Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-05-26

belonging to the Weleh estate ana IS
dong farming this year.
Gen. Cary gave two very interest
ing lectures to large audiences. here
Friday and Saturday evenings.
At the special town meeting Geo.
F. Leonard was chosen constable
and collector, vice George Bowley,
resigned.
Henry Lawrence is laying cellar
wall preparatory to building a nice
residence.-Geo. Sargent has
frame up for nice house.
Dea. S. B. Pratt, one of our old
est and most respected citizens, died
on Thursday last: he had tanor re-
moved from his side Il few days be-
fore and modification set in causing
death at once.
n wpo1-G Center.
o. Williams is building barn to
one of his tenement houses.
Will. Morey has raised up his
house and is building a bay window
and porch.
DIR. G. F. Branch of Coventry will
deliver the Grafton here Decoration
Day.
Newport lodge, No. 43 I. O. G. T.,
elected their old board of officers for
the ensuing quarter, c. L. Erwin w.
G.. I.
Sheffield.
Asa Barber has gone to Kansas.
Will. Darling is moving to New
port.
Percival Gray has sold his Wood
nancy farm to Oliver Willard. John
Blake will move on to it.
George R. Drew of Danville deliv-
cred two temperance lectures in town
last Sunday, one on the Square and
one in the village.
Geo. Hudson has made quite an i'm
provement in the looks of his place
by filling up that large hole in front
of his house.
G. B. Simpson is going to move
the Remission part of his house around
on the back side of the other part,
which will make it mnch more con-
venient.
Westnnore.
The fishing season has come and
the nights are made hideous by the
fishermen.
r. Averill's steamer has been safe
ly delivered here, after three days
pull with eight horses.
The lumber men have succeeded in
getting the logs that were scattered
over the lake picked up, but the ex-
pense has been very heavy.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Hon. Calvin Morrill, of East St.
Johns bury seems to be gradually
wasting away and cannot long sur
vive
Editor Chase, of the Union, who
went South on the Editorial excus-
sion, which left Boston recently, has
returned; his letters were instructive
and interesting.
Lyndon.
A. B. Norris, the well-known man
ufacturer of Norrlsville, who has
been in failing health for some time,
died at Lyndon one week ago Thurs
day very suddenly of dropsy of the
heart. He was buried on Saturday
at Peacham in the family lot.
West Burke.
Quarterly meeting at M. E. church
yesterday.
Zenas Doyle returned from Kansas
last Tuesday.
Mr. Brooks has moved from the
Pettigrew house to Burke Hollow.
Mrs. Jonathan Powers has been in
Boston several weeks past, being
treated for cancer.
I. L. Marshall went to Worcester,
Mass. last week to take down three
horses for John Jacobs.
Some twenty of the members of the
Good Templars Lodge at Lyndon
vile visited Harmony Lodge last Sat
urday evening.
Maud, little daughter of Charles
Powers, q former resident of this
place, died in Brooklyn, N. Y, a
few days since. She was q lovely
child as many will remember.
The G.. A. Post goes to Sutton in
the forenoon to attend memorial
services and returns for the services
here in the afternoon. A procession
will be formed and march to the
church, where there will be Post me-
mortal exercises, music, prayer, dec
Grafton of the monument and address
es. 1t is hoped that all of our citi-
zens will take part in the exercises OF
the day.
HaT.dxvicIx.
Dorman Bridgman has had a
slight attack of paralysis but is able
to walk with two canes.
Mrs. Hattie Hathaway has return
ed from Manchester and is sick with
pneumonia at L. O. Foss's.
Sutton.
While at work in A. III. Burnham' s
single mill Saturday, Will Campbell
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