Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-09-16

The lecture by Rev. Marcus B. Par
ounagian at the M. E. church Friday
evening was fairly attended and
greatly enjoyed.
About fifty persons attended the
/ NJ E. Sunday school picnic at the Dry
Pond grounds last Saturday, where
an enjoyable time was had.
Miss Alice M. Kyle of Boston will
speak in the Cong. church Tuesday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, on ''Wo-
mans Work in Mission Fields.''
Our agent will be present at the fair
to take the names of new subscribers
and to collect arrearages. Come pre-
pared to pay up the old score and
start in new. Club papers as usual.
The village trustees are putting up
building on the Owen lot near the
proposed railroad crossing, which is
to be the local headquarters of the
electric power for the electric light
plant.
F. w. Baldwin, Esq, read histori-
cal paper at the late meeting of the
Congregational Club at Newport,
which an exchange characterizes as
ga finely prepared and exceedingly
interesting paper"
The Divine Bros, acrobats, who
performed at Sherbrooke fair, much
to the pleasure of the people, have
been engaged to come to the county
fair. The base ball game will be be-
tween the Irasburgh and Danville
teams.
We learned while at the Caledonia
Co. fair that very large number of
horses, some of them among the best
in the State, are to be here to trot at
the fair and races next week. There
is no lack of material with which to
make races this year.
The lecture given at M. E. church
on Saturday evening by Miss Nettie
Chase on female suffrage was of more
than usual interest and deserved
much larger attendance. Women will
not get the right of franchise until
they show livelier interest in the
matter themselves.
Fair at Lyndonville commences to-
morrow (Tuesday) and holds two
days. The bills and advertisements
show that the fair will be good one.
The reunion of the 4th and the 18th
regiments is to be held on the fair
ground on Tuesday. Call for fair
tickets at all railroad stations.
Fred Dryer, while returning from
thepicnic at Willoughby on Thursday
had a collision with another team.
Mr.. Dryers wagon was overturned
and the occupants thrown out. The
horse cleared from the wagon and
run to Barton. There was no one
hurt by the accident. The horse sus-
tanned some injuries.
Some of those who have been dab
bling in rum have been before mag
istrate and learned a practical lesson
about the law. Let them go right.
along and get free ride and better
job at Rutland. That school is said to
be we'll run, and those who come out
of the institution get a diploma of
which they are always proud.
Mr.. Stannard, principal of the Acad-
envy, received word early in the week
that his mother, who had been seri-
ously i'll for several months, was
much worse and he FASTENED to her
home in New York to find that she
had passed away few hours before
his arrival. He returned the last of
the week. School was suspended for
few days, but starts up again to- day.
Those who saw the stock which was
exhibited by Mr.. Vail of the Speed
we'll Farms of Lyndon at the St.Johns-
bury fair say that this show was the
best single exhibition seen there in
years, and that his stock in the line of
fine horses of different breeds, sheep
and cattle was exceedingly fine. That
stock is to be be exhibited at the fair
to be held here next week and it will
be great show in itself.
We hope the fair people will not let
every cider peddler, beer peddler,
and those who are trying to run gam
bling concerns on to the fair ground
during fair time. The selling of bot
tied liquors of any sort is demoraliz
ing and dangerous. Nobody knows
what those who sell liquors from bot
ties are retailing out. The presump-
ton is that most of the stuff sold con-
tains some per cent OF alcohol, and
thatmany who handle so -called ''soft
drinks" will sell anything they dare
to sell. Let the fair be so looked af