Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-01-26
GLOVER
Mr. Wilkie is working in Sheffield.

Mr.. Wilkie is working in Sheffield. |!
Melein Gray is working at Orleans. I
Mr. and Mrs. A. A Chamberlin are
both IN poor health.
Mrs, Alden Philips is out again |
after long illness.
The family of Will Vancour is quar-
antined for scarlet fever.
Miss Mildred Lang spent the week
end at Lawrence Young's.
George Phillips is home from Dart
mouth for short vacation.
Mrs. A. NJ. Williams of Barton
visited Mrs. Villa kich Friday.
Mrs. Lydia MilIigan has been spend
ing a week at Harley Drew's.
Miss Lillian Vancour returns to her
work in Lyndonville this week.
Mrs. Jane Woodman of Sheffield is
visiting her sister, Sarah Drew.
Remember the old folks ball at
Institute hall Feb II. Fine music in
attendance.
Mrs. Anne Chamberlin received the
news of the death of sister il Canada
few days ago.
Miss Grace Dow is home for two
| weeks on account of sickness in the
school at Lyndon.
/ Claude Drew received severe cut in
! the face from a broken binder pole
while drawing logs recently.
The Grange play will be given Thurs
day evening, There will be no Grange
dinner on account of the play.
Mrs. Helen Merriam and daughter,
Oreana, who have been severely i'll
with scarlet fever, are improving.
M. W. Johnson was in st. Johnsbury
Tuesday to attend the 10th birthday
anniversary celebration of his mother
The gentlemen in the mems class of
the church are drawing logs for wood
which We're donated by Frank Hast
ings.
/ Harris Drew, who has been i'll for
several weeks. wishes to thank the
friends, who remembered him with
cards last week.
viii WyIie, who went to Burlington
last week for an operation for appendi-
citis, has been dangerously III with
pneumonia, but is reported as improv-
Ing,
| The selectmen of the town will meet
in the town hall January 9th and the
auditors will meet February LIST, to
settle the accounts of the town. Please
!. bring in your bills early. PA
Jan. IS, Past President. Mrs Heller
Coe installed the officers cf the w. r.
c.. for 1916. An oyster dinner was
served to post, corps and visitors
Several new members have recently
joined the order.
Relatives and friends to the numbe,
Of forty gathered at the home Of Mrs.
Miranda Drew Friday to remind her OF
| her 18th birthday. A bountiful dinner
with oysters was served and a fine
time enjoyed A number of personal
gifts were presented and a sum OF
money with which to buy mementc
Of the occasion. Those present from
out of town were: Mrs. Lydia Mill
gan, Mr. and Mrs + E: Paige, Mrs
R. F. Mason, Mrs. Hattie Hopkins ano
Jenness, Miss Ruby Jenness. Mrs.
Grace Brooks, Miss Eva May Brooks.
A Peoria, III paper tells a story OF
| interest 10 GloVer people because the
parties concerned are all Glover
people. The paper says William j.
Flood, native of this place, lay sick
unto death, while his aged mother,
Mrs. Abba Drumming, and sister spec
on fast trains from their home in Kan.
sas, to reach his bedside before death
came. The item reads: 1.-The mother
and sister had been informed by
special message that he was ILL., Max
ing hasty preparations they boarded
the first train and were soon speeding
over the rails towards Peoria. It was
known that the son and brother was
fatally i'll and the good old mother
hoped and prayed that she should be
allowed to reach his bedside before the
hand of Death beckoned him on. The
train which bore them arrived in Peoris
only three short hours before the death
of Mr. Flood-and the race was thu.
won." Mr.. Flood was born Oct.4. 1859 il
Glover, his youth was spent there ant
there also. he received his early educa
ton. On August IL. 1907. he wa
united in marriage to Mrs. BIanch,
Rice. who was loving helpmate ant
who survives him He is also survives
by step-daughter. Mrs Eva Price,
son, Edward. by former marriage