Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-06-17

Guild 2. Gokey 1; sacrifice hits, r. Webster,
Su1tor; hit by pitched ball, Bertrand;
struck out by Guild Z, Gokey 8; pass ball,
Hitchcock 3, Laline q; earned runs, Barton
8, Barton Landing l; time 1 hour As min
utes; umpires, Robinson and Lawrence;
scorer, II. P. Baldwin.
| C, N. Hubbard has the foundation laid
for nice house on the lot purchased by
| him last year. The cellar is of split
| granite, the stone furnished by the Val
ley Bros. It's dimensions are 29x34 feet,
six feet high besides the underpinning,
which is Gig hteen inches, making a cellar
seven and one-half feet high. It is to be
| cemented on the bottom. Besides this
there are two wings of wall eight feet high
and fourteen feet long to hold the bank
on either side. About eight hundred
loads of dirt are required to do the filling
which is nearly completed. This is
| foundation which will stand. E. S.
| WEIGH has the contract of building the
house which is to be completed by Jan. 1,
1902.
The sixth annual banquet of the Alumni
| association of Barton academy was held at
Hotel Barton last Friday evening. The
association now numbers nearly one hun
dred mem ers and although they were not
all able to be present those who attended,
together with the invited guests made
about eightyfive. After a pleasant
social hour line was formed and all
marched to the banquet room where
| spread worthy of the occasion was served,
| The post-prandial exercises then followed,
Clare Powell presiding as toast master,
| his genial manner and ready wit enabling
him to discharge the duties of this office
in a manner most accepta bic to all. Toasts
were then respondedBtO by 1.-THE following
| parties: E. G. Baldwin, '91, Miss Grace
Richmond, Miss Maude Dutton, 'O1, for
Miss Ethel Rand 'G1, who was ill, Miss
Amanda Ovitt, Lester NJ. Kinsley, '02, c.
| E. Austin, '96, Edna @. Ufford, 700, H. J.
Stannard, Roy A. Bean, '99, e. E. Webster,
go, Mrs. H. J. Stannard, 88, Roy A. Bean,
99, E. E. Webster, 80, Mrs. II. J. Stan
nard, ''S8. Mr.. w. S. Hubbard, 'S6, kindly
consented to respond to toast and enter
tanned his hearers with many beautiful
thoughts but his constant changes from
the sublime to the ridiculous kept all in
laughing mood. The class poem was Civ
en- by Charlie w. Sheaff. The following
OIllC6IS NSIS S1SClSu IOA InC COLII1LlS year
President, Roy A. Bean, vice president,
Clara NJ. Powell, secretary and treasurer,
Mrs. H. J. Stannard.
The graduating class of the Barton
academy held their closing exercises at the
opera hall last Thursday evening. The
hall was prettily decorated, the class
colors, lavender and white, being promi-
GtGlfoaoeclyc
Resolutions NatuS,' in large letters could
be seen above the stage. The usual Gus
tom of seating the school directors and the
instructors on the platform with the stu
dents in the body of the house was revers-
ed and the members of the graduating
class were given the seats of honor.
After prayer by Rev. r. L. Sheaff, the
saIutatory address was delivered by VIM.
F. Nye, who in we'll chosen words thanked
the people for their presence and for the
support which they have always given the
school, after which he expressed the
thanks of the class to the mem bers of the
faculty for their help and for the kindly
interest they had always manifested in the
class. The next speaker was Flossie p.
McFarlane who spoke on "Climbing the
Ladder of Success" She stated that sue
cess is the prize set before the people and all
are contending for it; to each one is given
the power of winning if he will only do
his best. He who has done his best to OBJ
tain goodness has reached the highest
success. Success belongs to him who
dares to win it, therefore let us strive to
make ourselves successful in the sight of
God and man. The class prophecy was
wonderful dream which she had recently /
had, in which she found herself in large
library surrounded by books one of which /
was huge volume containing history of |!
the eminent people of the Goth century. |
She opened it expecting to find the names |
of the members of the class of 'O1 and was |
not disappointed. In this book she found |
glowing accounts of the successes of her |
classmates, each one having reached the |
tOpmost round of the ladder of fame. The |
paper was well prepared and nicely de- /
ivered. 1.-THE Nobility of La bor'' was the !
theme of Abbie w. Hubbard but as we
failed to receive her article we can not
give an abstract from it. We can say,
however that it was an excellent article
and was delivered in pleasing manner.
John M. Graves was the next speaker,
his subject being, ''Fruits, not Flowers
Deeds not Diplomas He showed that
while the flowers delight the eye and please
the sense of the beautiful, yet they are not
lasting like the fruit which not only be-
comes beautiful but useful as well. So in
life our diplomas are the flowers, our deeds
the fruit. The diploma shows that the
spring-time Of life is fast drawing near
when our lives are ready to burst forth in
to verdure. Whether the harvest is rich or
not depends upon ourselves. If we form a
determination to accomplish some wished