Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-07-01

pointed hour the bridal party entered the
parlor and took their places beneath a
floral arch, where the ceremony was per-
formed by Rev. w. G. Johnson, pastor of
the M. E. church. Master Frank Liddell
acted as page and carried the ring. The
bride was attired in gown of blue silk
with trimmings of white. Soon after the
ceremony Mr.. and Mrs. Hopkins took
their departure on the 500 o'clock train
for Montreal. They will spend some time
at Montreal, Buffalo and other places, be-
fore going to Owosso, Mich, for the re-
mainder of the summer. The bride was
the recipient of many beautiful gifts.
The Orleans County Summer School of
Methods will hold its tenth annual session
here July 20 to August 10. The manage
ment have secured the ablest corps of lee
turers and instructors ever offered to the
teachers of Orleans County and the course
of study has been arranged to meet their
expressed wishes. Miss Sarah Louise Ar
mold, Supervisor of Schools, Boston,
Mass, will deliver two lectures to the
teachers, one of which will be open to the
public. Subjects will be announced later.
Hon. Henry Houck, Deputy State Super
intendent, Harrisburg, Pa, will deliver
five lectures on School Management.
Walter P. Beckwith, A. NJ, Supt. of
Schools, Adams, Mass, will give ten lee
lures upon Geography, and A. w. Edison,
Assistant Superintendent, New York City,
will deliver five lectures upon Methods.
Besides these lectures the teachers can
elect complete courses under any of the
following instructors. In fact, other
classes will be formed when the needs of
those attending have been determined.
w. D. Parsons, Principal of Woodstock
High School, as instructor in Arithmetic,
will give "A exercises, making a complete
course in Methods in Arithmetic, from
numb Der work to advanced arithmetic.
w. H. Taylor, Examiner of Teachers,
Caledonia County, will give twelve lessons
on School Law, thereby giving the teach
ers clear idea of their legal rights and
duties. Miss M. Helen Beckwith, formerly
of Chicago, ILL.,, will give "a lessons in
Drawing and II in Nature Study. All
these courses are elective in addition to the
lectures. In all recitation subjects there
will be at least two hours recitation daily.
Recreation for the teachers has been am
ply provided for, as the Barton Entertain
ment Co. will give two high class enter
tainments and there will be an excursion
to Willoughby Lake, besides the boating
facilities of Crystal Lake near at hand.
The Boston & Maine Railroad will give re-
duced rates during the session Of the Sum-
mer School between Sherbrooke and Wells
River and st. Johnsbury and Cambridge
Junction. Teachers expecting to attend
the School are advised to engage board
and room at an early date. Address Ed
ward G. Baldwin, Manager, or Edward S.
Abbott, Local Manager, who will assign
boarding places and answer any questions
pertaining to local arrangements. Board
can be obtained at $3.50 per week or $500
for the session. Tuition is g for the ses-
sion, for one week S1.25, or at the rate of
80 cents per day for less time.
Barton Landing.
Levi Hall who lives at Wilton Center,
Ill, is here to visit his father who is ILL.,
Ray and Roy Skinner have gone to
LoweIltown, Me-, to remain during the
summer.
Nj. and Mrs. j. G. Turn bull and children
have returned from the Pan American
at Buffalo.
Miss Marcia Gay is home from Washing
ton, D. G. Her cousin, Miss Addie Spot
ford, returned with her.
Station Agent Wheeler sold over fort
tickets yesterday to people attending the
Beebe Plain camp meeting.
Harry Ford has gone to Pleasure Bay N.
j., where he will work in a hotel with his
brother Homer this summer.
The school boys played a game of base
ball last Tuesday with the village nine
and defeated them with a score of to 0.
Ii. c. Mating and Mr.. Cove, the new
druggist, took a ride of rs miles down to
Bradford on the 22nd and returned on the
9th of the month.
G. L. Richardson has hen that laid an
egg last week that measured eight and
tt rec fourths by six and half inches in
Daniel Sherman and Erwin Wiley ran
into each other in a game of baseball re-
Gently, which rendered Shermans enseless
for some time, but did not hurt Wiley to
any extent.
I. D. r. Collins has added to his insurance |
business that of barbering bald headed |
men. If any one doubts his ability to do a |
good job let him ask G. N. Leonard about |
hair cutting.
The E. L. Chandler Co. are making about
one hundred sounding boards in a day
while the demand is for double that
number. Help is scarce but will be more
plenty after haying.
Quite number of the men who were
working for the E. L. Chandler Co. in the
upper story of the mill under the tin roof
nad to quit work Friday on account of the
excessive heat.