Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-03-20


Word has been received from the Leffel
company stating that they would ship the
new shaft from their shops to-day, and 1t
will be likely to reach here within ten days.
On account of the Conwell lecture on
Thursday evening Of this week the usual
prayer meeting Of the M. E. church will
be held with the Epworth League service
on Tuesday evening.
A case of cruelty to a horse has been re-
ported, the amin al being beaten in an I'M
merciful manner. The authorities are
looking into the matter and it is said that
the driver of the horse has disappeared.
Mrs. M. E. Freeman leaves today for
Boston, where she will purchase line OF
goods for the spring trade. She will be
away for two weeks and VIII visit in Man
chester, N. H., New Haven, Conn.,, and
New York City.
Miss Glenn Spaulding, daughter of I'll.
G. Spaulding, who has been quite sick
with nervous prostration, is improving.
Miss Spaulding had been working in the
store of j. Ell. McLoud of HardWick, but
her father recently moved her here where
they can more easily care for her.
Cong. services for the week: Monday
evening at 1850, G. e. meeting AS there
will be no Thursday evenin prayer meet
ing the M onday night meeting is for all.
Friday evening at 700, teachers meeting
at Mrs. Barron's; Saturday evening, choir
rehearsal at church; Sunday morning
service followed by Sunday school; Junior
G. E. meeting at 100 p. M; evening SER
vice at $50.
The Windsor hotel in New York city
| burned last Friday afternoon when the
| halls were crowded with people watching
parade on the streets below. The fire was
started bya lighted match being thrown
down which ignited curtain and the
house was soon in flames. Nearly twenty
people lost their lives and many more We're
badly injured.
DR.. j. A. Pearson attended the meeting
of the State Dental Association in Burling-
! ton last week. The address of welcome
| was given by DR.. S. d. Dodge of Burling-
| ton and was responded to by Dr.. Pearson.
| Mrs. Pearson accompanied him. The Doc
| tor was reelected as member of the ex-
ecutive committee and was also elected as
delegate to the national convention
Next Wednesday evening Senior Felipe
Cato will appear in Sewers hall under the
auspices and for the benefit of Barton Cor
net Band. Senior Cato delivers a lecture
IAN evening in Cuba,' and will also give
piano recital. This entertainment is
highly spoken of by the state papers and is
no doubt, worthy of good patronage The
lecturer is a native Cuban and his realistic
descriptions of his native land and the
events which have transpired there in the
last few years are said to be most thrilling
and entertaining. Tickets are on sale at
the drug store.
Geo. w. BuzzeH placed a telephone on
the stage at the opera hall last Thursday
evening and connected it with the Peo-
pies line, and parties along on the line at
Barton Landing, Evansville, Newport, No.
Troy and Stanstead, reported that they
could hear the vocal and instrumental mu-
sic distinctly and the reading quite plain
ly. This is quite treat for the people to
be able to listen to concerts over the tel
ephone wires for distance of nearly thirty
miles. MI. Buzzell is talking of placing
one of the phones in the church SO that he
can listen to the remarks of the minister
without putting himself to the usual
amount of trouble.
Mrs. Mary Quinn, who has been sick for
some time, died last Friday night aged
about seventy-five years. Mrs. Quinn was
born in Ireland, but has lived in this
country nearly fifty years. She married
Patrick Quinn and they moved to this vii
lage about forty years ago. They were
honest, Woodworking people, and were re-
spected by all who knew them. Mr.. Quinn
died about fourteen years ago. During
the time Mrs. Quinn has been in town she
has always lived near the place where she
died. She was a very pleasant woman,
charitable to the poor, was well known
throughout the village and was esteemed
by all. Her funeral was held this morning.
The annual session of the Vermont Con-
ference of the M. E. church will be held
this year at Newport, commencing April
10. Bishop w. F. Mallalieu of Boston will
preside. Several important changes are to
take place. The death of Rev. Ell. A. Spen-
Ger, presiding elder of the st. Johnsbury
district, necessitates a new appointment
for that position. 1t is altogether proba-
BILE that Rev. j. o. Sherburne, who was
appointed to serve out the year, will be
named for the place by the bishop. Rev.
Thomas TYRE, pastor of the Methodist
church at ST. Johnsbury, goes to the New
| England Southern Conference, and Rev.
Andrew Gillies, pastor of Trinity church,
Montpelier, to the New York East Confer
ence.
The next and last lecture of the lecture
! course will be given at Sewers Opera Hall
next Thursday evening, by Russell FL.
Conwell. This speaker needs no intro