Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-11-30

cnOlc0 clay, we WOuiu olSSCao liiaU
he dump it into the streets in front
of the meat market and Ed. Robin
sons store.
Quinby Post, G. A. r., was in
spected at the last meeting by Com
rade o. v. Joslyn. Comrades L. B.
Harris and s. G. Collision Of Lyndon
were present and entertained the
meeting by interesting army remi-
iniscences.
Geo. A Sanborn Of Kansas City,
Mo-, has been visiting friends initown.
Mr.. Sanborn is half-brother of j.
| M. and E. c. Elliott Of this village.
This is his first visit to Barton for
twenty years. He is a wholesale
agent in Kansas City for pianos and
organs.
There will be supper with musical
and literary entertainment at the
Cong. church parlors Wednesday
evening. Supper served from $3.50 to
z. Everybody invited. Ladies will
please send the usual table supplies
without further notice. Whole bill
15c.; children 1Oc.
In order to learn more about how
our laws are made the students of the
high school have formed a congress
and elected their members and Of
ficers, and viii soon have a large
number of bills on the docket. 1t is
to be hoped that their judicial legis-
lation will give US better times.
The next entertainment of the
lecture course will be given Friday
evening by Robert Stuart Macarthur,
patsor of the Calvary Baptist church
of N. Y. DR.. McArthur's subject will
be, ssChips from Many Shops" He
is a fine orator and q well-known lee
turer. Be sure to hear him. Tickets
are now on sale at FL. G. Pierce's
store.
The expense of doing general can
wasting is such that we are not an
noying our subscribers to any great
extent this fall with the genial can
vasser, but we hope they will be all
the more ready to meet the agent
when he comes around soon to make
the annual collections and pick up the
club paper list. Look the list over
and see what is wanted. We will
announce our dates very soon.
Mr.. Baldwin succeeded in getting
the bills through the Legislature in
which this town was particularly in
terested, viz: The bill to permit the
village to raise bonds for the electric
lightdebt to change the lines Of the
village corporation soas, to include
that territory on which buildings
have recently been erected; to in
corporate savings banks and to get
a charter for an electric or steam rail-
way from Island Pond to sGreensooro
Bend. - Kte
The village schools closed Nov. 20
for two weeks vacation, $ During
the fall term of IL weeks there have
been 30 pupils in attendance~sin the
High lssehools Department. with an
average daily attendance Of l9S per
cent. Nineteen pupils have had no
mark of absence or hardness and
% no mark of absence. Miss Lena
McFarlane 1917, has the best record of
attendance. Since her admission to
the High school in the fall of 1913, she
has been absent but one half day,
and has had no tardy mark. The
winter term opens Dec. 7th, with
the same corps of teachers.
Mrs. A. Wilkie received a telegram
recently announcing the. death of
her niece, Nancy Ashmore, which oc
Cured at her home in Richmond, P.
O., Nov. II. The deceased was,swell-
known in this vicinity, and her death
has cast a gloom upon those who
knew her. She was devout mem
Der Of the M. E. church, and was
active in all work pertaining to Chris
tian life. Her last words were, 81
am only waiting for my Saviour" At
the funeral. which was held on Fri
day, Nov. goth, were large con-
course of relatives and friends to pay
their last sad tribute to the departed
and try to comfort the afflicted fami-
ly, whose loss seemed almost irrepa-
rable. Rev. D. Mick OBLIGATED.
Miss Ashmore leaves a father, moth
er, brother and sister, and large
circle of friends to mourn her early
death, but they have the assurance
that what is their earthly loss is her
eternal gain.
BardGz Landing.
A new boy at Frank Heath's.
E. ). Winslow is home on vaca-