Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-04-29

Glover.
Mrs. A. NJ. Randall is visiting her sis
ter at st. Johnsbury
Mrs. Ezra Clark, after serious illness
is said to be gaining.
c. L. S. C. with Mrs. S. F. Leonard
Tuesday evening, April 3O.-The Ladies
Aid Society will meet at the vestry mex
Thursday afternoon. ser
vices at the Congregational church next
Sunday.
GreenSbOrO
John Uric has bought a high blooded
stallion.
2. ID. Badger has moved on to the place
he bought of Thompson last fall.
VIM. B. Simpson has sent to New York
and hired two men and one woman
Swedes, to work for him this season
They are recent importations from the
old country without tariff duties.
1rasbur=h.
F. A. Buchanan has gone to market.
Joseph Cook is sick.-Mrs. Geo. Beede
is better.
D. Fl. Webster has bought the Joseph
Grant farm.
M. j. Bailey has a new sign and makes
a new bow to the public.
Selectmen at w. D. Tylers office, May
4th, to settle road accounts.
Village schools commence to-day. Ed
ward Merrill and Mary Corley, teachers.
S. w. and c. S. Allen go to Burlington
to work at carpentering Grant
has to Newport for the same purpose.
Rev. w. G. Johnson, who has been sent
here as preacher at the M. E. church, be-
gan his labors yesterday. Mr.. johnson
is well known and much liked here and
we give him a hearty welcome. No
preaching yesterday at Cong. church.
Lowell.
V. M. Parker has moved into rooms in
| S. Morton's house.
Rev. r. King has received a call from
| a church in New York, and the Lowell
| society have granted him six months
leave of absence.
N newport.
The Newport Rifles attend the big Gel
ebration in New York this week. They
started this morning.
Mrs. Geo. Trow is seriously ill.-Mr.
Little, whose sickness has been mention
ed before, is failing.
The Bowley Bros. were notified Satur-
day by telegram of the death of a sister
who resided at West Burke.
Mrs. J. G. Dawson died last Friday
night, after distressing illness of nearly
five months She leaves husband and
| two sons, besides a large circle of rela-
tives to mourn her departure.
Rev. N. w. Wilder, who has been pas
tor of the church at Newbury the past
three years, has been appointed to this
charge by the annual conference. Rev.
c. Wedgeworth goes TO ST. Johnsbury
Center.
NEWPORT Center.
Corporals Elmer Rogers and Clarence
Perkins of the Newport Rifles go with
their company to n. Y. to-day.
ID. L. Hildreth has commenced to build
an addition to his store, and has the base
ment frame up.-Dr. Erwin is finishing
up the horse barn on his farm that he
commenced last fall.
Robert II. Lathe started a short time
ago from here to visit friends, and went
as far as Craftsbury, VT, intending to go
to Tennessee to visit his daughter, hop
ing to improve his health by going South,
but he was so poorly that he has re-
turned home.
Mrs. William Williams, highly es-
teemed Christian lady of this place, went
from here April 18th accompanied by her
daughter, Mrs. II. f. Bartlett, to Provi-
dence, r. l., to visit several of her sons
that reside there. She was taken sick the
following Tuesday with pneumonia and
died Monday, the 22d inst. Her remains
reached here Wednesday morning, and a
fueneral was held at the residence of H.
f. Bartlett, Rev. Mr.. Currier preaching
the funeral sermon. Her age was 76
years. 1t was a great bereavement to her
husband, who is 81 years of age, and
doubly so as he was not with her in her
sickness and death.
Alden Willis has given up the Hildreth
farm that he rented, on account of the
poor health of his wife. He will move on
to his own farm that he bought last fall.
j. G. Stickney has rented his farm for
one year to w. c. Bassford, who takes
immediate possessi on.-Mrs. Sidney But
Ter has bought the Riley Bowley place
near Geo r. Lanes and moved there.
Price $500.-Dr. Erwin has traded his
Buzzell farm for Leonard Farrer's viii
lage place &C. S. Moulton has sold his
place Just out of the village to Chester
Spaulding for $425.-Geo. w. Rogers has
sold to Orlando NJ. Griffin five acres of
land from his pasture adjoining Mr.. Grit
fms village place, which makes valuable
addition to Mr.. Grffin's property. Price
$3.50
WeStfieId.
The people are glad,to have Rev. p. N.
Granger returned to them again.
VIM Wilson has four children sick with
E. H. Wood has again gone on to the
road for the American Photo Copying Co.
Fred Edmunds, who has been at New
port for a few years, has gone to Holyoke,
Mass.
The creamery has been put in repair for
the season, and will commence business
soon.
A. H. Hoyt has moved in with f. H.
Miller and offers his property for sale or
rent.
Harlem Woodwork has bought the
farm lately occupied by j. H. Buck. Mr..
Buck will soon go to Iowa
The decision of Judge Austin, giving
A. II. Hoyt the custody of the little Davis
girl, is well received here, and seems but
right and just.
Hoyt & Wakefield have built an addition
to one of their tenement houses for the
accommodation of their workmen. Geo.
Simonds has moved into the same.