Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-12-30

Boston were here to attend the wedding of
E. c. Ellis and Hiss D. NJ. Ford, Wednes-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. D. Patterson of Albany
were the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. f. G.
Brown Friday, and Mr.. and Mrs. F. @.
Brown were at ID. Patterson's on Christ
mas day.
The Pythian Sisters assembly, which
was to have been held on the evening of
Jan. 8, is postponed until Jan. 9. All re-
ceiving previous invitations are requested
to be present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Gage, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Gage, Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Stewart,
MIR. and Mrs. Claude Clifford were with
friends in Coventry, Wednesday.
Nj. NJ. Taplin was at woodsville, n. H.,
last week where he closed out by auction
brick yard and outfit, 1t being a bank
rupt sale. This week, he goes to sell a
large amount of property at Monroe, N. h.
c. s. Hussey and Miss Lucina Lemay
were married at the M. e. parsonage Christ
mas day by Rev. w. R. Davenport. Mr..
Hussey is in the employ of j. A. Boden
and Miss Le.nay has been employed by the
Peerless company at Barton.
| The chiIdren's exercises at the NJ. E.
church last Tuesday evening were said to
be very fine. The committee under whose
auspices they were carried out consisted of
Mrs. l.. M. K1nsley, Mrs. A. e. Ordway,
Miss Stella Twombly, Miss May Wiley
and Miss Gertrude Lyon.
Miss Della May Ford, daughter OF George
Ford, and Edgar Charles Ellis of Concord,
N. H., were married at the brides fathers
Wednesday, Rev. G. l.. Shaeffer officiating.
The happy couple received many beautiful
and costly presents. 1t is understood they
will make their home at Concord, N H.
The sale of stamps at the post Office dur
ing the Christmas rush was greater than in
any past year. The increase in the one cent
stamps was zoe, and In the two cent stamps
200 About 900 of the two cent stamps
and 800 of the one cent denomination were
sold while good number of the larger de-
nominations were disposed of.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. III. Brown spent Christ
MAS with relatives at Lyndonville. DIR.
and Mrs. Parlin were at Island Pond
Christmas day. Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Dud-
ley and Ed win spent Wednesday with
relatives at Lyndonville. Mr.. and Mrs.
Ralph Hooker OF st. Johnsbnry were with
relatives at the Valley house. Earle Ord
way of New York city was with friends
here, and Harry Wellman of Hanover,
N. H., was here on Christmas day.
Occasionally the MoNIToR has referred to
the most venera bic lady in town, namely
Mrs. John Leonard, as she has been near
ing her 100th birthday, and we have alwayg-
hoped she would round out the century
, list, but. the messenger. Death called
for her Thursday, and shs departed O.
few months before her 100 milestone,
Mrs. Leonard has been in feeble health for
a number of years. About II years ago
she had pneumonia, and though she rail-
, lied from that in a measure she ha neve
been strong since, and for the last two
years has been in bed. About three weeks
ago she began to show signs of falling, and
! gradually the spark of life went out. She
retained her senses up to the last, and at
the last made motion with her hand, to
: let her friends know she was going. Miss
Watey Dean was born in Dudley, Mass,
S in August, 1903, and moved with her
. father, mother, and some other children to
this place in 1929 Her father, Josiah Dean,
bought 100 acres of land wnere this village
4 stands, Epaying for it at that time 5000
There were CnIy three log houses here, and
Mr.. Dean had the frame of plank house
up. but not finished (the only framed
house in the village). The house which
he built was the one now occupied by
I Dean Rogers. His house not being COM
pleted he moved into the one empty log
house, the other two being occupied by
d families, in one Mr.. McNeal and in the
a the other Mr.. Door. The one he occup pied
stood on the site where the house known
i as the Irving Conner house now stands
d At that time there was a saWmiIl q ere.
and four years later run OF stone was in
9 stalled in one end of the sawmilI, and corn
a and feed was ground, but there being no
bolt, wheat could only be made into gra-
ham. Miss Wateg spent her girlhood and
: received her education in Dudley, Mass,
and came here when she was 20 years old
About 1880 she married John Leonard OF
: Barton, and her home has always been In
e this town, few miles south of this vii
lage. She was a daugh hter In family OF
If IL children, two only of whom are now
! living. In many ways Mrs. Leonard was g
e | remarkable woman. She was unausten-
tatious, gentle, quiet, home-lovins, with q
II retentive memory, social, an interesting
n woman TO converse with on account of
. her intelligence and knowledge of past
events. She was a great reader of the BIZ
BILE, and memorized many passages which
she quoted freely during her sick ness.
= Though she never made public profession
- of religion she is said to have practiced
and lived it constantly. Her husband d led
in February, 1871, and being an invalid, she
y tenderly cared for him FOR fourteen years,
Is aud in this school OF affiction and care
n she learned the lesson of patience and
lnnp-snfferfnp urhfch rinaned her for n<