Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-02-12

| verdict OF murder In the HfSU degree.
The ladies of the W. g. T. U. are invited
to meet with Mrs. T. w. Drew on Tuesday
afternoon of this week at 2:3O. Let all
membe be present a. there is business of
importance to come before the meeting.
Mr.. A. w. Mears, proprietor Of Hotel
Barton, is visiting in Marshfield and
MorrisvilIe. The hotel is in charge of F.
HI. PiIlsbury in his absence. Quite party
of the townspeople took dinner there
yesterday.
The date of the next lecture which is to
be given by DR.. James Hedley has
been changed to Monday evening,
February 10Th. The date of DIR. ConwelIs
lecture has also been changed to Thurs
! day evening, March Is.
Rev. P B. Fisk of Greensboro spoke at
| the Cong. church yesterday, both morning
and evening, in exchange with Rev. r. L.
| Sheaff. The theme of the morning sermon
was 'sGood citizenship" and the discourse
was impressive and helpful.
Judge Thompson will speak at the Cong.
! church here next Sunday evening under
! the auspices of the Christian Endeavor
society. His subject Will be, ''The Work
| ing of the Prohibitory Law" It will be a
union service and it is. hoped there will be
! a large attendance.
The following letters remain uncalled
! for at the post-office in this village:
! Joseph Avery, G. H. BWers, L. S. Brock,
! Miss Jennie M. Croft, Miss Flora Goddard,
| Dina Hitchcock, Blanch Huntoon, Miss
Matte w. Hubbard, Miss Emma Mon
! DBL
i terman.
| Gen. Butler who crossed the Tugela
! again last week and made another attack
on the Beers has been obliged to retire.
Gen. Roberts has now taken hold of the
| campaign in earnest and great results are
hoped for. It is reported that Gen. White
has made an attempt to cut his way out of
Ladysmith.
Annual convocation of the Fourth
District Royal Arch Masons. will be held
with Keystone Chapter, No. Is, at this
place next Monday. The Grand officers
will be present. Work commences at 2:30
p. m. Haswell Chapter of St. Johnsbury
confers the M. NJ. and p. M degrees in
the afternoon. Banquet at $50 o'clock.
The r. A. degree viii be conferred by
most cordially invited,
Next Monday evening DIR. James He'd
ley will give his lecture, ''The Sunny Side
of Life" at the opera hall. This date has
been changed from Feb. 18th to Feb 10Th.
DIR. Hedley has never Iectured here before
but his success as speaker is well known
and he should draw full house. The
Augusta, Ga, Chronicle has the following
to say of him: ''To hear DR.. Hedleys
lectures is to hear music on the wings of
words; to see pictures dainty and grand;
to smell the odor of howers to tread the
realms, now of laughter, now of tears, and
again of song; to witness tragedy and
comedy; and above all, to think of right
things, and to be lifted to the mountain
tops of the Hottest ideals of life and
character Tickets are now On sale at
the drug store.
The Waterbury. VT, Record states that
the Consolidated Electric Lighting Co. of
Montpelier is to extend its field as to
take in Waterbury, and that lights will be
furnished there at the same price as in
Montpelier and Barre. It says further
that Waterbury appreciates the fact that
they are to have good system of lighting
at low rates. The rate referred to is six
dollars per light. Compare this with the
rate existing in this village and it is easy
to see that our people have every reason to
be proud of the system here. Our prices
vary from one 10 three dollars per light
and houses which are furnished with
lights in every room, with the barns also
lighted, are run ct a cost but very little
above the cost of lighting by oil, and the
light is much better, while the work is
greatly decreased.
For the third time in the history of our
lecture course, Prof. John B. DeMotte
greeted Barton audience, when on last
Thursday evening he delivered his famous
scientific lecture on ELECTRICITY and Civil
Ization." Commencing with the earliest |
methods of transportation he showed how
each had been supplanted by some other,
until the power of steam was discovered. |
But civilization is fast outgrowing this |
and electricity must furnish the power of !
the future. By the means of his diagrams |
and illustrations, and by use of the simplest |
language, Prof. DeMotte made his wonder |
full truths, which had hitherto possessed |
but slight interest to many, comprehensi-
bic and entertaining to all. Prof. De-
Notes field of work is we'll shown in the
following from the Constitutional Demo- |
crdt: 1.-THE lecture showed the many |
sides that the man has. Hitherto here he |
has been best known as the apostle of the |
higher ethics and of the elevation of the /
training of the mind-psychology being |
today the physiology of the brain. The
lecture last night showed him in the field |
in which the scientific world knows him
as a physicist of deep study, broad educat
ion and eypert L<nOyJe6pe of molecular |