Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-05-07
Evansville.

Trip recently,
! T. Colburn cut one of his fingers quite
badly on a saw last week.
F. G. Hunt is improving his house by
I finishing new kitchen and pantry.
Miss Harriet Vail left here last Saturday
for Cabot, where she begins her spring term
of school today.
Alison Marshall is working for H. Fos-
ter.-Frank Marshall and L. r. Woodland
are working for L. A. Drown driving logs.
E. 20. Newton was in town the past
week.-George Hunt has returned home
George Kings three sisters from New
Hampshire were here to attend the funeral
of little Nora.
The first quarterly communion service
will be held in the Methodist church next
Sunday. 1t is hoped there will be a good
rally and a liberal freewiII Offering for the
support of the presiding elder. The rite
of baptism will be administered. cor
dial invitation to all.
East Char lesion.
Mrs. Betsey Stoddard passed her 92nd
birthday last Wednesday.
Mr.. Nathaniel Allen of Lowell, Mass. has
been spending few days at r. P. Stevens,
Word received from Colby j. Stoddard.
who is sick at the hospital in ST. Johns
bury, states that at this writing, May 18th
he is a little better.
Mrs. Geo. Cunnington has gone to Dix
vile, P. O., her former home, to spend a
few weeks before going to the White
! Mountains to work for the summer.
Rev. j. Thurston and wife have
moved to their home in Peacham
leaving here last Thursday.-A. Z. Fellows
who has been living at Island Pond for the
last two years, has moved back on his
farm here. We are glad to welcome him
| back.
The schools in Districts No. 2, 3, 9 and 10
commenced Monday, May 9TH with the
following teachers: Miss Annie Beebe in
the center Dist. Miss Bertha Durham in
the village. Mary Thayer in the Buck,
Dist. and Miss Morrill, in the Dolloff Dist
Dist. No. at Echo Pond does not COM
mence until the 18th. Miss Alice Gibson
of Derby is the teacher.
West Charleston.
| Miss Gertie Hildreth has gone to Burke
| to teach school.
Colby George has sold his horse to parties
from Island Pond.
Mrs. VIM. EIey and daughter, Hannah,
! have returned from Newport.
Bert Armstrong has been very sick the
past week with the grip and tonsilitis. He
is some better at present.
George Lyon from Forest City Iowa, has
come to stop few months with his father,
A. w. Lyon. Owing to ill health he has
spent the winter in the south.
Mr.. Kettle and Mrs. Uttin are both very
Iow.-Mrs. George Driver has been brought
home from her brothers. where she has
been sick since her mothers death.-Mrs.
S. Allen, who has been sick for some time,
is now able to be out.
Hon. Porter Dale and j. Sweeney of
Brighton were in town last week looking
after the property they recently bought
for the electric light plant.-Charles
Hamblet of Barton recently spent few
days with his parents, Mr.. and Ms. j.
| HambIet.
Harry Cheneys goods are being moved
to Burke Hollow.-John Lunderville has
moved from the Parlin tenement into the
| creamery lSuSuGill.-NlrS. w III. ATuSIEOuS
has moved into the tenement vacated by
Lunderville.-John King has rented E. E.
Goodwin's blacksmith shop.
Homer AlIbee has closed work or VIM.
Nelson and gone to St. JOhnsbury.-Mrs.
Geo. Bracket is going to Newport to stay
for two or three weeks.-Mr. and Mrs. Ed.
Allbee have gone to New York City.-Rev.
Mr.. Bell has gone to his former home and
expects to return soon with his family.
Edward Magee, who works in the Hazel
quarry, had his face and one hand seriously
burned by the premature explosion of
some powder he was using for blasting.
He had a very narrow escape from death,
having five pounds in his hands which
failed to explode. DIR. Kendrick dressed
his wound and he is doing as well as can
| be expected.
Mr.. Anair will soon move into Mrs.
AlIbee's tenement.-Miss Maud Porter of
West Derby will teach the higher depart
ment and Miss Edith Hudson the primary
in the village school this spring. Miss
Porter will board with Mrs. Julia Allbee.
Miss Mamie Bracket commenced her
school in the Blake district last Monday
morning.-John Cook has moved into his
| house at Plunkett.
Coventry.
Arthur Dudley has returned to his home
in Nashua, n. I'll.
Misses Bertha Goodnough and Lillian
Hancock go to Barton today to work in
| the Peerless.
A. D. Thurber has raised the roof of his
store and is putting in a tenement. t.
Wallace of Albany is doing the work.
The families of GeOrpe Gorham and