Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-09-11

1870. He was faithful servant of the
Divine Master, and his death was very
much lamented by the church and peo-
pie here.
SABBATH SCHOOL.
Previous to the settlement of the pas
tor, the youth assembled in connection
with the reading meetings. on the sab
bath, to recite portions of Scripture but
1t does not appear that there was then
any regular organization.
For several years after the settlement
of the pastor, biblical instruction was
conducted in the same way. But April
I'd, 1888, the church resolved itself In
to sabbath school society for the tran
saction of business relative to the same.
The sabbath school, meeting with the
Cong. church, has been conducted most
of the time, on the union plan.
The first NJ. E. class was organized
in February, 1880. The first class lead
er, Nathaniel G. Ladd. have no means
of ascertaIning the number and all the
names of the Methodist clergy who have
officiated here. As there is no written
record to be found, am obliged to de-
pend on memory. The first, l think,
and under whose ministry the class was
organized, were a Mr.. Blaisdell and
Campbell. Neither of these, l believe,
had been ordained. Rev. Mr. Cutler
was the first elder sent by the confer
ence. After him, John Smith, Rev. E.
Scott, Warner, Swaziland, Mason, Cros-
by, Sprague, Huston, Jonas Scott, Hus-
ton again, Ray, Virgins, Kimball, d.
Packer, Spinney, Ewright, Colburn,
Willis, Howard, Hopkins, P. n Gran
ger, Ingraham, Speony.
Until some time after these sketches
were collected, there was but one house
of worship in this town; that was a
small building 28x36 feet 1t was built
at first by the Methodist society after
wards one-half of the shares were sold
to the Cong. society and so it became a
union house. In 1866 it was enlarged
and the inside remodeled, and thus made
convenient house for the congregation
that usually assemble in it.
NEWPORT.
Heman Crawford has sold his village
residence to j. Glendenning for $500.
Miss Carrie Niles was thrown from O
wagon in the village, the other day, and
got badly hurt.
Thomas Regan has bought the right
of A. Colburn to manufacture the patent
barrel churn for the county of Orleans
for which he pays $500.
} The meeting of the stockholders O.
the Passumpsic R. r., held at Newpor
last week, was tame affair. The ole
board of officers were elected.
Alfred Bulls one of the forgers of tn,
500 note on the national bank of New
port, has been bailed out of Jail, bu
Sylvester Rollins, his accomplice, is We
in the stone house at Irasburgh.
VEST NEWPORT.
Joseph F. Cook of West Newport,
poor man of bad reputation, went t
Newport village, last Tuesday morning
: visited j. Y. Green's store and asked t
: have bottle filled with oil. There wa
: nobody present in the store except tn
: clerk and Cook. While the clerk step
: ped down cellar to draw the oil, Coo
$ went to the safe, which happened to b
: open, and took pocket book containing
SAT, put it IN his pocket and follows
j. the clerk to the cellar. Afterwards MI
Green discovered that the pocket boo
> was gone, and found by inquiry tina
Z Cook was the only person who had bee
left alone in the store. In the mean
> time Cook had hid the money in pack
: age of peanuts in his wagon. which wa
?. left under horse shed, and had col
e cealed the pocket book in the FIRE engin
V. house. Sheriff BOwley was notified an
:. after accusing Cook of the crime, he fir
Is ally owned up and produced the money
l. Cook was arrested and in default of ba
d was carried to Irasburgh. This Grim
N is not the first, as he Is now on ba
IS awaiting trial for having stolen two phi
TO tolls from Shaw's store, some time sine,
$ A search about Cooks premises revea
d; ed the fact that he had in his possessio
a large stock of carpenters tools an
l. farming tools and a. variety of articl,
\. not necessary to be owned or used by
as poor man. Cook served eight month
u in penal Institution in Rhode Islant
m for stealing goods from a depot. I'll
ir neighbOrs rejoice that Cook has got h
be foot in deep enough. this time, to giv
r him job in the shoe shop at Windsor
y, SOUTH TROY.
as DIR. Rogers and wife expect to con
mence keeping house again this week
!. T. S. Rogers has opened sele
school. He has about % scholars
- begin on, with a prospect of a numb
more to come next week.
70 c. p. Stevens & Co. have nearly cor
pleted a dam, 425 feet long, across Il
m Missisquoi at Richford. They are &c