Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-08-28

Blueberries are plenty in Essex
county and lots of our people are
going to Brighton, Wenlock, etc. aft
er them.
Z. M. Mansur, Esq, and friends
from Island Pond are camping on
the lake shore. This is very fine
place for fishing, rusticating, etc.
Newport Center
The Misses Glines from Durham,
P. O., are at home for a vacation.
Nye Sleeper has returned home
with the intention of going to school
one year.
Lizzie Montgomery goes to st.
Johnsbury to school.-Laura Alex
ander goes to Tilden seminary.
Our village school opened Wednes-
day with J. III. Gaines in the higher
department, Miss Skeels in the prim-
airy.
Gertie Gregware was sent to the
reform school, last Wednesday, for
petty larceny and general miscon-
duct, for two years.
| Two men were arrested and fined
for drunkenness on the 10Th. The
temperance people are trying to en-
force the law, and it will prove I'M
pleasant business for the rumseller.
Mrs. Peter Cornell, who is nearly
blind fell down cellar stairs Friday,
bruising her badly.-E. HI. Williams
fell from his wagon load of haying
tools and was seriously injured in
one knee.
North Troy.
Hon. Luke P. Poland was in town
last Thursday looking after the state
of the political pulse in this section.
Gen. w. w. Grout was in town
last Monday. He has lots of friends
in town who will see that a compli-
mentary vote is given him.
G. j. Lyford was last Saturday
brought before A. j. Williams, Esq,
charged with the larceny of a dress
pattern from William Sabin. He
pleaded guilty and was fined SO and
costs amounting to $17.04,
WestGeld.
Mrs. Patty Hitchcock died of old
age, at the residence of her son,
Mr.. Aaron G.. Hitchcock of West
field, Vermont, August Z, 1882
She was born in Westminster, Yer.
mont, in 1895, being one of a family
of sixteen children, fifteen of whom
lived to mature life. She was no
without the trials, privations ant
| hardships common to those of large
families in Strengthened circumstance!
in those days. In 1922 she married
Medad Smith Hitchcock and remov
ed to Westfield, Vermont, and set
, tied on the farm which was ever aft
Ell her own. She was the mother o
: seven children, one dying in infancy
J the others survived her, though one
: Mrs. Lucia P. Stoddard, by only tw'
l days. In 1910, with six children
the oldest seventeen, she was left
widow, after a long. painful and ex
pensive sickness of her husband an
in embarrassed circumstances. Wit
+ extraordinary executive ability, tao
+ and skill, she trained and educate
e her children, the Bible and Assem-
bly's catechism being her text books
, She managed her farm and paid Of
the debts. In 1926, she, with ninty
four others, in one day united wit
the Congregational church in her ma
tive town, that church that has sent S
many fruitful spiritual vines so man
- ways on the earth. Soon after he
settlement in Westfeld she remove
her relationship to the Congregation
al church in this town, with whic
she was ever after, in a remarkabl
degree, identified. In after year
five of her children united with th
; same church. One daughter settlin
in Bromfeld, Mass, joined the Cor
: gregational church there. Few pei
e sons feed upon the word of God a
she did.
b wcStmOre.
:, Mrs. John Hunt is visiting rels
|. tives in the dominion.
J School on the west side of til
e lake commenced last week, Mimi
|, Bruce, teacher.
A. W. Lyon and Albert Gallu
k are camping at long pond this weel
e At last accounts they chad thre
n fish to catch.''
Almond Silsby has finished pickin
% up the logs scattered in the lake an
;e the river-drivers are taking the
sc down the river.
ot CALEDONIA COUNTY.
l.. The temperance people hold the
II convention at St. Johnsbury to-day
" Sheffield.
tie Horace Drown is very sick wit
dysentry.
in Elder Atwood intends to go on q
$ excursion to Burlington this week.
e. A good number are getting read
Or to attend camy-meeting at Lyndol
D. vile this week.
l. Darwin Simpson and Louise Fe
u gerson went last Friday to Montpe
1t Ter to attend school.