Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-03-06
ORLEANS LOCAL MENTION
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There will be district meeting of
/ the O. E. S. Thursday evening to
which all members are invited. Ban
quet will be served at 6 p. m.
Miss Sadie Lothrop was able to
play the pipe organ again on Sunday
and is rapidly recovering the use of
her right arm, recently injured.
A. M. Gray of Morgan came Satur-
| day to spend a few days with his
his way home from Bellows Falls.
There was a dance at the opera
house Tuesday night. Music was
! furnished by the Harmony orchestra
A good crowd and a good time are re-
ported
The gentlemen's night of the Moth
ers' club will not meet with Mrs. Col
! by Stoddard March II, but will meet
with Mrs Clapper. Gentlemen's
night is postponed one month.
Harold Findlay returned from
Camp Greene, N. c., Friday morning.
| He with seven other men failed to
pass the physical examination on
their arrival at the cantonment.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carlisle Nye miss
| Glenn Willey) are about to move to
Mr.. Nye's fathers home in Charles
ton, where they will run the farm for
a year, Mr.. Nye Senior being in poor
| health.
Miss Myra Douglass spent the
weekend with her sister, Mrs. Frank
Parlin. She has a teachers position
in Springfield, Mass, and school
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of fuel.
| Second Lieut.. Fred Bennett is
home on a furlough from the train
ing camp at Fort Leavenworth, Kan,
and leaves Thursday for Fort Sill,
Okla, where he will enter the 1st
Field Artillery.
Mrs. M. Ellery Trip received a
message Monday morning saying her
mother had died very suddenly in
Quincy, Mass. Mrs. Trip left on the
night train to attend the funeral to
be held Wednesday.
Miss Elsie Chase, who is teaching
in Walden, was unable to be in school
last week. While out coasting with
party Of young people Saturday,
! Feb. %, they ran into a barbed wire
fence and she was the only one in
! jured. She spent the week with her
aunt, Mrs. F. H. Sisco, on Maple
! street.
The Ladies' missionary society will
serve a supper at the Congregational
church vestry March 49,, the proceeds
to be used for buying materials and
the various articles that are needed
more than ever this year. There will
, be a social hour following and an in
! teresting program. Plan to go and
help this worthy cause.
The Pythian Sisters gave a box
party last evening to their members
and invited guests. The boxes were
sold at auction, the proceeds going for
war relief work, $3.50 being given by
vote to the local branch of Red Cross
A program was given and an honor
roll placed on the wall. A very pleas
ant time is the unanimous verdict.
A good number of women went to
the annual town meeting held in Bar
ton on Tuesday. What might have
beeen an unfortunate accident occur
red just as the barge started from
the station with "a on board. The
load was too heavy and one side broke
down giving the party a surprise. No
one was hurt and with very little de-
lay, the crowd proceeded on their
way.
The Book and Thimble club met
with Mrs. C. S. Stevens Wednesday,
Feb. 27, and spent a pleasant and
profitable afternoon. Interesting pa
pers were read on various topics and
there was music by the pianola. 1t
was voted to omit "benefit night"
heretofore an annual event for the
library and voted from the club fund
$50 instead. Members are asked not
to forget that the next meeting will
be with Mrs. Harris March n instead