Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-04-29
Bates is enlarging his house by finishing

Ina Levens goes to st. Johnsbury to
work dressmaking.
Spring school closes Thursday. Miss
Fairchild commences the Derby Line
school May 6.
Wesley Moore has rented the A. f
Coles farm.-C. W. Human has moved
to the Page house.
Mary Brown, an invalid for more than
"a years, died last Tuesday, leaving an
aged mother and many friends
Ea St Charleston
Mrs.G. w. Lang is expected home soon.
Village school commences next Mon
day, Flora Allard teacher.
Charlie, youngest son of III. A. Gray, is
hard sick with pneumonia
C. E. Blood has gone to work for J. S.
Sweeney again. Sweeney will start his
steam mill as soon as high water is over
Mrs. J. S. Sweeney and her sister Miss
Annie Stevens have opened a millinery
shop in Mrs. Sweeney's front room, over
the store.
| Rev. Mr.. Franklin of n. H. preached
here two Sabbaths to the acceptance of
the people, and money is raised to hire
him for a year.
Charles Morse, one of the road COM
missioners, is very busy putting new
sluices and repairing washouts. He has
bought pair of big horses to work on
the road machine:
Coventry.
Geo. Hearmon has a million feet of
| lumber in the river.
Rev. C. w. Morse, new pastor of M. E.
church, will be here next Sabbath. Servic-
es hereafter will be held in the forenoon.
Mr.. Morse will preach at Newport Center
in the afternoon.
Burbank & Williams are driving bust
ness. Besides getting three million feet
of logs down the river and running their
mill, they are putting in large boiler and
a fire pump, and doing other things for
the benefit of their MILL
CraftSburv.
Old Mr.. Whitney is very feeble.
Mrs. Hatch has rented Allen Daniels
house and moves in soon.
A party is here picking up car load of
horses for the Boston market.
Elmer Douglas has been discharged
from the U. S. army and is home.
Grin Hartman has been engaged to
teach the spring term of school on the
branch.
Bartlett Williams is putting on an adj
dition to his barn and a new basement
under it.
Charles Hatch is driving team for Guy
Goodrich.-Frank Hatch is driving the
cream cart.
Ed. Wheeler will be at the Common
post-oflice Saturdays, where he will at
tend to barbering.
About 100 attended Alex Calderwood's
sugar party. 1t is needless to say that
they were handsomely treated.
Johnnie Washburn has rented a paint
shop at Barre, in company with his broth
er, Leroy. Mr.. Washburn and wife will
move to Barre soon.
We are sorry to learn that Rev. A.
Scribner is not to remain with us another
year. Bro. Scribner and family will be
much missed in the community.
II. Il. Hartman has bought the North
rop house, paying 5000 for it. He will
be at j. G. Aliens store every Friday, land
will pay the highest market price for eggs
and butter.
1t is reported that Mrs. Moses Root
will not return form the West this spring.
The family, it is said, are trying to an
range to all go out there in the fall.-Geo.
Root is home from California. bringing a
new wife with him.
The Academy boys will observe the
Centennial and set some elms Tuesday
The alumni and former students antici-
pate holding a reunion at the time of the
graduating exercises, May 10. 1t is ex-
pected that baccalaureate sermon will
be preached on the evening Of May II.
DERBY.
w. c.. johnson has just received a load
of marble from the Rutland quarrieS.
That is right! They have a son at G.
Hyland's, a son at Charles Places and a
daughter at F. S. Hollis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Chase, of Mimi,
are in town, visiting at Charles Nourse's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hammond of Troy are in
town visiting friends.
Rev Mr.. Wilder, who is to preach at
NJ. E. church the coming year, has been
detained by sickness, but is expected to ar
rive some time this week.
Mr.. McFarlane recently of Barton Land
ing, buried his only child, aged 10 months.
His wife died about one year ago. The
child was buried at Barton Landing be-
side it's mother
A Mrs. Wilson from Bloomington has
moved into A. J.Allbee's tenement house.
&C. F. Kilburn has moved into Ira Kel
leys house, and Mr. Kelley moves to z.
c.. Blake's farm, at Island Pond.
The spring term of Derby Academy
closes this week, with the usual examina-
! tions, the closing entertainment of the
| SchOOI wear TO DE nclu Ill ACduculS Hall,
Thursday evening, May I'd. Preparation
| has been made for an excellent program,
consisting of declarations, charades, tab
leauX, vocal solos, duets, trios, ETC., also
| instrumental music, furnished by the New
port orchestra. 1t is hoped that due ap-
probation of the efforts of our young peo-
Pile may be manifested by large attend
ance.
West Derby.
Mrs. A. L. Morey has gone to Grey,
Maine, to reside
Chauncy Sias of Springfield, Mass, has
been in town looking after his place and
calling on old friends.
Frank Kimball is building new barn.
Freeman Blake is remodeling his dwell
ing house.-Harrison Darling is also
making changes.
Mr. and Mrs. n. Degoosh buried their
only child. a little girl, Sunday the 2lst
inst. Rev. J. Phillips conducted the