Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-05-01

stone now drawn, $3.50.
Mrs. w. S. Robbins has gone to Boston
to visit her brother, Mr.. II. A. True, and
sister, Mrs. A. A. Newcomb, hoping that
the change will benefit her health.
The illustrated lecture given on Europe
by. Rev. Farrow at the town hall Saturday
evening was quite well attended. The lee
ture was interesting and the views excep-
tionally good.
The Baccalaureate sermon before the
class of '99, Derby Academy, was delivered
by Rev. j. X. Fuller of Barton Landing i'm
the Cong. church yesterday morning. Mr..
Fuller was assisted by Rev. Wright and
Rev. Kilbourn of this place and Rev.
Thurston OF Newport Centre. The church
was beautifully decorated and fine music
was rendered by the choir. The students
assembled at the academy and marched i'm
a body to the church the graduates occupy
ing the front seats.
West Derby.
Fifty people took supper at c. j. Tuck
er's Thursday afternoon at the Ladies' Aid
social.
The funeral services of the late George
Dutton are to be held today with burial i'm
village cemetery.
&. NcCauly and LOOMS Miller are paint
ing their newly completed buildings.-E.
III. Wood, o. S. Moulton and Mrs. Doane
have been making repairs on their houses.
John Nelson starts today on his yearly
trip through the Provinces.-Rev. II. n.
Benton is enjoying a vacation, and there
will be no services i'm the Universalist
church until May 2sth.
The officers of the village corporation
elected last Tuesday evening are: list
trustee G.. III. Massey, End s. Morse, Bird N.
Lovelett, 4th. Levi Gotta, 9Th j. Nelson;
Treas. z. C.. Blake, Col. of taxes j. e. Mar
tin, auditors Z. h. Sisco, j. r. Dustin, ID.
c. Stevens; fire wardens III. i. Hastings
and VIII Blake, water commissioners &.
o. Grimes, III. Hancock, 1. B. bishop.
Voted to raise 80 on the grand list.
Beebe Plain.
Margaret Blair is out again after a long
illness.-John Morrill,, SO years old, is very
sick.
Dennison L. House has been on his an
nual spring business trip in New York
in the interest of the Miller & House Co.
Henry Tomkins, very popular sales
man for the Lay Whip Co., has gone to
Vancouver, b. G. for an absence OF several
weeks.
Sidney Pocock has a position with the
Rock Island Hardware Co.-Leslie Mon
roe is working on the section again. He
has rented one of Miss Dickinson's tene-
ments and is keeping house.
The Elisha Miller place in this village
has been sold to Daniel Bissel for $1,000,
Mr.. Bissell intends making Il his home
after making some changes and repairs
Mr.. Bissell has also bought the Ed. Bus
well place of the heirs.
Fire broke out in Henry Browns build
ings last Tuesday night. Forty-fo head
Of cattle and some poultry and hogs per-
ished in the flames. All the farming inn
plements were also burned. We under
stand Mr.. Brown carried a total insurance
of $1,000.
Lyman McClintocl, who recently had
an operation performed In a hospital I'm
Boston, has returned home.-M. Porter
Dixon having finished a course in the con-
servatory of music in Boston, has returned
home.-Mr. and Mrs. Alvin McGaffy have
returned from a visit to their son in Bar
net, and their daughter, Mrs. Lily Moves
in Bethlehem, n. III.
Glover.
The Ladies' Aid of the Cong. church
will meet Thursday afternoon; supper
from $50 till o'clock.
There has been good work done in some
of the door Iyards about town, and the
committee of the village improvement
society recommend that all follow the
good example. Let have our little viii
lage model for neatness and well kept
yards, back of the house,as well as i'm front.
About 20 of the relatives and friends OF
Mr.. j. L. Dwinell called at his home
last Saturday evening, and gave him a
genuine surpsise party, it being his 69th
birthday. The affair was planned by the
choir, of which Mr.. Dwinell has been
chorister most of the time for over twenty
years, and all of the singers who had sung
during that time under his leadership
were invited, and most of them were pres
ent. After a fine musical program had
been rende cred consisting of anthems and
glees by the chorus, two piano duets by
Mrs. French and Mrs. Taylor, solos by
A. r. Cowles and c. II. Dwinell Jr., a duet
by Mrs. Barrows and Mrs. Parker, Rev.
MIR. Stevens presented Mr.. Dwinell with a
gold headed cane, the gift of his children,
and an engraved gold badge, the gift Of
the singers and relatives, after which a
fine collation. was served. The following
were present from out OF town; DIR. and
Mrs. Dwinell or Lyndonville, w. j. Owl
nell and wife of Morrisville, DIR. and Mrs.
Mcdowell of Lyndonville, {. II. Dwinell
Jr. of Maiden, Mass, Jerry Marston and