Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-03-05
School in district No. IL, taught by T.

School in district No. IL, taught by f.
III. Babbitt, closed February 25th. Num-
Der of scholars in attendance, 16; aver
age attendance, IA $40; those having no
tardy marks are Susie Warren and Mary
CaSs; those having no absent marks and
only one tardy mark are Henry Stratton
and Mary Goodrich; Eddie Boyce had no
absent marks.
East CIaftSbury.
Homer Bradley, respected citizen of
this place, died almost instantly of heart
disease, on Tuesday, aged Sc years. Mr..
Bradley moved here from Evansville or
Barton some years since and has been &C
tive in farming and agricultural matters.
He was a member of COX, 10th VT. Vols,
and served some time in the army. He
was a member of Quimby Post, G. A. r.,
Barton, and was buried by members of
the Post in the Glover cemetery where his
first wife was buried. He leaves several
children. The thanks of the friends are
extended to neighbors and to Quimby
| Post for kindness and assistance render
ed in the hour of their loss and sorrow.
Derby
Harry White is recovering from pneu-
| monia.
| d. C. Stevens rents tenement over
| the L. p. JENNIE furniture store.
| Eugene Ewens has returned home from
California, after a years sojourn.
Addison Lorrimer, former resident
| and student here, is visit and preach
es at Baptist church next Sunday.
The donation for Rev. Geo. S. Chase
and wife amounted to about $50, includ-
ing a valuable present given Mrs. Chase.
A pound party for the benefit of the
Misses Dawson was given at H S. Rob
bins Tuesday eve. Proceeds about SIS.
Rev. Donaldson will preach at M. E.
church next Sunday afternoon, and hold
conference Monday forenoon at 10
o'clock.
Several of aged citizens who are
in the eighties and nineties have been
on the sick list, but all are improving
and likely to pull through.
Geo. Grout, who has been over CRANKY
way looking over the numbering business,
r9turns, reporting plenty of snow and too
many broken legs, both of men and
horses.
Delivan Stevens closed his tabors as
clerk in Mr.. Lanes store last week.
Gary Killborn takes his place. Mr. Lane
has been very fortunate in his clerks at
ho
Stevens have been deservedly popular
with the patrons.
Glover.
Handen Scott has gone on to the rail-
road as fireman.
Look out for F. H. Percival's new adj
vertisement next week.
Eliza Mcclellan is home from Boston
Edna Fayer IS home from her school
Mrs. Royal Morse recently fell down
stairs, badly, if not seriously, injuring
her.
Emily French is visiting at Lyndcnville
Mrs. Adna Bridgman is visiting at Will
bur F. SCOTS.
Mrs. A. G. Phillips, Jennie Partridge,
Mrs. Henry Salmon are each very sick,
and many others are i'll. Some pneumo-
MIA patients are better.
A man by the name of Emerson has
been here of late, who processes to heal
by 1.-THE laying on of hands" We do not
hear that he has had remarkable success.
Tracy L. Jeffords, formerly principal of
Orleans Liberal Institute, has resigned
his position as professor of mathematics
| in Buchatel College, Akron, Ohio, and
goes to Washington, d. c., as private
secretary to an Ohio congressman.
The annual meeting of the Orleans
County Educational Association will be
held here Friday, March 9. Programme
FOrenoon-Devotional exercises; Address
of Welcome, Rev. E. w. Pierce; Essay,
Miss Marcia Shedd: s'Our Scholars
Hon. Justus Dartt; ssAIds in Teaching"
w. F. Clark. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Draw
er; "Music," Miss Lila Tucker; Essay,
| Thomas Martin; Business. Evening
"a Hundred Years" Hon. Justus Dartt.
Will you kindly permit US through the
| columns of your paper to express our
| heartfelt and sincere thanks to all our
neighbors and friends for their great
| kindness and tender sympathy to and for
US during the sickness, death and burial
of our beloved daughter, Matte 1t is no
empty formality that prompts these
| words, for in our great bereavment the
remembrance of neighborly sympathy and
| kindness is very dear to our bleeding
hearts. Mr.. AND MRS. F. c. CLARK.
| West Glover.
Jennie Williamson goes to Norris
vile to teach in the graded school,
Bert Lewis is attending school at
| Craftsbury, Emily Baker at Barton.
1t is Mrs. Martin, not John Martin,
who is sick.-Geo. King is sick with
scarlet feaver.
| Greensboro.
Mrs. Lafayette Leavitt has moved into
a tenement in Austin's house.
Alfred Smalley was away last week. at
tending the funeral of his wife's father.
D. B. Hunter, who has been sick some
weeks, is out again attending to his bus
| mess.
| Geo. B. Martin of New Haven, Conn.,,
has purchased the steam yacht owned by
the late J. A. Preston, and will probably
take it away in the spring.
The school in Dist. No. 7, taught by
Victoria l. Logan, closed Feb. oath.
Those having no marks during the sum-
mer term were Nellie Babcock, Jennie
Crane, Willie Campbell, Marcia McClary,
| Maggie Thompson, Martha Thompson
and Ernest Young. Those who were not
absent during the fall term were Marshall
McClary, Maggie Thompson and Martha
! Thompson. Lola Calderwood, Jennie
Crane, Mamie McClary and Marcia Nc
| Clary were absent only one day. In the
winter Maggie and Martha Thompson
were not absent at all. In department
and studies the average was 95 for the
| school.