Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-04-27
Barton.

Chautauqua Circle with Mrs. F. w.
Baldwin this evening.
See notice of Teachers Examination
in an advertising column.
Regular Communication of Orient
Chapter, o. E. s., No. Is, Friday eve,
May 1st, at O'Clock.
Ask Barron & Hamblet for Lamoille
crackers. They have just received
another fresh lot.
circuit Camp, No. 40, S. v, will be
inspected May 9th, at P. m. All mem
bers requested to be present.
The Ladies' Society of the Cong.
church will meet with Mrs. .S.Twom-
bly, next Wednesday afternoon, April
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The Epworth League had a very
pleasant entertainment and a good
supper at the Methodist church Tues
day evening.
Alonzo Clark is having rooms fitted
up for himself and wife in the second
story of the Nelson block. They will
board at the American House.
The seIectmen will meet at town
clerks office on Monday, May 4, to
settle with those having bills against
the town. Per Order Chairman.
A special meeting of Barton w. @.
T. U. is called on Tuesday with Mrs.
T. w. Drew. A full attendance is de-
sired and necessary. Important bust
ness.
Harry Gordon leaves this morning
for Boston, where he expects to go
into druggists store. May he be as
successful there as he has been faith
full and honest here.
The appointments" made at the M.
E. Conference to-day will not reach us
for this issue. 1t is expected that the
number of changes in the st. Johns
bury district will be small.
The G. A. R. men will remember the
next regular meeting, which will be
held on Wednesday afternoon, May 6,
at o'clock. Inspector B. o. Aiken of
Albany will be present and large at
tendance is desired.
Prof. B. G. Day of Craftsbury acad-
envy has been appointed County Ex-
aminer by Gov. Page, vice M. S.StOne,
resigned. Mr.. Day is a good scholar,
a fine teacher and a man interested in
the matter of education. He ought to
fill the position acceptably.
F. A. Belknap, one of our village
farmer residents, tapped twenty-five
maple trees this season and made by
absolute weight 400 pounds of sugar
Is pounds to tree. They were large
second growth trees which stood in
the opening; he hung, all told, 40
buckets. Who reports a larger yield?
The Connecticut River Lumber Co.
is running eighty million feet of lum-
Der down the river this spring. There
are tremendous jams of lumber in the
river all the way from Wells River
north to the head waters of the river,
and great gang of men are on the
drives working them down the river.
Governor Page has proclamation
relative to Arbor Day that should be
read and needed by every Vermonter
We hope his suggestion will be fully
carried out. A little effort in the line
of tree planting and adornment by the
people one day in a year, even, will do
much toward identifying our good
state.
Mrs AIlbee moves from the Elsie
Wood tenement this week to her home
near the village, and will soon move
with the family to reside with her hus
band in Manchester, n. H., where he
has a pleasant and profitable business
situation. Mrs. AIlbee and her chill
dren have many friends here who viii
regret their departure.
We dropped into the new Fairbanks
store in St. Johnsbury one day last
week and were really surprised at the
beauty, convenience and extent of the
store. 1t is probably the best mercan
tile establishment in the state, al
things considered. James Richie, for
merly a clerk in the Hall store in thi
village. is first man in the store ant
well deserves the confidence and hon
or bestowed upon him.
State Superintendent Palmer call
the attention of the people of the stat
TO the unpleasant fact that yer
large per cent of the children of schoc
age are not in the common schools
He calls the attention of superintend
ents and school committee men TO tn
fact and urges upon them the necessi
ty of getting the truant class into tn
schools, even if legal measures hav
TO be taken to accomplish the objec
The butter market still holds up wit
a prospect that the break will ne
come next week. Vermont creamer