Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-03-13

it could have been converted into
beautiful village.
Town meeting was of more than or
binary interest this year, owing to
changes in the school and the highway
laws, and the new officers to be chos-
en-, etc. It was organized by the Sc
lection of E. w. Baldwin, moderator,
and L. M. Hubbard, clerk. The re-
ports of officers were submitted for
acceptance when Mr.. Dewey called
attention to some errors in regard to
school moneys, which were corrected
and the report accepted. The first
contest was over the selectmen, when
several ballots were taken before the
board was filed. A very competent
and experienced board was chosen,
however. There was a complete
change in the listers, also in auditors.
A year ago it was difficult to find any
body who would serve as listers, but
three men were chosen who, proba-
bly,, did the work as we'll as any new
board could have done it; the town
every man off. A thing like this is
unjust and unwise. The important
question Of road commissioner was
settled by the selection of Beede Dun
ham for the office. Mr.. Durham has
had considerable experience in road
making and is a good worker himself,
and is said to be an honest man. There
was a long talk on the matter of the
new law, and if it must be construed
as arbitrarily and as close as Lawyer
Carpenter would have it done, it will
be impossible to find means to suita-
bly, repair and keep the highways for
the next two years. We are of the
opinion that the legislature has no
power to enact such a statute as will
deprive the people of the right to
raise and expend money on the high
ways. We believe the law does'not pre-
vent the town from eXpendinga sum
of money in the way and method it
chooses to expend it. The meeting
was in middle and confusion over
the matter of the school moneys, and
nobody really knew what to do or
what money to raise. The matter of
school directors was settled by the
choice of Rev j. K Fuller, E. W.Mer-
rill and Herbert Orcutt, board that
has excellent qualifications for the
place. A town tax Of So cents on a
dollar of the grand list was voted. On
the whole the work of the day was
we'll done. An episode in the meeting
was the presence of several ladies,
one of whom, Mrs. Chandler of Bar
ton Landing, awaited herself of the
right to vote on the matter of school
directors. Mr.. Wiley of the Acade-
my took his school into the hall to get
a few points on civil government as
shown in the town meeting. The
school and the ladies happened to
come in just at time when the scene
was the most boisterous and the pro-
ceedings most crazed. When the ac
tors came to discover that they were
exhibiting themselves to no particular
advantage in the sight of the visitors
they Gained down. If the presence
of few ladies will work such a change
as that, they ought to be present at
every meeting of the kind.
Barton Landing.
Judge Austin feels that his health is
improving.
Dea. Marston is moving on the John
Winslow place which he recently pur
chased.
Mr.. Coburn is very sick with pneu
monia. = Mrs. Asa Harris is ill with a
lung trouble.
Among the new cases ofmeasles are
Will Simpson, Ora Lyon, and four in
George Ford's family.
F. H. Conner is in Albany pressing
hay, at present at w. H Hayden's,
who advertises lot of loose and press
ed hay for sale.
J. G. Cattanach's popular lecture on
''Uncle TOMS Cabin,' which was de-
ferred by the storm Feb. p, will be
given Wednesday eve, March Is. 1t
is too good to lose.
The spring term commences March
20, with the following teachers: Helen
F. Slade, high department.; Florence
E. Gillis, grammar department.; Mar
tina A. Farman, intermediate; Clara
NJ. Austin, primary, with Annie E. Lo-
throp, assistant According to the
vote of the district at the annual meet
ing, the committee viii begin the
school in March, and the school COM
missioners have agreed to continue
the school with the same board of
teachers, making an eleven weeks
term. The commissioners have deter