Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-04-06

Have you seen the robin?
Have you registered the dog?
Have you put IN the inventory?
Have you seen any new sugar?
Did you see "that spider" All
FOOLS day?
Have you paid for the MONITOR for
the year 1885?
Have you gone back on all your
new years resolutions?
Did you keep fast day according
to the recommendation of the gov
ernor?
Did you set down with painful, if
not profane, emphasis during the icy
weather of last week?
New spring hats and other new
goods at Grace Twombly's millinery
rooms.
The sugar makers have been look
ing in vain for sap weather and sap.
It must come soon if at all this sea-
son.
The United States senate adjourn
ed last week, after having confirmed
a large number of appointments
made by the new president.
There were appropriate and inter-
esting Easter exercises at the Congl
and M. E. churches Sunday evening,
consisting of singing and recitations.
Gen. Grant, who has been, as it
appeared, at the point of death for
some days, rallied little on Satur-
day, and it was thought he may
live few days longer.
We hear that Mrs. Evans, the
mother of Joseph H. Evans, for
some years a resident of this place,
is dead. She was one of the oldest
persons in the county.
The Good Templars will hold a
sugar festival at the Opera Hall on
Tuesday evening, Apr. Z. An hour
will be given to literary exercises,
after which the time will be devoted
to neao sugar. Admission to the
hall, 10 cts.
The St. Adams Messenger, in CIV
ing description of the lofty monu-
ment recently erected at the capital
city, says:
Each of it's sides at the top is
35 feet wide; the width at the base
of it's four sides is So feet wide,
the monument gradually tapering for
over 500 feet, until it becomes a
cone, each side of which is 35 feet. "
The writer was evidently a little
"off' on geometrcal figures of the
"cone" kind.
The following pupils in this town
have attended school the past year
without any register marks: Charlie
Critchett, Henry Young, Homer
Smith, Leon White, Harley Critch-
EFT, Blanche Hammond, Gertie Keat,
ing, Eta Smith, Julia Owen, Ebel
Humphrey, Eva Williams, Fay
Grow, Annie Gray, Fred Wright,
Ernest Wheeler, and Fred Wheeler
The following living in the same dis
tricts have attended two full terms
Edie Dewey, Minnie Hunt, Nellie
Heating, Florence Currier, Ned Bal,
dwin, Graham Hall, Arson Clark.
George Humphrey, Harley Hmm
phrey, Charlie Virgins, Arthur Wig.
gins, Minnie Grow, Inez Sweat, AL.
fred Trip, Frank Clement, Eddie
Collins, Inez Winslow, Blanche
Dodge, Bertha Durham, Mabel Stew
ems, Eva Dodd, Agnes McKown, Eft
ia Grow, Eva Grow, Scott Simpson
Maud Stevens, Leslie Hazelton, Gle
ma Matthews, Fred Guild, Henry
Flint, Arthur Durham, Leon Brock.
way, Helen Austin, Kenneth Blake
Lottie Folsom, George CAVITY, Ezra
Drown, Dana Folsom, and Gilber
Folsom. The following live in dis
tricts where there have been TIVE
terms, and have attended the TIVE
terms without any marks: Annie
Graves, Blanche Albee, Persis AL
bee, Charles Dwinell, William Dwi
nell, Myrtle Cass, Eva Gilman
Frank Heath, Eta Heath. Ira Hunt
Eva Hunt, Rosa Nault, Dolphus Val
ley, and Alice Valley. The register
were all returned in good condition
One district raised no tag. One dis
trict raised Ia per cent of the CRANE
list; one 20 per cent; one ga pc
cent? three 80 per cent one 40 pc
oentI two 30 per cent, and one g.
per cent, making an average of near
ly 81 per cent, but not necessarily g.
per cent of the grand list of tn
town. The highest average of dali
attendance for the year was in dis
trict No. 5, being so per cent; tn
lowest per cent in any district wa
48; average of the whole town 6
per cent. THos. MARTIN, Supt.
The annual school meeting wa
held on Tuesday evening, about th
usual number being present. F. W
Baldwin was chosen moderator; /
Z. Gordon, committee; S. f. Bich
ford, collector; P. L. Webster, treas