Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-07-01

the graduating exercises of the con-
vent, ten young ladies taking diplo-
mas and gold medals on the occa sion.
Lyndon.
Rev. Mr.. Donaldson and wife from
Albany called on friends here recently.
They were formerly stationed here
and were welcome by all who saw
them
Miss Nellie Quimby, Also Miss Grace
Fisk, have returned to their homes
here for the summer.
Mrs. Howard of Worcester, Mass.
is stopping with her sister, Mrs.
Young, for few weeks.
Mrs. Ina Pope, who has been visit
ing in Orange, Mass, returned last
week; her sister and little child ac
compan1ed her and will spend the
summer here.
Lyndonville.
Mrs. Will Ford and son Howard,
have been visiting at her old home in
Barton.
tending the biennial session Of the
international Supreme Lodge of Good
Templars E. M. Campbell will also
attend, on his return from Lewiston,
Maine, where he goes to attend COM
mencement at Bates College, his son
Elwyn graduating.
DIR. @. w. Staples met with rather
a severe accident while returning
from the reservoir on his wheel. He
was riding at 1.5O gait and struck
one of the surveyors stakes sticking
up about three inches. The wheel
stopped to explore the landscape,
while the doctor went right along for
a few rods on the air. No great dam
age was done, however, to wheel or
man.
West Burke.
The selectmen are building bridge
near Silsby's single mill.
Gilbert Davis is home from New
Hampshire spending his vacation
Mrs. Frank Mitchell has been spend
ing a few days at her fathers, DR.. @.
B. Davis.
The ladies OF D. Rattery W. r. q.
will have their next quarterly socia-
BILE at their hall Saturday afternoon,
July 6. Supper will be served from
5 to $50 o'clock. All are cordially |
invited. na5
Sheffield.
School in Dist No. 3, taught by Miss
Hawley closed last Friday.
DR.. Jones has been confined to the |
house the past week dealing with the
grip
Charles Drake of Lebanon has been /
visiting his brothers in toWn.-Miss /. I
Green who has been stopping few
days in town returned to Greensboro
last Wednesday.-M E. Faror from
Canada is stopping few weeks with
her uncle, A. E. Benham.
Sutton.
o. E. Bundy is putting up a store
house at Sutton station.
Corydon Parker is putting up large
barn with basement story.
Alfred Burnham starts his carding
mill this week and will be glad to have
the wool brought in early.
At the last w. G. T. U. meeting the
following officers were re- elected:
Mrs. Geo. w. Colby, Pres. Mrs. H.
A. Blake, Sec; Miss Emma Pierce,
Treas.
Lewis Parker has arrived from Ne
braska, after an absence of twenty
two years. His son, Ulysses Parker,
from Harvard College, is also here.
Miss Chase, former teacher in the
Green Mountain Seminary, gave a
lecture at the church on equal Suf-
frage." Her talk was excellent and
worthy larger audience.
Some one from out of town, who
has been riding about the country
considerably of late, states that he has
not seen cleaner, prettier fields of
grass than in the section north of the
Corner.
Grasshoppers have almost entirely
destroyed the hay crop, the grass in
the pastures and some Of the grain
crops for Ira Jessamine. Other farms
have not been seriously
troubled.
Miss Emma Pierce, daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. J. E. Wentworth, died very
suddenly last Wednesday morning.
For number of years she has seem
ed to struggle with life and death, be-
ing of a consumptive nature and also
having serious heart trouble. She