Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-11-25
tSartott Landing.


L. W. Hildreth will move into his new
house this week.
Mrs. ]. B. Clement is visiting friends at
Wells River.
Miss Ruby DesIit has gone to visit
friends in South STAFFORD.
Joseph aennesy, who has been at work
ia the mill here goes to Charleston to work
for Milo Gay.
DR.. Stevens, R. NJ. Kimball and j. G.
Tdrnbull came home from Maine last week,
bringing FIVE deer.
Miss Annette Shaw, NJ. D., formerly of
this place, is visiting frienda here. We are
glad to see her again.
The item last week should have read E.
E. Stafford has moved his entire stock
into the basement of his block.
The mechanics are framing the addition
to the ~dryhouse at the upper mill. 1t is to
be eighteen feet wide and eighty-six feet
long.
George Z. Wragg, organizer OF endow-
ment rank of the Knights of Pythias, was
tue guest of Philemon Lodge at their last
meeting.
Fred c. Brown has bought an acre of
land of Henry Dudley. 1t is expected he
VIII build a set of buildings on this lot
next year.
A band concert was given on the streets
last Friday evening. This was the last of
the season. These concerts during the
summer and autumn have been much en-
Joyed by the citizens.
Tho nIoo q ouont Of tho vr-aoI~ wac Tho
marriage OF Fred Hunt and Miss Maud
Porter of West Derby. The wedding was
at the brides home and some OF the friends
from this place attended the wedding.
The series of meetings which have been
held in the NJ. E.. church for some weeks
closed last Saturday evening. 1t is hoped
that much good has been done. The
church is in better working condition and
several conversions are reported.
Rufus Trip, who has been in Montreal
for three weeks in a hospital having his
hand treated, is home again. It will be re-
membered that he sawed off a finger re-
Gently. It was dressed but failed to heal,
and Mr.. Trip has had a serious time with
it. The bone had to be removed at the
hospital and it was very difficult to make
the wound heal. 1t seems now to be doing
we'll.
Halsey Hall has made a contract with
Jerry Butcham to cut the timber off the
land he sold to Henry Dudley. Mr.. Hall
reserved the tim Der on this land, and last
year he let the job to John Lawrence to
clear off the timber, but he failed to get it
all off, and Mr.. Butcham is to deliver the
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soft WOO logs at the river bank. He will
also cut the stove wood for Mr.. Hall.
We have to report the death of Lewis w.
Simpson, one of the oldest if not the very
Oldest citizen of this village, who died
Nov. 18th. Most certainly he had lived
longer in this vicinity than any man
or woman now alive. Mr.. Simpson came
here in 1926, when there were only a few
houses where Barton Landing is now Ioca- !
ted. He hoed corn where the old cemetery
is snow, and has lived to see the village
grow to its present size. He was born near
Melborn, Canada, in January 1915, and
came to this place when he was twenty
years old. A little later he married Miss
Peck and bought a farm south of the viii
lage now known as the Simpson farm.
After living there several years he moved
to another farm in Glover for a short
time but returned later and some twenty
years ago he moved into the village. II
OUNCE days he was a very active man
and enjoyed much to see business moving.
He employed a good deal of help and car
ried on considerable business. He was
generous, public spirited and ready to help
in everything which would build up the
or promote public interest. He
contributed $500 toward building the
Methods church and liberal sums for
many benevolent objects. He was one of
the most accommodating of neighbors.
a few years he has been gradually fail
in health, and for the last year had sell
dom been seen on the street. Mr.. Stimp-
son was three times married and his third
survives him. He leaves two sons,
of this place, and Lorenzo, who for
many years lived in Boston, but now
lives near Chicago, Illinois. The funeral
held last Tuesday at the house, Rev. S..
Lewis officiating, assisted by Rev. Mr..
The remains were inferred in the
village cemetery.
Barton.
A. B. StanIey's baby is very sick.
Orrin Gray is working for Geo. Wheeler.
w. j. Coburn is boarding at Mrs. A. B.
R.. B.. Lang has been in Massachusetts,
for several days on business.
Mrs. Martha Willard has moved from
to James Forrest's.-WiII Robbins
bought Matte Lords farm on the
mountain and moved there.
E. NJ. Clough strolled into Lang's mill
the other day and some of thu help asked
him if he wanted a job. He asked what he