Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-03-06
WESTFELD.


Andrew Crawford has moved back from
Bolton.
Etienne and Clyde Reed have gone to
New Hampshire.
VIII Benware has been working this
winter for Dr.. A. Young.
Mrs. Laura Gilman has come to Mrs
Homer Burnhsm's for the season.
Mrs Clarissa Wright has come to reside
with her daughter, Mrs. o. P. Wright.
Isaac Wilson of this town and Miss
Moffat Of Sutton, P. O., were married
recently.
The village schools closed Friday, Mar.
Sd. q pupils were enrolled in the primary
grade. Ten pupils had no marks during
the term: Natalie Bailey, Gerald Bickford,
Emma Green, Harley Green, Roy Green,
Lee Miller, Archie Parker, Morris Wheeler,
Katie Wheeler and Lyle Wood worth.
Ethel Bailey, Hazel GiIpin, and Walter
Parker were each absent ono day. Lyle
Woodwork and Harley Green have at
tended school every day daring the past
year.
At the Congregational church meeting
| held Feb. 25, the Rev. M. W. Farman was
| chosen moderator. 1t was voted to
rescind the vote locating the prospective
| new church on the lot near Mrs. Betsey Z.
Stebbins' and it was voted to locate on tie
| O'Strout place nearly opposite Dodge's
store provided the same could be procured
at a reasonable price. 1t was voted that in
case of the purchase the committee be
authorized to dispose of the old buildings
on the O'Strout place and also of the
present church building and lot when the
church is through using the same. The
building committee having charge of the
same consists of w. B. Gilpin, Walter D.
Bell, and Homer B. Hitchcock.
On the afternoon of Saturday, Feb %,
Laurens Roster Annis passed away at the
home of Mrs. Warner on West Hill, aged
seventy five years and six days. His death
was not unexpected, as he had been in
decline for months and even years. Since
last spring he had been with Mrs. Warner,
who gave him careful attention. His wife,
| who was not able to care for him at their
home in the village, was with him for
| several weeks before the end came. The
funeral was held at Mrs. Warmers on the
following Monday afternoon and the
| interment was in the town cemetery by
| the side of his first wife and a little son.
| The Rev. NJ. w. Farman was the officiating
clergyman; F. S. Hammond of North Troy
| was the manager, and the bearers were
Ashley Farman, Wallace Wakefield, D. M.
Titus, and Herbert Z. Reed. His son, the
| Hon. o. 8. Annis OF North Troy, accom-
panied by Mrs. Annis and two of their
| children, Ruth and Paul, were present at
| the funeral. L. K. Annis, who was the
son of Nathaniel F. and Mehitable Hunt
| Annis, was born in Ryegate, Feb. 10, 1880.
He was the youngest and last surviving
member of a family of five sons and three
daughters. His brother, DR.. Abiathar W.,
was for years physician in this town.
| His rother Wheaton lived for a time in
| Newport. His brother, Nathaniel E., Jr.,
lived for a time in Potion, P. @ near
North Troy, and later went to Saratoga,
| n. Y. His sister, Lois, married Milo Bur-
bank, the miller, and became the mother
l
Burbank. Mr.. Annis was a cousin to
J. R. b. and Nj. Hunt of North Troy.
When boy and young man Mr.. Annis
lived in Haverhill and Bath, N. H, and in
Barnet and Newbury, VT. He attended
school in Newbury. For a time he read
medicine with a physician, but never
attended lectures. He came to this town
in 1857 and thereafter his residence con-
tinued most of the time here and in Troy
including three or four years in Potion,
P. Q. In 1858 he and Miss Ella M Hull
, OF this town were united in marriage at
North Troy by Rev. Moses Pattee. Two
children were born to them, Ernest, who
died about 1861, aged fifteen months, and
Orien Sanda, who was born Nov. 15, 1866,
and who is now the we'll known lawyer at
North Troy. Mrs. Annis died Sept. 2,
1888, and in 1890 Mr.. Annis married Miss
Emily A. Brown, who survives him. Mr..
Annis was plaster and brick mason and
also did carpenter work. He had held the
office of justice of the pea ce and served as
trial justice here, also appeared in court az
counsel in justice suits. He was ex-
Y ceptlonally quick in repartee, making ii
next to impossible to get joke on him, q
O gilt which his son has inherited. He was
KIND, obliging neighbor, loving father,
and sympathetic friend. He was strongly
attached to this to Wn and its people. IL
1893, while living on his wife's farm in
u Troy, be suffered a shock. He rallied
somewhat from this and moved back tC
n his house in this village. He never fully
regained himself and gradually the
"a shadows heightened until the end came
We shall hold mis- name in long and tender
memory.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.