Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-05-19
pastor. In behalf of the coun
+. L. WILEY, Clerk.

GILL +. L. WILEY, Clerk.
Brovvnington.
Mrs. Myra Alexander is dead.
Mr.. Richards, the centenarian, ar
rived in town last week.
George Boulduc is going to Barton
Landing to work for Charles Glib.
J. G. Bartlett's logs that were cut
in Sutton last winter, have just reach
ed his mill.
Herbert Bailey has bought Harvey
Spaulding's farm and moved there
last week.
Stephen Burrows has rented I. A.
Wyman's store and will soon COM
mence trade there.
Perry Cannon, who Is in very poor
health, moves in with his father-in-
law, Gilman Bryant.
L. Grow and John Miles know how
it feels to be run away with, and will
find out what it costs to repair bad
ly smashed wagon.
Coventry.
The Advents are holding another
series of meetings at the town hall.
Pat Tenny was brought before a
justice and fined for drunkenness.
Mrs. Richards has rented her house
to Mr.. Saucier of Charleston, who
has moved here and is saving clap
boards at the mill.
Mrs. Judge Cleveland is again in
q dangerous state of health, and her
death may be expected any day.
Charles Cleveland is home on ac-
count of his mothers illness.
The trade mentioned last week be-
tween Stilman Collins and other par
ties has fallen through.-George Col
Inns has moved home to his fathers
on account of i'll health.
Graf Sburv.
Mrs. Alice Seaver is very sick
with gastric fever.
Alba Merrill has moved on to the
Jesse Merrill farm; Fred Hoyt has
moved on to the farm with his father,
Edgar Hoyt.
The people are anticipating pleas
ant and profitable meeting when state
Supt. Dart comes here on Tuesday
to hold the educational meeting.
AS Mr.. Dow of Albany was return
ing from Wolcott, on the 18th inst,
Mrs. Horace Childs, in attempting TO
cross the road in front of his team,
was hit by the horse, knocked down
and run over; she was taken up in a
senseless state and proved to be very
badly hurt. She has been in very
critical condition ever since.
The G.. A. r. Post will hold me-
mortal services on the 30th at which
time it is expected that Capt. Blod-
gett of st. Johnsbury will deliver an
address. There will be the usual
ceremonies, with singing, martial mu-
sic, and, perhaps, short speeches. On
Sunday, May 20, there will be union
memorial services at the church at
South village. The public is cordially
invited to attend both services. All
who can contribute flowers or floral
emblems are invited to do so. Let
our citizens pay respect to the day
and occasion.
AS the gleat-great-grandmother
story is going the rounds we give
one: Mrs. John Simonds of Maid
stone is so years old; her eldest
daughter, Mrs. Gideon Bagley of AL
bany, Is 81 years old her eldest
daughter, Mrs. J. Williams of this
town, is 40 years old her eldest
daughter, Mrs. Armour Moody, is
10 years old, and she has son lit
tie over three years old; Mrs. Will
liams also has another grandson, the
child of her second daughter Mrs.
Rouena Moody. Hence Mrs. Simonds
is the happy mother of the four re-
spectacle generations mentioned.
Derby.
Mrs. Blodgett of Stanstead deliver
ed an excellent temperance address
at the Baptist church recently.
Allen P. Niles has bought about
one hundred acres of land adjoining
his farm of Mrs. Bryant and the es-
tate of Mrs. j. G.. Elder; price $500.
There has been three cases of pros
ecutions resulting in fine in each
case, during the past week for viola
ton of the liquor laws. The prose
cutions against violaters of the law
in this place are not the result of
any vindictive spirit or unkind feel
ing, but have been prompted by q
strong public sentiment demanding
the abatement of this debasing curse,
which threatens to destoy our young
men and even boys. We would like
to see every town keenly alive to its
interests in this respect.
The closing exercises of the school
at Derby academy were held last
Thursday and Friday. A. B. Lori
inner of Beebee Plain was graduated
from the college preparatory course
he will enter Colby college at the
coming commencement. The past
year has been a very prosperous one
for the academy. The board of in
struction has been full and the work
done would, undoubtedly, compare
favorably with that done in any SINH
lar institute In the state Ii iS az