Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-04-03

ter, paying $40, and takes posses
sion at once.
S. S. Huntly has purchased the
johnson farm owned by FL. Pettin-
gill, possession in April.
Edgar, son of J. E. Chase has the
gastric fever; Mrs. II. Banister has
the erysipelas.
M. E. Doubleday has sold his
place to L. j. Elliot, giving poses
sion at once, and has rented Elliot's
Bloomington farm for one year and
moves there.
Lowell.
Singing school winds up Wednes-
day Apr. 5. Rehearsal in the after
noon and concert in the evening.
Morgan.
Mrs. Kenneson, formerly of this
town, died recently of asthma, at the
residence of her son in Lowell, Mass.
Mrs. Arthur Daggett is sick with
rheumatic fever.-Wilbur Wilcox
has so far recovered from his lame
ness as to be able to go back to New
York. Charlie Allbee has gone with
him.
NE
O. N. Moulton is very sick with
rheumatic fever.
1t is reported that Turner & Drown
are about to dissolve partnership.
We are pleased to learn that E. G..
Burroughs has received a pension
with arrears amounting to $500.
F. E. Huntoon is at home from
New Hampshire, and Frank Wheeler
has returned from Massachusetts.
Ed. Smith has moved to Morgan
Corner.-Johnny Wheeler has moved
on to F. A. Gray's Maplesden place.
j. A. Gray is expected back from
Beebe Plain this week. Geo. How
ard has moved into j. F. Elliot's
house.
Newport.
The monthly meeting of the G. A.
R. will be held on Wednesday of this
week. Attend.
The Baptists are talking of raising
up their church and putting a base
ment story beneath.
Fast day union services in the M.
E. church on Friday next at II a. m.
Preaching by the pastor.
Almon Daggett recently received
bad wounds from the knife of the
cutting machine at Searles veneer
mill.
At the annual school meeting, Rev.
Atwell was chosen trustee, in place
of Rev. Wild, whose time expired
the clerical equilibrium being still
maintained. 1t was voted to raise a
tax for the support of the schools
which shall nor exceed 80 per cent.
There was a pleasant birthday
party at j. Y. Green's on Saturday
evening, it being the 21st birthday of
his son, III. B. Green. About sixty
were present as masqueraders, many
of the costumes being elegant. Re-
freshments were served and the hours
most pleasantly spent.
The pastor of the M. E. church,
Rev. II. F. Austin, reported at the
late quarterly conference that the
church debt of 81 400, which has
long been an embarrassment to the
church, has been raised or provided
for. During the three years pastor
ate just closing, beside this, about
$500 has been expended in the re-
pairs on the church, while the sister
church on this charge at Newport
Center, has been repaired at a cost
of nearly $500. During the past
three years the total gain in member
ship at the village has been over 60
per cent. The quarterly conference
unanimously adopted resolutions of
appreciation of the services of the
pastor, approving of the spirit and
manner of his administering the dis
cipline of the church, with a request
that the resolution be published. The
pastors salary will be paid, exclusive
of the donations. The house now
occupied by the pastor has been
rented by the stewards for term of
years.
Newport Center.
Mrs. John Riley is soon to open a
millinery store in Coventry.
Amy Hoyt goes back to Derby to
teach a spring term of school.
c. L. Drown has rented the John
Alexander farm of Mr.. Goodrich.
Seymore Trowbridge has moved
| back TO his farm and his son has moved
into a part of Sylvester browns
house in the village.
North Troy.
A young son of Thomas Gilbert
got a thumb caught in chain and
amputated, one day last week.
George Hardy has sold his New
port Center store to his brother-in-
law Carol E. Harris, who has taken
possession.