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

as full OF clear and convincing argu-
rents against the opening OF saloons on /
-ermont's noble soil. at the close OF the '
Exercises all who were opposed to the sa- /
DON law were asked to rise to their feet,
yhen the whole audience arose. We hope
very voter present will remember his
,lec ge when he comes to the polls Feb. 3.
DERBY LINE.
VIII. Spaulding has recovered from his
recent illness.
Mrs. Clarence Knight of Morrisv1lle has
been visiting Mrs. M. F. Hackett.
Mrs. Carpenter, mother of Mr.. Chas.
Carpenter, has recovered from her illness.
Gen. F. 6. Butterfield attended the meet
ing of the North American Fish and Game
Protective Association at Ottawa recently.
The twenty eighth anniversary OF the
marriage of Mr.. and Mrs. 81. E. Foster OF
the Derby Line hotel was observed last
Monday in a very pleasant manner, the
Ladies' Aid Society of the Un1versallst
church and other friends presenting them
with several nice gifts.
Inc lines Oh the OIauSlSdu LloSiLiS hASh
| Co. are completed and as soon as the dy-
| namos are installed at the power house at
West Charleston the system will be in
working order. 1t is thought that the
metre system will be adopted, instead OF
the fiat rate in effect heretofore.
BEEBE PLAIN.
Mr.. and Mrs Ezra Austin have returned
from Boston.
Miss Hattie Johnson of Sherbrooke Is
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. G. 81. McClintock.
Miss Lottie Bayley was called home from
McGill Normal School, Montreal, by the
death of her brother Grover.
Grover Bayley, only son of Mr.. and Mrs
G. T. Bayley, shot himself accidentally
Tuesday while attempting to remove
shell from the barrel of rifle. The bulle
passed through the heart, killing hin
almost instantly. He had been attending
, Stanstead college and was very popnla
with all his associates. Much sympathy
, felt for his family in their great affection
, CLOVER.
Mrs, w. Z. Leonard and daughter Hattie
of Whitefield, N. H., are visiting in toWT
Mrs. Abbie Clark Flood, who has bee
y absent from town for twenty years,
' visiting her mother, and sister, Sarah KIM
o Mrs. Clara Hoffman spoke for an hot
or more at South church last Friday ever
ing to an interested audience. The poln
she made were we'll worth the earne
Ii thought of every voter in Vermont. 1t
to be regretted that the men who mo
er needed to hear!her words are the men col
spicuous by their absence.
IS am fully aware there are many
a Glover better fitted than am to write
the life of Mrs. Nancy Crane Bickford, n
= tice of whose death I send with this; b
ne perhaps I have known most Of her lat
K life. of the wears since she left that town,
have visited her several times, my last vi
being in October of last year. know
y, came to live In Glover when only two yea
f. old: that she spent all her married L
tie there, leaving to make her home with
at daug liter Emily Mrs. Gale,) in Bath, n.
he after the death of her husband and
marriage of her daughter, Ann, who di
some years ago. She spent ten years ".
Emily and then went to live with
daughter Sarah, Mrs. Barker,) in Milws
sly kee, Wis. Although it is believed tt
cold trees cannot be safely transplantet
TO and we are Iikened to old trees in that
spect, the change in climate and SURF our
NV ings brought no evil results. She qulc
made friends in her new home, and whe
visited her two years ago found her hap
JIG contented, and alive to all the interests
life worth caring about. Rheumat1
mas confined her to the house, but she
cheerful and very entertaining. Her 81
,sv was her closest companion and much
~ her conversation was in testimony of
IN, abiding trust in the loving care OF
Ton heavenly Father-a trust which had gre
obe with her years, and which stood every
! a. without wavering. When last I saw b.
tb- last October she had just experienced
of the keenest disappointments of her
Her eldest son, Harvey, whom she had
was seen for over thirty years, had written
DAY he was coming to visit her. She was
7 an Glad and happy for expression Just W
dis she thought he might arrive any mon
on word came that he was obliged to p
way. pone the visit. expected to find her SO
rom grieved and depressed. On the cont
inter- she said to me in tone of confidence t
N.Y. was no mistaking: "It is all right, K
d at it is, for our heavenly Father never NJ
nlcn mistake; He knows just what is bes
'Wer each of his children. II 1 don't see
e by here I shall over there" No impat
IS II complaining, no wasting of energy in
x to less repining- just simply liUing her
He that "He doeth all things WELL" 1t
ut beautiful to witness and will be PREF
IL memory and helpful lesson. To her
reel JOY both her daughters were with he
lively last months of her life. There was no ST
'hers ing at theta She ceased to be interest
e sa- affairs, dropped the work with whic
7ered had busted herself, daily the strength
the less, until there came day when, at 4