Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-10-02
BARTON LOCAL NOTES

AddlSOn Smltn, are Ill with grippe.
Miss Reta Chappell of Newport,
spent the weekend at her home here.
i Percy Nye and other members of
the Nye family, are among the sick
ones.
Mrs. All Dana is the guest of Mrs.
M. II. Drumming and other friends in
town.
Mrs. Alma Piper of Manchester,
N. H., is visiting Mr.. and Mrs c.. j.
Clogston.
Miss Annie Wright is in South
Albany, to care for Mrs. Whipple
who is i'll.
A day of sunshine Tuesday, was
most welcome, but the sun has faded
into rain again.
Clarence Webster expects to oc-
cupy the tenement lately vacated by
Mr.. and Mrs. H. P. Cook.
Elizabeth, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. R. NJ. Gilmour, has been very
i'll, but is a little better.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chamberlain of North
Hatley, P. O., are guests Of the lat
ter's sister, Mrs. A. A. Larabee.
! Eugene Dubois has finished work at
the Barton table factory, and gone to
Bellows Falls, into munition factory.
Miss Elizabeth Cutler went last
Thursday, to Northampton, Mass,
where she is attending Capen prep
aratory school,
Miss Gertrude Chandler of New
York city, spent a few days last
week with her mother, Mrs. Eva
Chandler.
Lieutenant M. M. Byington of the
aviation corps and located at Burling-
ton, has been a guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
George E. King.
The following letters remain IN
called for at the postoffice. Please
say advertised when calling for these,
Sherman Rogers.
Pvt. T. J. Griffin has been trans
ferred from Burlington to Gettys-
burg, Pa, and is now in the tank
corps at Camp Colt.
Raymond Foss of Albany, who
has been at J. P. Urie's, and attend
ing school here, went home Sunday,
on account of illness. ~'~
Miss Mildred Chase who has been
i'll, threatened with pneumonia, and
unable to go to her school in Iras-
burg, is little improved.
Grippe and vacation have played
havoc with the usual routine of the
Monitor, which contains less local
matter of all kinds than usual.
! Mrs. Eva Chandler who has been
employed in the Peerless for some
time, has accepted a position in
Wellesley, Mass, and gone to her
new home.
Willard Humphrey and daughter,
Vera, and John Telford of Island
! Pond called at the home of their
sister, Mrs. w. H. Chappell, Wednes-
day night.
The Wonan's Christian Temper
ence Union will meet with Mrs. E. W.
Barron, Tuesday afternoon. Topic:
Social meeting with honorary men,
bers and friends.
Leo Leblanc of the Monitor force
was in Montreal last week, and also
at his old home in Bedford, Que, at
tending the anniversary service Of
his father, who died year ago.
Arthur Bliss, son of the late H. E.
Bliss, formerly of this town, and
nephew Of H. w. Bliss, died in Camp
! Upton, last week, and the body was
buried in Lebanon, N. H., his home.
Mrs. Owen, C. S. Webster, Miss
Hazel Alexander and Miss Lula
Mossman went to Camp Devens, the
last of the week, to see Alden Owen,
who is sick there. He is improving.
Mrs. Mary Freeman left on Satur-
day morning, for Springfield, Mass,
to visit her son, Ernest and wife, and
expects to visit her daughter, Mrs
John Campbell, at Chester, Pa, be-
fore her return.
The regular meeting of the Wom-
ans Literary club will be adjourn
ed to Wednesday evening, Oct. 8.
A short business meeting will be
held tonight, at the home of the
president, Mrs. H. T. Seaver.
The body of A. N. Vance of AL
bany, who died Saturday, as result
of a shock, was brought here, Mon
day, and was buried in Welcome o.
Brown cemetery, beside the body of
his first wife. Masonic services were
held at the grave.
A letter from F. P. Thrasher, en-
closes a clipping telling of the death |
of nephew, Lieutenant H.. A.
Thrasher, of Cornish, N. H., killed in |
action. He was a sculptor of some |
note, having won the scholarship of |
the American academy at Rome. Mr.. !
Thrasher has five nephews in the !
service, and says the new draft takes |
his two sons and 13 more nephews.
YOUR PATRIOTIC DUTY. !