Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-07-09

and has returned home. He is to en-.
ter the law office of Bates & May O.
st. Johnsbury.
Last Wednesday, Marcellus Colby
was drawing stone and in some way
the wheel of the loaded wagon passed
over his right leg, crushing it fear
fully. Drs. Sleeper and Bolton were
called in and at the present writing
he is doing well.
SEheelOck.
Alfred Drown, wife and daughter,
Oscar Gray of Nashua, N. H., Mrs.
olivia Wright of Mass, Herman
Wright of Boston, Frank Taylor and
wife of Hardwick, Mrs. Noah Drown
pf Berlin and Mr.. Worthen and wife
Pf Boston are among recent visitors
N town, and still there is room.
Paul Rivers of st. Johnsbury was
charged with burning a grist mill at
SVheelock last December, to get the
Insurance. The mill was one which
Rivers had bought of M. III. Burbank,
nd payment therefor had been COM
Pleted with the exception of some
300; the insurance was $1,000. The
Prosecution claimed that on the Sat-
rday evening on which the mill was
urned, Rivers, took care to remove
ne large belt and most of the more
aluable milling tools; that when the
re was discovered by the people of
Fheelock, the windows and doors
ere found to be fastened and kero-
Pne oil was found to have been scat
red on shavings at the spot where
be flames broke out. A large num-
pr of witnesses were examined. The
ny brought in a verdict of guilty.
btes and Dunnett for the state, Stat
I'd and Blodgett for the respondent.
IttOn.
Mrs. F. Switser has gone to Old Or
ard.
Mrs. May Wright from Newport is
bpping at G. M. Campbell's.
Henry Ball and wife came up from
banon to attend the 4th of July eel
ration.
Hiss Nellie Tillotson of Topsham,
rmont, and Miss Grace Berry
ST. Johnsbury have been visiting
ends here.
he A. @. F.s will give an entertain
mt at the church Friday eve. Speak
from Lyndon Institute are expect
to be present.
Irs. S. N. Whipple and Misses Hat
and Eta WhippIe have arrived
% North Carolina. : g. ]. Break
bd and wife visited at J. Fl. Ain
s.-Mrs Fida (Smith) May is ex-
ted in town soon.-Arthur Doud
ONE from Michigan, where he has
n attending a medical college,.
HE FOURTH. - Independence Day
observed here in manner and
spirit which was worthy the
1t had been thirty five years or
since there had been a celebra
hich the whole town had partici-
q, and this event was made one Of
b interest. The matter was sug
ed and pushed forward by John
with of ST. Louis, Mo-, a ma
of Sutton, and one who has al
taken great interest in the af
of the town. Mr.. Beckwith is
Pf John Beckwith, long a promi-
citizen and lawyer of the town
bounty. Mr.. Beckwith went away
the town nearly forty years ago,
cipated in the affairs of the war
r Gen. Amos Beckwith, then, we
We, Commissary General in one
p Western Departments, but now
Louis, where himself and Mr..
Beckwith are owners of consid
E real estate. Speaking of the
withs, we are reminded that
6 the many who were raised in
d town no one ever reached so
distinction as a lawyer as Cory
eckwith, who began his career
practiced for a time in ST. AL
and drifted to Chicago, where he
the first rank in his profession, I
since the war.
Beckwith, assisted by some Of I
lage people, had. put grove in
condition for the day by clear
bt the brush and debris and had q
stands, seats, and tables sufi-
to accommodate five hundred S
To provide something of the 7
Bhioned sort, Mr.. Beckwith had
preparations to supply the
whatever it might be, with :
talled an Independence stew" :
oys entered heartily into the !,
and began their part of the {;
nance the night before and the
ors got very little Sleep. The I