Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-10-20
Glover.


work.
Miss Bessie Fayer is at work at N. H.
Wilson's.
The house on the Bogue place is being
repaired.
Work on the electric light plant is being
pushed rapidly.
The work on the new parsonage is pro-
crossing rapidly.
Mr.. and Mrs. q. F. Osgood have gone to
Portsmouth, N. II.
Mrs. Wilbur Scott has not been as we'll
for the last few days.
A. ID. Abbott and E. A. Norton went to
Boston on the excursion.
Roswell Mason is canvsssing this town
for the Century Book of Facts.
Poles are being drawn to extend the
Peoples Telephone line to Albany.
The M. e. choir rehearsal will be held at
Geo. Humphreys next Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. II. Percival visited at
r. E. French's in st. Johnsbury last week.
Glover sends its quota to the Barton
lecture course as usual. The concert was
much appreciated.
Miss Kittie Smith, who has been in
Lowell with her aunt for some time past,
has returned home.
Petitions are being circulated by the w.
Z. L. U. here in regard to the referendum
and the prohibitory law.
Benz. Wilson has returned from Bakers
field, where he has been to have a ma
hgnant growth removed from his lip.
Mr.. Woodruff is conscious at intervals
but 1t is thought he will have to be
operated upon before he will fully recover
his reason.
Lightning Istruck John Arthur's barn
yesterday afternoon causing fire which
destroyed the barn and the crops stored
herein, and one COW.
w. +. Clark has sold the seasons slabs
at Lawrence's mill to Mr.. Comstock of
Barton. A carload of them was freighted
to st. Johnsbury last week.
Burglars put in thorough nights. work
here last Saturday night. They first broke
into the blacksmiths' shops, both Young's
and Wilson's, and after stealing some tools
proceeded to break into Merriam's grist
mill and B. U. Wells store. At Mr.. Wells
store they broke into the cash drawer and
the safe. They failed to secure any money
and after stealing some candy, cigars, etc.,
left for parts unknown.
The following article is copied from the
st. Adams Messenger. Mr.. Stone will be
remembered by some of our citizens as the
son of the Rev. Mr.. Stone who resided here
many years ago. Mr.. Stone also preached
at the Congregational church in Barton for
a time.
"James Palmer Stone, who died of heart
failure September 5, at his home in Ripon.
Wis, was at one time a resident of this
|city, and married Miss Ruby A. Church,
who is a sister of Mrs. A. j. Lang, of Con,
|gress street. He was born in Cabot, Sept.
'13th, 1886, and was son of the Rev. Levi
IHuntoon Stone. Three of his uncles also.
'out of a family of ten, became Congrega-
tional ministers. The Rev. Levi II. Stone
held several Vermont parishes besides that
OF his native town, Cabot, became cha plain
of the first Vermont regiment in the Civil
War, and was for one term chaplain of the
Vermont senate. Mr.. and Mrs. Church
had two children, James l.. and Harriet E.,
both born in this city. At the opening of
he Civil War Mr.. Stone enlisted as band
master in the Second Vermont regiment,
Dfwhich his brother Lauriston was quarter
master. Both brothers were captured and
Experienced the horrors Of Belle Isle and
Andersonville. Mr.. Stone was promoted
70 be second lieutenant of Co. 1, in Decem.
per, 1861. Some thirty years ago Mr.. Stone
vent to live in Ripon, where he engaged
IN insurance business. In earlier wears he
md Mrs. Stone united with the Methodist
hurch in this city, and later he was affilia-
ed with the Ripon Congregational church,
whose choir leader he had been for long
er1od."
West Glover.
c. w. Cook is home from Washington.
Mr.. Bishops people are moving to wor-
Pster.
Miss Ella Lampman has gone to her
ONE in Canada.
s. T. Vance, our town representative, was
ONE over Sunday.
Fred Knight is building a sugar house
take the place of one burned last season.
Miss Gertrude Mason is the happy pos
ssor of one of A. r. Cowles' best organs
a piano case.
Mrs. DEMO is in very poor health. Her
ece, Miss Lucy Calderwood, has been
ppping with her.
Mr.. and Mrs. @. F. Cutler and Mrs. David
meron went to Craftsbury Friday to
end the funeral of John Anderson.
Mrs. VIM. Mitchell remains quite low.
that loving friends can do is being
ne to prolong her stay with them.
Edward Tlchurst lost one of his farm
rises last week by It's getting loose and
ing up into the upper floor and falling
o the scuttle.
among those who are spending the week
he Stub" are VIM. Cameron, Hermon
Bscott, Mr.. and Mrs. Turcotte, Mrs. Has
gs, Minnie and Genevieve McCaffrey,
to Cameron, Earl Barber and Roy
les.
|ue NJ, wife of Judson t. Stevens of
st Glover, died at Norwich Oct. IL.
}. Stevens had a long and painful illness
ch she bore with Christian fortitude
resignation. Aside from devoted
band she leaves a daughter, father and
her and two brothers in Nova Scotia,
I'm the West and and two sisters in