Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-03-12

The school meeting and corporation
meeting will be held this week Tuesday
evening.
Remember Dodge & Webster's milli-
post-office tomorrow.
The schools will be postponed one week
on account of the musical convention, and
commence Monday, March 26.
The attendance at town meeting from
this end of the town was rather small
owing to the storm.
The lecture which was to have been given
by Russell III. Conwe1 at Barton this week
has been postponed on account of Mr.. Con-
well being very sick. 1t will be given
April 18th.
The entertainments at the churches last
week were very successful. The knowing
pictures'' at the Cong. church drew large
audience Monday evening. The ''Sunshine
Party'' at the M. E. church on Friday eve
ming was we'll attended and about $40 was
taken.
Remember the Musical Convention to be
held here March 21-23 with Professor Henri
BIaisdelI, conductor, and Miss Anna Green,
pianist. Blair's orchestra has been engag-
ed, several soloists and reader. Tt is in
tended to make it one of the best conven-
lions ever held here. Everyone invited.
See the bills for further particulars.
Albany.
Oliver Shepard went to Boston to attend
the Sportsman's Show.
Mr.. jackson has let his farm on the Iras
burg road to NJ. buckles.
TT. Wallace has the M. e. vestry COM
pleted in very satisfactory manner.
The town meeting passed off very quiet
ly, some of the younger voters receiving
positions of trusts.
The ladies of the Cong. society furnished
dinners town meeting day, thus adding
nice sum to their treasury.
Miss Ethel Austin is home from the Sem
mary at Montpelier to spend her vacation.
One of her friends at the Seminary is here
with her..
The lecture which was to have been Civ
en- by Russell I'll. Conwell at Barton this
week has been postponed on account of
MI. AOuW Veil OS1AS NO1J SIM LIZ 1OOeUAO
will be given April 18TH
George J. Kelley writes a friend here
that he is doing an excellent business IN
both Life and Fire insurance in Attleboro,
Mass. We also learn that John. Z. Burke
cleared up 100000 in telephone stock in
January and February. We are pleased to
learn of the excellent success of our friends.
South Albany.
There will be a birthday and egg social
at the M E. church next Friday evening
under the auspices of the Epworth League.
Let all come.
East Albany.
When E. T. Wells returned home from
town meeting he found his horse in the
barn with its leg broken and was obliged
to kill it.
The death of Mrs. Frank Thorp seems
very sad affair as she leaves husband with
four children, the Oldest being less than
six years of age. She was an estimable
woman, beloved by all who knew her.
Bloomington.
Lennie Maxwell is working at Mr.. Vim
cents.
Clayton Burroughs has gone to Derby to
school.
Mr.. Daniel Pierce, one of our oldest citi-
zens, is sick with the grip.
Stanley Marsh and wife are happy over
the arrival of little girl.
Mrs. Wallace Kennison, who has been
quite ill, is able to be out again.
Mrs. Homer Seavey of Irasburg recently
visited her brother, Willie Fuller.
Carlos Skinner has returned from Bos-
ton, where he has been to have his eyes
treated.
E.'Denison has bought one hundred
acres of the George White farm, of o. A.
White. Price, 500.
Mrs. FL. M. Nichols. who has been in
Sutton the past few weeks helping care for
her daughter, Mrs. 'Oren ingalls,, has re-
turned to A. E. Denison's.
W. F. Morey of Irasburg has moved to
the house formerly owned by E. L. Chand-
ler.-Lucius Lund has taken the John Miles
farm of Charles William Smith is
moving to the place which he purchased
of Felix Pelow some time ago, in Brown
ington Center.
The following is taken from the Lyndon
UilIe Journal: Mrs. Mary Holt Hall died
at the home of her son, S. A. Hall, on the
Sutton road, Friday evening, Feb. %. She
was born at Andover, Mass, Feb. 20, 1906.
She was married in 1887 to Rev. SAMUEL r.
Hall, L. L. D., who died in 1877. Most of
this time they resided in CraftsbuIy and
Bloomington. Since his decease SHE has
lived with her son at Lowell and St.Johns-
bury, and for the past seven years att Lyp-
DON Her only son, his wife and thres chill