Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-03-16
NEWPORT PERSONALS

Mrs. H. J. Stannard of Orleans was
in the city Saturday.
Miss Shirley Smith visited friends
at Ayers Cliff over the weekend.
Lillian Hight Allen visited her
brother, H. V. Hight, few days last
week.
George Nutting and Bert Jenness
urday.
B. w. Wilcox of the Gilman Co.,
store returned from the New York
markets Saturday.
Charles Lord of the Express and
Standard spent the weekend with
his family at ST. Johnsbury.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Puffer of Aver,
Mass, have been calling on old friends
in the city the past few days.
Henry Richardson of White River
junction spent Sunday with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Richardson.
Mrs. F. A. Hunt and two children
spent the weekend visiting her sis
ter E. F. Sherburn of st. Johnsbury.
DR.. J. E. Spindler has moved from
No. Orchard Street into the Root
tenement vacated by o. S. Searles.
Maud Smith teacher of the eighth
grade of the West School spent the
weekend visiting her sister in ST..
Johnsbury.
Frank Langevin of the Newport
Grocery store, closed his labors Sat-
urday night, and returned home in
Stanstead.
o. S. Searles has moved from Sum-
mer street into the house that he
recently purchased of DR.. Spindler on
Orchard street.
On account of the st. Patrick dance
at School hall Mar. II, under the
auspices of the Odd Fellows and
Rebekahs, Miss Gladys McCauley has
cancelled her regular Thursday night
dance for this week.
F. A. Hunt of the Gilpin Hunt Co.,
was in Barre, Friday to attend the
annual meeting of the Vermont Press
Association at which he read a paper
on "How win REIMBURSEMENT Times
affect the printing business" At the
business session Mr.. Hunt was elected
vice-president from Orleans County.
Reserve the date of March 20 and
attend the bazaar at the M. E. church
also lunch, which will be followed by
the comedy, ga Suffragette Town
Meeting" comprising an GAIL Star"
local cast.
The Sunshine Club will give a sugar
social at the Congregational church
Friday evening March 10 at which
warm sugar will be served on snow
in the church dining room. This
Sweets there should be large at
tendance. The sum of twenty-five
cents will be charged.
Captain and Mrs. Percy Day have
received orders from headquarters
of the Salvation Army ordering their
transfer to another field and Captain
Herbert Hathaway is coming to as
sumo charge of the army in Newport
at an early date. Captain Hathaway
is a graduate of the Training College
and comes very highly recommended
The Ladies' Aid Society of the
Methodist church met with Mrs. A.
c. Clark Tuesday afternoon, March
Sth. The meeting was in the form of
q winter picnic. Members of the
SOCICCy CdIIIcO UoShcC 1uICIlcS anu Il
pleasant afternoon was enjoyed by
all. 1t was also made the occasion Of
a birthday party in honor of the vice
president, Mrs. Annie Magoon. Dur
ing the business session a gift Ct
$50 from Miss Inez Miller was arr
nounced.
On Saturday Joe Lallier brakeman
on the Boston and Maine Railroad
and Cecil Benware employed at the
Hurst restaurant were placed under
arrest by Constable Ora Sweet
charged with unlawfully selling of
whiskey, and were lodged in the Or
leans County Jail awaiting trial. 1t
has been very evident of late that
Intoxicating liquors are being brought
into the city in great quantities and
it is known that there are several
who have been doing a thriving bust
ness known as bootlegging. And the
officers of the law are determined to
make clean sweep of this kind of
business.