Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-09-28

a start beyond control last week and
collided with e. E. Mathews car on
Main street. Mr.. Taplin very
promptly recognized the responsible
| ty and gave orders for settlement of
all damages.
| Miss Butler, town treasurer, will be
in Orleans at the Valley House all
day Friday, September 80, and even
| ing to receive taxes. Will also bring
receipts for all who have paid taxes
| by mail from Orleans, which may be
called for at the Valley House.
DIR. and Mrs. E. G. Stevens start
Thursday or Friday to drive to Avon,
| Mass, for a visit to their daughter,
Mrs. Maud Wood. Mr.. and Mrs. C.
P. Skinner will go as far as Manches-
ter, N. H., with them, where they
will visit Grant Skinner.
| The Parker Young Co. have started
their box shop on five days and pos
sibly six days work per week with
the hope of continuing during the
winter at only slight decrease in
wages, and the assurance that if the
conditions will permit that an in
crease may be granted.
| Mr.. and Mrs. H. C.. Potter enter
tanned his mother, Mrs. Laura Potter,
of Barton several days last week.
Mrs. Quentin Howe of Newport was
a guest over the weekend and Mrs.
Potter's mother, Mrs. W. N. Lang,
and son and wife, DIR. and Mrs. Chas.
Lang, and Mrs. Geo. Deavitt of Cam
bridge, part of Sunday.
Not every village the size of Or
leans is building three new EGuses
this season. Not too bad, the time s
cconsidered. These are to be occupied
by their owners and builders, Miss
Minnie Stannard, Herbert Billiard and
John Bullock. When completed these
will release three tenements for 9TH
ers to use. Even with the business de-
preston there is hardly a vacant ten
ement in the village.
| In response to the request of State
| Commissioner Of Education DIR. Clar-
ence III. Dempsey, that October End
be observed as School Sunday, the Or
leans school board and faculty in CO.
operation with the churches of the
village have arranged a community
service at the Opera House Sunday
evening at 100. There will be spe-
cial music and the address will be
given by Ex-Governor Gates. A cor
|
Railroad economy has reached Or
leans. G. r. Young and L. M. Roach,
day and night men at the passenger
station, have been laid off. w. w.
Timmons, station agent, looks after
the business at train time IN the day
time and Howard Taylor is night
caretaker. No tickets sold. baggage
checked or kilograms sent or received
from mail train time north at night
until mail train time south in the
morning. No change in the mail SER
vice.
Miss Elizabeth Van Patten of Bur-
lington, Vermont field supervisor of
Red Cross public health nursing, was
in Orleans last week and arrange
ments were completed between the
Orleans Community Relief Associa-
ton and the Orleans Branch of the
American Red Cross whereby Miss
Alice M. Bennett of Brattleboro be-
comes the community nurse. A PAM
phlet will be distributed in the near
future giving details of hours of work,
prices, etc.
Hiram Brown, who formerly re-
sided at Orleans but now of Waltham
Mass, met with a serious automobile
accident several weeks ago and is now
on the road to recovery after spending
several weeks in ST. Elizabeth hospi-
tai in Brighton, Mass. He sustained
several broken ribs, rupture of the
kidney and multiple abrasion. Mr.
Brown is the husband of Mrs. Mary
C. Brown, who was Mrs. Mary c. AL
den before her marriage. She is the
mother of Ben H. Alden VINO now re-
sides here.
There are several ice-cream facto
ries in Springfield, Mass, and the
Turnbull Co., have felt that they
would like to secure larger part OF
the business of that city. Last week
they, as it were, carried locals TIC
Newcastle" They occupied an ice.
cream booth at the great New Eng.
land States exposition and showed the
people what Green Mountain ice cream
tastes like They not only did 6
thriving business but paved the way
for a large increase in their orders
from Springfield and vicinity.
The September meeting of the w
C.. T. u. was held in the Congrega.
tional chapel on Wednesday last The
program included readings on the
following subjects: making Coco
Americans" "Beer as Medicine,
"The Attitude of the Druggists,
"Prophecy and Fulfllment," Frances
Willard Honored in the Hall Of
Fame" Mrs. w. F. Scott and Mrs
Bennett were named as delegates to
the state convention to be held in
Morrisville on Ocober Is and 10. A
food sale will be held in the near flu.
ture. The next meeting will be the
annual reception to the teachers ir
the chapel on October 18th. All who
will are asked to bring jelly, canned
fruit and canned vegetables to the
next meeting or to Mrs. Marston fol
| a gift to the Orleans hospital.
WILLOUGHBY