Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-10-12
LOCAL NEWS.
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ISLAND POND.


meetings ever held by the Congregational |
lists of this state was held in Island Pond
last week, when dele gates representing the
Orleans County Association of Ministers
and the Quebec Association of Churches
and Ministers met in joint session in the
Congregational church, of which Rev.
Thomas Hall is pastor. There we're present
as representing the Orleans Association:
Revs. r. j. Barton, Greens boro; A. s. Bole,
Coventry; ]. 81. Gone, Derby; j. B. Lyman,
Barton Landing; A, F. McGregor, New
port; A. B. PEBBLES, Westfield; Thomas
Hall, Island Pond; E.. P. Treat, Irasburg;
s. L. Vincent, West Glover. Those repre-
senting the Quebec churches were: Reys.
81. Pedley, DR.. Hill, W. r. Harvey, E. II.
Tippett and w. Munroe of Montreal; F. j.
Day, Sherbrooke; G. Ellery Read, Stan
stead W. II. Watson, Cowansville; w. s.
Pritchard, CRANKY.
COVENTRY.
Mr.. VIM. Stevens is sick with heart
! trouble.
Miss Bird is the guest of Mrs. s. H.
| Pearson.
Il. C. Cleveland spent part of last week
In Boston.
Mrs. Nancy Stevens is visiting relatives
at Craftsbury.
Carol Bickford's family are sto piping at
Eben Stevens.
Mrs. H. e. Cleveland has been visiting at
Lowell the past week.
Mrs. Hannah Grey spent the Sabbath
with Mrs. Helen Barrows.
Mrs. Eunice Gray has gone to board for
the winter at J. P. Wheelock's.
Mrs. A. D. Thurber and Ira Wheelock
have taken a carriage drive to Cabot.
Walter Scott, who has hired the grist mill,
has moved into Mrs. G. Towers house.
Mrs. Dana Stanford of Wilder is the
guest of her mother, Mrs. Almina Collins
The W. G. T. U. met with Mrs. Helen
Barrows last Wednesday. Twelve ladies
from Irat burg were present.
May Bean, Grace Gorham and Glars
Hancock are home from North w oodstock
N. H., where they have been doing ia BILE
work for the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Batchelder ar.
spending their honeymoon in Geo. Heer
mans sugar house. Mr.. Batchelder hal
taken big job skidding logs for Mr.. Heer
man.
4 There will be q cantata in the town hal
Wednesday evening under the auspices O
the 1. o. G.. T., entitled "Dream of thu
Flowers" Twenty five children take part
Admission lie. All cordially invited.
We are panied to learn of the death o
Mr.. Charles Bean of Lowell, Mass, for
mer resident of this town. Mr.. Bean wa
brother of Mrs. 8. g. PercivaI and Gee
Bean. Only short time ago he was her
to visit them.
The experience social last Friday even
ing was a decided success. Supper wa
served to over q hundred people. Th
stories told by the women of the way the
had earned the money they had pledge
were varied and interesting. These wer
interspersed with music by Mr.. Webste
with his monograph. Mrs. Ware sang
solo.
The w. &. T. U. held parlor meetin
. with Mrs. Helen Barrows Tuesday after
q noon. Twelve ladies of the Irasburg Unto
were present. After the devotional excl
cises and regular routine business, Mr.
Pearson described her trip to Buffalo, " bic
t had been prepared and previously given {
q the Good Templars lodge, Supper
chicken pie and other good things WEI
served. Mrs. Brooks and Mrs. Thrash'
were chosen to represent the Coventl
Union at the state convention of the v
G. T. U. to be held at Woodstock Oct.
IA, Is.
The following Is copied from the Lowe
Mass, Courier.
Mr.. Charles Story Bean, for many ears
respected citizen of Lowell died Wedne
day afternoon at his home 447 Bridge :
after only weeks illness OF pneumoni
Mr.. Bean was born in Coventry, VT, Jul
16, 1880. His father, Daniel Bean, cloth
4 by occupation, was a native of Sandwic
Ia VT, and his mother, Annie Wiley, W
~ born at Sheffield, VT. Deceased receive
his education in the common school al
academy at Coventry, VT, and at
:, Johnsbury. Leaving school at the age
~ IS he engaged in farming until % years
age when he went to work in shoe shop
one year after which he started a gener
store at Coventry in which he continu
for ten years. He then closed out al
went to Newport, VT, where he eDgag
in the trading business for five years.
1873 he came to Lowell and went into t
produce business at rs Dutton street
which he continued until 1886 when he I
:. tired on account of ill health. Mr.. Be
ri was republics in politics and an atten
40 ant of the Unitarian church. His I'll
wife, Ellen M. Soper, died in 1888. In ID
in Lowell, he was united in marriage
Caroline Parthenais. Deceased is surviv
by his widow and the following nam
children by his first wife: Mrs. George
Chandler of Lowell, Mr.. Frank g. Bean,
the firm of Haines & Bean, Dutton sire
and Mrs. Ellen 8. Prouty of Newport, y
DEFERRED LOCALS.
Miss May Bean is home from the mou
tains.
Willard Herman has gone to Eden lu