Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-03-17


DuttOn.
Mr.. Taylor and wife, who have been
spending the winter in st. Johnsbury, have
returned home
Geo. Litchfield was called to Newport
last Thursday to help care for Ethel
O'Rourke's nephew, who is very ill with
pneumonia.
The Good Templars will give a necktie
social and entertainment in the academy
hall Thursday evening, Mar. 81. All are
cordially invited ard the ladies are REQUEST
ed to bring refreshments for two, also two
neckties.
East Bloomington.
Mr.. Pierce is sick at Job Browns.
Miss Maude Sheldon is working for
Harry Bickford.
The lumber teams are all back from the
woods as the result of the big thaw
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Drown and daughter
visited friends at Island Pond last week.
c. w. Skinner IS having bay window
added to his house, and doing other in
side work which will add much to the
convenience of the house.
Bloomington Center
Will Hill has finished work for D. T.
Grapes.
William Smith is being treated for a
cancer.
D. l. Grapes has sold his valuable PAGER
i to party from Burlington.
Eorooo
bought the G. w. Going farm.
Melvin Cheney of Charleston is working
for w. F. Morey in his sawmill.
DIR. ]. F. Wright has sold his house in
this village to Rev. c. J. Brown.
Frank Pierce recently visited his cousin,
Mrs. George Cowling of st. Johnsbury.
Mrs. A. E. Denison of Barton Landing
visited at E. A. Robinson's last week.
Clayton Burrows went to Poughkeepsie,
n. Y, last week to attend a business col
! lege.
Frank Wells, who was quite sick for a
few days, is better. Mrs. Wells still re-
mains in a critical condition.
About twenty of the off cial members of
the church met with Rev. G. J. Brown for
a social conference last Wednesday after
| noon.
Rev. Mr.. Brown went to St. Johnsbury
last week to visit Rev. j. D. Sherburne,
| who has been so unfortunate as to break
one of his legs.
Mrs. Betsey Pierce is home from Barton
Landing, where she has been the past few
weeks helping care for the sick ones at
Herbert Leland's.
The Cleaners will serve hot maple sugar
in the dining room of the church next
Thursday evening. After supper the pas
tor will give talk on ''Some People
Have Met"
Mrs. Oliver A. Dryer recently received
the sad intelligence that her youngest
brother had died in England. Mr. Broad
bent had followed the sea a number of
years and wrote home saying he would
visit his birthplace and relatives, then
would come home and settle down. He
was on his way to Bristol to sail for
America, when he was suddenly taken ill
with pneumonia, which proved fatal.
Evansville.
Miss Maud Sheldon is working at Geo.
Bickford's.
D. II. Randall has bought the Foster &
Guild bobbin mill.
Frank Marshall has hired with VIM.
Monteith to work in the mill
Jos. Smith of Westmore has commenced
work for the Pike Mfg. Co.
Frank Wiley has finished work for Pike
Mfg. Co. and has taken J. G. Gray's sugar
place.
Henry Durham was quite severely hurt
by having log roll on to him. Fortunate
ly no bones were broken.
East Charleston.
G. o. Goodwin is on the sick list.
j. D. Moody has taken A. c. Fellows
sugar place.
Mr.. Lorenzo Danforth died last Thurs
day of pneumonia.
Avery Baird has bought house in the
village of II. A. Gray and will move soon.
Austin Bushaw, lwho went to Derby last
fall, moved his goods there last week.
Mrs. w. E. Tripp has taken her son
Ralph to Boston again for treatment for
his hearing.
Mrs. Julia Davis, who is very ill with
measles and pneumonia, is little better at
the present writing.
The sugar party, which was to be given
in the vestry last Thursday evening, was
, postponed on account of sickness.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Gallup, who went to
Saratoga, n. Y, last fall intending to re-
} main there, have returned. They think
r old Vermont good enough for them.
Misses Effie and Mabel Hand spent Sat-
urday and Sunday with friends in town.
Mrs. M. M. Cheney visited friends in
; Bloomington last week.
. West Charleston.