Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-01-27

next Friday afternoon at the nome OF MIS-
Drown. Members will please be prepared
to pay dues Election of officers.
Dixon and Cross, Ministries from Sara
toga, gave a unique entertainment TO about
twenty-five guests at Hotel Barton
Friday night. 1 was called "Coon Con-
cert" and was much enjoyed by all pres
ent.
The annual meeting and roll-call of the
Congregational church will be held to-
morrow evening. There Will be supper at
$50 for the members and their families.
The business meeting and roll call will be
at 7-30.
At the meeting of the Barton Telephone
exchange Co. last Monday evening the
folio wing officers were elected: manager,
G. F. Percival; secretary, J. n. Webster;
treasurer, j. F. Batchelder. A committee
was elected, to revise the bylaws.
Friday evening, Jan. 31st, will be Tia
dies night with Malta Com nandery and
the Sir Knights and their ladies are to
meet at tneir Asylum. A banquet is to be
served and will be followed by speaking
and an excellent musical program. All
Sir Knights should attend.
The seIectmen of the town of Barton
will meet at W. M. Wright's Office, Feb
5th, to settle all accounts. All claims
against the town should be presented at
this time. The town auditors will meet at
the same place on Monday, Feb. 10. Town
officers must have their reports in Monday.
The special meeting of Keystone Chap
ter, No. Is, r. A. NJ, was held last We'd
nesday afternoon and evening. All Of the
degrees were worked. Several persons
were present from Island Pond. A ban
quet was served at $3.50. A good number
attended and q very pleasant time was en-
joyed.
II. A. Harding was at his logging camp
at Lake Megantic last week. Mr.. Harding
reports a good years work with excellent
prospects for the coming year. Mr.. G. F.
Belknap, who will be remembered by the
business men here as the general purchaser
of the Creamery Package Company, is here
this week in the interests of that company.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Hovey OF Rock Is
land were in town last Tuesday. Mrs.
Hovey is a sister of Col. Mansur and Mr..
Hovey was formerly a student of M. Sher-
man Raymond the conductor of the
Orchestra. They came to attend the con-
cert, and enjoyed a pleasant visit with
Mrs. Raymond. The next morning Mr..
and Mrs. Hovey gave a musicale on the
violin and piano which the guests Of the
hotel greatly enjoyed.
The Thespians will give an entertain
ment at Seaver's hall, tomorrow, Tuesday,
evening recent issue of the Express
and Standard contained the following
regarding the play:
g Forced to the War; the play to be pre-
sented next week, is one of the clubs
most popular successes and is repeated by
request. The play is one of David HIPS
best productions. Like most amateur
plays the plot is a scheme of love but has a
moral, elevating tendency. The plot is
laid in Derby Line, Stanstead Plain,
Barnston, Irasburgh Jail ana Coventry
swamp and is founded on facts which Oc-
Cured in those places in 1868 and '64.
Since the first production of this play, in
1888, the story has been put into a novel
which had large sale in the United States,
especially near the scene of the plot"
The entertainment will commence al s
o'clock. Tickets on sale at Pierce's. Ad
mission twenty-five and thirty five cents.
! The regular meeting of the Orleans Asso-
citation of Congregational Ministers was
! held in the Congregational church Tues
| day, the21st. The day being unfavorable
and two of the churches being without
pastors the attendance was not large. The
meeting, however, was one of profit as
well as pleasure. The morning session was
devoted to business connected with the
association. In the afternoon the literary
exercises consisted of a sermon read by
Rev. S. l.. Vincent of West Glover based
upon the words, "Have any of our rulers
believed on him?" and review of Prot
Kings demonstration in Theology" by
Rev. G. e. Read of Rock Island. Both OF
these productions were clear and practical
Besides those each member responded to
an invitation to give brief outline of the
sermon preached on Sunday morning pre-
ceding the meeting. A vote of thanks, ex-
pressing the appreciation of the visitors
for the bountiful dinner provided by the Ia
dies was passed bya rising vote. The next
meeting will be at Coventry on the third
Tuesday of May.
The concert given in Seaver's opera hal
last Tuesday evening was one of the best
entertainments of the season. All the
seats were occupied, and everybody
seemed pleased with the concert. M
Sherman Raymond, the conductor, is 6
queenly lady who impresses one with the
fact that she is mistress of the situation
and able to get all there is out of the m u
sicians and the music. She has certainly
drilled her orchestra to a perfection o.
skill in rendering classic music that makes
it delight for not only the ordinary peo-
pie to listen, but the connoisseur as well
Many times the orchestra as a whole was
encored, and invariably the soloists were
called back. ale Babillard," by Terschak
which was so beautifully rendered by tn,