Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-16

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before Hazen Post on Memorial Day; the
exercises will be held in Lowell this year.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Sutton.
Misses May and Maud Colby, Mary Will
lard and Waldo Forbes are home on va
cation from Lyndon Institute.
Miss Sadie Blake gave very pleasant
evenings ent ertainment to a few invited
friends March 10th, it being her birthday
Silas Chickering, who came from Madi-
son, Wis, with the remains of Mrs. Ruth
Ruggles, will remain in town with his I'M
Gle, Riley Roundy, until after sugaring.
Mrs. Emma Atwood is quite sick with
pneumonia; Dolly Colby, Mrs. J. E. Will
lard and A. J.. Rennie are on the sick list.
Mrs. Chas. Bundy, sick with pneumonia,
is still in critical condition.
Hon. Bennett Blake of Nacogdoches, Tex
as, native of this town, died March I, in
his S7th year. He was born in this town
Nov. II, 1909. His father was Samuel
Blake, one of the first settlers, and for
many years one of the most prominent cit
liens of the town. Bennett was one of
his older children. He drifted away from
home while comparatively a young man
and brought up in Texas, soon after that
State was admitted to the Union. He was
a man of strong common sense, energetic,
honorable. His career in the then new
and pioneer region of Texas was marked
by Yankee success. He acquired a large
property, consisting of real estate, lands
and slaves. He was appointed to the office
of Probate Judge, which he held for many
years. At the time of the liberation of the
slaves and the depression occasioned by
the losses of the rebellion, he suffered fl
nancially together with other Southern
people, but was not crippled. He had a
family of several children, his sons being
men of ability and influence. Himself
and wife were on from their Southern
home some dozen years ago and spent the
summer here and in Massachusetts. Mrs.
Blake died soon after their return, the loss
of whom was a very severe blow to her
husband, from which he never recovered.
Mr.. Blake was one of a large number of
natives of this town who have made no
small mark in the world.
Danville.
Harvey Barber is clerking for G. S. Dole.
James Borland, Jr., is home from Hyde
Park.
The town expended about $1,000 for
school purposes last year.
Arthur Pierce has moved to the Sprague
farms. S. johnson has rented the Broad
view farm and taken pOssessiOn.-Wm
Jenkins has moved to ST. Johnsbury.
West Burke.
There is considerable sickness in the
village at the present time.
Frank Fogg, who was a clerk in Goes
store for two years, is visiting here.
Alice Varney has returned from her visit
to Lunenburgh, Mabel Parsons from Conn
In the ten months that Rev. G. H.
Wright has preached here, he has attend
ed thirteen weddings and fourteen flu
nerals.
Mrs. B. Marshall, who had very diff
cult surgical operation performed a few
weeks since, is not improving as fast as it
was hoped she would.
The men who have been at work in the
logging camps in Victory and CRANKY
through the winter, are returning home
and report very successful winter.
Mr.. and Mrs W. w. Hartwell from
Plymouth, n. H., were called here to at
tend the funeral of their brother-i law,
Wendell Silsby. Mrs. Hartwell will re-
main for few weeks.