Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-02-21
GLOVER

Lloyd Marston is about the same
Wales Walton is i'll with the grip.
DR.. and Mrs. Nichols are in Boston.
Rufus L. Drew keeps about the
same.
Perley Dexter has been i'll the past
week.
Our very sick people seem to be
gaining.
Mrs. Wilbur Morse is working for
Mrs. Frank Drew.
A good number of Barton people at
tended the minstrel show.
Thad and William Drew have both
been i'll but are out again.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Richard Sargent Friday.
Sam Bean and c.. S. Parker have
contracted for electric lights.
Miss l. Towle of Plymouth is visit
ing her aunt, Mrs. E. G. Ford
Wallace Vancour was married re-
Gently to q ST. Johnsbury lady.
Rev. G. L. Wells has returned to
Montpelier for two weeks stay.
The linemen are working at Frank
Taylor's putting in electric lights
Mrs. V. I. Cameron and daughter,
lone, were home to attend the play.
Bert Wilson's orchestra from Rich
ford is to play for ball here Feb. %.
Mrs. Grin Miles and daughter spent
Sunday with friends at West Glover.
Mrs. H. S. Clark was a business
visitor in Orleans one day last week.
Mrs. Alvah Rich is i'll. Her sister,
Miss Gladys Drew, is staying with
her
Mrs. Frank Drew has not been as
well for week but is again improv-
ing.
T. E. Simpson this week sold and
shipped a Shorthorn calf to New
York.
Frank Drew sold his entire herd of
cattle numbering 25 head to W. E..
Hanson.
A large number stayed to the box
supper and promenade after the min
strel show.
.-.- ---g--,-.., 30 has Bee u l.
ing his family here, returned to Chi
cago last week.
Freeman Bean recently received
from Massachusetts nice Guernsey
bull which he purchased there.
Mrs. Lucy Cook is i'll at the home
Of her daughter, Mrs. E. L. Clark. 1t
is thought she had slight shock.
Mrs. Irene Kelton is suffering from
an a5scess in her head. She is now
able to sit up q short time each day.
The Grange dinner will be Feb. "a
instead OF the 22d, and each lady
who has not been solicited is re-
questej to bring cake, pie or dough-
nuts.
The next number of the entertain
neat course will be Monday evening.
Miss Marion Bickford with a reader
and quartet from the Montpelier sem
nary VII. entertain US. Miss Hazel
Miles is one Of the quartet and Miss
Nellie Cook is the reader.
Clarence Phillips has gone to
Springfield, Mass, where he has work
in the assembling room of the Gilbert
& Barker Pump company, where his
brother, Mazini, is foreman. This
company is SO driven with orders that
the factory has had to run nights the
greater part of the winter.
The following from the Manches-
ter IN. H. Leader, regarding the son
Of a former Glover man will interest
our readers:
George H. Carr, aged Is years, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Carr of % Rus
sell street, who graduated from the
Ash street school has the remarkable
distinction of attending the public
schools for the past seven and one
half years without being absent or
tardy When the fact was called to
the attention of Superintendent of
Schools Taylor, he said he had heard
of only one similar case where a child
Carr entered the primary department
Of the Pearl street school in 1909 and
later attended the Ash street school.
oesldes having this unique record he
htas had an average of 90 per cent in
his studies for the past year.
MRS. CATHERINE GILMOUR wy
LIE.
The passing of Mrs. Catherine Wy
lie removes from our midst one of the
oldest and most respected of the resi-
dents of the town. She had been
very active helping with the home
duties until within ten days of her
death, when she was stricken with
bronchial pneumonia and died Feb. 7.
Catherine Gilmour was born in Strath-
aven, Scotland, July %, 1926. She
came to this country when 16 years
years later returning to this country
with her family again six years later.
March 9th, 1857, she married the late
William Wylie and came as bride
to the home where she has since lived
and where she died.
she was the last of her family and
also of a long line of cousins. Her
husband died many years ago and she
with her younger son, Alex, and one