Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-02-20
UP THE. MIISSIS0UOI
LOWELL
INTENDED for last week

(1nCenQeQ Tor laSC Week.
C. C. Stannard is in Hartford,
| Conn.,, on business.
S. P. Hilliker has had telephone
| installed in his home.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Willie Beaulieau Feb. 6.
F. Guy Kinsley was business call
er in North Troy Tuesday.
Mrs. Henrietta Perkins has been
on the sick list the past week.
B. w. Austin of Lake Megantic, P.
O., is a business visitor in town.
w. w. Reirden of Barton was a
business visitor in town Saturday.
Mrs. w. A. Young was a weekend
visitor with friends in Hyde Park.
C. A. Young and Edgar Laclair
were business visitors in Hyde Park
Tuesday.
F. F. Sawyer of Barton was
weekend visitor of his brother, Abel
Sawyer.
John Ferla returned home the first
of the week from New York for
short stay.
Charles Stephenson of Foster, r.
l., is visiting his brother, ]. F. Ste
phenson.
Miss Rachel Brahana has been
home a few days from North Troy
high school.
Mrs VIM Hodges Of North Hyde
Park is visiting her daughter, Mrs. F.
F. Blanchard.
Mrs. r. V. Newton and sister, Ere
la, were called to Eden Tuesday by
the serious illness of their mother.
The Lowell Woman's club met with
Mrs. L. 0. Sanborn Tuesday after
noon. A Lincoln program was rem
dered.
The remains Of Jonathan Doyle,
who died last week at the state hos
pital at Waterbury were brought here
Tuesday for interment.
Tuesday afternoon, John Brahana,
youngest son of P. H. Brahana, had a
narrow escape from a fatal accident
while attempting to harness the
horses for the school team. One of
the horses kicked him in the side,
just below the heart, breaking one
rib and causing serious fainting. He
was taken to DR.. w. A. Young's office
and was obliged to remain there dur
ing the night suffering intense pain.
He was taken home Wednesday fore
moon.
Mrs. Nettie. z Parker, died at her
home in Lowell, Friday, Feb. 8th
after a severe illness of four months.
Mrs. Parker was the daughter of
George and Ruth Nye; she was born
in Concord, N. H, June 9th, 1856. She
was married to Valentine Mansfield
Parker at Irasburg, Sept. 9Th, 1874,
and has been a resident of this town
since. She is survived by her hus-
band, Y. VI. Parker, two daughters,
Mrs. L. 3. Wellman of Newport and
Miss Elsie Parker Of LOWELL two
sons, G. n. Parker, merchant here,
and II. A. Parker, also a resident of
this town. The funeral service was
held at the home Sunday, Rev. VI. A
upper Of Irasburg officiating. Those
from out of town to attend the fu-
neral were Mr.. and Mrs. L. 3. Well
man Of Newport, Mrs. H. B. Smith of
Orleans, and 3. L. Wursthorne of
Troy.
Mrs. V. NJ. Parker died Friday Feb.
8. She had been in poor health for
several years, and in serious con-
dition for the past three months, dur
ing which time the tender and unre-
hitting care Of her husband and fam
lily served only to mitigate her suf-
ferings. Nettie Nye was the daugh-
ter of George S. and Ruth Nye and
was born in Concord, N. H., June 8,
1856. The family came to Lowell in
the early '7Os and on Sept. 9, 1874, |
she was married to Valentine M. |
Parker and has since lived in Lowell. !
Of their six children, two died in in
fancy and Clarence NJ, II. Arthur,
and Elsie r. of Lowell and Mrs L. |
3. Wellman of Newport, together |
with the husband survive her. Mrs. |
Parker was of a quiet and unobtru-
sive nature, devoted to her home, !
yet interested in all things tending to
the welfare Of the community and had |
many friends, who with the immedi-
ate family, sincerely mourn her pass |
ing. The funeral was held at the |
home Sunday, Feb. 10, in charge of |
G. E. Curtis, Rev. M. A. Upper of
Trasburg, officiating, speaking words /
Of spiritual hope and human SYM
pathy. The interment was in the |
family lotin the new extension in Low
ell cemetery. The inclement wealth |
err and bad condition of the roads pre-
vented the attendance, at the funeral,
of out-of-tow relatives and friends,
but the presence of local friends and |
townspeople gave evidence of large |
measure of love and respect for the
deceased.