Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-08-29

! tied their daughter, Mrs. c. D. Wilkinson.
Miss Kate Mcdonald is visiting in Me-
! gantic, p. @.
| Charles Prue has moved from III. FL. Ca s.
! wells tenement into one over Lorimer &
! MacDlarmid's store.-Pliny Hamilton is
! moving into one of the tenements in. the
| new Flint house on Central street. Frank
Flint is to occupy the other one. - "ta
The body of Mrs. Annie A. Pettingi1l,
wife of o. W. Pettingill, arrived here from
Manchester, n. FL. last Thursday. She will
be remem bered as Miss Annie Hoyt, as she
had, before her marriage, taught school in
many of the towns in this county.
Mrs. r. P. Jackson of Elgin, ILL.,, is Wis
iting her brother, John R. Huse.-Rev. and
Mrs. w. Livingston of Jaffrey, N. H., are
here visiting their son Ned.-Will Green
has returned from visit to Portland and
Boston Arthur K. Story of Beverly,
Mass, is visiting his uncle, G. D. Story
Rev. George Fl. Ide of Milwaukee, Wis, is
visiting relatives in this and adjoining
towns.
Archie Wells, A. S. Holbrook and T.. G.
Gold of Newport, Rupert Wiley of New
port Center, and e. f. Bean of Westfield,
are home on ten days furlough, when
they will return to Fort Ethan Allen. 1t
isshoped that all will be mustered out in
few days now. Since Co. L arrived in Bur-
Iington, it has learned that F. L. Harri-
man died Aug. II. Charles Williams was
not able to return with the company, but
he has written his family that he was i'm
i L IL
time.
Troy.
Ed Mason has moved to East Richford.
Orson Evarts has gone to keeping house
in w. M. Sabins' house.
Mrs. Jehiel Powers has gone to Derby to
keep house for her sons, Will and VIM,
who are there going to school.
The storm of Thursday was the hardest
ever known here, trees being blown down
and glass being broken in windows.
The Republicans nominated J. R.B.Hunt
as representative. The justices are Chand-
Ter Bailey, oh. Buck, J. M. Lake, G. w.
Abel, S. S. Huntley, II. B. Parkhurst and
/. d. Johnson.
Westfield.
Oscar Traver has rented Hiram Miller's
hill farm for year and taken possession.
The G. E. society held poverty So
cial in the town hall last Friday evening.
The Methodists held social at Ed.
Boynton's on Wednesday evening.
At the republican caucus held the goth
inst, III. G. Reed was chosen chairman and
w. d. Miller secretary. John Brown was
nominated for town representative, and A.
@. Austin, E. L. Miller, w. ID. Miller, w.
B. Gilpin and L. S. Woodwork were NOM
mated for justices of peace. Geo. w. Mil
Ter will contest the election for town rep
resentative, running as an independent
candidate.
On the afternoon of Saturday, Aug. 20,
Mrs. Amanda .Stebbins, an aged and
feeble woman, was run over on the road
and seriously injured by Fred Ducharme,
who was driving rapidly. Mrs. Stebbins
was carried into Dea. Gilpin's house near
by, and after recovering consciousness
was carried to her home on lounge. She
was terribly injured but survived until the
early morning of the 23d, when she passed
away, aged IS years and s months. The
funeral was held at her late residence on
the afternoon of the 18th, Rev. F. M.
Barnes officiating, and the Troy singers
furnished music. The deceased was the
widow of the late Benz. Stebbins. She
leaves one daughter who resided with her
mother, and one son, DR.. Herbert L. Steb-
bins of Syracuse, N. Y, who was present
at the funeral. On the Goth States AT
torney Annis and Justice Chandler Bailey
came to town, and Ducharme was arraign-
ed before them for preliminary hearing
on the charge Of manslaughter. 4 Waiving
am examination he was placed under $500 |
bond to.await the action of the grand jury |
at Newport in September His father and |
brother Joe became his bondsmen.