Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-01-12

the same day at the Cong. Sunday school
were Supt., w. b. Gilpin; assistant supt.
Elva Farman; sec. and treas, Lizzie
Hitchcock; eX. conn.,, E. L. Ryder, A.. c..
Hitchcock, Mrs. E. S. Miller.
w eStInOre.
Wallace Miller was born in Stanford.
N. H., in 1924. When quite young he
went to sea, which he followed seven
years. In 1852 he came TO Willoughby,
and in 1861 married Janet Bruce of West
more. He lived in Westmore until his
death, Dec. ~, last. Hehad been a great
sufferer from a fever sore for many years,
which at last caused his heath. He was
an earnest Christian, a kind and affection
ate husband and father, a true friend and
neighbor. He leaves a wife and daugh-
ter to mourn his loss.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
sheffield
Geo. Sherburn is very sick with typhoid
pneumonia.
The ice teams are busy these days draw
ing ice from Bruce pond.
J. C. King is getting out lumber for
Harley E. Page to build a barn with.
About 20 persons from Sheffield and
Wheelock assembled at DIR. BOWS last
Tuesdsy evening to celebrate his marriage
anniversary. The DR.. was taken com
pletely by surprise, and had it been a
pleasant evening, would have had to have
resorted to neighboring houses to have
convened his guests. Presents TO tue
amount of about Sl4 were left. Rev.
Mr.. Atwood made the presentation adj
dress with much aptness and applause
from the people. The doctor frankly re-
sponded, after which a generous repast
was enjoyed by all.
WheeIocI.
Charles Garland has sold his place to
Rev. j.. c.. Nelson.
Mrs. Harry Squires from st. Johnsbury
was in town last week.
Quite a number from this place attend.
ed the surprise at DIR. Dow's, last Tues
day evening.
LISTS twice as long as cheap soap for
laundry use-Brussels.
SutUOn
Henry Mitchell and son have gone to
Chenille, CT, to visit friends.
Ladies' Aid will meet at A.. IL. Balls
next Wednesday.
Geo. Clark is getting better.-Aunt
Rhoda Eastman is in very poor health.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Drew celebrated
their thirtieth wedding anniversary last
Wednesday.
Rev. Mr.. Church OF Deertleld, N. H.,
comes here next week as pastor Of the
f. w. b. church.
w. r.. Eastman and family, Charles
Taft's family and Michael Bartlett, Mrs.
S. n. Whipple, Miss Hattie Whipple and
Miss Eta Whipple intend to 90 TO North
Carolina soon.
Thirteen young people from the Senior
class in Lyndon Institute came up here
Wednesday eve to the promenade and af-
terward went to the hotel for an oyster
supper.
Miss Cora Sherburne of Glover, closed
Z StNbnh = III Vi oAAbOA ~ III " AAARHAN
district Saturday. The district would
be glad TO hire her for another term, but
she goes soon to Johnson to attend the
Normal school.
Mrs. +. w. Brockway and Mrs. Geo.
Bean were called to Randolph recently
by the sickness and death of their moth
er, Mrs. Asenath (Smith) Woodbury..
She was about siXty-three years of age, "A
a former resident of this town and a con
sistent Christian woman.
ID. L. Ruggles has been quite sick from
an attack of pneumonia, but is better r.
Oscar Bundy is suffering from an abscess
near the spine. 1t has caused him much
trouble for several years and he intends
to go to some hospital for treatment as
soon as he is able.
There is some charity and goodness
scattered abroad among us if we are not
absolutely perfect in this locality. Last
summer Arthur Kincaid was i'll and could
not cut his hay. One fine day his neigh
bors met and cut his hay, while their
wives prepared a picnic dinner. One day
recently the neighbors turned out and
cot a years stock of wood for Nelson
| Dean. who has been badly affected by
sickness and by sickness in his family.
Now they are raising money for Mr..
Cloud who recently lost a horse. This Is |
practical religion.
The friends and n~eighbors Of Mr..
and Mrs. Lewis Holmes, under the aus
pices of the Ladies' Aid Society, met at
their residence, Jan. l, to celebrate their
golden wedding. Poems appropriate to
the occasion were read by NJ. A. Taft /
and Freeman Hyde. Valuable presents
were left and the occasion was one that
will always be pleasantly remembered by
all present. The following is from a
pleasant letter written by Rev. IL. w.
| Holmes, a son, who now resides I'm So.
Evanston, Ill: We send our greeting to
you for your semi-centennial anniversary.
Fifty years of welded life! Rightly call
ed the ''golden wedding" How many
experiences in fifty years How much Of
toll, of anxiety, of sorrow! But what
are the dark days beside the bright ones?
Though Jacob was an hundred and thirty
years old when he stood before Pharaoh,
he called the days Of the years OF his pill
grimage 'few and evil" He was think
ing of the days of Abraham and of Isaac,
and life TO him had been one long strug-
gle with toll and danger, sorrow and fear.
Yet as he looked back, the days seemed
few. Life is long only when looked at
from the beginning. Fifty years are In
deed a long time to walk together, and
yet no doubt, to you, they appear as but
a few days. You remember their begin
ming, and all the winding paths, the deep
valleys and the rugged sleeps, as well as
the broad intervale, the shady bowers and
the blossoms of peace and Joy. The years
you nave lived together have been re-
markable ones In the worlds history.
You have seen almost the entire mission
work of all the churches developed from
their infancy continents have been open
en- gold discovered in the land the tel
egraph and telephone, the Atlantic cable
and the Pacific railroad the electric light
and the electric railway; the sewing ma
chine and the reaper, the camera and the
typewriter, and nearly every labor saving
tool belong to these fifty years. The war
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