Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-06-25
Barton.

lumber for sale at his mill in West
w Glover. 1928
Barton
The Literary meeting will be held at
II Mrs. Bickford's, Tuesday evening.
The Odd Girls meet with Mrs. Henry
Gay next Thursday afternoon. All invited.
The editor with his family are spend
ing a week at Hardwick and vicinity.
Mrs. C. B. Whiten from Barre is Wis
iting her mother and sisters at G. H.
Blake's.
Edward Allard who lives in the north
part of the town, is very sick, and is not
expected to recover.
Children's Day exercises were held at
the Cong. church last evening. The house
was handsomely decorated with flowers,
and the exercises were very appropriate.
Rev. III. w. Worthen preached a very
interesting sermon on Tobacco" last
evening. He is to preach a series of ser
mons on temperance, this being the first.
Pearson, the dentist, will be at A. H.
Darling's, Albany, Tuesday and Wednes-
day, and at the office of DIR. A. o. Bemis,
n Craftsbury, Thursday and Friday of this
N week.
Miss Edie Dewey, who has been at
tending school at Andover, Mass, re-
turned home last Friday; her sister Lena
has been paying her a short visit and
returned with her.
The weather the past week has been
unusually warm, with good number of
showers. Friday, Saturday and Sunday,
mercury was lowering about ninety in
the shade, and vegetation is making won
derful progress.
Willie C. Ufferd won the second prize
in the speaking exercises at Montpelier
Seminary last week. He was chosen
president of the graduating class, and
ranks high as a scholar. He is much es-
teemed in the school.
We call attention to the attractive feat
ures offered to those who attend the
(Chautauqua) Winnipesaukee Lake As
sembly, at Weirs, n. H., beginning July
II and continuing ten days. Send for
programme to Rev. J. HI. Babbitt, West
Brattleboro, VT.
The new time table goes into effect to-
v day. The New York train is put on and
runs about the same as last year. No
change in the time of mail train at this
station. The accommodation train going
north reaches here at 1920, and going
south at 7.55 p. m. There is a change on
M ba Ok rood Coo norraotad tahIac
head of this column.
The Ladies' Society of the Cong. Socie-
ty will give Lawn Party on the grounds
of J. E. Skinner, Wednesday eve. Re-
freshments will be served from ~ to 8
O'Clock. Should the weather prove unfa-
vorable the entertainment will be post
M poned until Friday eve. A cordial invita-
ton is extended to all. The Barton Cor
net Band will be in attendance.
At the caucus Saturday night, w. W.
Miles, Benz. Mossman, N. NJ. Scott, and
B. NJ. r. Nelson were chosen delegates,
R. B. Skinner, Geo. B. Blake, ]. N. Web
ster and o. H. Austin alternates to the
State Convention ut Montpelier on We'd
nesday. Delegates to District Conven-
ton, II. X. Dewey, o. II. Austin, o. D.
Owen and W. H. Blasdell; alternates, N.
NJ. Scott, F. w. Baldwin, w. w Miles
and B. NJ. R. Nelson.
The closing exercises of State Normal
School, at Johnson, will be on Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this
week. Following is the programme :
IA
nations; Thursday, oral examinations,
9-12 a. M, PA p. M; public speaking by
B Class at p. m; Friday, graduating
exercises, 10 a. m, alumni meeting, 2.30
p. m; address by Hon. L. III. Thompson,
of Irasburgh; band concert, 8 p. m.
Mrs. NJ. A. Kenyon, state organizer of
the juvenile department of the w. c. T.
o., who is to be at Glover Thursday af-
ternoon, will give '-Cbalk Talks" in sew
eral towns in the county. At West AL
bany Friday evening, June %; Saturday
evening ut Lowell; Sunday, July l. at
Westield; Monday at South Troy; Tues
day at North Troy. Those who heard
Mrs. Kenyon last year, speak very highly
of her talks. We hope the people will
90 and hear her.
The boat club will have a moonlight
excursion on Crystal Lake tomorrow
night Tuesday for the benefit of the
Barton band. The boys will meet in the
square Gin front of the MONITOR office),
in their new uniform, at ~ O'Clock and
proceed to the lake, where steamers will
be in readiness to make trip around the
lake. Round trip tickets, zoe. The boys
have spent a good deal of time practic-
ing and play finely. Turn out and give
the boys a lift in paying for their uni
form and enjoy u pleasant evening on the
lake.
Barton Landing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Job Guild have been to
Mortified on a visit.
Mrs. Cynthia Patten has returned to
her home in Cambridge, VT.
Mrs. Mary TwombIy, who went West
last fall, is expected home soon.
Charley Bartlett is going to the Noun
tains TO work in the Profile House.
John Trip Gently sold a horse tc
Joshua Twombly of Lowell. Mass, fol
$500.