Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-03-29
CALEDONIA COUNTY
WEST BURKE

WEST BUhAE
Albert Rice has been quite i'll with
the grip during the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Dean have re-
turned from their trip to Florida.
Mrs. Herrick and little daughter, !
Doris, Of Richford have been visiting
friends in town.
Charles Strout of Philadelphia was
the guest of his uncle Judge Wood
ruff, last Friday.
Mrs. Bertha Heath has been spend
ing the past week with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Labor.
The play given by the Boy Scouts
on Tuesday evening was very good
and the boys cleared $50.
Mrs. Nettie Mccoy is at home from
her school in Woodsville, N. H., for
the short spring vacation.
| N. S. Colby has not been as well of
late and a trained nurse from St.
Johnsbury is caring for him.
Miss Florence Humphrey has her
spring millinery opening On Wednes-
day and Thursday of this week. adv
E. J. Rutter, optometrist, will be
at the restaurant Wednesday, the 9Th.
Call and have your eyes examined. ad
DR.. Atwood of ST. Johnsbury was
in town on Saturday to see his pa
| tent, Mrs. Gould, who is improving
| very slowly.
| S. E. Leach is at home from Tor
| rington, Conn.,, where he has been
| spending the winter. with his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Ruth Davis.
Levi Dean, who has been i'll for
4 n6
away on~the afternoon of Wednesday,
| March 22d, and the funeral took
place Friday afternoon.
/ Mrs. Georgia Fyler has been quite
i'll during the past week and her
place in the Ruggles store has been
taken by Mrs. Cora Chappell.
The Cleaners had very pleasant
social at the home of Mrs. w. R.
Thurber last Thursday afternoon.
The hostesses were Mrs. Eva Thur
Der, Mrs Rose Kendrick, and Mrs
| Leila Angel. Each lady represented
the name of some book, which the
1 others guessed. Mrs Bertha Roun-
dy sang a solo and Mrs. Annie Fair
brother played a piano solo, both OF
which were enjoyed. Refreshments
of ice cream and cookies were served
and everyone present went home feel.
ing rested and cheered by the good
time together.
MRS. ACHSA TURNER
The community was again sadden.
ed by the death of Mrs. Achsa Turn.
er, which occurred Saturday after.
noon at the home of her sister. Mrs
Luvilla Marshall. Mrs. Turner wa.
born on the Houghton farm in East
Lyndon and with the exception of &
few years in Providence, r. l., he1
:, life has been spent in Vermont, mos
!. of it in Lyndon and Burke. She was
a very successful teacher and dearly
loved her work but was obliged tx
! give it up on account of poor health
She was an ardent lover of nature
and was never happier than wher
rambling through the woods anc
fields. She knew every foot of the
home farm at East Lyndon where ev
cry tree was dear to her. She was :
member of the West Burke w. R. C
and will be greatly missed by her sis
tiers in the corps.
/ Mrs. Turner had not been at al
well for years, and at times had sea
sons of mental depression, which un
fitted her for any kind of work. Sh,
suffered more than anyone could rea
, lie who did not know her we'll. She
was very sympathetic person ant
having suffered so much herself wa.
forever thinking of those who wer,
| i'll or shut in by old age. For a Ions
time her home was with her brother
Wallace Houghton, on the old HON,
farm but she spent the greater par
of the past few years with her de-
voted sister, Mrs. Marshall, who ha.
done all in her power to make hel
happy and to bring cheer and com
fort into her rather sad life. She
had not been feeling we'll of late but
was able to walk up town Tuesday
and was out in the yard several times
Saturday forenoon enjoying the warn
spring sunshine, and went to he1
room to lie down for a while and the
end must have come soon after, a.
she was found by her sister later il
the afternoon, peacefully sleeping
her last sleep.
: Besides Mrs. Marshall and Mr.
Houghton she leaves another sister
: Mrs. Shaclford. of st. Johnsbury
and many other relatives to whom
she was very dear.
, The funeral took place Tuesday a
4 1890 o'clock at the Marshall home
Rev. Walter Gould officiating, AM
: she was laid to rest in the Lyndon
center cemetery.
SUTTON
Mrs. Ida Berry is working for Mrs
Thomas Mitchell.
!. Will Stevens lost one of his mic,
pair of gray horses last Saturday.
E. I. LaClair is sugaring in tn,
Parker & Young orchard on the AL
bert Clark farm.
Fred Chapman of Lyndon Center
spent the weekend with her daugh
ter, Mrs. Ruth Turnbull.
1 Lena LaClair is stopping with he1
sister, Mrs. Carroll Gordon in. st
Johnsbury for few weeks.
Joseph Wark and VIII Holthan
were in st. Johnsbury Saturday apl
took out first naturalization papers
Lewis Parker, lifelong resident Of
: Sutton until last fall, died March l.