Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-02-05
BARTCN.


Wesley Powell Is quite.sick at DIR. MIC
hoIs'. c. r. Morse Is caring for him.
Eula Sheldon is at Troy visiting relatives
at that place.
Mrs. 2. Stone OF ct. Johnsbury visited
her mother, Mrs. Mary Goodro, recently.
James Mcfarland is in the employ of
Bean & Mossman, training horses.
Harry Damon was In WoodsviIle, n. H.,
on business last Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs w. n. Clspper OF North
Troy visited several days at Walter Good
ro's last week.
Fred P,rcival is building a fine boat
house near the freight station where he
will house one or two motor boats.
II. t. Seaver has sold his cottage at
wiIloughby Lake to c. ID. French of Bar
ton Landing.
f. K. Flanders has returned from his
business trip at Boston, Worcester and
Nashua.
Mrs. II. K. Dewey is still in a critical
condition and has a trained nurse from
Boston caring for her.
f. l.. Taylor was in St. Johnsbury and
took an examination for increase OF PEN
sion Wednesday.
Mr.. Z. II. Page has been spending few
days with his sister, Mrs. fHoratio Dever-
eaux.
Pitcher and Magoou, hunters, returned
Thursday from a hunt with thirteen
rabbits.
Edgar Valley and Dulpheis Martell have
gone to St. Johnsbury, and secured work
OF the Fairbanks Scale Company.
N. P. Uassivant has returned from Man
chester, N. H., and is back in the Crystal
Lake House sctingas porter.
Horatio Devereahx got quite badly hurt
at Ufford's sswnill in Greensboro, Thurs
day, by log rolling on him.
John Wylie went to the freight station
Thursday for goods for e. A. Barrows, and,
after loading a 800 pound barrel of molas-
ses, the horse gave a sudden start when
the barrel fell out OF the wagon, the head
came out and sweetness covered the ground.
HARDWICK.
Oscar johnson was born in Albany, Jan.
II, 1886 and died in Hardwick, Jan. "a,
1906 He was the son of Abraham and
Aurila fChamberlain) Johnson. The
early part OF his life was spent in the town
in whlcn be was born. In 1851 when his
country called for men to preserve the
Union, be enlisted in Company ID, 4th
Vermont, and served for a little over q
j. Cor
ity, When discharged he Immediately re-
TUNED to his native state and home in
A1&nJ. When sufficiently recovered from
hi4 army experience to permit him to
[f4YeI and work, he left his home for the
bsf and the next twenty years of his life
#tte speSt in Illinois and Ohio. Becom- !
sug oncesAhore incapacitated for work By
4ck OF Slzealth, he returned to Albany.
Nr. Johnson was a man OF remarkably
1trong constitution andl abundant vitality,
and soon recovered his strength and a
goodly degree of health. In 1894 Mr.. john
+ son married Mrs. Lydia A. Hovey. Mfs.
Hovey had two sons, the issue of pre-
vious marriage. TO these boys Mr.. John
son became a most excellent stepfather.
Soon after his marriage Mr.. johnson
with his family moved to Hardwick To
the welfare of these boys Mr.. johnson
and his estimable wife most essidiously
devoted themselves, and their labor was
not In vain, for they have made noble
young men, morally pure, Christian gen.
tlemen. John, the elder, Is bookkeeper for
the Woodbury. Granite Co., and with his
wife lives here in town, and during this
last illness, he and his wife have been of
incalculable value in sympathy and active
aid to both Father and Mother johnson.
Lester, the younger, is on his last year in
Princeton university, and a bright career
seems TO be IN store for him. Twelve
years OF holy wedlock have been given Mr..
and Mrs. Johnson; eleven of them with
very few clouds, but this last. year none
can tell but those who have passed through
It how much OF anxiety and care can be
crowded into year By day and by night
with ever cesseless vigil, and teaderest
ministratious, this devoted wife has dem
onstrated to our whole community that
some matches are made 10 Heaven. Mr..
Johnson was a Iovable man, he did not
grow old, his spirit was ever young; and
therefore he drew one to MIN. be was an
honorea citizen, good neighOor, loyal
friend, a wise counselor, a msn whose
word was as good as his bond, one of Gods
noblemen. About year ago, Mr.. John
son went TO the hospital In Burlington,
and had an operation for cancer, but the
operation failed to save him, and since
that time he steadily failed. and in spite of
all that his faithful physician could do,
ne suffered fortunes inexpressible. But
Mr.. Johnson had learned to lean on the
arm that gives strength in weakness, and
TO those who visited him it was apparent
that God had given him the graces OF for
tltude and patience in an exceeding great
degree. Having lived life OF moral recti-
tude, having in an eminent degree the
graees OF Christian character, yet this
man strong in the strength of his own in