Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-09

town hall on Thursday eve, March 5, for
the benefit of Rev. z. J. Wheeler. Pro
ceeds, $21.50.
The school in district No closes Fri
day. The dramatic club will play Thurs
day night instead of Friday, the drama,
.'Above the Clouds"
Herbert Leland has sold pieces of land
: off the farm recently purchased of H.
Pickle to E. M. Buchanan, John Maxwell
and E. A. Robinson.
There were three funerals in town on
successive days week before last: Mrs.
John Gilffllan was buried on Wednesday;
Mr.. David Powers, Thursday; and Jen-
ME, oldest daughter of Geo. White, on
Friday.
David Powers, whose illness was men,
toned in this paper, died Feb. %. He
moved to this town from Canada some
four years since and was we'll liked as a
citizen. He leaves a wife and twelve
children, two of whom at the present
writing are seriously ill with the measles.
Evansville.
Mrs. II. N. Fay has sold her house here
to Elmer Drown; possession given May
1st.
Litchfield & Gordon have contracted to
manufacture Harvey Fosters large stock
of cedar logs into shingles.
Samuel Drown of East Bloomington,
who has been dangerously ill with lung
trouble, is some better, though still in
very critical condition.
The Ladies' Aid rosette party at Mrs.
j. NJ Randall's was a very pleasant gath
ering. All report good time. Mr.. Ran
dall's is good place to go to.
Harvey Foster has the largest stock of
logs he has ever had and still they are
hauling more. He has nearly 800 cords
of hard wood for bobbins, and GOO cords
of shingle timber.
East Charleston.
School in the Buck district closed on
the 4th inst.
1t was Gray instead of Gregg, as one
of our items read last week.
Horace Kathern and wife are home
from Lyndon where they have been for
some weeks.
p. j. Plunkett has returned from Mass,
where report said he went to purchase a
! fast horse. He returned without it,
| however.
! The concert Friday evening at the close
of the singing school was very good
| ba i'm frur fol,
ally fine.
| Rev. Il. J. Wheeler gives two illustra-
ted lectures here on temperance, the first
on Sunday eve, Mar. s, the second, Sun
day eve, Mar. 10. They will be of much
interesting.
Mat Crow and Moses Morse have a
new saving machine and they are saving
a large lot of wood for themselves. They
have sawed 40 cords day. They recent
ly sawed three cords in "a minutes.
The mail crarier's team got into ''tan-
trum" in front of the post office Thurs
day morning and ran away with the for
ward part of the stage some 81 miles,
without very serious damage.
Coventry.
Several arrests for drunkenness last
week.
The Association has recently added a
lot of new books to the library.
Several are sick with la grippe which
takes the form Of rheumatism of the
stomach. John Brooks is hard sick.
C. A. Livingstone will give a reading
| at Cong. vestry, Wednesday evening
Belle Livingstone is home from Montpel-
Ter.
Mr. II. B. Collins from Boston is TAX
ing care of his uncle, Mr.. S. Collins, who
had the misfortune to fall last Monday
and break a hip bone.
CraftSburV
Pardon Allen is in town visiting friends
Peter Randall is quite sick with lung
fever.
Rev. R. Noodle started for the West,
Thursday.
NJ. S. Stone has been engaged to teach
| at the Academy until Prof. Day is able to
resume his work
Geo. w. Simpson will be at E. S. STRAIT
tons store every Friday forenoon the
coming season to buy butter and eggs.
n. S. Hill, Esq, a resident of Burling-
ton, who was temporarily stopping in
Vincland, n. j., died at that place on the
I'd inst, and his remains were brought to
this place for burial on Wednesday, the
funeral being held at A. Paddock's, Rev.
Mr.. Noodle officiating. Mr.. Hill was a
native of Isle LaMotte, who came here
in his early life and practiced for % yrs.
the profession of the law, marrying mean
while the daughter of Gov. Crafts, who
survives him. He moved to Burlington
in 1856 and became treasurer of the Uni
versity, holding the office till 1881. He
was a good lawyer, a very faithful officer,
genial man and a Christian gentleman.
His aged wife will have the sympathy of
many friends.
Derby.
The town returns to The district sys-
TEN of working the highways.
Geo. Newcomb, who has finished clerk
ing at Newport. is at home
w. M. Taylor has bargained for the
Horace Holt place, and his mother is NOV
ing there.
! Town meeting was well attended and
usually quiet. Most of the old officers
were reelected.
Rev. o. C Baker of Sawyerville will
hold meetings every evening this week.
! Come out and hear him.
Derby Line
Our school closes this week. We have
one week vacation, then ID weeks more.
Dr. Baxter and wife have returned
! from Washington. Mrs. Baxter is much
! improved in health.
Major Nelson attended the officers
drill at Brattleboro. Mr.. and Mrs. A. B.
Nelson have returned from Brooklyn.
Stuart Haskell and his mother, Mrs.