Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-10-01

several days In town has returned to his
home accompanied by his mother and sis
ter who will spend the winter there.
News has been received of the serious
illness OF Mrs. Ellen Summer a former
resident here but now OF Rrattleboro.
Mrs. Lizzie Brown, her daugbter has gone
TO help care for her.
Frank Button has moved his goods to
A. :. Lsrabee's and will board there until
they can find tenement. Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Kirk have bought the house they
lived in and are moving there this week.
WESTMORE.
Remember the auction sale of COWS and
young stock at Taplin & RowelIs stables
next Friday at 10 O'Clock a. N.
WESTFRLD.
Next Sunday. Oct. z, tie pastor OF the
Congregational church will talk with men
who Toll in the fields and describe mod
ern farm.
On Tuesday evening, Sept Is, this COM
munity was saddened to learn of the pass
ing OF Mrs. Emory s. Miller, which had oc-
CURED about five O'Clock that afternoon.
Mrs Miller was taken ill on the sixteenth
OF June with what seemed to be an attack
OF Iumb ago. Later the lameness seemed to
90 to other places. For several weeks she
was in a decline. On the week preceding
| her death Miss Ida Stanley, trained nurse
| from Burlington, cared for her. There
were symptoms of bronchial pneumonia.
The immediate cause Of death however was
/ heart failure. .Rebeccs NJ. Lawrence was
| the daughter of John and Rebecca Burd ok
/ Lawrence and the ninth In a family of
/ twelve children. Born in Westford, she
came 10 Lowell with her family when a
child. She graduated from the johnson
normal school in the class of June 1879.
She followed school teaching with success.
The last of her teaching before her mar
rage was in the Somerville school at ST..
Johnsbury. On March 16, 1886, at New
port, she was married to Emory S. Miller
of this town by Rev. e. P. Wild. Since
coming here she has taught repeatedly SO
that her school work teacher numbers
fifty nine terms. In addition to this she
served as town superintendent OF our
schools for several years. For years she
had been one of the directors OF the town
library, having much to do with the selec-
ton and purchase of books. Her last term
as teacher was the fall term of the viii
lage school in 1905 when she retired
from choice. Nearly all the pupils In the
present village school have been under her
instruction. She had received life certtf-
icate to teach primary subjects In the
state of Vermont. She was a member OF
the Cong'l church and of the Ladies' Aid
Society. For years she had been teacher
In the Sunday school and had served also
as superintendent. The funeral was held
at the church on Thursday afternoon, the
Rev. f. A. Junkins officiating and F. b
Hammond managing. The singers were
from Troy. The church was filled witt
relatives and friends. The village school
which was suspended for the day, attended
in body. There was a great number o.
beautiful flowers. There was an anchor
from the Ladies' Aid Society, crescent
from the school, harp, a. pillow, and
other flowers. Mr.. Junkins paid high
tribute to the departed. The bearers were
Ed. Boynton, Arad Brown, H. o. Miller
and w. G.. Farman. The interment wa
in the cemetery here. James Lawrence
l. and wife came from UnionviIle, Conn, t
: attend the funeral, Mrs. Alice Raymond
from Stowe, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Morse from
g Bakersfield, Mrs. Sophia Wood from New
o port Center, Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman Barber
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Barber and MIR. an
Is Mrs. G. w. Cook from West Glover, Harr
is Lawrence from st Johnsbury' and friend
from Lowell and Troy. SMrs. Miller was
10 lady of good sense, high principle and X m
, heart She will be missed greatly in th
20 church, the Sunday school, the con1munit
and in her own home. She leaves a hus
band to mourn her loss, also.two sister
- Mrs Blake of Montpelier and Mrs. E. L
~ Hitchcock Of this town, and two brother
John Of Montpelier and James of Connect
lieut., and ,other more distant relative
r Her age was 80 years, months.
" DALE DOH;A COUNTY:
WEST BURKE.
le Edgar Hart has been on-the sick. list tt