Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-04-10

| cessful one.
The following letters in the post office
remain uncalled for: Cora Belle Allen,
| Miss Anna Grafton, Alex Gandette, Geo.
Greene, c. E. Hubbard, A. P. Marshall,
Mrs Ida F. Robinson.
The funeral of A. @. Austin was held at
the residence Wednesday afternoon. Rev.
| l.. Dodd OF Averill, Mass, assisted by
Rev. r. L. Sheaff off1ciated. The burial
was at Barton Landing.
Mr. III. G. Pierce and III. P. Cook were IN
Lebanon, n. III. last Tuesday to attend the
| funeral of their aunt, Mrs. Huntington,
whose remains had been brought there
| from Nebraska for burial.
| The Odd Girls are invited to meet
| Thursday with Mrs. Melvin Drown at so.
| Barton to enjoy sugar party All mem
| bers of the society and their families are
cordially invited. Please carry saucers
and spoons.
Quite a number of the members of Olym-
pic Encampment attended the district
meeting of the encampment at Lyndon
Vile last Wednesday evening. They re-
ported good number present and an en-
| joyable time.
| There is to be meeting of the Masonic
order here next Wednesday evening
Work in the Sd degree. After the work
there will be banquet. Music will be
furnished by the orchestra. Let there be
good attendance.
The ladies of the Congregational church
will give their annual sugar party at the
church parlors tomorrow tuesday eve
ming. Supper will be served from 6 to 8
O'Clock. Whole bill Is cents. Let the peo-
pie come out and get some new sugar.
Mr.. Joseph Waterman wishes to thank
all his neighbors and friends who so kind
ly assisted him at the time of the death
and burial of his wife. He would espec-
tally thank Mrs. Hill who cared for Mrs.
Waterman the last ten weeks of her life.
GR. Pattee has been getting out some
booklets containing description OF Barton
and the surrounding vicinity and showing
views of some of the fine scenery near here.
Mr.. Pattee already has applications for
rooms for the summer season.
1t is reported that Thomas Stevens, who
lived about one mile from West Glover
village, died very suddenly this morning.
He was in the barn milking and after
emptying pail of milk pitched forward,
fell to the floor and died in short time.
There is to be a promenade at Sewers
hall next Wednesday evening. the music
to be furnished by Potter's orchestra. The
Rebekah lodge is to be the entertainment
committee, and the promenade is espe-
cially for the married people, to whom
special invitation is extended. The last
part of the evening the young people have
the floor. Admission, 20 cents.
Cong'i services for the week: Monday
evening at 80, Christian Endeavor meet
ing led by Mrs. Henry Baldwin; Thursday
evening at 7:30, prayer meeting; Friday
evening at 700, teachers meeting at Mrs.
o. d. OVENS; Saturday evening at 7:30,
choir rehearsal at church; Sunday morn
ing service followed by Sunday-school;
Junior c. E. meeting at3:OO pm; evening
service at 6 80.
Miss Maud Mossman, who has been re-
ceiving instructions on the violin in Bos
ton for some months, will return home the
first of May and is to give lessons on the
violin during the summer and fall months.
Miss Mossman is an excellent violinist, as
all who listened to her while she was here
last summer can testify, and the training
which she is receiving at present especially
fits her for teaching and we have no doubt
that she will have large class.
The fifty-fifth session of the Vermont !
Annual Conference Of the M. e. Church
will be held at Newport, beginning April
18th, and ending April "a, Bishop Willard
+. MaIIiiieu, d. D., L. L. d., of Boston,
presiding. On Friday evening, April 21st,
the Bishop will deliver his great lecture
on ''The March of The Saxon," in Lanes
Opera House. Price of admission fifty
cents. Apply to Rev. w. E. Douglass for
tickets.
At the annual meeting of keystone chap
ter, r. A. NJ, No. 16, held last Monday
evening, the following officers were elected
and installed: Ii. G. Gay, Ell. P; J. F.
Batchelder, king; T. Landon, scribe; g.
A. Katen, Treas; J. A. Pearson, &c.,; E.
FL. GIazier, G. H.; III. T. Seaver, P. s.; J.
N. Webster, r. A. c.; G. FL. Davis, M. 3rd
"; FL. c. Pierce, NJ End "; M. j. Smith,
M. 1st "; Rev. r. L. Sheaf, chaplain; G.
f. Percival, VIM. Lang, Stewards; A. S.
Drew, tyler.
The base ball boys in the village and or
ganized an association and decided to have
a team this summer. Chas. Currier was
elected manager. They are thinking of
hiring some ground neaer and more con-
venient than the fair grounp. A paper will
probably be circulated among robustness
men before long in order to raise funds
for the maintenance of the team, and as
there is considerable interest felt in having
a first-class team good amount should be
raised in this way.
This is time of the year when people
from out of town d o not get in to do as