Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-04-28

Pond for work-Geo Cheney and Ever
EFT Driver have gone to Maine where they
find profitable employment.
Coventry.
Geo. Murray has left here and moves to
st. Johnsbury.
At the annual election of officers in the
NJ E. Sunday school, A. d. Thurber was
chosen Supt.; Ernest Batchelder, assist
ant Supt Mrs. Tower, clerk and treas
urer; and Cora Lewis, organlst.
VIM. Barrows is raising up and thor
oughly repairing his barn, T. Wallace and
his men doing the work. Mrs Barrows
is in St. Johnsbury caring for her daugh-
ter, Clara, who is very ill with measles.
Craf1tSbur.%,
Mrs. Charles Hatch is visiting friends
in Canada.
Arrangements are being made at the
Eagle Hotel for May ball.
We are glad to learn that Rev. M. P.
Bell will return to us for another year.
Minnie B. Hoyt commences her school
at Hardwick one week from next Mon
day.
Dexter Sprague has secured the servic-
es Of Mr.. Brown and wife the coming
year.
Stratton & Bros. are receiving Il large
supply of goods which they propose to
sell cheap,
Orrin Hartman has commenced his
spring school at Mill Village. = Lydia
Chase will teach in the Peel district, in
Greensboro, this spring.
Leslie Hartman, some time sick, is
better.-Elwin Lyon is on the sick list
II. Z. Hartman is sick with bilious fever.
Mrs. Bruce is sick, as is a child of E.
Marcys.
Mr.. Allen has a large ad. in this paper;
he proposes to put his large stock of
goods on sale at such prices as will make
it an inducement for parties living in all
this section to visit his store.
w. d. Udall has opened a store at the
Branch, where he will keep large stock
of groceries, flour, feed, meal and heart
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keep No. goods and sell them low.
Derby.
Geo. Heath and Ada Leland are mar
ried and have moved to Sherbrooke.
Charles Carpenter is building an addi-
ton to his house which will add much to
it's convenience.
The Messrs. Marvin have moved into
the Parlin house and are getting their
butter factory nearly ready for business.
They will begin to take in milk May s..
They have 45O COWS pledged.
Glover.
Charles Crosby is suffering greatly with
rheumatism.
Sumner Blodgett and family have re-
turned home.
Il. S. c. meeting at Mrs. E. M. Owl
nell's, Wednesday evening.
The South church is being repaired
Mr.. Holmes is repairing his house.
Blanche Walcott teaches the City
school and Effie Clark the Center
Christie and Maggie Smith are going
to the Mountains to work this summer.
Ed. Paddleford had his knee dislocated
recently. DR.. Templeton set it and it is
doing well.
Mrs John Salmon has a small pansy
geranium which has about so blossoms on
it and as many buds.
DR.. Prime of Barton, who has been
treating Mrs. S. B. French and Mrs.
JENNIE, gets much credit here.
Eugene Cleveland and family from Ne
braska are visiting friends in this vicinity
after an absence of six years.
The buildings on the VIM. Merriam
Cook, farm ,roro burned on Saturday
Only a small insurance on them.
Rev. Mr.. Milar is preparing to hold &
grove meeting at Willoughby Lake dur
ing the summer months.
The Ladies' Mite Society will give al
.. entertainment and night cap supper at In
stitute building Thursday eve, May 1st
At the close of the entertainment the
Glover band will furnish music for &
promenade. Each lady is requested to
bring two nightcaps alike. Admission tc
e entertainment and supper ten cents each
Greensboro.
Instead of moving to the Bates farm, as
reported, Geo. S. Wilcox has gone to his
father-in-law's, Mr.. Lovejoy.
S A. S. Clary, overseer, and James B
: Calderwood took Mrs. Thomas Calder
I wood to Brattleboro, last week.
, E. o. Randall has bought an interest il
: the firm of Babbitt & Crane, and the firm
now stands Rabbit, Crane & Co.
Mrs. Thos. Calderwood, who is insane
burned their buildings on Saturday, the
10Th inst. No insurance.
Farmers are rejoicing in the exception
. ally good sugar season and the gooC
prices for sugar. The scheme of selling
g their sugar in syrup form seems to have
been satisfactory, as about as much mon
k ey is realized with less labor and expense
Mrs. Sarah Kimball, an old lady of z
n years, the mother of Mrs. Dunklee, had
n leg amputated just below the knee las
Thursday, by Drs. Kinney, Calderwoo'
V and French. She bore the operation re
:. markably we'll. The chance for recover
may be one in a hundred, but as she cou
6 not recover with the leg, she decided t
take the chance without IT, She has bee
suffering a long while with gangrene.
70 It may interest many in Greensboro an
=, vicinity to know that we visited our oil
- friend and townsman, Robert Mathie, las
. Friday, who was taken to Brattleboro
years ago, and that we find him very we
preserved and contented, and very niue
interested in the affairs at the asylum. II
was detailed to take us all over the barn
" and grounds connected with the asylum
l. and we doubt the propriety of keeping
OF man of so much intelligence as he stat
as pauper.
W Greensboro Bend.
ne Miss Nellie Clark has improved suf
GENTLY to be able to teach a spring ter
of school. She is engaged to teach