Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-10-19

that Barton has been playing only
about year and the Barre team is an
old one and contains the state cham
pion as well as several very fast play
ers. Those winning the matches were
w. P. Barrows, G.. S. Webster, Has
tings and Bartlett. It is expected
Barton golfers will go to Hyde Park
Saturday to meet Hyde Park team
on their course.
The Ladies' Society will hold a fair
in the Congregational church vestry
Wednesday afternoon and evening,
October 26. The sale will consist of
fancy articles, aprons, vegetables and
canned goods, candy, cooked food and
rummage sale. The girls of Mrs.
Batchelder's Sunday school class will
have booth of potted plants, cut
flowers and other articles. A cafe
terra lunch consisting of baked beans.
sandwiches, cake, doughnuts and cof-
fee will be served beginning at 5
o'clock and continuing through the
evening.
A surprise visit was made to Mr..
and Mrs. o. B. Willard Wednesday
evening of last week, the event being
the 28th anniversary of their mar
riage. About 70 people were present
and sum of money was presented by
S. A. Hunt as a token of esteem. Rev.
J. J. Hutchinson responded in behalf
of Mr.. and Mrs. Willard. The high
school classmates of Master Richard
Willard also gathered on the same
night and made him a surprise visit,
it being his 18th birthday. They pre-
sented him with a gift. Mr.. and Mrs.
Willard expect to go South for the
winter soon.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. A.
Pepin last week.
Mrs. Victoria Cameron is visiting
friends in Glover.
Mrs. Miles of Whee,ock is visiting
Mrs Tamson Mcclellan.
Mrs. Hunt is entertaining her Sis
ter from East Hardwick.
Miss Eva Darling of Lyndon Cen
ter spent Sunday in Glover.
Marjorie Bean spent the weekend
with her aunt in Wheelock.
Leonard Drew has taken the farm
of Burleigh Sherburne for the year.
Mrs. Wells of Bloomington visited
her sister, Mrs. Alma Chapman, last
week.
=. Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Davis of Mont
pelier visited Mrs. Dolly Norton last
week.
John Wylie has been in Nashua, N.
H., and vicinity on business the past
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Drew visited
relatives in Groveton, N. H., over the
weekend.
Miss Hattie McDuffee attended the
teachers convention in Rutland last
week.
Will Calkins has purchased and is
taking down the sugar house on the
Wilson lot.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. L. Leonard of West
Burke called on friends in Glover
this week.
DIR. Slayton of Morrisville, state
board of health, visited the local
schools this week.
VIM. Wylie of the board of select
men is visiting his sons in, Groveton,
N. H, ,,and Bangor, Me.
Mr.. Sheldon and Mrs. Barrett of
N. H., visited Mr.. and
Mrs. Alexander this week.
Mrs. Phoebe Hamblet of ST Johns
bury visited her sisters at the Old
Homestead farm last week.
The annual meeting Of the Red
Cross will be held in the church par
lors Friday afternoon of this week at
2.30 p. m.
The G. A. R. invites the soldiers of
the World war to meet them at their
rooms Saturday evening, October %
at 8 o'clock.
An old-fashioned husking bee was
greatly enjoyed at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Ezra Clark last Friday even
ing. Pumpkin pie and red ears were
very much in evidence.
An automobile driven by a party of
young people from Barton collided
with the team of Venan Bean of West
Glover in the village Friday night.
Both vehicles were very much worse
for the encounter but the occupants
were uninjured.