Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-06-20

the county convention at Newport Will be
elected at this time and our citizens should
attend.
: Mrs J.. E. Chamberlin visited in St.
Johnsbury last week.-Mrs.. Mcnamara and
Children are Visiting fnh Morgan
Bailey and Miss May Wilder go tot hrnng-
tons next week to the EpWorthc League
state convention.
Chas. Wheeler and family have moved to
Fairlee.-Chas. Blake and mother have
moved into tenement in Cyrus Ordways
house.-Henry Hogaboom has moved into
the Whipple & French block.-Ernest Car
penter has moved into D. w. Hildreth IS
tenement.
j. Hutchinson and wife of Barre are Wis
iting at Stephen WiIley's. Addison Fletch-
er and wife of Lowelltown, Me-, are visiting
here.-Mrs. Henry Rogers and daughters
are visiting at Leon Roger's.-Geo. Church
ill of St. Cloud, Mimi, is visiting here.
His old friends are always glad to see him.
Mrs. E. L. Chandler passed away last
Wednesday night after an illness of several
weeks. Mrs. Chandler was daughter of
the late Nelson Gallup. She had lived in
this place many years and was highly es-
teemed by all. She leaves a husband, one
son and daughter who have the sympathy
of all in their bereavement.
Warren Twombly and Mr.. Anderson
narrowly escaped death one day last week.
While drawing sand, the bank at which
they were loading gave way, almost COM
pletely burying Mr.. Anderson, and partly
nj HI f0o i1oy
able time for them to extricate themselves
from their dangerous position.
Albany.
Herbert Carter goes to Burlington this
League.
Peter and Levi Bashaw have put their
buildings in excellent repair, both inside
and out.
Mrs. George Tenney still remains at the
hospital where she went short time ago
for treatment.
Miss G. V. Rowen and George Pierce are
to go to Burlington as delegates to the E.
L. convention.
Mrs. Cora (Chamberlin) Leach from Da
glad to see her back.
Rev. Mr.. Hildreth and r. P. Hi tchcock
the state convention of Cong.
churches at Morrisville.
Rev. Donaldson's people expect their
daughter Carrie home this week to spend
her vacation with them.
A. Frazier has a COW that supplies the
family with milk, cream and butter and
makes one pound of butter day to sell.
Charles Smith has been repairing the in
side OF his house, thoroughly papering and
painting, besides finishing the dining
room in black cherry.
Will Beede must now be in his element
as he is driving Government mule team,
for which he receives 1888 per month.
We hope that Wills propensity for swap
ping horses will not cause him to swap
with the Spanish.
What might have proved a serious acct
dent happened while Ethan Cutler and
wife were on their way to church. Their
horse became frig htened at debris left from
repairing roads, but they escaped with
few bruises and a wrecked carriage.
Children's Day exercises passed pleasant
ly at the NJ. e. church. A good program
was well carried out, the arrangement of
flowers showed artistic taste, the singing
was grand, and as the last piece was rem
dered, Together let us sweetly live" the
whole audience seemed enthused.
Our Ladies' Society, accompanied by the
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F. Fletcher last week. The society extend
thanks for the nice ice cream and other
This society has put i'll a
new window at the parsonage, making it
very convenient and pleasant. Much credit
is due Rufus Miles for generously contrib
uting lumber and Waldo Lamphear for
labor.
Saturday at p. M, S. a. Searles' barn
was discovered to be on fire and in short
time the whole set of buildings were re-
iuced to ashes, hardly anything being
saved. His daughter, Mrs. W. j. Camp
bell, who is very low with consumption,
tried to run out of the house, but fell at
the door, and was carried to the nearest
house, whereishe is in a critical condition.
The buildings were insured for $4,000
which only partly covers the loss.
At the caucus held here last Friday eve
ming the following delegates were chosen
to represent the town at the state and dis
Irict conventions: William Williams, A.
D. Patterson and j. @. Campbell; instruct
ed to vote for Smith and Bates for Gov.
and Lieut.-Gov. The delegat es to the
county convention are: William Williams.
F. w. Tenney, Olin Rowell, A. r. Miles
and D. r. Cobb. They were instructed to
vote for M. B. Chafey for senator, II. F.
Graham for States Attorney, l.. d. Miles
for Sheriff, and A. ID. Mathews for AS
sistant Judge.