Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-10-29


day afternoon from the MONITOR of
fee windows. They were from sew
eral surrounding towns, and people
who were in the village for market
and business purposes.
Unclaimed letters in Barton post
Office: Miss Louisa Akin, The mas
Anna, Alva Brooks,2, Miss Rose Ellis,
G. Ell. Field, Mrs. Mary E. Johnson,
Lyon, Mrs. Ina Magoon, B. E. Kier,
Geo. A. Riley, Miss Myrtle A. Stewart,
2, F. F. Sheppard, Fred Torrant, Mrs.
Mary Wells, Joseph Lavine, Samuel
Bennett, Chas. A. Goettler.
Miss Lila M. Jordan of Greensboro
picked ripe strawberries and butter
cup blossoms Oct 23d and sends them
to the MONITOR office. Greensboro
has the latest record SO far as heard
from on strawberries and buttercups.
Who would wish to live in a country
that freezes up early? Vermont has
no reason to complain of the early
coming Of cold weather this year.
The Crystal Lake House has expe
rienced quite a radical change in
cleanliness since Charlie Cheney and
wife took hold Of it. It has been
somewhat repaired, also, and is neat
and clean. Mr.. Cheney has large
number of boarders and his transient
io W n
Martin, who runs the hotel barn and
livery stable, is doing a large business
in the stable and keeps a good outfit
Of teams to let.
The Phila May Company is having
a course of entertainments in the coun-
ty pro rating with church societies.
The MONITOR is willing to help church
societies what it can, but can not con-
tribute to the Phila Mays. II they
want their shows advertised, let them
be paid for The same thing should
be done in case any other travelling
concern strikes the county asking to
be noticed and advertised. Send us
one cent word for this sort of notices.
The neighbors and citizens of this
village who have regard for what
seems to them to be beautiful and
useful, have shed tears, almost, over
the cutting down of the magnificent
elm tree which stood in front Of the
old VIM. Graves place. It was
beautiful tree with branches extend
10 ct he
trunk and wealth of limbs such as
is rarely seen. We would give 800
as quickly as a cent for such tree if
it could be placed near our village
home.
IbWel arei in receiptAof the first. mum
berfo f. 0i@.I Edttoatfo neil, Bullqt5n6 pub
lished by Silver, Burdette & Company.
AS the name indicates, it is an educa
tional journal and is filed with much
interesting and useful matter that will
be appreciated by teachers, superin
tendents and school people generally
There will be special interest in the
publication from the fact that it is
gotten out by the "Silver Boys" for
merly of Derby, who from a very
small beginning have created large
business in publishing school books,
eM The\5oW1al WillS ID fqfnis4sd
free at PRESENT. IT'D any teacher, So
perintendent or school officer. Ad-
dress Silver, Burdette & Co., 11O-112
Boylston St., Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Elizabeth (Bickford) Gale, wife
of DR.. III. L. Gale of Barre, and daugh-
ter of the late Rev. Geo. H. Bickford
and Mrs. Joseph Owen of this village,
died at the home of her mother on
Sunday morning, Oct. %, aged 80 yrs.
She was born in Groton. Soon after
her father died and the care of her.
self and two brothers.; Herbert and |
George, fell upon her mother, who,
not long after moved to Keene, N. H.,
and from that place to Montpelier,
where she carefully reared her chill
lren, giving them the advantages of
he public schools and the Seminary
1T Montpelier. ''Lizzie" early devel-
oped "a love for education and at an
early age graduated with highest hon
'rs in the Seminary, receiving at the
same time scholarship prizes. She
spent one year in the study of art in
he Syracuse, N. Y, University, re-
turning to accept a position in the
Seminary as art teacher
ind preceptress. She resigned the
position after two years and married
Or. Gale in 1899. The doctor had es-
ablished an excellent practice in
Barre and they began life under prom
sing circumstances. Not long after
hrs. Gales health began to fail with