Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-01-17

SpSclal meetings.
Quite number from here attended the
lecture by Conwell at Newport last Tues
day and report that it was fine.
| Nearly, if not all the teachers in town
were present at the lectures by Mr.. Stone
Friday afternoon and evening. His re-
marks were very interesting and instruc
/ tive, both to teachers and citizens. Prof
| Andrews allowed the students TO prone
made short time after the evening session.
The event of the season was the opening
of the Derby House, Wednesday evening.
About $50 people participated in the boun-
tiful repast which was served. All report
a very pleasant time. Next Tuesday the
House will again open its doors to the stu
dents, young people, married and single, of
the village and surrounding towns.
! West Derby.
James Bedell is on the road with his ia
ther, I'll. e. Bedell auctioneering.
H. L. Hastings is moving the Harmon
! buildings preparatory to building.
John Shannon is at home from Manches-
ter, N. H., after an absence of two years.
Miss M. White entertained eighteen of
her little friends the evening of Jan. 18th,
it being her eighth birthday.
Mrs. G. L. White visited a daughter in
Stanstead last week.-Mr and Mrs. L. r.
Stevens returned to Quebec Monday.
q. G. Blake is suffering severely from in
fammatory rheumatism.-Ida Clark re-
mains a great sufferer.-Wm Cripple is
quite ill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Leary buried their
Oldest daughter, Myrtle s., Wednesday,
Jan. 18th. The second daughter is dan
gerously ill.
The Advent Conference was well attend
ed and the meetings helpful. Special serv-
ices were held on Thursday in memory OF
Elder McKinstry.
Rev. NJ. Thurston of Newport Center
preached two very excellent sermons in
the F. B. church last Sabbath in exchange
with Rev. j. III. Wilkins. ... ~ ~. IA
Mrs. Elinor Nelson has returned from
| her visit in Massachusetts, and Maine. She
reports Rev. j. l.. Smith and family well
and busy in their new field of work.
Glover
w. F. Leonard and family return to their
home this week.
William Martin is hard sick with lung
and heart trouble.
| George Brewster and wife visited at
Chaplin Leonard's and Sumner BIodgett's
! last week.
Thomas Fayer has sold the timber on
! his Black Hill lot and the same is to be de-
livered at the mill.
Charles Derusha of Sheffield has taken
the Joseph Owen farm in the north part of
the town for one year.
! Harry Phillips is teaching sing .ng at the
I village. The little folks seem much inter-
ested in learning to sing.
The Earnest Workers will hold hulled
corn social at the M. e. vestry next We'd
nesday afternoon and evening.
The ladies of the w. c. T. u. will hold a
chicken pie dinner at the home of Mrs A.
A. Williams on Tuesday, Jan. %. Every
body invited.
Laura Mathie has gone with her two
children to Lebanon, N. H., to keep house
for the family of her sister, Mrs. Lila Hall,
recently deceased.
Dan Gray took big load of people to
| the Conwell lecture at Barton. If there
are, as some think, persons possessed with
desire to plumber our village that was
! their opportunity as everyone was away.
| The young people are enjoying numerous
parties. About thirty met at John Hoyt's
on Wednesday evening. John thought he
would need the aid of carpenter next day
but he found no damage done after all.
About twenty of our people called at, C.
p. Owens last sThursday evening quite
unexpectedly. Although they found the
Judge with his farmers suit on he was
apparently glad to see them and pleasant
evening was enjoyed.
The Strong house, occupied by William
/ Merriam, is closed and tena .tless for the
first time since it was built by Ira Strong
more than fifty years ago. 1t has always
been occupied by the Strong family until
the death of Mrs. Annie (Strong) Meraiam
last July. She was the last in direct de-
cent of the Strong family.
The dwelling house of Arthur Salmon
was destroyed by fire last Sunday morning
about three o'clock. The fire is supposed
to have caught about the chimney. Mr..
Salmon was awakened by the falling of the
chimney and as there were no neighbors
near he was not able to save many of
the goods in the house. If the fire had oc-
CURED early in the evening the barns must
have burned as the wind was in the right
direction to carry the fire to them. There
was small insurance on the buildings.
West Glover.
T.. N. Hastings is sick with pneumonia
Mathew Nesbitt is here making his an
nual visit at John Borland's.
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