Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-09-02

Geo. Parker who has been at work for J.
E. Lyon closed his labors in the barber
shop last Saturday evening.
Mrs. Madison CowIes of Albany, and her
sister Mrs. Emma Beede of Charleston S.
c., visited at Fl. H. CowIes last Thursday.
The Knights of Pythias will hold their
regular meeting next Tuesday evening.
There will be work done in the third
degree.
Mrs. Henry Webster has sold her inter-
est in the Dodge & Webster millinery
firm, aud Mrs. Dodge will carry on the
business.
The village trustees have put in a new
concrete sidewalk past D. Buchanan's and
HasIey HalPs. o. w. Locke has concerted
his walks.
The item stating that Mrs. Burt Ordway
had gone into the dressmaking stablish-
ment in Beede & Cowles' shop, should have
read Mrs. Ed. Ordway.
The Grange meeting will be held We'd
nesday evening, and a full attendance is
desired as there will be work done in the
first and third degrees.
G. H.lClifford who has been at work for
the E. L. Chandler Co. since last September
has closed work here and will return to
Lisbon n. H., his former home.
D. Buchanan and family have been hav-
ing an outing at Willoughby, also, j. E.
Lyon and Howard Emerson's people
spent some time there last week.
Stiles McLullen of Burlington, a man
who claims to be one hundred and five
years old made his annual call here last
week. He walked from Newport.
Everett Wiley of this place won the free
trip to Buffalo in the coffee contest offered
by Beede & Cowles. The firm sold 600
pounds of coffee during the contest.
The entertainment given by the Kath-
bone Sisters last Wednesday evening was a
success. The band discoursed fine music
and a large number were present. The
net proceeds for the band were. $1S.
The Albany dramatic Co. will give the
drama entitled ''Noel Corson's Oath" at
the Valley House Hall on the evening of
September 9th. After the play Potter's
Ochestra of Barton will play for dancing.
Frank Clement has put in a cellar for a
new house which he is to build this fall.
He and his family occupy it this winter
and another spring he will build on his
corner lot and rent the house now being
built.
Alfred HylanG has moved into the house
which he bought of Sarah j. Wells. Mr..
Newton has moved from the Bassett teue-
ment into the Day tenement, and Ed.
w ellis has moved into the Henry Bassett
tenement which Mr.. Newton vacated.
The E. L. Chandler Co. have put in a
large tank which holds big supply of
a secondary protection to their
buildings, while they have the village
water and sprinklers besids. This last
precaution is TO food the works with
water in case of fire.
VIM. BlasdelIs family, Mrs. Ernest
Matthews, Mrs. Bessie Gilbert, Mr.. and
Mrs Asa Harris, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hall,
Miss Smith, Edwin Gross and his sister,
Ralph and Fred Hunt, G. A. Whipple and
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Whipple have gone
to Buffalo to attend the exposition.
A reception will be given to w. w.
Foster and wife on Tuesday evening at the
NJ. E. church by the church and Sunday
school. Mr.. Foster has been the very
able and efficient superintendent OF the
Sunday school for about twenty five
years. Mr.. and Mrs. Foster will go to
California to spend few months.
The remains of James McGuire's oldest
daughter Lillias, and his youngest daughter,
Mrs. Rose Stones, oldest boy, both OF
whom were drowned at South Acton,
Mass, recently were brought here on the
) p. M. train and We're carried to Albany
for burial. Miss Mcguire was we'll know
here, having lived in this place for more
than a year. She was a young lady of
strong Christian character, who made
friends wherever she went. A large num-
Der OF friends in this place Will mourn her
untimeIy death.
The entire community was shocked by
the sad news Of the death by drowning of
Miss LilIias Mcclure at Acton, Mass,
where she was visiting her sister, one of
whose children was drowned at the same
lime. James Mcclure, the father, started
inmed iateIy for Acton, and Friday arrived
home, accompanied by his daughter Rosa
and her husband, P. G. Stone, their three
daughters and the remains of LiIIias and
Homer. The funeral took place at the
home, services being conducted by Rev.
J. Mcdonald. There was a prOfusion of
flowers and the attendance Of townspeople /
was very large. The following account of /
5he drowning is clipped from the Wor-
oester Telegram: "Homer J. Stone was
playing with several other children on the |
shore of Shady Mill Pond directly back /
Of the house about 1 80 p. m, Wednesday |
The 18th, when he fell in. The water near
5he bank was three feet deep Attracted /
BY the cries of the children for help, Miss |
NcEnire ran TO the nnnd. followed hU |