Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-01-19
MRS. F. a. FIELD. LOCAL EDIT,

Mrs. j. B. Tinker is on the sick list.
Nora Quimby has been ill the past i
week.
Marjorie and Harland Sears have |
been i'll the past few days.
MissesVerna and Doris Sears returned !
to their school in Johnson yesterday.
Mrs Cora Smell of Brockton, Mass. !,
is visiting her sister, Mrs R. M !
Quimby.
Archie Besaw, who has been il poor
health for sons zine, is a.. W conDnsd
to the bed.
Mrs. J. e. Carpenter, who has been
very i'll the past week, is somewhat
improved
Miss Pope, trained nurse of New
port IS caring for S. Z. CIough, who is
not as WE'LL
Mrs John Edmupds Of Newport
tIanter has cnr7a TO keel, house for
Judge F M. Sears
Rev. Oldridge of Sheffield snent
Thursday and Friday with Mr. and
Mrs. G. j. Powers.
Fred Kinsev had the misfortune to
break his forefinger Friday by getting
lt caught between two logs.
The crew of men who have been
wiring houses at South ALBANY and
west Glover have finished their work
there and began work here today.
Miss Ruth Hanks of johnson. who
came to attend the funeral Of Mrs.
Sears, spent Tuesday night and We'd
nesday with Mr.. and Mrs. j. HI. Cook.
Mrs. c. B. McGoff left yesterday for
boston where she will again enter the
Massachusetts General hospital for
treatment. Her husband ACCOMPANIED
her.
Herbert Wheeler was in Rutland last
week to attend the 9Th annual confer.
ence of Older Boys of the state as a
delegate from the Congregational Sun.
day school.
News has been received that Clyde
Potter, who works in the Vermont
, Ammunition factory at Bellows Falls,
had the end of his finger cut off in the
machinery one day last week.
The M. w. A., will hold a meeting
in the town hall Thursday evening.
There are candidates and it is expected
: the forester team from Orleans will
: have charge of the work, and an oyster
supper will be served after the meet.
ing. It is hoped there will be gooG
attendance.
MRS. F. M. SEARS
! The announcement was made las
week of the death of one of our mos
esteemed residents, Mrs Ina E. Sears
wife of Judge F. M. Sears, which
occurred at her home Jan. 9. after one
r weeks illness from pneumonia Ir
spite of all that medical skill and Low
ing care could do she passed to he
. well-earned reward. Mrs. Sears was
0 born in Irasburg Nov. %. 1867, ant
was the eldest daughter of Ira S. AM
Estella Drew. Her education wa
: obtained in the schools of this tow1
- and Lyndonville and she taught schoo
: for several years. She was one VIII,
improved ner opportunities for tn
things that made for true womanhood
} In 1892 she married F. M. Sears t
whom she was faithful wife, T
q them eight children were born, o
j. whom six survive her She unite
with the NJ. E church at the age 0
O twenty years and has ever been
a faithful and efficient member an
worker, and in her passing the churc
sustains great loss. For many year
: she sang in the choir and in whateve
e line of church work she was engage
she displayed that rare gift o
+ leadership which always meant sue
T. cess, and perhaps nowhere in tn
v church life did she renGer more exec
lent service than as organist, in whic
: position she served for years. and wa
still serving in the absence of he