Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-08-11


"struck jury'' to appear in special
lawsuit at the September term of
county court in which the Union
Mutual Insurance company is in
volved.
The Barton lodge of Masons gave
consent to the Barton Landing breth-
rem to START lodge of their own some
time before the Irasburg lodge die,
although we Internationally mis-
represented the case in an item of
last issue.
One party of girls has returned
safely from a camping sojourn at Will
loughby, and another has gone, the
members of which are: Eva and Anna
Bassett, Mae, Lena, and Everett Will
ley, and Wesley Bassett of Newport.
We weren't informed which of the
boys acted as chaperon.
A certain cityite, while driving to
Westmore with a resident of this
place recently, asked in all sincerity
when the season was for gathering
the gum. That's equal to the girl
from the city who supposed that
maple sugar grew in chunks on the
trees the same as spruce gum.
Mrs. E. B. Hammitt and two little
daughters, of Hartford, Conn.,, and
Max and Harry Fisher from Barre
have been visiting Mrs. Fisher and
Mrs. Joslyn. Mrs. Fisher, though at
the advanced age of ninety-two years,
is still good company for young as
we'll as old, and has greatly enjoyed
these visits from four of her great
grandchildren.
Judge and Mrs. A. D. Mathews re-
turned Friday from South Paris, OK
ford county, Me-, where they visited
during Old Home Week. That is the
judges native place, and among others,
he met two old comrades he had not
seen since '66. This is the principal fea
ture of Old Home Week-meeting the
friends ofyour youth, which naturally
would not occur in any other way.
A meeting of the State Board of
Agriculture, cooperating with the
Oranges of Orleans county, will be
held in this village, Wednesday, Aug
ust 81, 1902. The following is the
program for the evening:
IL O'Clock noon-Dinner.
G. J. Bell, Chairman of the Meeting.
| 1 80 D. m.-Music,
BY Membe RS of Willoughby Grange Choir.
Address of Welcome,
G. H. Root, of Craftsbury Grange.
Observation-Disclosures Vermont"
Ernest Hitchcock, Pittsford.
willoughby Grange Choir.
Address-s'What Shall the Harvest Be-"
Senator Redfeld Proctor.
There are nine Oranges in Orleans
county, and it is hoped that each
Grange will be represented. The
meeting will be on the picnic plan,
and well filed lunch baskets are in
sorder. Special rates on the railroads
Fare expected between Lynd onville
and Newport.
| Inasmuch as death has claimed one
Of the beloved ''Neighbors" of the
Barton Landing Camp of the Modern
aWoodmen of America in. behalf of that
organization we pass TO the records
the following resolutions:
| RESOLVED, That in the accid entail
death of Alvah Clark in the sad and
deplorable railroad accident at Barton
Landing July 10, 1902, the Modern
Woodmen of America lost faithful
and trustworthy member to all the
''Neighbors'' with whom he was accus
toned to cast the pebble. We recog-
| nize his endeavors to keep the solemn
obligations of his fraternity, his faith
| fulness in the rank in which he was
placed and his love for the precep pts
which bound him to our great organi-
cation.
RESOLVED, That as token of our re-
gard for this beloved ''Neighbor" and
as an expression of our deep loss, and
regret at such a sad and appalling
death, that when we next meet we
shall drape our charter for thirty days,
and above the urn which now has a
missing pebble, we shall clasp our
hands, and renew our obligations to
those who live and those whom death
has made sad.
Resotved, That copy of these reso-
lutions be sent to the bereaved family
as an expression of our deepest SYM
pathy in their great affection.
Com. WARREN 1a E. TWoMB1Y.
Albany.
Miss Mabel Cutler is i'll.
Nat Johnson was in Newport over Sun