Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-06-19

cal and that his whole presentation of the
subject stamps him as as a lecturer of rare
ability. We sincerely congratulate him
on his very interesting lecture, and we
cordially felicitate him on his successful
debut on the lecture platoon. His style is
singularly easy and pleasing, his delivery
excellent Mr.. HiIdreth will be welcome
to a Barton audience. Admission zoe;
children Zoe. Lecture begins at s o'clock.
The Vermont Department, G. A. K. and
W. r. G. will hold their encampment this
week in Montreal, beginning today and
lasting until the 21st. Those who expect
to attend from this place are E. G. Coils
ton. Osman Dwyer, o. " Joslyn, William
Drumming, Warren Simpson, John Keat-
ing, J. N. Webster, E. II. Webster, A. w.
Varney, A. F. French and John Travers.
Quimby Post has received very cordial
invitation to- attend a reception at the
Windsor hotel, the finest in Montreal, to
be given by Hancock Post, No. 1O5, and
w. r. G. No. SO, on the evening of their
arrival, which the Post has accepted.
Commander Harris made a very wise
selection of Montreal as the meeting place
of the Vt. Department, and the Canadians
promise to Guido themselves to entertain
Vermonts G. A. R. and w. R. G. societies
when they arrive. The B. and NJ. Ry.
offer very low rates of fare for the round
trip the rates being as follows: South
Barton, "a Ito, Barton, 1896, Barton Land
ing $3.50 and Coventry 1886. A special
train will leave Brattleboro on Tuesday
morning, reaching here at 1915 p. m.
which will run through to Montreal from
Newport without stop and reach that city
at about p. m. The Barton delegation
will take this train.
Miss Nettie Rand arrived from Wahpe-
ton, N. D., Thursday night. On the return
trip she made short visit to Mrs. Gertrude
Woods Washburn and found her and her
family in good health. Mrs. Washburn
will not visit Vermont this summer. On
leaving Minneapolis Miss Rand was &C
companied by Miss Sarah Mason, who will
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Mason during the sum-
mer. Miss Rand passed through the town
of New Richmond, Wis, Tuesday morn
ing, the day after the terrible cyclone
struck that town, and her description of
what she could see from the car window
mond was town of about 1900 inha bitants
about 70 miles from Minneapolis, a pros
porous village until the cyclone of week
ago destroyed every house and nearly all
the buildings in town. The sad feature of
the storms destruction was the fact that
there was no one III the village left to care
for the dying and wounded, everybody
sustaining more or less injury. Miss Rand
saw the houses that had been destroyed,
the dead cattle lying alongside the railroad
track, and as the train stopped at the town
and number of the victims were helped
aboard for other nearby towns the scenes
were very sad. When the train left the
station many gazed with fearful eyes on
their homes and property now ruined. 1t
was stated to Miss Rand that nearly one
hundred people were killed outright by
the storm. On leaving her school at
Wahpeton, Miss Rand's pupils presented
her with a fine gold chain as token of
their love and esteem for her and her
work. She will remain here for a year at
least, having decided not to return West
for that length Of time.
The first league game of base ball played
here this season was between the home
team and the Barton Landing nine last
Friday afternoon. 1t was also the first
game that Barton has engaged in for the
Orleans County championship and the
boys certainly played winning ball. On
account of the rain storms during part
of the afternoon the game did not begin
until about o'clock. The score tells the
story and while the Landing boys played
good ball all through the game they
were unable to hit Jenness safely at any
time. fair crowd assembled to watch
the game which was played until 1880,
when it was called on account of darkness.
Following is the score: