Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-01-24

ana Win the exception VI IuOSo IHdG WOio
absent, all were installed Susan h. Cur
rier, w. NJ; A. S. Drew, w. P; Ida Rug
giles, A. NJ; Lois Mossman, Sec; Emeline
Brown, Treas; Amanda Seaver, c.; Alice
Hamblet, A. c.; Nell Y. Barron, Chap;
Emily Baldwin, Adah; Hattie Martin,
Ruth; Florence Currier, Esther; Altha
Pierce, Martha; Laura Rand, Electra;
Lizzie Glazier, warden; Annie Pearsons,
organist: Lena Nichols, marshal; Ell. T.
Seaver, Sen.
The 9TH District, o. E. S., held its an
nua1 district meeting with Lakeside
Chapter, No. IS, Newport, on Tuesday,
Jan. 18th, agreeably to call by D. d. G. M.
Jessie M. Mosher, Island Pond, and D. D.
G. P. Horace G. Pierce. Barton. Besides
the members of Lakeside Chapter, there
was large attendance from Orient Chap
ter, No. IS, Barton, and North Star Chap
ter, No. %, Island Pond. At. 2;30 O'Clock,
p. ~, the officers Of Lakeside Chapter ex-
emplified the initiatory work in very
commendable manner. This is a strong
chapter and the work shown was very
creditable to that chapter. After the
work some very instructive and interest
ing remarks were made by Mrs. Olive j.
Stowell, Grand Lecturer, and Grand Pat
ron T. W. Baldwin, and others. At 600,
a fine banquet was served by Lakeside
Chapter, after which the large audience
listened to an excellent entertainment,
consisting of Rotations, readings, music.
etc; then followed social hour, when
everyone seemed to thoroughly enjoy
themselves. It was the opin ion of all that
it was one of the best district meetings
held for years.
It is seldom that we are called upon to
chronicle the death of SO large number of
people, who have passed away in our vii
lage in one week:
Mrs. Emily, wife of the late Samuel
Prouty of Burke, died at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. G. T. A. Humphrey, Jan.
10, of general debility and old age. Mr..
Prouty, a long time resident of Burke,
died in 1888, after SO years of happy mar
ried life. Mrs. Prouty had resided with
Mr.. Humphreys people in this village for
the past ten years or more. Funer-
al services at the house Thursday, Rev.
W. E. Douglass officiating. The remains
were taken to East Burke for burial.
Mrs. Wilson Stoddard, aged about SO
years, died at the home of her son-in-law,
A. L. Brown, Saturday morning, Jan. %.
Her maiden name was Hayward, and she
lived with her husband in Burke, Newark
and vicinity most Of her married life.
They had three daughters, Mrs. Joseph
Orne, who died some years since, Mrs.
Brown and Mrs. Alanson Cheney.
Martin M. Whitney died at his late resi-
dence on Church ST., on Saturday morning
of an attack of heart disease, after having
suffered for some months with heart and
other ailments. Mr.. Whitney came to
this village from Barre twenty-six years
ago, though his former home had been in
Morrisville and viciity. He enlisted in
the 18th VT. Regt., and performed an hon
orable service. Since coming here he has
been engaged in mechanical labors, both
as joiner and ca binet maker. He was a
genial, kind-hearted man, who kept him
self well informed in current affairs. He
leaves wife and three daughters, Nellie
Whitney of the West, Expected home to-
day., Mrs. Carrie Whitney Gardiner, and
Flora Whitney. The funeral services will
be held this afternoon, Rev. Mr.. Sheaff
Officia ting.
The death of Fenelon A. Belknap, which
occurred on Friday night, was not unex-
pected, as he had been quite seriously ill
for some time, the apparent result of grip,
which he had about two years ago; his
lung troubles were aggravated by malarial
poisoning. Mr.. Belknap came to this town
in 1s6p,an has beep.a res ident here ever
since. He was employed in the chair fac
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farming on land he purchased near this
village. In 1862 he enlisted in Co. I, 18th
VT. Regt., and was honored with the Of
flee of sergeant. He was member of
Quimby Post, and was chosen its COM
mander few weeks ago, but was unable
to attend the meetings thereafter. He was
a good citizen and very kind neighbor.
He was an only son of a Baptist clergy
man and received a good education. He
leaves wife and two daug hters, Mrs. Amy
Belknap Allen of Minneapolis, who has
been home for some weeks, and Mrs.
Charles Berry of Lyndonville. He also had
an aged step-mother w no resides in Lyme,
N. II. The funeral services will be held
this afternoon, Rev. Douglass officiating.
We called on Geo. H. Davis in his new
store one evening last week and took a
look over the building. The block is 40-116
feet; the room occupied by Mr.. Davis for
his store is 25-1OO feet and is fitted so as to
make one of the best to be found IN this
vicinity. 1t is finished in what is called a
golden birch, which very much resembles
the walls above the birch fin
ish are of an embossed wood, while the
ceiling is of steel, handsomely painted and
with the mouldings and cornice work
bronzed. The show cases and counters are
also of birch. These cases are all fine ones, |
being modern in style and finished nicely. |