Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-04-19

/ The students are to have field day next
Friday afternoon. Several are preparing
for the day.
| Herbert Rogers has sold his interest in
the Hotel Richard and is going back to
Canada to reside.
| Bessie Taylor, who has been working in
NJ H., is in town visiting her mother,
Mrs. I. c. Taylor.
I. K. Milne, manager of Mutual Reserve
Fund Life ms. Co., of Burlington was in
town one day last week.
Chas. TwombIy, proprietor of the Derby
House, has purchased a pair of excellent
draft-horses. They are well matched and
look well.
Messrs. Fred and Bernard Blake from
Lonsdale, P. O., who have been stopping
with Harry Richard for the past week,
have returned to their home.
The commencement exercises are to be
held at the Academy hall Friday, April
Both. There will be seven to graduate this
year. Rev. A. L. Wordsworth of Newport
will preach the baccaIaureate sermon at
the Cong. church next Sunday at 2:30 p.
m.
The last literary meeting was held at
Academy hall. The exercises were very
good. The school paper, "the Comet"
was very we'll prepared and delivered by F.
J. Barnard and Benton Kinsley. The
meetings are a fine thing for the students
and they all appreciate them.
West Derby.
The Caswell house has been fixed up and
put in good condition.
Clayton Gould and George Clark have
gone on to the B. & M. r. r. as firemen.
Mr.. and MIS-. Hiram Leavitt buried a
son, about ten years old last Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ell. L. Daley welcomed
another son to their home last Monday.
Mrs. Ira Adams is more comfortable
Mrs, T. L. Peavey.is some better.-George
Adams is ill with spinal trouble.
Mrs. Aleck Young, an aged and very
feeble woman, fell last Saturday and broke
a limb, She is now in a serious condition.
H. E. Bedeu is fitting up the west end
of Magoon's block for his commission
store, which has been for some time in
Cults block.
with the same teachers as last term, viz:
Prof. Ryder, Misses Flanders, Robinson,
Wilma and Emma Green.
Mrs. Currier who lived on Lane ST.,
died last Monday. She leaves a husband
and large family of children who have
the symprthy of the community.
Lester CIeveland's wife and daughter
have returned from Boston, where they
have been for some Notwithstanding
Twombly is with her aunt, Mrs. Peavey.
Myrtle Hitchcock went last week to
Bedford, p. @.
George Blake, an old resident of this
town who died at the home of his sister,
Mrs Samuel Gardner, in Holland, was
buried here last Monday. Funeral SER
vices were held in the Advent church, Ell
der Manley Fuller officiating.
Mrs. Bowman has rented rooms of HI.
Cousins.-John Bailey has moved from the
Daley tenement into John Mcclure tene-
ment, which is just finished.-Nat. Hart
and wife have gone to house keeping in
the Hutchins house.-Mr. Richardson
from Derby Centre has moved to a tene-
ment in the Blake block Mrs. Amanda
Percival has let her place to Mrs. Wood
row of Newport and has moved to A. p.
Vances.
Salem-Derby.
Ed. Dwyer has moved into Israel Blanch-
ards house.
Rufus Blake has gone on to the road
again canvassing.
Dana Moody is very low and is not ex-
pected to recover.-John Carney is very
sick.
A large amount of sugar has been made
and there is snow enough to make much
more.
Arthur Sawyer James Cashmere, c. Du-
pont and Homer Crandall started for New
York last week to work in the ice bust
ness.
Glover
Roy Davis has returned to Wakefield.
Little Forrest Drew is sick with the
measles.
VIM. Merriam is much better, Mrs. Mer-
RAM is also thought to be gaining.
Geo. Wolcott has exchanged farms with
his son Frank, and the families have NOV
ed
1t looks as if sugaring was nearly done.
Our sugar makers have made about two
pounds to the tree. Some have their last
years sugar on hand.
CD. Bickford lost his pocket book con-
tanning $31 last Thursday evening, luckily
it was picked up by A. E. Anderson and
returned to Mr.. Bickford.
Truman Cook had a narrow escape from
losing his buildings by fire recently. The
chimney burned out and the box around
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