Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-01-26
CRAFTSBURY

CRAFTSBURY
Several from this part of the town
attended. the donation at South AL
bany Friday evening.
The donation at Collinsville was not
large on account of the prevailing dis
temper of hard colds.
The dance given by the Woodmen
Friday evening drew large crowd
and was very pleasant occasion.
Grace Fairbanks was absent from
her school last week by illness. Mrs.
Fred keir supplied in her place.
The annual donation and oyster sup
per OF the M. E. society will be held in
the M. E. church Friday evening, jan
-uary %.
The Epworth League was royalty
entertained at the church vestry Fri
day evening by their superintendent,
Mrs. Alden Twiss.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tony Roy and Mr.. and
Mrs. David Noodle of Hardwick were
Sunday guests of their parents, Mr..
and Mrs. w. r. Noodle.
Archie Weber gave a very inter
estlng report in the M. E. Sunday
school of the Older Boys conference
held IN st. Johnsbury from Friday I'M
til Sunday. Ellis Noodle reported for
the Epworth League.
]. j. Lindsay, aged 70 years, who
lives just in the edge of Greensboro,
passed away Sunday forenoon. The
funeral was held at his home Tuesday
afternoon, the Rev. o. B. Wells Off
ciating. Much sympathy is extend
ed to the wife and sisters in their
sorrow
NORTH CRAFTSBURY
DR.. Easton was called to Hardwick
Saturday.
Mrs. Robert Anderson is very i'll
with pneumonia.
Craig Cole has been driving the
rural mail route for a few days.
Murle Gordon has closed his lab6rs
in the Fifeld store for the present.
Miss Marion Anderson spent the
weekend with friends in South. AL
bany.
A birthday party was given Mrs.
Rowley Saturday night by her Sunday
school class.
George Anderson went to Boston
Thursday to consult specialist. He
returned Saturday.
DR.. Goddard was called from Nor
risville Friday in consultation with
DIR. Easton for Mrs. Robert Ander-
son.
Miss Edna Anderson was unable to
be in school the last of the week on
account of the serious illness of her
mother.
The remains of Mr.. Fairbanks of
Greensboro were brought here Sat
urday and placed in the North Crafts
bury cemetery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Root, Misses
Grace and Mildred Fairbanks were
called to Greensboro Thursday on ac-
count of the sudden death of their IA
Their. Sympathy is extended to the
family.
REV. JOHN CHAMBERLAIN
On Monday, January 10th, the Rev.
John Chamberlain, d. D., vicar of ST.
Annis church for deaf mutes died at
his home in New York City after an
illness of two months in the 83rd year
of his age.
The funeral service, was held at st.
AIMS church on the afternoon of
January r. The remains were
brought to North 4Craftsbury for
burial Thursday January 18th. There
was short prayer service at the res
idence of his daughter, Mrs. Adelaide
G. Duston, conducted by the Rev. C. j.
Peterson. The committal at the grave
was read by the Rev. John H. Kent,
DR.. Chamberlain's curate, who had
worked with him for 10 years. DR..
Chamberlain was bora in New Hamp-
shire in 1888 Later his family NOV
ed to Craftsbury, where he attended
the common school and prepared for
entrance to college. Instead of pur-
suing his education in the East, how
ever, he went to western Iowa in the
spring of 1859 with an elder broth
er, making the greater part of the
schooner, generally employed for
transcontinental travel at that time.
In Iowa he became a farmer and
later a school teacher. In 1861 he en-
tered Griswold college in Davenport
and on his graduation began to study
for holy orders and was placed in
charge of st. Pau's church, Council
Bluffs Iowa. In 1866 he was advanc-
ed to the priesthood. In the same
year he married in New Orleans, Eliz-
abeth Dawson Mills, of Johnson, this
state. In 1872 DR.. Chamberlain went
to New York City at the request of
the Rev. Thomas Gallander, founder
of church work among the deaf to as
sist him in mission work. He was
attached to ST. AIMS church, with it's
special mission to deaf mutes, then in
lower Manhattan, and was appointed
one of the managers of the Church
Mission to deaf mutes, in which capa-
city he Travelled throughout the coun-
try asean evangelist to the deaf.
He was honored by Washington and
Lee university with the degree of
Doctor of Divinity in 1896 and at
about that time his activities and
those of his church were transferred
to Washington Heights, New York
City. At the death of DR.. Gallander
in 1902 DR.. Chamberlin became chief
of the mission to the deaf and vicar
of ST. AIMS.
DR.. Chamberlain has frequently
been cited by authorities as one of
the most successful religious workers