Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-05-28

! Win 1rlSnQS III Town.
| Mrs. Peene of Yonkers, N. Y. came here
last week to join her husband who has
| been here for some time.
M. and Mrs. f. W. Baldwin attended
the meeting of the Congregational Club at
st. Johnsbury last week.
with Mrs. II. r. Cutler next Wednesday
evening. Topic, ''The Philippines"
M J. Smith and son Roscoe spent few
DAYS at Barre with Mrs. w. j. Edwards
and other friends and relatives last week.
Mrs. A. E. Clark goes to Brattleboro this
week to visit her mother. From there she
will go to Springfield and Holyoke, Mass
II. J. Ball of Derby was through here last
week selling flowers from his lighthouses
Mr.. Ball was showing very nice assort-
ment.
Israel Valley had one of his fingers
crushed while working in the stone quarry
last week and was obliged to have part
of it amputated.
DIR. Fl. D. Martin, the oculist, opens an
office at Hotel Barton June 5, continuing
till j une 8. The doctor is well and favor
ably known here.
c. c. w. Heath moves on to Mrs. Peter
sons farm this week. Mr.. and Mrs. A. w.
Perkins have rented the rooms now occu-
pied by Mr.. Heath.
D. G. Hartman and wife of Barton
Landing and L. j. Hartman and wife
took carriage drive last week to Green's
boro and WoIcott.
Among those who attended the county
w. G. T. U. convention at Coventry were
Mrs. A. B. Owen, Mrs. r. l.. Sheaff and
Mrs. S. B. Nelson.
The annual meeting of the Barton Lee
ture Association will be held at the school
house next Wednesday evening at eight
O'Clock. All come.
The folIowings letters remain uncalled
for at the post office in this village:
Mr.. A. B. Crawford, Mr.. II. r. Green, E.
r. Shepard, Nellie. J. Waller.
The Barton baseball team goes to STU ohns-
bury on Wednesday to play the st. Johns
bury academy team. Several are planning
to go down and witness the game.
Mrs. S. g. Currier accompanies Mr..
Currier this week on his trip through
the central part of the state. She will
visit relatives in Lebanon, n. H., before
returning home.
Tickets for the graduating exercises of
the high school and grammar school will
be placed on sale Saturday morning.
Prices, high school Is cts; grammar
school 10 cts.
While working at his mill in Greensboro
last week Chas. Ufford was caught be-
tween some logs which were being moved
and one of his legs was injured, the bone
being fractured.
Chas. Graves, who has been working in
st. Johnsbury, injured one of his fingers
recently by getting piece of steel into
the bone, SO that they were obliged to
anIputate part of the finger.
The scandalous article which appeared
in several Vermont papers last week in
reference to Rev. A. B. Blake of this vii
Iage is wholly without foundation, and
the proof of this statement will be given
later.
Rev. w. E. johnson delivered the
Memorial sermon at the M. E. church yes
terday. The sermon was one of the best
ever delivered at the church such an
and there was large attendance.
A large number from this village at
tended the Ascension day services at New
port last week. The occasion was a very
pleasant one. The speaking by Rev. Mr..
Hough was most interesting, while the
splendid banquet came in for it's share of
attention.
The graduating exercises of the Barton
grammar school will be held Tuesday eve
ming, June 9Th, at Sewers opera hall.
Exercises to commence at o'clock, fol-
lowed by promenade. An orchestra will
furnish music. Admission 10 cts. All
are cordially invited.
The census takers will start on their |
work next Friday. Elmer E. Webster and
J. I'll. Bartlett will take the census of this |
town. A list of the questions to be an
swered will be found on another page of
this paper; read them carefully and be
ready for the enumerator.
Rev. j. K. Fuller of Windsor will deliver
the baccalaureate sermon before the grad
uating class of Barton academy at the
Congregational church next Sunday eve
ming. The service will be union one and
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Mr.. Fuller will speak at the church in the
morning.
Next week will be commencement week
at the Barton academy. Glass day ex-
ercises will be held on the academy grounds
Wednesday, June 9Th, at p. NJ, and the
graduating exercises at Sewers opera hall
on Thursday evening. The alumni ban
quet will be held at Hotel Barton on Fri
day evening.
A disatrous fire broke out in St. Johns