Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-05-23
WEST BURKE

WEST BURKE
Mrs. Nettie Mccoy spent the week
end with her aunt, Mrs. Mosher, in
Barton.
Mr.. and Mrs G. E. Dean of Roch-
ester, N. H., were in town the last OF
the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Spring of
Hardwick have moved into the Clar-
ence Smith house.
Will and Ethel Smith attended the
funeral of Thomas Marshall at st.
Johnsbury Thursday.
Mrs. Eliza Lowell has moved from
the Coburn block to the tenement IN
Mrs. Abby Cheney's house.
All ladies interested in Red Cross
work are invited to meet at the W.
r. c.. hall June 9Th at two o'clock.
Miss Georgia Dearborn and Fred
Woodruff of Newport spent Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Woodruff.
The body of Mrs. Dickerman, which
was placed in the receiving vault last
winter, was buried May 18th, in the
Cemetery at Lyndon Center.
Mrs. Rachel Cole and daughter,
Emma. of Los Angeles, and Mrs.
Matte Prescott of Santa Barbara,
Cal, were the guests of DR.. Dicker-
man, last week.
Mrs. Frank Allard, Henry Burpee
and Frank Drown attended the state
assembly and grand lodge of the D.
of R. and I. 0. 0. F. in Rutland
Thursday and Friday.
| Mrs. Fife Solomon has accepted
the position of principal of the Lyn-
donville graded school next year. We
are sorry to lose Mrs. Solomon but
are glad she is to be as near as Lyn-
donville.
Mrs. Charles Coburn visited her
sister in Bellows Falls last week and
also attended the state assembly of
Rebekahs, which met in Rutland. She
was elected assembly warden for the
coming year.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Will Marshall arrived
here Friday morning with the body
of their mother, Mrs. Laurinda Mar
shall, whose funeral was held the
same afternoon at the home of Mrs.
Abby Humphrey. Rev. Miles of Lyn-
donville officiated, and the interment
was in Hillside cemetery.
The exercises on Decoration Day
will open with a service out of doors
| in memory of the dead sailors, after
which the soldiers graves will be Wis
tied and decorated. Dinner will be
served as usual to the veterans but
| everyone else is invited to join a bas-
ket picnic at noon, for which tables
will be prepared. Rev. VIM. Shaw
of st. Johnsbury, district superinten-
dent, is to be the orator of the day,
and there will be interesting exer-
cises by the children, and good mu-
sic.
| METHODIST CHURCH NOTES.
On Sunday morning Rev. I. A.
Rose of East Burke preached IN ex-
change with the pastor Rev. g.. w.
Douglass. Mr.. Rose preached a
sermon on the talents. The children
were enthusiastic over the sermon
preached to them.
In the evening Mr.. Douglass read
an article from the Methodist Re
view, "The Tragic Life-Story of a
Highly Talented Mana True Mar
rative."
Sunday being Memorial Sunday,
the morning service will be held at
Grand Army hall, the pastor preach
ing the Memorial sermon.
At the evening service at the
4 church there will be an address by
Miss Clementina Butler of Provi-
dence, R. l., associate secretary OF
the New England branch w. F. M. S.
Miss Butler has been seven years IN
Mexico, has spent two winters IN IN
dia and has visited the mission fields
of several other denominations. Her
escape from Mexico IN disguise, after
staying alone to protect the students
of one of our Methodist schools IN
the troubled days preceding the oc-
cupation of Vera Cruz, is a thrilling
story. Members of the local w. F.
M. S. are requested to meet at the
church at 6.45. They will sit in a
body at the service. Some of Miss
Buffers lectures are as follows: "a
Mile and a Half High in Mexico"
"Why the Girl Saluted the Flag"
"The Result Of an Investment"
"Picked up in China" All the towns
people are urged to avail themselves
of the privilege of hearing one of
these stirring addresses.
SHEFFIELD
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Montminy visit
ed her brother in Concord last week.
Perley Jenness and son of st.
Johnsbury visited his father over
Sunday.
Mrs. Leon Ross is gaining slowly.
Mrs. Labay of LyndonviIle has been
caring for her.
| Mrs. OliverA. Dwyer, who has been
i'll with bronchial pneumonia the past
three weeks is gaining.
The remains of Martha Underwood
were brought here from st. Johns
bury Sunday for burial. Ella Quinn
by and daughter Of Lyndon were here
to attend the burial
Carrie Drake died Thursday at
her home here of pneumonia. She