Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-03-24


visited relatives in Barton last week.
Mrs Flora (Kilby) Howe OF Barre is visit
ing her mother.-Miss Mabel Rogers is
home from Barre.
Troy.
M. j. Higgins is out again.
Mrs. Julia Davis is seriously ill.
Pearl Billiard is visiting in Newport.
Rev. J. E. Knapp was in town Monday.
Melvin Hazelton has work in the cream
cry.
F. M. Hammond is charging and i'm
| proving her store.
Miss Lena Hitchcock is at Wallace Mil
ler's for few days.
| Grace Chaffee is with her aunt, Mrs.
! Wheeler, for time.
Lou Miller spent some days recently with
friends in Westfield.
Mr.. Rogers of Watertown, Mass, is here
again looking after cows.
John Conner received serious cut in his
foot, from an axe, last week.
Part of the dam at the ''Mills" went out
during the recent high water.
The ladies of the Congregational society
will give a sugar social Tuesday evening,
March 25th.
Mrs. Eta Hadlock is in Derby helping
care for her father, Leonard Truax, who is
very ill with stomach trouble.
w. D. Miller has sold all of his logs ex-
cept the hemlock to Shepley & Stevens,
consequently not much saving will be
done here.
Mr.. Fred Kidder has been here the rast
week arranging to take his parents home
with him to Massachusetts where they
will reside.
The creamery opened for the season the
18th with Mr.. Clark as butter maker. He
with his wife and child is boarding at
Melvin Hazeton's.
A. j. Coburn and wife entertained a few
friends Tuesday evening, serving new
sugar. 1t is needless to say that it was
delicious, as Mr.. Coburn is'easiIy the ban
ner sugar maker of this section.
Mrs. j. S. Young, who is spending the
winter in Southern Pines, N. c., has been
remembering some of the home friends
with bouquets of arbutus. 1t is about as
we find it here the first of May, only more
of the blossoms developed.
North Troy.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Barrows were in
Coventry last week.
Mrs. B. B. Gilbert has gone to Montreal
for treatment in hospital.
Mrs. H. B. Parker and Miss Mabe
Parker were in Burlington last week.
The infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Wilbur Richardson died last Monday
Mrs. ID. T. Johnson was called to Frank
lin recently by the illness of her mother
G. H. Comstock of Newport, N. II. viii
make the butter at the creamery this sea-
son.
Mrs. Lucius K. Horner died at the Roya
Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Tuesday
morning from septicemia, caused by an
abscess. Mrs. HOrner had been in poor
health for some time. On Sunday she be-
came very i'll and was taken to the hospital
on Monday morning. She continued tC
fail until her death. The funeral was held
|
noon.
WestfieId.
Rev. J. Ellington preached in the Cong.
church Mar. %.
Rev. NJ. w. Farman arrived home last
week after an absence of two months.
Recent high water carried away por-
ton of the river bridge near c. w
Bryant's.
The directors of the town library have
engaged E. S. Miller to serve as librarian
the ensuing year.
Will Demarineau, Jr.. who was sick with
pneumonia, has since suffered much with
pleurisy. Last Thursday Drs. Young anc
Hill performed an operation.
3 Mrs. Nelson Leavitt of West Derby ha
r purchased the house in this village occu
( pied by Chas. and Burnie Gilbert. Con
' sideration, 500. Charles will move bach
5 to his farm. Burnie will move into par
of Mrs. Mary Hoyt's house. The bari
? here is admirably adapted to his use as ex
8 pressman.
. News has been received of the death o
!. Mrs. Mary Greenleaf, widow of the late
o Rev. James Smith, which occurred il
!, Morristown on Saturday, March 16. TIL
/. funeral was held the following Monday
: She was eighty-fve years of age. She re
r sided with her daughter, Mrs. James Hill
q She is survived also by her son, Jane
Smith, of Salamanca, N. Y, and b
another daughter, Mrs. o. F. Sisco c
North Troy. The Rev. James Smith was
. Methodist clerg yman of the Vermont Con
ference. During his active service b
/ served pastorate in this town. After re
firing from active work he passed his de
clining days here. Mrs. Smith was a lad
of excellent Christian character and
W loyal member of the M. E. church.
WeStmOre.
n 1. A. Wilson has returned home frol
1t ShelburDe,