Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-09-24

hay, grain, etc, belonging to the JOSEPH
Evans estate will be sold at auction mex
Satul day, commencing at 10 O'Clock n. m
West Oh ss-E<essG Oh.
! William Parker has lately received al
increase of pension.
Frank Moulton and wife have returned
to town and gone to housekeeping il
their former home.
Mrs. Flora Richardson goes to the stat,
convention at Rutland, as delegate from
the w. C. T. U.
G. w. Clarke has improved the look:
of his house by new coat of paint inside
and out and by other repairs
The repairs on the town hall are com
pleted, and the work does much credit tt
all who have assisted in any way.
j. B. Holton has just returned from
Portsmouth, N. H., where he has been tc
attend to business for his mother.
Ed. Spencer has moved into the Joslyr
house across the river.-Hector Moore
has moved into the Widow Ferrin's house
A. NJ Temple has been dangerously i'll
but is somewhat better.-Alden S. Grow
who has been sick for some months, is
slowly improving.
Among visitors in this vicinity are Geo
Mason, a former school teacher, from
Lowell, Mass, Ephraim Hall and wife
from Orange, Mass.
Alfred Taylor has returned to town
and taken up his residence at the hotel.
His health is slightly improved.-Mrs.R r.
II. Barnard has returned from Washing
ton Territory, where she has spent the
last year
Coventry
F. G. Metcalf is erecting a barn on the
French place.
No preaching service at M. E. church
next Sunday but the Sunday School meets
at the usual hour.
B. f. Tower learned last week that his
brother, who recently visited him from
South Royalton had died of heart dis
ease; himself and wife started at once to
attend the funeral.
The reunion of the Loyal Legion of Or
leans county was held in Cong. church
last Wednesday. A large number of chill
dren were present, although not all the
bands were represented. 1t was pleas
ant and profitable meeting.
Crafitsb bury.
Geo. Tillotson is very ill with bilious
fever.
Mrs. Benjamin Hoyt is visiting her peo-
pie at Norwich.
Mary Weber is teaching school at
Maple Corner, Calais.
Rev. j. Chamberlin and family are in
town visiting friends.
Thomas Ghallager is quite sick with
erysipelas in the face.
Jut Little and family have moved into
the house with Bert Hoyt.
Miss Emma Nelson has had well dug
ter.
Sidney Root, who has been in Califor-
MIA number of years, is at home on a
visit
Quarterly meeting was held at NJ. E.
church, Saturday, Sept. %. Rev. Mr..
Donaldson preached on the Sabbath.
their saw-mill which was recently burned.
The citizens of this town have already
subscribed quite a sum for that purpose.
The item in regard to how the Collins
& Kinney steam mill took fire was incor-
rect. 1t took fire on the roof around the
smoke stack. The boiler did not explode
until the building was nearly consumed.
Mrs. II. Williams died at her home
in Humpback, Neb., on Friday, Sept. IA.
The deceased was a daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Leumel Mason of this town. She
went to Neb. with her family about five
years ago. She has been in feeble health
for number of years and intended to
come home for medical treatment this fall,
if she had lived. She early united with
the Reformed Presbyterian church and
has lived consistent Christian life, al
ways forward in church and Sabbath
school work. .She leaves a husband and
three children to mourn her loss.
1t may interest many of the readers of
the MONITOR to know that Edgar Hatch
died at his home in Kansas City, Mo-,
Aug. 81 of typhoid malaria. Mr.. Hatch
was born in Montpelier in 1885 When
small boy he came to Craftsbury with his
parents, the late Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin
Hatch, where he resided until he was
twenty years old, when he moved to Wis
consin. He resided there for over 80
years, when he again moved to Kansas
City. He was married to Miss Mary L.
Treat. April 10, 1860, who with five chill
dren, still survive him. He was member
spected citizen
East C1.afitSbur.y.
The sudden death of Edna E. Patterson,
who died of typhoid fever at her home in
Glover, casts a gloom over the entire
community. The parents have the deep
sympathy of all.
Derby.
1t is girl baby, and she boards at DR..
Clark's.
Mrs. Daniel Davis has city boarders
with her.
A monument costing $500 has been
erected on the Edwin Bates lot.
The new board of teachers in the Acad-
envy are making a favorable impression.
Major Grout is spending few days
west, looking after his manufacturing
interests.
w. G. johnson has sent fine marble
to Montpelier to be set at the
T. Hathaway lot.
Mr.. Searles, the butcher, has sold his
farm and bought the Jacobs place at
the upper end of the street.
Mrs. Todd and Mrs. Vineau have been
seriously sick during the past week, but
are now considered out of danger.
West Derby.
Friday the Nth, Edward Ball had three
horses struck by the cars one was killed
instantly and the others seriously in
jured.
On Thursday the goth inst. Mr.. Ran