Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-04-04

Manchester, N. H.-Miss Harriet Flanders
of Barton spent Sunday with Mrs. M. s.
Edwards.
Miss Badger of Barton Landing, recent.
ly had successful surgical operation per-
formed by DIR. c. A. Lothrop. Great credit
is due the doctor, as the case was very
complicated. He has proven himself first
class physician and surgeon. DR.. Lothrop
studied medicine two years in the Boston
University, he then entered the Halme-
mann college and hospital of Chicago,
where he graduated. He then spent two
years in the practice of medicine with DIR.
]. G. Swan of Brockton, Mass, a brother-in
law, of Senator Morrill, of this State. He
came to Derby last October and has al
ready a large practice.
West Derby.
| Mr.. A. Upstone has had telephone put
! into his store.
| HI. l.. Hastings new home on Pleasant
Ave-, is nearly completed.
| P. Huntoon has moved from the Morey
house into G. N. Brady's tenement.-L. l..
| Lyman oc cupies the Glines house on the
| lake road.
| Mrs. j. E. Richardson is critically i'll
with nervous prostration and heart trouble
Mrs. I'll. Gotta is improving.-James Berry
remains very low.
Mrs. Edith FairchiId of Manchester,
n. HI. is in town visiting her numerous
friends.-Mrs. Geo. Spencer visited her
daughter at Island Pond last week.
Glover
| Lawyer Cook was in town last week.
HI. M. Salmon is repairing his saw-mill;
putting in penstock, &c.
Mrs. Viola Norton has been to Fletcher,
VT, to visit her father who is Ill.
Mrs. Irene Nye from Coventry spent last
week at her fathers, Joseph Dwinell.
Carl Wolcott is at home.-Ned r. Young
and wife are home from Charleston, Mass,
for time.
Forrest Osgood went to Auburn, Me-,
last week, to see about selling some real
estate there.
Owen Robinson has finished work for
Charles Mcclellan. Mr.. Mcclellan is i'm
| proving; Mrs. Mcclellan is still quite
poorly.
The Earnest Workers will hold their
next social with Mr.. and Mrs j. H. Hoyt,
Wednesday afternoon and evening, Apr. 6.
A cordial invitation is extended to all.
Mrs. Augusta Walker is still in very poor
health.-Mrs. Dora Abbott is suffering
from serious lung trouble.-Geo. Ander-
son has been quite sick at Mrs. David Pat
terson's, but is better.
Matte and Matte Kirby gave a sugar
party last Wednesday afternoon. After
helping themselves to the sugar, the young
people assembled on the lawn and had a
fine game of croquet. How's that for
March?
Mrs. Maria ID. Percivsl, in attempting to
rise from her bed in the early morning
when only partially awake, fell to the floor,
spraining her back so badly that she was
confined to her bed for a week or more.
She is now able to walk from one room to
another with little assistance and is much
better.
The schools in town are under charge of
the following teachers: Mrs. James Came
ron in Dist. No. 2, Walter Anderson and
Mrs. Norton in No. g. Flossie Drew in No.
A, Rose Sherburne in No. 5, Willie Holmes
in No. 6, Gertrude Leonard in No. z, Annie
Anderson in No. 8, Miss Aldrich No. II,
Cora Marsh in No. 10.
From flock of seventy hens, fifty of
which were brown leghorns, the rest mon
grels, F. HI. Percival has kept the follow
ing account: ten of these hens Matched
chickens, five of them running with chick
ems several weeks. Number of eggs laid |
in one year, Z, 800 or 61O dozen. Amount re-
ceived for eggs sold, $50; amount received |
for chickens sold, S.; eggs and poultry !
used at home, $11; 80 pullets added to
flock $3.50; fifteen barrels of manure equal |
to one half ton high grade fertilizer, $3.50. /
Total income from hens, $119.50; average |
per hen $1.71; average per hen in cash,
$1.22. Feed purchased per north 50, total |
$36; feed furnished from farm $3.50. |
Cash net $40 or 81 per hen. Probably many |
have done better. Let's hear from them.
West Glover.
Ella Farnham goes to her home in Cana
da for few weeks.
Mrs. Jeanette Lewis will work for Err
nest Baker this season.
Rollo Vincent, who has just had the |
pneumonia, is in critical condition.
Mrs. Beach is still at Barton with her |
mother, Mrs. Jenness, who remains very
low.
Greensboro.
Chas. Livermore is in town again for the
summer. He is stopping at w. A. jack
sons.
Geo. Richardson, who went to Washing
ton last October, is expected home the first
of May.
The sugar makers are unusually busy
this spring. Some have clready made two
mounds To free ConnIainf iS haipu