Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-23

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of the F. B. church, Tuesday evening, Mar.
oath.
Mrs. Kate Fuller and daughter Gertie OF
| Charleston were in town last week visiting
friends.
Mrs. Isaac Rollins is suffering with acute
sciatica. Her husband is also confined to
the house.
Henry Wooley has let his fine farm to
his brother, L. j. Wooley of Island Pond
Miss Sarah Morrill, will remain at the farm
%. Ryder was considerably hurt Fri
day the Goth by horse running on to him,
cutting a cash in his leg, and injuring his
| back.
Elder Shattuck has returned to his home
in Pittsfield, n. H.-Mrs. Myron Morse
has returned from North Troy, where she
has been for four weeks, caring for
sick friend.
Carl Hopkins has moved into the Glines
house on Lake roads. e. Hitchcock has
rented one of H. l.. Dailey's tenements ON
Elm St.-Joe Allen has hired the Will
Kingsbury farm at Derby Center, for one
year.
Glover.
John Salmon is quite sick.
AFRO Williams got quite badly kicked
| by horse recently.
Norris Smith is running Lewis saw in
place of Walter Gray.
Asa Chamberlain and wife are home
again after a long absence.
! John Hoyt of Troy has moved to Mrs.
Hiram Phillips place.
Cassius Twombly has rented and taken
possession of n. NJ. Lewis farm.
1t is Mr.. Lewis, instead of Mr.. Berwick,
who has rented the Phillips house.
LII. Drew has found work at Ports
mouth, n. H., for an electric company.
The school directors of this town are j.
E. Dwinell, S. n. Clark and d. A. Gilmore.
Charles Dexter and Willard Trip have
finished drawing their timber from the
GaIusha lot.
E. A. Cook of Newport was here last
week and sold his Holloway farm to
! Arthur Salmon.
Mrs. Dick Sargent spent last week with
her mother.-Frank Taylor visited his
sister at Cambridge.
| DIR. Woodland has moved to Newport
after a residence of a few months here.
Our great loss will be Viewpoints gain.
There was a genuine surprise visit one
evening last week at r. E. French's,
about thirty young people being present.
A good time is reported.
There will be a very good entertainment
at Barton tomorrow Tuesday evening,
when the Montpelier Banjo and Glee Club,
appear at Opera Hall. Our young people
will probably be there.
West Glover.
Ed. Tichurst has been in Canada ON
visit.
Report says that the E. o. Randall store
is soon to change hands.
Mrs. Eta Calderwood has gone to work
for John Anderson of Craftsbury.
d. ID. Bean has sold an organ to Geo.
Graves, and put in a piano for William
Wylie.
Mrs. King, who lives with her son Will
King, suffered a shock recently and
remains in critical condition. .. ..
Greensboro.
Caddie E. King of Glover is at J. A.
Cranes.
Henry Cuthbertson has gone to North
ampton, Mass, to work in a hardware
store.
PhiIos Goodrich of Boston returned
home last Thursday. He came up some
four weeks ago in hopes to regain his
health, and went back better in some
respects than when he came, but did not
improve as much as could be hoped.
Mr. EdjtOr-In a recent issue of the
MONITOR some correspondent writes that
this town has made a good showing in the
matter of its finances in the last year. The
present debt of the town is reported as be-
ing S275.O7, while that of last year was over
$1,000. Now 1 would like to state some
facts: The town treasurer's books show
that the town has received from the state
in the last three years, q, 1875; i'm the two
previous years, SS42.S9; total in five years
for school purposes, S2,006.64. With all
this money from the state, we have had ne
better or higher schools. For the II, 3.75
received under the present school law, no
school has been furnished for higher En-
glish, nor has the town paid the tuition
in higher English out of town. Our schools
are to-day just where they were three
years ago. The old district lines are kept
up; our scholars are not classified or grad
ed as they would have been had we been
furnished with a higher school in town, or
had the town paid their tuition out of town
in a higher English school. So our schol-
ars have lost three years.
We have received from the State for road
purposes in the last three years, S1,3s1.9o.
Our town report has thesummer work and
the winter work all footed together. The
present law compels the treasurer TO keep