Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-05-02
West Derby.

West Derby.
Miss Susie O'Rourke is teaching the
village school in Jay.
Joel Dustin and family are settled in
their newly purchased home.
Ned Blanchard is preparing to build
house on. a lot on the Putney farm.
Mrs. A. J.-White. attended the musical
convention at Sherbrooke last week.
The village residence of the late Mrs.
Amanda Mooney has been purchased by
Thomas Mooney.
Geroge Wooley is repainting his house.
Mrs. Chas. Folsom is making extensive
improvements in her house.
Interesting Arbor Day exercises were
given to admiring parents and friends by
our high school pupils Friday.
Floyd Martin has moved into the Wade
house.-Geo. Lafrance has moved here
from Coventry.-Elder Dockham, the Ad-
vent minister, has moved his family into
the Milo Willard house.
The funeral of Mrs. Theophilus La
bounty was held Sunday, Rev. j. III. Will
kins officiating. Mrs. Labounty died from
an attack of pneumonia, leaving husband
and five little children, two of whom are
just recovering from the same disease.
Much sympathy is felt for them all in
their great loss.
Glover
The village schools begin to-day.
Mrs. Laura Mathie and children were
here few days last week.
School in district No. II opened with Is
pupils, Miss Francena Aldrich the teacher.
Mrs. r. S. Stark has gone to Grinnell,
Iowa, to spend the summer with her son,
Prof. Gates.
The band is fully organized now and
will make good progress under the leader
ship of N. A. Young.
Mr.. Bement and wife of Barton Landing
have moved into Mrs. S. F. Leonard's
house, and will board Mrs. Leonard.
An entertainment will be gwen at Insti-
tute hall Tuesday evening, May 10th, by
Major r. E. Henderson, and his son, as
sisted by local talent. The entertainments
given by Major Henderson are highly
spoken of and he should get good house
here.
R. E. French injured his knee quite Sc
verely last week by coming in contact
with the store shears, cutting to the bone
just above the knee-pan. This is the Sec
ond accident of the kind that has happened
to him. Better put those shears in a safe
place Rob, they will be the death of you
yet.
DIR. Wallace Scott, who went from this
town to Massachusetts several years ago,
has just completed, at Amherst, Mass,
fine residence costing $4,000. The house
and grounds cost 1000. We are glad to
hear of the success of each and all of our
former townsmen. Dr.Scott recently mar
ried lady from Boston.
On Saturday, April %, at II o'clock no
tice was received in Glover that the Presi-
dent had called for 100000 volunteers and
that the quota of Vermont was 5O7, and on
Monday morning Glover filled it's quota by
sending two soldiers, who went to join the
Rutland Company at Rutland VT, and
left there on Tuesday morning. Those
who went from Glover were Prof. c. A.
Davis, who has been teaching in Rutland
for the present year and a-haIf, young
d
uate of Dartmouth college and the people
of this town wish him much success and
believe he will be an honor to the town
and to the company which he has joined.
The other is Geo. Scott, a young man SO
years old who has spent five years in the
English army and we feel sure he will
make a good soldier. Now we claim we
have been the first town in the southern
part of Orleans County to furnish our quo
ia for the Cuban war, and we SHALL ask
the privilege of furnishing the county with
a Senator for the south end OF the county,
as we feel we have one who would do hon
Or both to our town and to Orleans county,.
West Glover.
Mr.. Fisher has begun work on his barn.
Mrs. Vincent picked pansies on her pam
sy bed April 21st.
Carrie Styles has gone to Greensboro
Bend to stop with her sister, Mrs. Thomp-
son.
Bertha Hubbard is home again.-Mr. and
Mrs. Burnham and child are stopping at
J. Shatncy's.
Bailey Miles is poorly.-Alson Clark,
who has been on the sick list the past two
weeks, is improving.
Mrs. Ella Nelson is working for Mrs.G.P.
Emma Skinner has gone to
Barton to work for Mrs. G. w. Monkey.
Carl Dwinell teaches in the Monkey Dist,
Albany. Willie Holmes begins his school
IN Dist. No. 6, today.-Mrs. Cameron be-
gins her school today in Dist. No. 2.
John and James Gebbie are repairing
heir barn.
G. w. Palmer has put a large sail boat
On to Greens boro pond.