Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-03-27
CALEDONIA COUNTY.


| 1890.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
| West Burke.
Mrs. w. Drown is improving very slow
| ly.
Clarence Densmore has fine new Or
| gan.
A. L. AIdrich is able to resume his work
at Lyndonville. i.
| Mabel Rogers of Newport Center is visit
| ing her friend, Hattie Bacon.
Will Marshall of Hardwick has been Wis
| iting his mother the past week.
| The Ladies, Aid,win meet with Mrs. q.
Gilman on Wednesday afternoon. A good
attendance is desired.
Miss Harrington. of Eden, VT, who has
been visiting her sister, Mrs. Brockaway,
for some time has returned home.
Ezra ChappeH has returned to Boston,
Mass.-Celia Spencer is home from Mt.
Holyoke College for short vacation.
Nettie Bacon has, peen engaged to teach
in the primary department, and Ida Far
rand in the intermediate, in the village
school.
Frank Anger and bride, formerly Celia
Streeter of White River Junction, have
been spending week here with relatives.
Franks many friends here wish him all
happiness in his welded life.
Fred Kenison is attending Barbour's
Business College. We are glad SO many of
our boys are trying for good practical
Cd cfo in,
stead in whatever work they undertake in
the years to come.
At the annual meeting of Caledonia
Lodge, No. SO, F. & A. M, the following
officers were elected: w. M, w. G. Chen
ey; S. W., A. l.. Aldrich; J. W., w. G.
Anger; Treas, J. F. Ruggles; Sec., P.
Porter; S. D., H: J. Washburn; j. d. AL
yah Moulton; s.. S., Ala Hill; j. S., Chas.
Densmore; Chap, A. B. Stoddard; Mar,
o. c. Woodruff; Tyler, M. r. Colby.
Hardwick.
Arthur Grant lost the fore finger of his
right hand recently.
There is some prospect of the Continent
al house being leased to new party soon.
Arthur Arnold had his right arm crush
ed between two granite block at his stone
shed Wednesday.
A number of tenement houses are to be
erected here the coming season by E. K.
Meade and M. E. Tucker.
A patent medicine concern has been
holding forth at the opera house for the
past two weeks, attracting large crowds.
The Aiken store has been rented to
man from Burlington for dry goods
store. He takes possession about April 1.
The Methodist church is now ready for
occupancy and services were held there
yesterday. The building will be dedicated
in the near future. The society now has a
handsome and convenient place for wor-
ship.
Randall, the three year old son of Chas.
A. Layman, was badly scalded last Satur
day by falling backwards into a pail of
hot water. 1t was pronounced a very
critical case by the physician, but at pre-
sent he seems to be improving.
Clyde B. Still, who recently returned
from Albany, N. Y, having completed
course in business college in that city,
has secured employment with the YER
mont Marble Co., of Proctor, VT, and has
begun work. He has many friends here
who wish him success.
Beckley D. Chaffee, an employee of the
Hardwick Granite Co., was fatally injured
on their quarry March 18th, and died the
same day. 1t is not known just how the
accident occurred, but while lowering a
heavy block of granite it is supposed he
slipped and fell on the derrick hoist and
was badly injured in the head SO that he
never became conscious. Mr.. Chaffee was
an hon orable, upright man, steward in
the M. E. church, and will be mourned by
a large circle of friends. He leaves a wife
and three children. Funeral services were
held Tuesday, March 81, Rev. Mr.. Smithers
officiating.
East Hardwick.
Geo. Lovejoy has laid hard wood floor
for Nathan Hale. Mr.. Lovejoy is getting
out lumber to repair his barn.-Frank
Montgomery has the lumber out to repair
his COW barn and for a driveway on to the
middle girth.-F. T. Russell is repairing
the interior of the store which he pur-
chased, and will remove his goods into it.
Sugar makers who have tapped don't like
to be asked when they will sugar OFF,.
Davis has taken large farm at Danville,
and his tenement here is vacant.-Mrs
Giffin of Barre has been here visiting her
sister who is ill.-Fred Watson is at work
for III. A. Smith for the season.
st. JOhnSbury
This community has sustained a great
loss in the death of Rev. A. FL. Heath, D.
D., pastor of the North Congregational
church. His death was caused by paraly-
sis of the bowels. DR.. Heath was a man