Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-07-26

Mr.. Charles Ross and Miss Mabel Ross
spent the Sabbath with his daughter, Mrs.
Chas. Wright.
Mrs. Ernest Baker, Mrs. Marnock and
Mrs. Uric are quite sick. The other sick
ones are improving.
Rev. Rcuben Wright and family of Boise
City, Idaho, are visiting at c. c. Kings.
Mr.. Wright will supply for Mr.. Fuller for
few Sabbaths at Barton Landing.
Mrs. Jenness is spending a few weeks
with her daughter, Mrs. e. P. Beach.-Mr.
and Mrs. G. S. Whitney of Concord juno
tion, Mass, are visiting friends in town.
The heavy showers have done a great
deal of damage. A gang of help have
worked a week on the washout in the
Beach district, while other roads are i'm
passable till they can be repaired.
The electricity last Wednesday played
poles, entering the E. o. Randall store in
jured the telephone and slightly damaged
the building. James Dow had cow killed
in the same shower.
Greensboro
Mrs. Frank Chase is suffering from a
lung trouble.
The hay crop is coming in heavy and
many farmers are short of storage room.
Rev. Reuben Wright and family of Boise
City, Idaho are visiting at j. A. Cranes.
The tuberculosis scare has reached us
and several farmers have had their herds
III
Mrs. Jordan had COWS slaughtered that
proved diseased.
Irasburgh.
Miss Myra Taplin returned home from
Boston last weeh.-James Harlow has re-
turned home from Hanover, n. H.
Mrs. Henry Macy, who has been i'll
long time, died last Friday night. The
funeral was held yesterday, Rev. p. n.
Granger officiating.
A temperance meeting under the au-
spices of the w. c. T. T., was held in the
M. E. church last evening, and a lecture
was given by Rev. L. Dodd.
Mrs. W. l.. Locke is spending few
weeks with her son Charles in st. Johns
burr and her daughter Mrs. Schofield in
Lyndonville. Mary Corley has gone to n.
H., to care for her sister, Mrs. Grout Skin
ner, who is very iI.-Charles Curtis has
gone to Laconia, n. H.-Mr. Stanford has
returned home from Conn.
Mrs. Taylor from Chicago, a former
resident here, has been visiting friends in
this town and Albany.-Dr. and Mrs.
Reynolds from Dorchester, Mass, are Wis
-; ID II ID
F. H. Holdridge and family are enter
tanning friends from New Haven, Conn
Miss Woodwork from Westfield has been
spending few days with Rev. and NJ RS
Granger.
Morgan.
CT. Moore and wife have been visiting
at Westmore.
Alvin Bartlett and wife of Island Pond
have been visiting in town.-Mr. and Mrs.
Tibbitts of St. Johnsbury are at o. l..
Farr's.-A party of young ladies from Bar
ton are stopping in L. ID. Farr's new cot
tage.
Newport.
Harry Randall OF Topsham is at work
for F. A. Brown. =-EA e. A-" ie.'-' Il
not expected that she will recover.
G. l.. and ]. c. Macdiarmid and a party
of five others have gone to Quebec.
Mrs. Clara Hobson and daughter Belle
spent part of last week in Island Pond.
T. G. Goldo of West Charleston has
moved into the tenement vacated by Mrs.
j. Drew.
j. T. Shepley is home from Sheldon
Springs where he has been building pulp
mill The dam, costing about $4,000, was
partly washed away in the freshet July Il.
The damage will be about $1,000.
Sunday, July is, while H. S. Greene and
family were driving one of the horses
stepped into a hole breaking its leg so that
it had to be killed. 1t was valuable horse
being one of nice matched pair.
Some one helped themselves to $40 out of
j. E. Lambert's safe last Thursday even
ing. Mr.. Lambert says he can give the
names of the parties, which he will do il
they do not return the money at once.
A heavy thunder shower visited this
place last Tuesday afternoon; lightning
struck the steeple of the Baptist church
and stripped the boarding nearly off. IL
also struck tree in the door yard at the
Marshfield farm on the lake shore.
Miss Mary Longhead of Montreal is Wis
iting Miss Minnie III. Rhody at the Mem
phremagog house.-Dr. II. c. Tinkham
drove here from Burlington last week,
making his brother, f. S. Tinkham,
short visit.-Mrs. Eva Richmond of Bur-
lington is here for a visit.-Geo. Root of
Boston is visiting here.-Mrs. James Gray
and children of Worcester, Mass, are Wis
iting Homer Thrasher.-Mrs. VIM. Roberts
of Manchester N II is here ON q visit to