Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-09-25

their home in New York.
G. G. Farrar, mail clerk between here
and Springfield, Mass, has been chosen
delegate to represent the Mutual Benefit
Association of railway postal clerks at St.
| Louis, Mo-, Sept. 26. He. left for that place
Saturday.
Mrs NJ A. Flint has gone to Boston and
New York to select fall millinery.-C. M.
| Flint is in Boston looking after new fur
niture and wall paper.-Geo. Root of the
firm of Root & Son is in New York pur-
chasing new goods.
Napoleon Goodhue's family have return
ed from Richford and gone to housekeep-
ing in T. CIRCUITS house on Coventry St.
John Tato has moved from West Derby
into one of the Lawrence tenements.-
Charles Prue has moved from the Law
renee block into Seymour Lanes house.
Mr.. Caswell has moved from o. E. Collins
house to Homer Beniamin's house in Derby.
%. E. Collins, who has been running the
hotel in rasburgh the past year, has re-
turned here.
Mrs. o. w. Badger of Lyndonville is the
guest of Mrs. Benjamin Watkins.-Joseph
Gendson, clerk for Lane & Davis, has gone
to Quebec on a visit to his former home
Martin White of Sax Harbor is stopping
with his sister, Mrs. VIM. Hight.-Mrs. A.
NJ. Tower of Barton visited her brother,
n. L. Foster, the past week.-Mrs.. J. E.
Cushman of Burlington is visiting her
brother, o. III. Rawson.-G. D. Pratt of
of Boston, formerly of this town, is here
on visit to his parents, Mr.. land Mrs. L.
D. Batt.-Miss Susie White has returned
from Sax Harbor where she has been to
visit a brother.-J. Broom and family of
Lancaster, n. H., recently visited at Ben
Watkin's.-M Mr.. Goodhue of East Berkshire
visited his brother, Napoleon Goodhue,
last week.
Westfield.
D. E. Wright is on the sick list.
Della Benware has gone to Coventry to
work for Hon. H. e. Cleveland.
Miss Lora Stebbins has returned from
Isaac Wilson's where she has been visiting.
Frank Roberts and Miss Mabel Wright
have been united in the holy bonds of
matrimony. Congratulations.
The farm belonging to the Hiram Smith
estate on the East Hill has been sold to
Charles Pudvah of Lowell; consideration
$500.
The G. E. Society will give candy and
lemonade social in the town hall on Friday
evening, Sept. %; all invited.
A clock has been placed in the tower of
the library building. The people of this
community would have been much
pleased to have had clock with striking
part.
Mrs. Helen Wilcox will arrive here on
the 9TH of October with line of millinery
goods. AS formerly, she will make her
headquarters at A. H. Hoyt's. She plans
to be there three days week for several
weeks.
M. Winslow Farman attended the meet
ing of the Cong. Ministers Association
held at West Glover on Tuesday. Sept.
10. The association voted without ques-
ton to renew his license to preach for
three years.
E. w. Langma1d and wife of Man
chester, n. H., are visiting relatives here.
Chester Tracy of Belle Plain, Iowa, Ed.
Merrill of Barton and Albert Stone of
Montpelier visited at E. S. Miller's re-
cently.-Rev. VIM. Warner of Bethel was
in town calling on old friends last week.
o. Pettengil1 of Manchester, n. H, has
been at A. II. Hoyt's.
All. Hoyt raised this season from five
bushels of seed, one hundred bushels of
sorted potatoes. He informs your re-
porter that one potato weighed lbs. o.,
one that weighed 2 lib. o., and numerous
potatoes that would weigh lbs. or more. |
Mrs. Joseph Goddard has raised two
large cucumbers this season; one measured
151 inches in length and 10 inches around;
the other measured 149 inches in length
and II inches around.
Mrs Betsey Hitchcock James, whose
death we mentioned recently as occurring |
the 31st uIt., was the widow of the late |
Lot P. James, who died eighteen years ago !
in Troy, and the daughter of Levi Hitch |
cock. She was born in this town " years
ago. She was an estimable lady, mem |
Der of the Cong. church, woman greatly |
respected by all who knew her. Since her
husbands death, she has resided with |
either one or the other of her daughters, !
Mrs. G. R. Hoyt and Mrs. Addie Porter.
She was with Mrs. Porter during her last
Porter's house on Sept. 2. Later the re-
mains may be brought to Troy from
Ontario, Cal, where both daughters now
reside.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
West Burke.