Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-12-20

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chaser.
Wesley Kempton has bought Mrs.
Sophia Farman's farm on West Hill,
paying 5000. He will take posses
sion Immediately.
westmOre.
Francis Richardson has gone to
West Burke to run the Trull hotel.
There will be Christmas tree at
the house of Theo. Carpenter on Sat
urday evening, Dec. %.
W. B. Daniels is still alive, though
in a very critical condition. A can
Ger is slowly eating his life away.
A. w. Lyon has resigned the Of
flee of deputy sheriff, and J. G.
Orne has been appointed in his stead.
The road from Mill Brook to Long
POND has not been opened since snow
came, and is not passable at present.
Those interested in the poultry
business should call and see Mr.. A.
W. Lyons new hennerg. He has a
fine show of fowls.
Edwin Mcfarland, brother of VIM.
Mcfarland, has bought the Long
Pond mill buildings and the land adj
joining, and intends to clear up a
farm on the shore of the pond.
Nearly all the farmers on the west
side of the lake are engaged in haul
ing logs and wood to Barton, while
E. Foster, is buying a large quantity
of lumber near the outlet on the river.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
West Burke.
Myrtle Aldrich will spend the holidays
at home.
Christmas exercises at M. E. church
Friday eve.
The dramatic club had very good
house anu Gne ENTERTAINMENT passed. Oh
very well.
Wendell Silsby is stocking the three
| village mills. In the two shingle mills
he will put in about 1900 cords of cedar
| and fir.
L. w. circuit has bought of Jason AL
| lard sugar place adjoining his farm
| and has put eight or ten AK men in there
| to convert the trees into cord wood,
| which he has sold to the railroad COM
pany. He expects to get about 800 cords.
Sutton.
Frank Powers, son of Charlie Powers,
was buried on Dec. 9th.
| Mr.. Cross and Mrs. Charles Dizzy from
Bridgewater, N. III. are in town.
Mrs. Laura Fishers sister from Derby
intends to spend the winter with her.
NIX Campbell and wife start for New
York to-day to visit their daughter, Mrs.
Ed. Flint.
| Mrs. J. w. Colby is home from St.
Johnsbury, where she mas spent the last
three months.
Mrs. M. A. Densmore has returned
from New Bedford, where she has been
to visit her brother.
| Leonard Wetherbee has moved from
Mrs. Blake's house in the village, back
to his old home in Burke.
Rev. Mr.. Tracy's daughter, Mrs.
Sprague, land husband have moved to town
and are living at her fathers at present.
Jacob Gordon, Rich ard Willard, Henry
Darling, Mrs. A. E. Kincaid, Mrs. l.. Il.
Harris and Mrs. E. Butterield have been
on the sick list for some time.
The ladies of the Home Circle will give
a night-cap, antiquarian supper on Dec.
18th, in the town hall. The public are
cordially invited, and good time is an
ticipated.
The Home Circle gave pleasant enter
tainment at the town hall last Wednesday
evening, consisting of broom drill, rec
itations, tableaux, etc., followed by an
antiquarian supper.
Rev. Silas Virgins. much respected
citizen, committed suicide on Friday last
by hanging. For some years he has been
subject to fits of dependency, perhaps
temporary insanity, and Of late had been
suffering from illness and other things
that had disturbed him much, and he
probably thought to end his troubles in
this tragic manner. For some years,
since the death of his wife, he has been
tenderly cared for by kind friend and
relative, Miss Fenton, who in very feeble
health, is sadly afflicted by the death.
Elder Virgins was born in Fairlee in 1901,
and entered the ministry in 1899, under
the New Hampshire conference. He was
active in ministerial labors many years,
and was always greatly esteemed for the
purity of his character, his devotion to
the cause of God and his neighborly kind
ness. He had few relatives present at his
funeral.
Sheffield.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. F. Root are visiting
friends in ST. Adams.
There will be a Christmas tree at the
M. =. church Christmas eve.
Bradley Drown is failing.-Cyril Will
liams is not expected to recover.
s. and r. C. Hall are getting in lumber
for new mill to be erected the coming
spring.
There will be y donation and oyster
supper at the Free Baptist church next
Wednesday evening, Dec. 22nd, for the
benefit of Rev James Franklin. All invited
! WheeIock.
Herbert Brooks has moved into Mrs.
Bqllock's house for the winter.
Quarterly meeting will be held Dec.
Goth. 1t is expected that the Presiding
Elder will be present.
last Hardvick.
B. B. Prentice is home from Ettaway
for while.
Captain William Davis committed sui
eide on Sunday, the 18th inst, by taking
large dose of Paris green. No cause
can be assigned for the act save discour-
agement on account of his feeble eondis