Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-01-28

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Simpson of Lyndon
visited their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. +. s.
Phillips, last week and Mrs Simpson at
tended the grange meeting.
c. F. Clark of Ithaca, n. Y, and A. w.
Clark of Geneva, n. Y, were here last
week to attend their grandmother's flu
neral.
School closed at the Naples last Friday.
The attendance during the last of the term
was small, as several of the children have
/ the whooping cough.
One of Frank Wolcott's team horses
slipped on the ice in Barton village one
day recently, falling and striking his head
in such manner as to kill him almost in
stantly.
Edwin Alexander went to LyndonviIle
last week with a large load of dressed
pork. Aldrich & Alexander are making
success OF the hog business They re-
Gently sold fine specimens of breeding
stock to go to breeders away.
About twenty of the friends OF Chas. b.
Porter gathered at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Il. L. Anderson last Tuesday evening
! TO remind him of his 2lst birthday. A
pleasant evening was passed with games
and music. Refreshments of cake and
coffee were served.
We record with sorrow the death of one
OF our Oldest and most respected citizens.
Mrs. Eliza Janet Clark, who died Saturday.
Jan. 10. Mrs. Clark recently fell and broke
her nip, later she had hemorrhage of the
stomach, which caused her death. Mrs.
clark has hardly had a sick day for forty
years, and possessed an exceedingly strong
constitution. Though somewhat enfeebled
by age she has been about the house with
the vigor of much younger person. Eliza
Janet King was the daughter of the late
u. W. and Hannah King, ard a sister of
the late james King of Chicago. She was
, porn In Glover November 6, 1923, and
spent her life mostly in this town. She
was educated in the common schools of
this town and at DanviIle academy. She
taught school several terms in town pre-
v1ous to her marriage to Fred P. A. Clark.
which took place in 1916. Early in life she
Identified herself with the Methodist
church, OF which her husband was also
member, and has been one of its most
l prominent workers and benefactors for
years. She was a woman of much more
I than ordinary intellect, industrious. ener-
s getic and thrifty to a remarkab bic degree.
4 She was kind hearted, social, hospitable to
J. all who came to her home, and a real
q mother in Israel. Most of the townspeopIe
S claimed relationship to her and called her
"AuDt Eliza" she was so friendly to all.
and she will be greatly missed by her many
friends, She leaves to mourn her loss her
son, Judge w. F. Clark, her brother, Geo.
w. King of California, and a large number
of more distant relatives and friends. The
g funeral was held from the house. Rev. A.
w. Hewitt officiating, assisted by Rev.
John Mcdonald. The burial was in the
e village cemetery.
: WEST GLOVER.
Mrs. Mary Davio is able to sit up short
:. time.
Eugene Bickford is quite sick with cry
sipeIas.
!. Carl DwinelI was in town the first Of
: the week.
w. B. Stiles is spending short time al
N. Z. Stevens.
< Mrs. Alma Martin is spending some time
a with relatives here.
: large quantity of ice is being cut fol
the creamery and farmers.
it Mr.. and Mrs. 5. c. Wilcox of Morgan Wis.
IS tied Mrs. L. L. Hastings recently.
70 School in this village closed Jan. 25
, Miss Folsom has gone to her home.
| MoD h0 IN,
1, is sick and school is closed for few DAYS
70 Mrs. Albert Gregory from Lyndon visit.
= ed her sister, Martha Prescott, this week
d N. &c. Stevens, our energetic creamery
b man, has purchased a creamery in Crafts.
bury.
The many friends of Mrs. DEMO, who
!. has been very sick, are glad to know she il
better.
Al Mrs. Bell Cameron is at George Urie's
helping care for her sister and others in ths
family who are sick.
" GREENSBORO.
is Mrs. Martha Pettee is on the sick list.
Miss Lucy Thompson is visiting friends
" in Danvers, Mass.
Harley Warden is ill at the home OF hi.
n mother in Weldon.
F. A. Messer and family spent last Tues
% day with friends in Cabot.
r. A. Richie has new boiler for thu
n mill at the Four Corners.
The Caspian Lake Sunday School asso.
n citation will hold its eleventh annual con
vention at Greensboro Bend, Jan. 20.
"a ]. Ell. Darlington went to Cabot las
Wednesday, having received a message
that his brother in-law, John Barr, had
been injured while working in the woods
:, The members of the Presbyterian society