Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-02-23

johnson last Monday and is recovering
from her severe illness.
The Ladies' Aid Society OF the Cong'l
church will serve dinner in the vestry OF
the church town meeting day.
Miss Esther Caples, who had not been
away from home over night for forty
years, visited her niece in Troy last week.
Edward Knapp, who has been nurse in
a Boston hospital the past few months,
has been quite i'll, but the latest news re-
ports him recovering.
Mr.. Henry Clifford died last Friday after
painful illness. He was a respected citi-
zen of the town and leaves a wife with
quite large family OF children.
Mr.. Faxon Kidder, who has been great
sufferer from heart disease, died last Fri
day morning, aged AZ years. Mr.. Kidder
had always lived in this town and was
respected citizen, upright and honest in
all his dealings. He was the last one of
the Kidder brothers with whom the Kid
der district and Kidder hill has so long
been associated. He leaves wife and one
son, William.
About 35 of the friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
s. F. Slack called upon them last Wednes-
day evening, it being their 25th wedding
anniversary. The bleak wind and low
temperature outside seemed only to add
to the warmth and glow of the festivities
inside. A bountiful supper of hot oysters
with a nameless variety of other good
things were served. A gift of a nice silver
tea service was presented Mr.. and Mrs.
Slack, to which Mr.. Slack responded in
appreciative words of thankfulness, not
only for the gift, but for the presence of
his friends and neighbors, making the
evening one never to be forgotten, but
cherished with pleasant. memories. Surely,
''He has carried every poirt who has min
gled the useful with the agreeable"
LOWELL.
w. M. Kelley is having telephone put
In at his residence.
81. 81. Adams was in town Saturday to
take in stock for the first time this season.
Mrs. Sarah Sanborn and Miss Sanborn of
Eden Mills visited at DIR. Hills last week.
Carroll Powers is at home from Derby
academy for the spring vacation of two
weeks.
Clarence Parker has been suffering from
grip and was unable to run his box shop
number of days last week.
Sam'l Chase was able to come to the vii
lage last Saturday. He has been laid up
for three months with broken leg.
An entertainment by the Cong'l church
people is projected for the second Tuesday
evening in March. The program will be
published later.
Francis Murphy has purchased the Pat
Murphy farm adjoining his home place
and now owns one Of the largest farms in
town. He will be able to keep thirty COWS.
The c. E. Society will furnish dinner
March meeting day in the basement of the
Wellman store for Is cents a. plate. Drop
in and get good dinner for small price
and help along a good cause.
The town reports are issued in printed
form and by now should be in the hands
of nearly every taxpayer. Look them over
carefully and if you discover any needed
improvements make them March Sd.
1t is well to correct one item in last
weeks news, the one regarding the age of
Mahlon Farman in whose honor the party
was given. He has not yet arrived at the
age of q and does not mean to pay taxes
for two years at least.
A hearing in the case of state VS.. Free
hart for assault was held before Justice W
M. Parker last Thursday, Farman for the
State, Freehart Sr. for the defendant. Free
hart was bound over in the sum of $1,000 to
await the action of the grand jury.
W. FL. Kimball has sold bis farm together
with ten COWS, one horse and farming tools
to Samuel Laclair. The price reported is
|, about $1,000. Mr.. Laclair has taken posses
sion and Mr.. Kimball has moved into the
. Sanborn house on the plain. He will re-
main in town for the present.
An entertainment by the Colored Four
Hundred, given by the Eden people Tues
day evening was very good and consider
ing the extreme cold and bad roads was
well attended. Their chorus work and
solos by Mr.. Blake and others were much
appreciated.
The box party given by the Epworth
+. League at the hall Friday evening was not
very well attended but made up in enthu-
siasm and fun what it lacked in numbers.
a The boxes were sold at auction, Geo. Curtis
acting as auctioneer, and brought prices
ranging from 20 cents to $1.3O. The receipts
: were about $6.
MORGAN.
Samuel Lord is slowly failing.
Mrs. Alice CaIkins is sick with bronchitis.
q Marcia Bartlett has been at Ora Bur-
{ rough's the past week.
Y The auditors have posted their notice to