Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-05-23

sons Sunday, May ID. he has gone to
EIlenburgh, n. Y, to have charge of
Free Baptist church at that place.
Joseph Whitcomb died at the home
of his sister, Mrs David Rollins, where
he had come to visit, Sunday, May 10.
His funeral was held at the M. E.
# church on the following Tuesday Rev.
Mr.. Lewis officiating. He was a sol
" der in the late war.
Arrangements for the observance
Il of Memorial Day here are as follows:
Memorial sermon by Rev. Harry
Selby, Sunday, May %, at 1:3O o'clock
p. M. at the NJ. E. church. Memorial
Day, Rev.. K. Fuller of Barton Land
III ing will deliver an address in the Bap-
HI fist church at 1 o'clock p. m. Decora-
M ton of the graves of our fallen COM
iii rades after the services at the church.
Dinner will be served for the Post and
Corps at the Post dining hall at 11:3O
s The West Derby band will furnish
music.
II North Troy.
Quincy DOuSO Has OA1O w AlOOh
farm, recently occupied by Bert Shell
den.
Arthur Sweet is driving the stage
between this place and Lowell, in
place of Charles Reach.
Samuel Elkins of Mansonville has
s. received from the Richford Lumber
Co. $500 for damages to his land ,caus-
ed by an immense number of strand
ed logs. Elkins claimed 1000.
NJ A special meeting of the village cor
NJ poration will be held at G. A. r. Hall,
Friday evening, May 20, to see if the
votes will authorize extension of wa
ter system, the erection of hose hous-
es, and the purchase of a stone crush
er.
WestfieId.
John Watkins has engaged to work
for G. P. Stevens & Co.
The Epworth League gave butter
nut crack in the town hall on Wednes-
day evening of last week and invited
y the Y. P. S. G. E. to attend.
Repairs have been commenced on
the village school building. The par
titions will be moved, making the
rooms nearer of size; the entrance
will be on the side next to the Cong'l
church.
o. P. Wright is sick, threatened
with rheumatic fever. Albert Farman
L II, OF ~
Mrs Maria Miller is quite unwell.-
Last Thursday Dr. Gould was called to
counsel in the case of E. II. Miller
Our venerable townsman, Jacob Steb-
bins, is in quite poor health.-Mrs. J.
Bailey is in a low condition and her
daughter, Mrs. Chas. Clark Of Brown
ington, is here caring for her.
WeStmOre.
Fred Orne has been laid up with an
axe cut in his instep.
The stock at Barron's mill is all cut,
the mill has been run night and day.
Jason billiard has moved to the
tenement at the Orne mill and works
for Cheney.
John Bullock met with an accident
at Barron's mill last week, losing the
thumb and all the fingers on his right
hand by running it on to the edging
saw.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
John S.Tilden of Danville is recent
pensioner at the rate of So a month.
Deacon Nathan Batchelder, prom
inent and aged citizen of Barnet, died
recently.
Mr. Kicker, produce dealer, shipped
2,7OO pounds of sugar from Barnet one
day recently.
Alex Livingstone of Peacham was
badly hurt recently while driving into
the barn with load of hay.
The drive of logs on the Connecticut
river is unusually small this year, and
mostly stops at the McIndoes mills.
St.JOhnsbury.
New Daily Republican Thursday.
County court begins Tuesday, June
Z, Judge Thompson presiding. The
grand Jury will be in session.
ST. Johnsbury is experiencing qui-
ct but steady boom with good pros
poets for the future.
The price for which the st. Johns
bury house was sold is $4,000, condi-
toned that the purchaser should with
in three years, move the house back
and put up brick front house, to cost
not less than $4,000. Extensive re-
pairs are already being made.
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