Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-12-01


Horace Wilder has purchased farm in
Charleston where he will move Immediately.
Mr.. Colby Stoddard of Barton Landing
and Rolfe Searles spent Thanksgiving in
town.
Miss Inez Circuit has resigned her
position at Chicopee, Mass. and returned
home.
Marvin Moran has been engaged to carry
on Edgar Silver's farm and will occupy the
farm tenement.
Mr.. Thomas Ewens, who never fully re-
covered from the shock he had quite long
| time ago, died last week.
Edmund Wilder went to Watertown.
Conn, Tuesday night to spend Thanks
giving with his parents.
John Taylor injured his foot on a sharp
stick SO that he is unable to be in the store:
his place is taken By his brother Willie.
MIR. Garvin Magoon and family from
Stewartstown, N. H., were in town to
spent Thanksgiving with mis- sister, Mrs.
Holbrook.
McGinty, the little shetland pony owned
by Miss Edith Bates, was obliged to be
killed last Tuesday on account of it's hay
ing Iockjaw.
Academy Notes.
Miss Harriet A. Page, the teacher of
French and German, is spending the
| Thanksgiving vacation at her home in
North Troy.
Miss Moore, the new teacher of eIocution
and physical culture is expected to begin
her work with the opening of the new
year The entertainment which she gave
recently in academy hall, has indicated
what Derby students have in store for
them III the way Of instruction, it being of
the very highest order. The five teachers
are ali well fitted for their work and the
future OF Derby academy is Frightening.
The new physical and chemical laboratory
is in use and will prove much desired help
to the classes in physics and chemistry.
The fall term of Derby academy closed
Friday evening, the 21st inst, with grand
entertainment. Those present pronounced
it one of the best ever given by the students
in academy hall. A large and appreciative
audience was present and the following
program was rendered:
Music, The Fairy Chorus; Verdi
Chorus
Invocation
Piano Solo, Novelletten, o. ri; Schumann
Miss Martin
Recitation, How Tom Sawyer White
washed the Fence; Mark Twain
Charles Leroy Williamson
Recitation, Old Mother Goose, E. S. Phelps
Alice Fletcher Clark
Recitation, Hess; Howell L. Piner
Edith Susie Lovelette
Piano Duet, Attage des UIans; Bohm
Misses Clark
Recitation, Deacon Tubman's New
Years Ride; Murray
Charles o. Temple Il
Recitation, The Catholic Psalm; s= Anon
Lepha M. Taylor -<
| Dumb bell Drill, Anvil Chorus
Recitation, Aunt Melissa, on Boys;
Olive Fairchild
Recitation, Old Mistis; John T. Moore
Agnes L. Harris
Recitation, Aunt Einora's Hero;
Pauline Phelps
Hester r. Coburn
PantOmlne, SUar-Spangled Banner;
Misses Clark, Moran, and Lena Taylor
Recitation, Death Bed ofBenedict Arnold;
Geo. Lippard
VIII Calvin Harvey
Music, Tyrolese Chorus, from William
TeI"; Rossini
The program was under the efficient super
charge of the work in eiocution this term.
The exercises made plain the fact that much
hard, painstaking work has been done by
70 both tea chers and students in order to have
brought ali the parts to such high degree
! of excellence. The selections were all OF q
high order, well interpreted, we'll suited to
y the participants and delivered in a very
natural and pleasing manner. Although
4 every number on the program deserves
e special mention the ''Dumb- Bell Drip by
twenty of the students was an unusually
e attractive feature and much appreciated;
q also the pantomine of the ''Star-Spangled
Banner" by the three young ladies in cos
II TUNES. One feature of the entertainment
It that was much appreciated was the music
both vocal and instrumental, furnished by
It the students. I he chorus work under the
er able leadership of Miss Msrtin, the teacher
le OF vocal and instrumental music, was of an
unusually high order, and everyone was
"a delighted with the progress the students
Re have made in SO short time. Miss Martin
le is certainly an efficient, enthusiastic leader
Her piano solo was we'll interpreted and
t. executed, the technique being excellent
y aItOSOOACI ~ Wdo d N0IJ AttluS ClOSo W .
g very successful and profitable terms work
West Derby.
- Horace Hancock died Wednesday morn
so ing after long and painful illness.
d Ed Suitor was hurt by the bursting o
- an emery wheel in his fathers shop, Sat
urday, Nov. 22nd.
Glover.
Bert Sherburne is not as we'll.
Mrs. Prndle is gaining slowly.
81. A. Dewing is on the sick list.
Luke Uttin remains bout the same.
in Eddie Gray is at work at III. N. Davis.
Mrs. Mary Morse remains about the same
Annie Grove visited in Greensb oro las