Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-02-19
EAST CHARLESTON
Ruth Hudson is i'll.

Ruth Hudson is i'll.
Irene Seavey, who was quite i'll, is
improving.
Eta Canning is home from Enos-
burg Falls.
Hazel Morse is visiting her sister,
in Wheelock.
Orrin Colburn has rented his farm
to Mr.. Dezain.
Jennie Campbell is very sick at her
home in Newport.
Kit Hudson was in Lyndonville
on business last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellie Clark are guests
of his brother, Earl Hinton.
Ed. Batchelder recently visited his
daughter, Mrs. Will Moulton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adrien Drown visited
friends at Island Pond last week.
Mrs. Wilson Hinton was in Mont
pelier with her husband last week.
Eugene Gray has sold his shop to
his brother, Will Gray, of Lyndon
vile.
Mrs. w. A. Moulton was quite i'll
with Indigestion, but is now able to
be out.
Topic for c. E. prayer meeting Feb.
20, Trusting" Leader, Mrs. Homer
Locke.
Mrs. Henry Roberts was a recent
guest of her sister, Mrs. Hayward, in
Newport
Royal Daley and Miss Blanche
Daley of Derby were recent guests of
Mrs. Dance.
C. F. arney wishes to thank all who
remembered him with postcards on
his birthday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Maxwell and
son, Dale, were recent guests of his
parents in Morgan.
The Missionary committee will
meet with Mrs. George Johnson Fri
day afternoon. Everyone invited.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. \. Moulton are
spending few days with their
daughter, Mrs. NJ. Parker, at Island
Pond.
Clarence Lang of Barton has been
discharged from the navy and is the
guest of his aunt, Mrs. Clarence
Blood.
Mrs. C. N. Moulton entertained the
Christmas club Feb. 10. The gentle
men were invited in the evening to
help Mr. Moulton celebrate his birth
day. Refreshments were served and
a fine time enjoyed by all.
LUTHER ARMSTRONG.
Luther Armstrong, whose death
was mentioned last week, was born in
Holland in 1851 and died Jan. %. On
Jan. /, 1872, he married Sara Jane
Thayer in Stanstead. Three children
were born to them, son and daugh-
ter, who died in infancy and daugh-
ter, Myrtle, who married Charles
Whitehill. She died Oct. 8, 1914. Mr..
Armstrong lived many years in this
town at different times, but moved
here from Bloomington last April.
His health was not very good for sew
eral months, but he was able to work
and was night Waterman at Hinton &
Canning's mill and it was while going
home he dropped in the street and
died of heart failure before they
could get him home.
Mr.. Armstrong was a good friend
and neighbor, a loving husband and
father and the sympathy of the COM
munity goes out to the widow, who is
left alone in the home. The funeral
was at the house and was attended by
the Odd Fellows, of which order he
was a member, Rev. Robert Lawton
of Island Pond, officiating. Burial
was in Bloomington. He leaves to
mourn his loss besides his widow, his
son-in-law, Charles Whitehill, grand
daughter, Myrtle Whitehill, two
brothers, Eugene of Vergennes and
Leslie of Wolcott, two sisters, Mrs.
Laura Washburn of Brattleboro and
Mrs. Lila Curtis of Groveton, N. H,
and a host of friends.
We wish to thank all the neighbors
and friends, who so kindly helped US
during our great bereavement, also
the Odd Fellows, the singers and the
o1os who ea-t +hn beautiful flowers
May God so reward you n Jour ho-r
of trouble.
Mrs Jane Armstrong,
Charles Whitehill,
Myrtle Whitehill.