Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-07-29

California. His home is Los Angeles,
which city has recovered from the
depression of the past few years and
is having large and healthful growth.
The city is the metropolis of that
whole region of the great State, and it
is destined to be one of the great CEN
tiers of business in the Pacific regions.
H. I'll. Dutton and family of Ports
mouth, n. H., are here visiting.-T.
A. Wright of N. Y, has returned to
his home, Mrs. Wright and daughter
remaining.-Mr. Graham of New York
is in town.-Mabel Pike from Iras-
burgh is in town visiting her cousin,
Abbie.-Ella Leavitt is home from
Whitman, Mass.-Mrs. Leland Whit
ney of Boston is here on a visit.-Mrs
Charlotte Smiths sister from Bos
ton is here visiting her.
Derby.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mahoney spent few
days with her father, Frank Green
wood.
The hay crop turned out to be very
good here. 1t is nearly all in the
barns of the farmers.
Mr. Bracket from Rochester, NY,
is visiting his granddaughter, Edith
and Florence Bates.
Mr.. Wilder has returned from his
visiting trip, his leave being cut
short by the death of his clerk.
Ed. Lother and Geo. Human were
arrested last week for getting drunk
and disturbing the peace. Both paid
their fines.
The work on the M. E. church will
be completed this week. Rev. f. T..
Clark will preach in his own pulpit
next Sabbath, at 1O:45 a. m.
Mrs. w. S. Robbins spent last week
with her daughter, Mrs. Marvin, at
Swanton.-Miss Carrie Black spent a
few days with Grace Robbins.
Quite number from this place at
tended the funeral of Henry Farr at
Morgan. They carried as token of
esteem, some very fine pieces of
floral work from Farrant's.
1t is reported that Capt. Charles
Childs has sued the Newport village
people, claiming $1,000 damage for
the erection of reservoir on his land.
The Italians in the Newport water
gang struck on Thursday, on account
of supposed danger in digging a deep
ditch. Means will be taken to make
the ditch secure from caving in.
Glover.
Monthly social of the Mite society
Friday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. @. S. Parker are in
camp at Stone Pond.
Jesse Christie was kicked badly by
one of his horses last Saturday.
Hazel Cook, daughter of Henry
Cook, is i'll with canlxer- rash.
The w. O. t. U. meets with Mrs.
Serepta Vance, Tuesday, Aug. 3, at
O'Clock p. m. r-t.r.4..u
Aaron Sargent is taking care of
John Sherburue, who remains in a
critical condition.
DIN Gray passed away after brief
illness, and his funeral was at his
late residence, conducted by Rev.
E. w. Pierce of Concord.
The much needed rain came Satur
day night. About one inch of rain
fell, but the rain July Goth, according
to the custom of 40 years, was quite
failure.
The Ladies' Aid meets Thursday
afternoon. 1t is expected that Prof.
Gates of Grinnell, Iowa, will give a
lecture in the evening; cake and ice
cream will be served.
Olin Leonard Gray, who died of par
alysis on Monday morning of last
week, aged 80 years, months, was
the son of one of the early Glover
settlers, his father, Joseph Gray, COM
ing to Glover from Keene, N. H., in
1899, with his pack on his back to
make pitch in the wilderness for his
future home. In 1912 he bought the
river farm where he afterward lived
and where his family was raised. On
this farm the son, DIN Leonard, was
born, spent his life, and died. In his
early manhood, and until the railroads
supplanted other means of land trans
portation, he drove freight team to
Boston and Portland, the length of his
trips gradually shortening as the steam
roads worked northward, until st.
Johnsbury was finally the southern
limit. His stories of those days, with
their long hours and hard work, min
gled sometimes with danger and rough