Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-08-04

1t was Mrs. Mac1a'S house, ana not
barn, as reported last week, that has been
moved on to the new foundation.
Rev. E. P. Treat returns home this week
and here will be the usual services at the
Congregational church next Sunday.
Mrs Luke Loverin of West Derby is Wis
iting friends in town. Mr.. Loverin is
helping to do the haying on his farm.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. B. Brewster returned
from their trip to Seattle, where they have
been to visit their daughter, last Saturday
night.
Prof. and Mrs. Gates went last Wednes-
day to visit friends in Connecticut, after
which they will return to Lima, N. Y,
where Mr.. Gates has a good position as
teacher.
The farm house in West Newport,
owned by Joe Lanou and occupied by
Charles Macia, was burned last Thursday
night. Mr.. and Mrs. Macia were away at
the time and were unable to save anything
from their household goods. 1t is sup
posed that the house was struck by light
ming.
Miss Ida Goss, the ten year old
daughter of Henry Goss, who lives on
Morrill, Hill, met with serious runaway
accident last Wednesday. She had just
finished raking hay with the horse rake
and was starting for home when the horse
started on full run down the hill to the
common. Men at Mr.. Carpenters tried to
stop the horse but the animal was under
such Roadway they were unable to do so.
However, coming past the schoolhouse, it
Stacked its pace enough so that Ida, who
had managed not to be thrown off, took
the reins, and aside from a few slight
Injuries, was safely landed on the common,
and home again, as her father, who saw
the horse start, had nearly overtaken them.
jay.
Geo. Martin has his house ready to move
into.
Mr.. Banister has his barn up and partially
enclosed.
Geo. Myers has purchased the Dan
Whitman place.
Maud Chase has gone to Williamstown
| to visit her uncle.
Myrtle Wakeman finished her school in
Dist. No. 5. Aug. LIST.
! Sargent & Trim have given up the Noun
tain house and farm and have left town.
The Snow Brothers have engaged e. II
Titus to see to the cutting of the hay on
the Paine estate.
The people in general are nearly or quite
half done haying. The season is very late
but the crop is excellent.
Lowell.
Mrs. Charles Austin of Freedonia, N Y,
is visiting at B. J. Austin's.
Charles Sanborn of Winchester, Mass, is
visiting his brother, l.. o. Sanborn.
The Ladies Aid Society met last Friday
afternoon with Mrs. Ross c. Kinsley.
Haying has progressed finely the past
week and there is large crop in this town
Mrs. Ella Curtis and guests visited
friends in Enosburg and Bakersfield last
week.
Julius Deblois recently sold to H. H
Adams, six weeks old calf that weighed
go pounds.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Newton visited at Dr.
Geo. H. Newton's in Cambridge two days
last week.
Mrs. S. F. Goodheart is visiting her peo-
pie in Fairfield. She will be absent bout
three weeks.
Mrs. Frank Sargent has been very ill the
past week with spinal Die but is some
better at present.
Carroll Dwinell and family who have
been visiting at E. S. Coolbeth's have re.
turned to their home in Lynn, Mass.
DIR. and Mrs. H. III. Hill have returned
from New York, where the doctor has
been for medical treatment. They were
absent about four weeks.
Charles Corliss and Miss Eva Guyett
were married at the r. c. church Monda.
morning at o'clock. Rev. FIR. Turcott
of Barton performed the ceremony.
A petition is being circulated for the lay
ing out OF road up the valley to Tucker
mill. In view of the fact that active opera
lions in asbestos are about to begin, 1
would seem that some business might b
brought this way If such road was built
Mr.. and Mrs Justus Hubbell of Wolcot
aud G. w. Stone and son of Buffalo, N. Y
visited two days last week at B. ]. Austin's
/. Mr.. Stone is brother of Mrs. Austin. H
: has been for many years conductor Of
the Pennsylvania railroad.
The many friends OF Mrs. Lucy B. Austin
. formerly Mrs. Cheney, will regret to lear
of her death, which occurred Thursday
July "a, at the home of her son, Mr.. P. Che
ney, in Hyde Park. Her maiden nam
d was Lucy B. Wright, and she was born 1
Bakersfield, Feb. 20, 1910, her father, Davi
3 Wright being one of the very first settler
in that town. Sept q, 1881 she was maj
]. ried to s. Boynton Cheney, and after man
years spent in Waterville and Johnso
q moved to Lowell where she lived fc
twenty-three years. Eight children wei
v born TO them, of whom only one survive
Myron P. Cheney of Hyde Park with whol
s she has lived for the past eleven years
One daughter, Alberta, was the wife {
3 the late l.. r. Wellman of Lowell. M
Cheney died in March 1869. In Decembt
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