Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-12-16
Barton.


Mrs. n. M. Jewell spent few days in
Boston last week. - I'D w
Our Christmas advertisers have captured
the MONITOR this week.
Mr.. Jenkins will open a singing school
Tuesday evening of this week.
Rev. Mr.. Ward of ST. Johns bury preach
ed at the Cong. church yesterday.
Fred Browning is helping Mr.. Seaver in
his Worlds Fair Exposition in Opera Hall
d. d. Bean has been putting in a large
Boynton heater, which will heat his whole
block.
Attention is called to the local advertise
ment of DR.. Owen, an optician of repute in
this state.
Telephone connections have been made
with the power plant at Clyde Falls. The
pohne at this end will be at Mr.. Seavers
store.
The M. E. Ladies' Aid Society is invited
to meet with Mrs. Geo. Tower and Mrs. E.
H.Webster at the church parlors Thursday
afternoon, Dec. 10.
Masonic District meeting at Newport
tomorrow tuesday afternoon and even
ing. The fraternity in this place will re-
member and attend as far as possible.
Grout Camp, Sons of Veterans, at their
last regular meeting, elected the old board
of officers for the ensuing year. Installa-
tion Jan. 4. Members of G. A. r. request
ed to attend.
The weather for the past week or ten
days has been cold and dry and the ground
is freezing to great depth. Wheeling is
good, but a few inches of snow is greatly
needed, for sleighing.
The first exhibition of the efficiency and
good working results of the new electric
light system was seen on Wednesday even
ing last when the Seaver Opera Hall was
lighted for the first time with electricity,
and the five or six hundred people who
were present to hear Mr.. Dixon's great
lecture, saw what the thirty or forty in
candescent lamps could do toward lighting
the main room. The fix up was temporary
in some of its parts and the dynamo power
was borrowed of the Peerless Factory, but
the lights were strong, steady and salts
factory. Mr.. Gonzenbach, electrician, has
prepared the wiring and switch machin-
cry so that the whole system in the hall is
controlled from the stage platform and is
so arranged that the current can be turned
from almost a single lamp to the whole
number, or to any section of lamps. The
first showing of the work was very salts
factory. Most of the stores down town
are now lighted, the Peerless dynamo be-
ing run temporarily for that purpose. The
Clyde Falls work is progressing well, the
weather considered, and few weeks more
will complete it.
The people of this village and vicinity
were favored last week by the presence of
two noted first-class lecturers, Thos. Dixon
Jr., of New York, though by birth south
erner, and Hon. M. w. Howard, congress
man from Alabama. Each is a typical
Southern gentleman, possessed of a rare
oratoricaI talent. Mr.. Dixon is considera-
bly, more than six feet in height, lank and
lean. with a voice pitched on high kew
and popularity of speech and gesture
which commands attention, regardless of
what his words or thoughts may be. He
puts his thoughts in plain but peculiar
garb of words, exaggerates, puts in strong
colors his word pictures and pours forth
expressions in rapid torrent. He is a gen
ins in things comic and interWeaves the