Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-03-10
CALEDONIA COUNTY
WEST BURKE.

Mrs. C. E. Winter has been i'll for
the past week.
Miss Flossie Ward was i'll with the
grip last week.
Albert Silsby of Newbury was in
town last week.
Mrs. w. w. Coe has been suffering
from an attack of the grip.
C. W. Beal of Natick was a guest
of relatives in town last week.
Rev. G. H. Wright was kept indoors
last week by an attack OF the grip.
Miss Celia Hudson of Providence,
R. l., is visiting her niece, Mrs. w. j.
Hill.
w. E. Roundy has been very i'll but
is more comfortable at the present
writing.
w. K. Wright returned from Lynn
last Friday. where he had been to
visit an aunt.
Miss Celia Spencer and her brother
Ray are spending their spring vaca-
tion at home.
Miss Edna Gray of Lyndon Center,
spent Sunday with her aunt, Mrs.
H. L. Bishop.
Mrs. Lottie Campbell was operated
upon at Brightlook hospital Saturday
of last week.
Mrs. E. J. Smith and three children
from Wolcott are visiting relatives
and friends in town.
J. M. Smith has been confined to
the house for several days by lame
ness. caused by a fall on the ice.
Miss Rose Austin of East Buke
spent several days with Miss Ethel
Smith and Mrs. Russell recently.
The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Will Holtham, who has been so crltl-
cally i'll, seems a very little better.
There are no new cases of the scarlet
fever. and it is earnestly hoped that
the disease will spread no farther.
Mrs. Gordon Anger is i'll with bron-
c1ial pneumonia and a trained nurse
from St. Johnsbury is caring for her.
Mrs. J. P. Rosebrooks, Mrs. Alba
Craig and Mrs. H. M. Boyce have
been suffering with grip the past
week. e - t-.5 80
Earl Poundy closes his labors in the
store of R. W.. Densmore soon. and
Curtis Stoddard we understand is to
take his place.
All public gatherings have been
prohibited here the past week by order
Of board of health and no new cases of
scarlet fever have been reported.
Mrs. Strong, who has been working
at the Avenue House, st. Johnsbury,
is expected home soon to help care for
her father, who has not been feeling
quite as we'll of late.
Mrs. Laura Coburn Berry, who has
been a sufferer for several weeks with
heart trouble, died Thursday about
q 80 a. m. She was born in Mortified
in 1910 and married Stephen Berry in
1865. To this union four children
were born, three girls and one son, two
of whom are living-Mrs Will Hol-
than of West Burke. and Fred. who is
helpless from rheumatism. The
funeral was at the house Saturday
afternoon, Rev. Glow of Sutton
officiating. The bearers were Fred
Miles, John Chase, w. L. Gilman and
E. E. Curtis. The interment was in
Sutton. Mrs. Berry leaves husband,
one son, Fred, and a daughter. Mrs.
Hathaway. and little granddaughter,
near relatives to mourn her loss.
1t is sad case as the son so much needs
a mothers care and the daughter is
kept at home by quarantine for scarlet
fever with which her baby is ILL., The
bereaved family have the sympathy
of all in this their deep trouble.
The sudden death of Miss Josephine
Walter, which occurred early Monday
morning, March first, was a great
shock to the whole community. Miss
Walter was taken i'll Thursday, and
scarlet fever developed in one of it's
worst forms. She became unconscious
soon after noon Sunday, and never
realized anything after that time.
There could be no funeral, on account
of contagion, and the remains were
taken to Lyndon for interment. The
deceased was bright active girl, full
of energy and life. and her sudden
death under such unusually sad cir.
cumstances seems sad beyond words
She has been night operator in the
office of the New England Telephone
Company for the past two or three
years, and had also worked in the
Office of the Citizens Telephone Com.
pany more or less. Last spring sht
began learning the millinery trade o.
Miss Jessie Dearborn, and expected
to finish this autumn. Miss Waite
would have been seventeen years old
had she lived until March 18th. He
stricken parents and brothers an,
sisters have the heartfelt sympathy O
: everyone in their great sorrow.
SUTTON.
Henry Fletcher is in town, stopping
> at F. o. Gray's.
Miss Abbie Chapman visited Lyndo
: Institute last week.
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