Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-06-13

NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
SUNDAY. JUNE 5.


eycle club OF Hampden park will entail
\ loss of $1,000 to the club. The meet is
The first in years in which profit has not
been realized.
State Treasurer Carriers annual report
,f New Hampshire's financial condition
fhows net debt Of slightly above ST.
100000 During the year the indebted
,ess has been decreased by more than
100000. which is the largest decrease
Iince 1874.
MONDAY. JUNE 6.
Rev. John O'Brien of East Cambridge,
Mass. presented with a check for $4,000
by his Pensioners.
Carrie NJ. Underwood of Lowell, aged
q, died as the result of a dose of poison.
Dependency caused the deed.
John Ford, a middle aged man of
Jamaica Plains, Mass, was found dead
in his bed a Seattle hotel Tt thought
that he committed suicide
There were 1900 new commandments
added yesterday to the already large
membership of the First church of Christ
Scientist Boston. This brings the total
membership of this church up to 1880
persons-pro5ably the largest member
shin of any single church in the country.
TUESDAY, JUNE Z.
A more hopeful tone prevails in the
manufacturers have been able to con-
tract for several weeks ahead.
Whittall's carpet mill at South Worces-
fer, which has been running about 80
hours per week of late, went on to full
time Monday morning. About 500 hands
are at work
A party of II men known as the Con-
cord Alaska associates has left Con-
cord n. H, for Seattle and the Klondike.
The party intends to remain in Alaska
about two years.
Edward c. Thayer has presented
residence in Keene, n. H., for public
library. The donor will alter the build
ing to suit the requirements of library
and it will also contain reading room arr
an art gallery. Mr.. Thayer presented
a public library to his native town of
Uxbridge, and a memorial home for
nurses in Worcester.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8.
Mayor Quincy of Boston abandons the
Frog pond bathing pool idea, and it is in
definitely postponed.
Lucius Whiting Bancroft, D. D., a.
prominent clergyman of the Episcopal
church, died at Worcester after long
Illness. He was from 1859 to 1890 rector
Of Christ church, Brooklyn.
Sullivan Forehand, aged IS, president
Of the FOrehand Arms company of Wor-
cester, and a member of the Massachu-
sets club and the Home Market club of
Boston died suddenly of heart disease
He was taken i'll while fishing in Paxton
yesterday afternoon.
Benjamin Eastwood, for many years
rector of the church of the Good Shep-
herd of Pawtucket, r. l., has resigned
because of ill-health, and he has been
elected rector emeritus of the church.
He is one of the best known Episcopal
ciergymen in Rhode Island.
THURSDAY, JUNE 8.
Fred H. Heath, blind musician and
evangelist of Boston, was married to
Fannie Clausen, daughter of a wealthy
resident of Middletown, N. Y.
The wedding of Rev. James 3. Alvord,
pastor of the Congregational church in
Woonsocket, r. l.. and Lucy Fairbanks
took place yesterday in st. Johnsbury,
VT
The 10Th annual encampment of the
Maine division, Sons of Veterans opened
in Pittsfield yesterday. The secretary's
report showed a total membership of
144S, a gain for the year of 122. The
treasurers report shows a balance of
500 in the treasury.
The impending scarcity of fresh hall
but in the market is attracting not a
little attention from the fact that the
present small supply will be exhausted
before the end of the month, when the
first sail of the fishing fleet is due to
arrive in Gloucester.
The Holyoke Envelope company of
Holyoke, Mass, got the contract for
furnishing one-half of the white en-
yelopeS wanted by the government for
about $4,000, and White Corbin &, Co. of
Rockville, Conn, the remainder for a
like amount. The bid Of Logan, Swift &
Burgom, Worcester, was accepted for
blue envelopes.
FRIDAY, JUNE 10.
The dedication of the Nichols memorial
library, presented to Kingston, N. H,
by J. H. Nichols of Newton, Mass, took
place yesterday.
Benjamin Tyler Henry of New Haven,
inventor of the famous Winchester rifle,
which he disposed off to the Winchester
Repeating Arms company, is dead. He
was II years of age.
The Portland authorities have ex-
tended an invitation to the Canadian
officials to send several companies of
Canadian militia and a war vessel there
July 4. Mayor Randall has received
q telegram accepting the invitation, and
it is expected that quite a force of Can
adam troops will attend.
In an oratorical contest in Worcester,
in which the on.university, Emerson
college of oratory and the Newton theo-
logical school were represented, Odell
H Wood of the last named institution
was adjudged the winner. He will re-
ceive a roundtrip ticket to the inter-
collegiate prohibition oratorical contest
in Chicago, July Is to 20, and can take
part in that contest
SATURDAY, JUNE IL
The Willimantic, Conn, Cotton com
pany, employing about $50 hands has
shut down until further notice il nse-
Quenca of the mule sD4nners leaving af-