Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-12-20

Speaking of horse shoeing, Ed Goodwin
and two of his workmen in nine hours
shod AZ horses, fitting new shoes to one
third of them.
Rev. Holman is suffering severely from
| another attack of Observation-Disclosures
Nye is home from Derby academy sick
| Harry Clark is sick with pneumonia in the
woods where he went to cut pulp wood and
his mother is caring for him.
Isaac Blake Post held it's annual meeting
Tuesday. Officers elected were: Com
mander, w. I'll. Calkins; sen. vice, A. w.
Lyon; jun. vice, L. r. Foster; @. NJ, e. G.
Borroughs; surgeon, G. F. Worthen; chap
lain, III. Campbell; officer of the day.
| Charles P. Church; officer of the guard, c.
B. Hildreth; adj't, o. M Bailey. At the
close of the meeting a fine dinner was
served in che hall by the ladies of the G.
A. r.
Coventry.
| Christmas evening.
| Mrs. Mary Wright and Caroline Kendall
were quite sick last week.
Goods are being sold at the store of the
late B. F. Tower regardless of cost.
Mr.. Anderson of franklin has been Wis
iting his daughter, Mrs. J. c. Langford.
Some of our people went to Stanstead
last week to testify on the Charles McKin-
| non case.
A. M. Tower is here and with the help
OF Salmon Nye, our efficient postmaster,
is closing out the b. T. Tower stock of
goods, look out for his ad. next week.
Grace Williams, Grace Bean and Emma
Pearsons are home from st. Johnsbury
Academy to spend the holidays.-Miss
Florence Williams has returned from Am
herst.
A change has been made during the past
week IN the audience room of the Cong'I
church. The singers seats will be at the
right of the pulpit instead of in the gallery
as before. Rev. Langford's sermon yester-
day was unusually good.
About sixty of the old friends and neigh
bors of Mr.. and Mrs. Hamilton Collins met
at their home Monday evening, Dec 10, to
remind them of their 5Oth wedding ami
versary. Oysters were served and a pleas
ant time was enjoyed by all.
The family of Chas. Humphrey, who
have lately moved on to the Armstrong
farm, were most agreeably surprised by
about forty of their neighbors on West
Hill, on a recent evening; refreshments
were served and pleasant social visit was
enjoyed by all.
The remains of Wallace G. Allen were
brought here by his brother George from
Nashua, N. H., on Wednesday last for
burial. He died of a shock or cerebral
hemorrhage, after an illness of few hours.
His funeral was held at the NJ e. church
on Thursday, Revs. Bolster and Aiken Of
floating. The esteem in which he was
held was shown by large floral offerings,
one of which was a pillow on which his !
name appeared, forwarded by his Nashua |
friends. His mother died just four years
ago from shock. The following from a
Nashua paper will be of interest: ''It is
with sincere regret that we announce the |
death of Wallace G. Allen, perhaps the |
best known and best liked man in the en- |
pIoy of the Nashua Street Railway Co. He |
died from shock in the evening, having |
been attacked at noon. He was "a years of |
age and native of Coventry, VT. He had |
been here about four years making his |
home with his sister, Mrs. Frank Stearns. |
He has been in the employ of the Car Go
on trains or on the repair-car. He was a \
hard worker, an enthusiastic ball player
and young man liked by all. He leaves
three sisters and two brothers. About |
forty of the train hands followed his re-
mains to the depot" lv
CraftsDurV.
Lola Lyon is sick with fever.
j. c. Allen spent last week in Boston,.
Gaines Ainsworth has gone to Massachu-
sets. :Er 50 tr
c. A. Bridges is laid up with a cash in
his foot.
Lewis Mason cut his foot in the woods
last week.
Fred Ashburn is learning the black
smiths trade of Henry King
Mrs. Josie Anderson spent last week in
Barton caring for her son George.
A. c. Lunt has moved on to the farm he
lately purchased of Fred Leavitt.
The proceeds from the closing exercises
and supper at the Academy last Friday
evening amounted to $50.
r. A. Patterson has his last years stock
of lumber dressed and will try to put in a
stock of 10000 feet of saw lumber for this
year.
Mrs. I'll. III. Hamilton of Hartford, Conn.,
is boarding at Eagle Hotel. Mr.. Libby,
landlord, is keeping good house and has
a liberal patronage.
1t is reported that III. F. Graham has
his interest in the Kinney,
Stevens & Graham steam mill, Messrs
Kinney and Stevens being the sole owners