans
Friday.
Mrs. Charles Naatz of Newbury
was the guest of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Jennings, Friday and
Saturday.
Mrs. Lucy Collision has closed her
rooms in Armour Urie's house and is
boarding with Mrs. Susan Currier for
the winter
The weather the past week has
been everything but warm and nice.
There have been snow, buster and
cold all the time.
Monday was like Sunday for all
of the business there was going on in
town. 1t was a Garfeld-ized day
here all right.
Mrs. Harry Robinson of North
Hatley, P. O., and Mrs. Ray Morse of
Orleans were guests of Mrs. Harry
Conner Saturday.
Mrs. V. F. Hunter is spending sew
eral months in Boston for treatment.
Her many friends are glad to know
that she is improving.
Mrs. Ida Walker Cole of Beecher
Falls, N. H., and Mrs. H. w. Cob
leigh of West Burke were guests of
Miss Jessie Gorham Monday.
Mrs. Laura Potter, Miss Dotie Pot
ter and Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Potter
were in Orleans Tuesday to attend
the funeral of Willard Downing.
John Curtis, who is employed as
government Inspector of leather, and
is located in Boston, has been spend
ing few days in town with his fam
lily.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry SENEGAL were
in Canada last week. Mrs. SENEGAL
has returned but owing to military
regulations, Mr.. SENEGAL was obliged
to remain.
The library will be closed every
Monday afternoon until March 25th,
per order of local fuel administra-
tor. Otherwise the hours will be the
same as usual.
Mr. and Mrs c. A. Barrows went
Saturday night to Boston and visited
their son, w. P. Barrows, at Camp
Devens. Mr.. Barrows returned on
Tuesday morning.
The roofs of barn No. and a
string of sheds, filled with wagons,
sleighs and farm machinery, at the
fair grounds have collapsed owing to
the weight of snow.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. H. Drumming and
Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Larabee were in
Newport Friday night to attend the
installation of officers of Morning
Star Rebekah lodge.
The Monitor has several letters
from boys who have received Red
Cross articles from the local organiz-
alton which it intended to use this
week, but have been crowded out.
They will be used in the near future.
Crystal Lake local branch of the
New England Milk Producers asso-
citation will meet at Batchelder's hall
Saturday at 1 o'clock. Every dairy
man is requested to be present, as it