Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-10-09
WEST BURKE


WEST BURKE
Rose Chabot is working at Clarence
Coburn's in Sutton.
The new bathroom in the parsonage
is at last completed.
Will Smith has been spending a few
days with friends in Barton.
r. G.. Mears of Worcester, Mass,
visited his father, Albert Mears, re-
Gently.
Miss Verna Aldrich spent a week
Gently.
Mrs. Carrie Roundy, who has been
recovering from very serious oper-
alton, is much better.
Mrs. Mary Thomas of St. Johns
bury was the guest of her niece, Mrs.
VIM. Jenness, recently.
Clyde Sleeper, U. S. NJ, who is sta
toned at Pelham Bay, N y, was at
home on short furlough recently.
John Barnard and family have
closed their house and moved to St.
Johnsbury, where Mr. Barnard has
work.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ebert circuit of Ply
mouth, N. H., have been visiting in
town the past week as Mr.. Orcutt's
school is closed.
Miss Emily Harvey, the well-known
missionary from India, was the week
end guest Of her cousins, Mr. and
Mrc R,r,crboyoo roooo4I1,
Fred French has purchased the H.
S. Chappell store and building and
has moved into the pleasant apart
ment communicating with the store.
Mrs. Aldrich and daughter, Myrtle,
were in Lyndonville a part of last
week, helping to care for Mrs.
Roundy, who died after brief Illness
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Labor have re-
turned from Lowell, Mass, where
they were called by the illness of
their son, Arvid, who is now improv-
ing.
Walter Gaskell has sailed for
France, and Claude Roundy is
thought to be on his way across as
nothing has been heard from him for
some time.
Mr.. Spring has moved into Mrs.
Densmore's tenement, and she has
stored her goods, as she plans to be
with relatives in Massachusetts, dur
ing the winter.
Mrs. Curtis Stoddard is at Lyndon
vile, where she went to care for her
sister, Mrs. Solomon, and is now seri-
ously i'll with pneumonia. Her moth
er, Mrs. Mountain, is also there, quite
ill.
The body of Oliver Stone of Bar
ton was found near the Bugbee cross
ing early Friday morning. The sup
position is that the old man had
wandered away from home and was
killed by passing train.
Arthur Burt of St. Johnsbury, a
former West Burke boy, died at a
camp in Maryland Saturday of pneu-
monia. His parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Nelson Burt, of Concord, have the
sympathy of their West Burke
friends.
Theodore Griffin, son of A. G.. Grit
fin of this place, died at Gettysburg,
of pneumonia, last week, and his body
was brought here for burial. His
wife was Ruth Chappell of Barton, a
former Burke girl, and he also leaves
one child.
The people of this village were
panied to learn Of the death of Miss
Doris Smalley of Montpelier, which
occurred Friday. She was the only
daughter of Mrs. Wayne Stoddard,
and made many warm friends during
her short residence in town.
Most of the students of Montpelier
seminary, ST. Johnsbury academy and
Lyndon institute ARE at home, as all
schools in the state are closed. The
Misses Reta Gallagher, Dorothy New
man and Ruth Leach have had the in
fuenza so were not allowed to come
home for a few days. Miss Leach was
quite i'll and her father was called to
Montpelier Saturday, but she is re-
ported better.
Mrs. Effie Solomon, principal of the
Lyndonville graded school, died Sept.
18th, after a severe attack of influ-
enza and pneumonia. Mrs. Solomon
was the wife of Jacob Solomon of
West Burke, and was for several
years the much loved and respected
teacher in the grammar room in this
village. She was an exceptional
teacher, a woman of rare attainments
and a born leader. Her death has
brought sorrow to many hearts, and
it is hard to understand why so use
full life should be taken.
Mrs. Olin E. Roundy, formerly
Miss Alice G.. Aldrich, of this place,
died at her home in Lyndonville Sept.
oath, after an illness of two weeks.