Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-10-23


rge crowd last Thursday.
nnite large number from here went tC
71ston last Thursday on the excursion.
IL. o. Randall is looking after the in
rests of his store while Geo. Dow is in
Sz3ston.
Mazzini Phillips has finished work at G.
I# Barker's and Will take possession of the
I'D he recently purchased.
ROY Skinner returned to Newport last
ID rsday, having spent two weeks
8cation at home.-Rev. and Mrs. John
Mcdonald from Plymouth, n. H., are
sitting in town.. c. Borland is at home
=bm the west, where he has been for the
73st two years-ElIis Prescott is in Bos-
I'll, where he has found work.. U.
#4udIey, wife and son, of North Woburn,
18ass, who have been here visiting Mrs.
|3udIey's old home, returned last week.
.sreenSbOrO.
|HH. S. ToIlman is putting running water
& TO the s. P. Pinney buildings.
=5Rev. P. B. Fisk exchanged pulpits a
eek ago with Rev. Mr.. Hildreth of Alba
DIR. Harriet B. Conant of Minneapolis
linn formerly from this place, is visiting
Natives and friends in town.
Mrs. Sarah Danforth of Haverhill n. III.
. 40 came to Greensboro on account of the
mess and death of her sister, Mary Dan
IA i. has gone to Crafts bury.
#5Jphn Richardson recently had a horse
Lied by its becoming frightened and run
"#ng against a tree. John was thrown
bnn the load and quite badly injured.
"a. G. Chase and wife went to Boston on
e excursion.-Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur
laugh are on visiting trip to New
N hmpshire.- A. Stone spent last week
# Brookfieid.
@ITlariz L. Baker died in Greensboro, Oct.
ID, at the old Baker homestead, where he
" b born. His age was II years. For sew
E hI years he had been in failing health,
d of late so feeble as scarcely to be able
supervise his affairs. His death was oc-
Bioned by chronic heart difficulty. 1t
flows the death of his wife by ten months
NJ III a few days. He was one of family of
children, nine of whom grew to mature
ars, and seven of whom survive him.
was the fifth child, but the first born in
eensboro. After his marriage to Miss
ary a. Batchelder of Barre, he went to
isconsin, where he lived but few years,
|H8obabIy not more than two or three Re
ming east, he worked for several years
t T.. & II. Fairbanks & Co. st. JOhnsbury,
Sealing scales. About So years ago he
armed to the old homestead, where he
ed for his father and stepmOther the re-
hinder of their days-his own mother
linz in his infancy-and where he con-
ned to reside till his death. Mr.. Baker
Ne a prominently identified with the affairs
the town, and especially of the Congre-
tionaI church of which he and his wife
4 re members. For over thirty years he
> superintendent of it's Sunday-school,
ing annually reelected except in few
tances when he declined the Office. For
# promotion he worked successfully with
hiring zeal. Until within recent peri
# be was almost continuously leader of
III choir. His presence and his help will
greatly missed. OF his six children,
II sons and two daughters, two only sur
fe- John w. and Edwin A, who are in
illness in New York and Boston respect
LIZ. The old homestead, now in their
SESSION, will, according to present in
lions, so remain, though neither Of them
IL probably make it a place of residence
some years to come.
reenSbOrO Bend.
f Nineteen tickets for the Boston excursion
Re sold at this station last week.
Id. J. Howard has rented the David
It'll farm in Stannard and taken pos
lion.
mite a crowd and general good time is
7 report from the promenade last We'd
DAY evening.
H. Pope and family visited in Lyn-
last week.-Mrs.. Gilbert Blair OF st.
fnsbury visited her sister, Mrs. A.
I5zey, last week.-Rev. A. n. Ross is in
NBnkIin county for two weeks.-Mrs. G.
Chamberlin of St. Johnsbury visited
knds and relatives in this town and
p nard last week.
blIand.
Irs. Alfred Davis IS quite sick.
hdge Fletcher lost good COW last week.
rancis Smith has a beaming face now.
IL boy.
B. MouIton is thoroughly repairing
shop, making a new basement, etc.
#.he local base ball club was defeated by
Island Pond boys at Morgan. Ctr. last
tk.
r. Caswell has his men in the woods,
intends to cut the usual amount of
Der this winter.
j. Applebee raised 719 bushels of po-
ses on q acres of land, he used Brad
d Essex Ferterlizer.
he school at the mills was closed part
list week the teacher being called home