Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-03-09

Eva ParliD, who has been stopping sew
erai weeks with her brother, DR.. Parlin,
has returned to her home in Charleston.
Irving Josiyn, son of A. O. Joslyn, who
has been sick for several weeks, recently
had relap pse, but is now gaining again.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the NJ. e.
church viii serve sugar on snow, in the
vestry, Wednesday evening, March 18th.
Mabel Parlin, who has been at work for
Herbert Cowles was taken suddenly sick
last week and was carried to her home to
be cared for.
The report of the auditors of the school
district shows the district to be out of
debt with small balance available for
school purposes.
j. FL. Bartlett, clerk of the school
DISTRICT has recently been taking the school
census. He found 1856 children OF school
| age in the district.
The annual school meeting win be held
this week Tuesday evening. Every voter
should attend as business of Importance
is to be acted upon.
| Mrs. M. V. B. Knox, who is making her
home temporarily at A. D. Mathews since
her sister died, visited at Mrs. Fred Rand's
in Barton Friday.
The Knights of Pythias gaYe Will Morey
surprise party last Wednesday evening.
VIII was taken by complete surprise. A
very pleasant evening was spent.
Mrs. F. B. Lothrc p and Mrs. 81. W. Bu
chanan and Misses Sadie and Edith
Lothrop attended the concert and musical
festival at ST. Johnsbury last, Friday eve
ming.
Several parties contemplate building
new houses during the summer, and Carl
Gay informs your reporter that quite q
number of buildings will be erected here
next season.
Three men are very busy wiring houses
for electric lights. The last places wired
were DR.. Rowell's house and Twombly &
Colton's store. Everybody seems pleased
with the lights.
A. A. Webster from Barton has moved
into one of Ellis Stafford's tenements
MIR. PIoctor and Frank Fuller moved from
s. Sargent's into another of Mr.. Stafford Is
tenements.
The ''Young Band" has started out wit b
about twelve members. Mr.. Bullard il
drilling it and is very enthusiastic fol
its success. Here is your chance, boys, te
learn to play in a band.
Z 1t is astonishing to see the amount OF
log which the e. L. Chandler Co. have
secured during the winter. Almost every
available place about the mill and shops ii
utilized for piling the logs.
About fifty Good Templars visited Nc
Kinley lodge at Coventry Wednesday eve
} ming. With a banquet, toasts and re-
sponses together with the social hour th
J evening was pleasantly passed.
A great deal of interest is manifested
J here in the trial now going on at NeKpor
regarding the killing of Clark and Rash a
| the crossing here last July. Many of ou
citizens are attending the court.
The large amount of cordwood about
G. Turnbull's premises indicates that b
} expects to do good deal of business il
his creamery another season which neces
states much fuel for his engine.
Quite general satisfaction is manifes
{ here over the election of John Bartlett a
seoondi iselectman. He is young man O
| 0ACellcIlG dD1l1Iy duu ID duailuCu AOl al
office the town may call him to fill.
: Rev. Mr.. Lewis was called lowest Burk
last Tuesday to attend the funeral of Mis-
/ May Aldrich. Mrs. Lewis accompanie
him. On the following day he was calle
] to Troy to attend the funeral of a forme
parishioner.
t Those young people who have bee
amusing themselves by breaking the fast
= enings on the doors and windows of tn
schoolhouse and entering it, late at night
r will find it Expensive fun if they continue
They will be prosecuted and fined if the
v persist in doing it.
Mr.. Charles M. Hartwell and Miss EIsi
: E. Moulton were married Wednesday
March, 4th, by Rev. w. c. johnson. The
d visited Mr.. Hartwell's people in Holland
returned here Saturday and will make thei
d home at Mr.. Adams for the present
Their many friends wish them success an
o happiness.
The entertainment given under th
n auspices of the EpWorth League last Tues
day evening was both interesting an
is proftab BILE. The lecture given by Geo.
Cole on the evolution of photography We
g OF much interest. Mrs. Arthur Ordwa
and Miss Alice Bailey played piano due
n and Mr.. Fleschmann played violin sol
accompanied by Miss Sadie Lothrop o
K the piano.
:. The village band will give concert I
% the Valley House hall next Friday nigh
le Few people realize what it costs to keep
good band up, to purchase music, instrg
/. ments, uniforms, and the many expens
st which the boys have to meet continuall
1t is hoped that our citizens will turn OF
h in large numbers to give the boys financi
ID aid and encourage them by their presenc
The undersigned desire to express the
20 sincere thanks to the friends and neigl
:, bors who so kindly assisted them at II
y time of the death of their SON and brothe
They would also thank the railroad bo,