Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-04-08

getting the Wallingford house and $3.50
for the house here.
The electric light company are running
over 200 incandescent lamps, besides their
arc circuit. The Thomson Houston com
pany have increased their capital stock
during the week from 81 900, 900 to 81 ;
900 900.
West Burke.
ID. r. Hunt, Jr., has purchased the Nc
Neil house at Burke Hollow, and will
move there this week. His father and
mother from Barton will live with him.
Our four physicians are having their
hands full; there are many sick. Mrs.
Newell, Mrs. Colby, Mrs. Bugbee, Sumner
Hartwell and Charles Chaffee are among
those that are dangerously sick.
Rev. John Morse has had call to the
first Congregational church at Vancouver,
B. c., the largest church in the city. Mr..
Morse has been Methodist too long to
try any new way now, and will decline.
Win Roundy, conductor on the mixed
train is sick with fever.-Mrs. Geo. Mar
shall is very sick.-Mrs. Elmer Stoddard,
sick with quinsey sore, is Improving
Among others Frustrated are Charles
Chappell, Mrs. Burt, Ed Allard and child
and some others. 1t is called unusually
sickly.
Burke
The oldest man in town, Captain Eras-
tus Humphrey, is the son of Hosea Hum
phrey, who moved to this town from Bur-
family of wife and eleven children, with
one OK team and two two-horse teams
He purchased a thousand acres of land in
town and settled and cleared up the farm
where the captain has lived SO years. The
children of the original family consisted
of six boys and six girls, but eleven of
the children only came to Burke. The
Captain was the Youngest of the family
and we may reasonably conclude he is the
only survivor. He retains his strength
and his faculties in remarkable degree
for one of his years, and still insists on
helping the boys do the chores. - Union.
East Hard<vicIx.
Frank Eastman is putting tin roof on
his jewelers. shop.
Annie Adgate has returned from her
winter sojourn in Conn.
The Springers Of the basket store have
removed to Walden and Geo. Rowe occu-
pies the house they have vacated.
Mrs. Stevens died March 3Oth and the
funeral was held at the house Tuesday,
April I'd. Dea. Stevens died in August,
1887, the daughter died about five weeks
ago, now Mrs. Stevens, leaving the Stew
ems homestead vacant. Hattie will go to
Massachusetts with an aunt for the pres
ent.
sutton.
George Bean has put in a new planer.
School meeting at the village Tuesday,
April 8.
Eta Whipple is home from st. Johns
bury.-Frank Ball was home over the
Sabbath.
Seven persons from this town attended
the meeting of the Rebekah's at st.
Johnsbury last Tuesday.
Loren Young, over eighty years of age
and war veteran, went to st. Johnsbury
last week to take part in the ''Old Dis
trict School, conducted by the Chamber
lin Post.
Mrs. VIM. Ruggles will go to reside
with her son, Henry Fisher, ere long.
Silas Chickering, nephew, who spent
the winter here with Mrs. r. returns to
St. Johnsbury.
sheffield.
Elder Christie is sick with pneumonia
Nelson Wood has taken the Hall saw.
mill for three years.
Laban Bradley has the lumber on the
spot to put up a house this spring.
| George Williams and Jonathan Pow
ers are a little better, and also Mrs. In
gals.
r. S. Mcdowell is gong to build 8
large barn for Charles Hibbard of Glover
the coming summer, A by l20.
WheeIocix.
1. X. Gray will move back to the farm
after sugaring.
Mr.. Sulloway is failing and Mrs. Bull
| lock is quite sick
Robert j. Mcdowell of Sheffield, Is de
livering lumber here to put up barn TO
Fred Day % by 81.
Seymour Stevens of Boston made
call here on his return trip from Dacot,
to see some of his friends in this place.
Hardxviclx.
Emerson Bush has sold 200 carloads o
granite.
David Huntley had so children at
sugar party on Thursday.
Mrs. Charley Hatch is quite sick a
Craftsbury. Eta Bangs has gone t.
Boston on u visit
There has been much sickness in tn
family of Charles Lewis of late and the
buried child yesterday.
Melvin Tucker has purchased 700 acre
of wild land in Cambridge and propose
to do big numbering on it.
Mrs. Dorman Bridgman, who has bee
very sick, appears to to be slowly gain
ing. She has had long, hard pull.
Island Pond.
Miss Alice Robinson has been seriousl
ill for several days with neuralgia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Abner Coe, who hav
passed the winter in Conn, returne
home last Monday.
The personal property of the late Gee