Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-10-11

ZION 10 De Helu mere TUESDAY ana WedneS-
day.
Rev. Geo. I'll. Bolster of WalpoIe, N. H.,
will supply the Methodist church for a
time.
Rev. Mr.. Marvin of Charleston will
preach at the Cong. church next Sunday
morning.
Q. d. Owen of Barton was in town last
week, helping invoice the goods in the
Tower store.
Lila Cleveland was quite sick last week.
Mary Brooks is some better.-Mrs. VIM.
Stevens is quite sick.
Our base ball boys defeated team from
Eden on the Albany grounds last Satur-
day, by score of 22-16.
Asa B. Hancock has received word that
his wife is very sick in Lorne, P. O., where
she went on visit.
Mary Wheelock is home from st. Adams
where she has been to help care for her
sister, who has been sick with bronchial
pneumonia.
| The remains OF Alfred Cheval arrived
here last Friday and the funeral was held
at the residence of Mrs. Esther Living
| stone, Rev. j. G. Langford officiating. 1t
! will be remembered that Mr.. Cheval was
| taken to the insane asylum at Waterbury,
a little over year ago. He leaves a wife
and one son.
Craftsburv.
A. Lara bee has returned from Glover.
G. Fl. Anderson is visiting friends in the
west part of the state.
L. F. Smiths dry house caught fire last
week but was discovered in time to pre-
vent much damage.
P. M. Hunt is preparing to move on to
the Wilcox farm in Albany.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Stratton are enter
tanning friends from Nashua, N. H.
The Earnest Workers will give an oyster
supper at the Academy hall Wednesday
evening, Oct. 10. There will be a very nice
program which it will pay to come and
hear. Exercises will begin at O'Clock.
Proceeds will be for carpet for the hurch.
Quite large party composed of the gem
tlemen from this village, called on Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Knights one evening last
week. The party had apparently been ex-
pected for most royal treat had been
prepared for them. A very pleasant eve
ming was passed.
North CraftSbury.
Mrs. A. r. Pike from Irasburgh is visit
ing her son, A. B. Pike.
Quite number from this place went on
the excursion to the White Mountains.
The Earnest Workers will give an enter
tainment and oyster supper at the Acade-
my hall next Wednesday evening.
West Derby.
Parker Kilburn is here visiting mis-
brother Willie.
Ben Kingsley, former student here, was
in town last Friday.
Mrs. Julia Burton is in Barton Landing
caring for her sister who is i'll.
Our deer hunters have returned from
their trip to Hollond and Norton but are
rather short of game.
DR.. Lothrop, our new physician from
Brockton, Mass, occupies one of Fred
Hamblet's tenements.
The ladies of the Cong. society held
their annual chicken pie supper at their
parsonage, last Friday evening. ~
A band is being formed by the young
men of the village, fifteen having already
joined. They should receive the hearty
support of the village people.
The students will hold their customary
midi term social next Friday evening in
the Academy hall. A short literary pro
gram will be presented followed by
promenade.
E. w, Sprague, whose death was men
toned last week, was born in Barnston, p.
O., and was eighty years old last July. AT
the time of the Canadian rebellion in 1887,
he, with number of others, came into the
United States. He resided in several diff
ferent places but since 1872 Derby has been
his home. He worked at harness making
most of the time, changing from that for a
time to drive the Express from Newport
to Derby Line and afterwards the stage
from Newport to Charleston. In 1910 he
married Lucy Fairchild, who survives
him.-Of their six children only one, Mrs
Roundy, who died here few years ago,
lived TO be over twenty one years old.
Mr.. Sprague will long be remembered here
by both old and young as kind neighbor
and a most genial gentleman. The kind
ness of those who helped by word or deed
during his sickness and death is remem-
bered and greatly appreciated by Mrs.
sSprague.
Glover
A little baby girl at Henry Valleys.
Mrs. o. v.PercivaIsis Visiting at West
Glover. 49,
John Scott has moved into E. A. Nor
toms house
Fred Cheney and wife have been visit
iy1cr horo