Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-03-12
c. W. Skinner has been in Evansville

ter have gone to Barnet where they have
work for the season.
Evansville.
E. Block and l.. Emerson have finished
work for the Pike Mfg. Co.
Allison Marshall and wife are stopping
at the home of w. G. Trip, while they are
away.
The Ladies' Aid will meet at the M. e.
parsonage next Thursday afternoon and
evening. Let there be good attendance.
We expect new creamery man, a Mr..
Roberts, this week.-Mr. B. Hatch is here
from Pike Station to work for the Pike
Mfg. Co.
Van Hunt has been confined to the house
for few days.-Harvey Foster has been
confined to the house and under the care
of the doctor.
Scythe stone grinders, working for the
Pike Mfg. Co., have asked for more pay,
and unless the advance is given, they will
go out on a strike the 18th of this month.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Marshall have re-
turned from their visit to friends in Derby
and eIsew Emerson has
gone to Woodsville.--J.W. Moore has been
on visit to Island Pond; Mrs. Moore has
returned home.
East Charleston.
Will Hand and daughter have been visit
ing friends in Canada.
B. F. Davis who has been sick for several
weeks, is better and we believe the other
sick ones are on the gain.
On account of the severe storm there was
not as large a crowd at town meeting as
usual, but there was q stormy time within
as we'll as without and it was about seven
o'clock in the evening before the business
was all finished.
We are in receipt of notice stating that
the Mite society will meet in the vestry
hall next Thursday afternoon to choose
officers for the ensuing year. The sender
mas not given his name consequently we
do not wish to vouch for his authority in
giving the notice. ED.
Mrs. Laura Davis died at the residence
of her son, NJ. G. Davis, of Island Pond,
last Wednesday. Mrs. Davis was nearly
ninety years old. She had been a resident
of this town over fifty years and was the
mother of seven boys, three of whom sur
r. Davis of Boston, Mass, and the young
est, B. F. Davis of this place. The remains
were brought here Saturday and funeral
services were held at the house Of Z. f.
Davis, Rev. J. Thurston officiating.
Coventry.
May Virgins is visiting in Boston.
Mrs. Nina Collins is home from " ilder.
John I. Parker has gone to Boston. Mr..
Allbee takes his place in the station.
Maggie George has gone to her home at
North Troy and Clara Hancock takes her
place at Rev. o. E. Aiken's.
W. W. Smith will lecture in the M. E.
church next Thursday evening, under the
auspices of the w. G. T. u.
The many friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Louie
Lee gave them a surprise visit last Satur-
day evening. A nice time was enjoyed.
Craftsburv.
r. E. Hoyt has rented his farm to Nelson
Baldwin.
1t is reported that Uric & Sawyer have
bought the Leavitt block.
Martin Sawyer and Seth Lathe spent last
week in Newport as petit jurors.
Florence Merrill, Alice and Walter Chase
are home from Morrisville academy.
Mrs. Jennie Goodrich went to East Hard
wick last Saturday to work for Charles
Whitcher.
Hattie Hatch and Florence Grieves have
gone to Topsfield, Mass, to work in a
school for boys.
The Black River Butter Co., have hired
Mr.. and Mrs. Aston to work in the cream
cry another year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Conant. Jr. were
called to Cabot last Saturday to attend the
funeral of Fred Hail.
Geo. T. Howard went to Montpelier last
Thursday to meet the other members of
the republican state committee.
Mrs. G. FL. Hartman is in town for a
short stay.-Fred Chandler of Gr> eAsboro,
a former resident, is in town.
John Green has taken from Hosmer
Pond six hundred and twenty-five pounds
of pickerel this winter, for which he found
a ready market.
The latest news from Fl. Fl. Allen who
is in Montreal in hospital, is that he is
improving as rapidly as could be expected.
-Philena Coburn is improving Geo.
Merrill remains about the same.
News was received here last week of the
death of Mrs. Frank Thorp of Albany.
Mrs. Thorp was the only daughter of Alon-
20 Larrabee of this town. Much sympa-
thy is felt for the afflicted parents, broth
ers, husband and the four motherless
children.
Mrs. Charles Conant, aged rs years, died
at her home last Monday afternoon after