Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-07-20

Kew. Z. j. Browns discourse greatly COM
forted the afflicted ones. The floral gifts
were beautiful. The bereaved ones have
much sympathy In their affliction.
EAST CHARLESTON.
Miss Hattie Goodwin is at home for
visit.
Fred Stoddard of Barton visited here
recently.
Veda Hand has gone to Holland to stop
for the present.
c. 81. Morse returned to his home in
Lowell, Mass July 14th.
Mr.. Swett, who is i'll with typhoid fever,
remains about the same.
Harley and Leon Moody are home from
Lyndon for their vacation.
Herbert Currier of Philadelphia, Pa,
is the guest of R. p. Stevens.
B. F. Tripp has been entertaining two
nieces from Proctorsville this week.
Mrs. Clarence Crow is entertaining a
sister and children from Massachusetts,.
DIR. and Mrs. A. e. Parlin and daughter
of Barton Landing were in town last week.
Mrs. Annie Wolcotts mother, brother
and family from Lynn, Mass, are visiting
her.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. c. Lang and son of
Barton visited friends here the first of the
week.
Mrs. J. G. Peene of Fox Hall, with her
aunt and granddaughter, was in town
Monday.
Telephones have been placed in the
houses of A. c. Gallup and Eugene Buck
the past week.
Gerald Plunkett of Barton is spending
some time with his uncle, E. H. Buck,
and will assist in the haying.
Master Percy Buck of Newport Center
has come to pass the haying season with
his uncle, Wilson Buck.
Misses. Maud and Grace Gould of Barns
ton, P. Q have been spending the week
with their cousin, Miss Cora Batchelder.
Mrs. j. B. Cushman is very i'll, her con-
dition being considered critical. Several
physicians have been called in consul
tation.
John Cloud, road commissioner, has
been doing permanent work on the roads
by building two fine sluices between the
village and Homer Morrilps.
her niece, Mrs. Z. II. Gray in East Charles
ton, July II, aged SO years. Her life is an
example of indomitabe courage and per-
severance in overcoming obstacles. She
was born in Charleston, W.T., Apr. %, 1910,
when the town was mostly forest with
few inha bitants. In all her SO years she
never had good health. When child she
was so frail that her parents, fearing that
she could not survive on the frugal fare of
the early settlers, sent her abroad to be
reared and educated. She early became
school teacher and having great energy
aud force of character vas prominent in
nearly all the reforms of the day. In her
own town she and Lucy Goodwin (after-
wards Mrs. DuntoD) organized the first
schoolhouse where Miss Goodwin was
then teaching, at time when Sunday
schools were bitterly denounced as HARM
full innovation by many professed Chris
tians. However, with the help and, infiu-
ence of a few of the more progressive
spirits, the two Jealous young ladies gath
cred in the children and carried on the
work with varying success till it was re-
moved to East Charleston village school
house and made a part of the regular
church work. Miss Allyn desired to be-
come a missionary and felt that good
education was an indispensable prepara-
tion. She spent several years at Newbury
Seminary where she acquired fine educa-
tion, but, her health breaking down, she
! was obliged to give up her chosen work.
By force of combined circumstances she
was brought much into the sick room and
for twelve years was practical nurse in
Boston and Lowell, Mass, ministering to
the sufferings of nearly all classes. Her
life was henceforth succession of study,
work and beuevolence. When women were
permitted to enter the medical profession
in New England she was one of the pio-
neers to take up the work for which her
training as nurse had laid the foundation.
She entered the New England Female
Medical College and after taking the course
of studies there, with her characteristic
thoroughness, she entered another college
open to both sexes and graduated in
class Of four ladies and sixteen gentlemen.
She had large and successful practice in
Lowell, Mass, for nearly thirty years,
when, feeling the infirmiries of age, she
closed her home in Lowell and removed to
Vermont where she spent the remainder of
her life In the homes of her nephews and
nieces. Her life has been one of self sacri-
| flee that she might have more means to
dispense to the sick, the needy and for the
spread of the Gospel. Truly ''She hath
done what she could" and is entered into
| glorious and immortal rest, and multi
| tude whom she has relieved from suffering
and want shall "rise up and call her bles-
| sec, - for hath not the Master said "Inas-
much as ye did ii unto one of the least of
these ye did it unto me" and ''Thou hast
been faithful over few things | will make