Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-09-14

services, purses or premiums, are request
ed to call at once and get their pay, o. D
| Owen, treasurer.
Rev. w. E. Douglass preached sermon
to the Masonic fraternity on the evening
of Sept. 7th, large number being present
| This discourse was very appropriate and
was listened to with marked attention.
The illustrated lecture, Darkest New
York., given by Prof. V. E. Morrill, at the
| M. E. church, failed to draw as large a
| company as it deserved. The lecture with
he views was very fine and was much en-
| ioyed by those present.
Remember the St. Johnsbury fair, Tues
| day, Wednesday and Thursday of this
week. There is to be a grand display of
| attractions too numerous to mention
There will be a balloon ascension and
parachute jump the last two days.
Leone Freeman, son Of J.. B. Freeman, is
home from Manchester, n. H., after an
absence of over three years. He has a
good position in Manchester and is doing
well there. Hefinds the old town consid-
erably changed during his absence.
Horace Morrill, of Coventry, who has
been spending some weeks with his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Geo. Tower, has returned home.
Mrs. Tower has sister from New York
visiting her.-Rev. A. B. Blake and wife
of Fairfax are visiting in this vicinity.
Charles Preston is doing big job of
digging and grading on his lot on the new
street, preparatory to putting up a
building later.-Mrs. D. D. Stone is hav-
ing her barn raised up to keep in move
with the imitation on the new street.
w. w. Person, who built the creamery
in this place some years ago, and who has
had rather stormy time financially ever
since, has gone into insolvency, his in
debtedness amounting to nearly $1,000,
with assets of less than half that sum. His
brother, Herbert, will be a heavy loser.
A watch case, one of the exhibits
on the fair ground, belonging to Mrs.
S. B. Gradner of East Haven, was
lost. Will the person who accident
ally removed it return it to this office.
A wall basket, and knit spread, left
on the ground will be returned to the
owners if they will call on Mrs. J. B.
Freeman.
We expect to issue in October a histor i
cal and illustrated edition of this paper,
which will give the history of the town
for the hundred years of its existence, wit h
numerous illustrations of scenery bust
ness blocks, and residences in the two vii
lagos, portraits and sketches of prominen
men past and present, and much else that
will be interesting and useful. j. HWal-
bridge of St. Johnsbury, who has been
writing up numerous towns in the State
will be here soon to do some canvassing
among the citizens, to see if sufficient en-
courag cement and assistance can be obtain
ed to make the undertaking success.
a company ii friends ssand trelatives
gathered at the home Off Mr. and Mrs.
Amos Tower last Wednesday evening to
witness the marriage of their daughter,
Florence L., to Rev. Lewis N.sMoody. The
parlors were decorated in very beautiful
manner, and the couple were, united under
handsome marriage bell of asters. The
gifts were numerous and beautiful. The
ceremony was performed by Rev. w. E.
Douglass. Mr. MOODY belongs to the
Methodist Con fsxs hh4aAa is stationed at
Gaysville, where they are to reside. Mrs
Moody has lived here since childhood and
has large circle of friends. She is a fine
singer and was member of the Congre-
gationa1 choir. She was a great help to
the several societies to which she belonged
and will be widely missed. May they live
a long and useful life.
The 18th regiment of Vermont Vols. will |
hold a picnic and reunion at Barton |
Wednesday, Sept. 23d, commencing at IL
O'Clock a. m. The exercises will be held |
on the Fair Grounds, if the weather per-
mits, otherwise in the Opera hall in the |
village. Dinner will be served at o'clock |
Speaking and other exercises will be held |
in the afternoon, and there will be camp |
fire in the evening, if the comrades remain. |
1t is expected that Col. Proctor and Gen. |
Circuit will be present. Reduced fares on |
the B. & M. r. r. Trains will leave here
for the north at $50 and 9:O2 D. M; for I
the south at :38, sos and IL 81 o. m. An |
invitation is extended to all veterans and I
members of Relief Corps and to drummers
and fifers. This is the first reunion of
the regiment held in Orleans county and |
it is hoped that the attendance will be |
large. Extend the invitation.
Rev. DR.. Gillespie of New York, Secre-
tary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign
Missions, who has been stopping for sew
eral weeks at Hotel Barton supplied the
desk at the Cong. church yesterday. A /
large congregation listened to most elo-
quent sermon in the morning and in the |
evening er,iovpd an account of an official
trip taken across the lower range of the
Himalaya Mountains to visit a leprous is
land in Sabathu, which is in care of his
board. In describing his journey, the
speaker touched on various phases of life