Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-05-09
tendance and banquet was served after

tendance and banquet was served after
the work.
Be sure and attend the auction sale of
house lots on South street, Saturday after
noon, May 18th. This is your last oppor-
tunity as the entire plot will be closed out
at that time.
E. j. Hill, District Deputy Grand Patr on
of Newport, made the first official visit
alton to Intervale Chap o. E. s., last
Thursday evening, when the work was
| conferred upon four candidates.
Nearly everyone who attended the auc-
| tion sale OF carriages at Taplin & Rowells
| on Saturday, drew away a new wagon.
This is the way to buy carriages, you get
them at your own price. Several horses
and harnesses were also sold.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Dixon have arrived
| from HRrdwick. They are taking their
meals at the restaurant and rooming at the
| Valley House. F. j. Coburn who sold his
barber shop to Mr.. Dixon, has gone to
Hanover, N. H., to work for Will Bowman.
The Academy ball team have been practic-
ing assiduously the past few week, getting
in trim for the spring campaign on the dia-
mond. Four mem bers, Ray Wilkie, Irv-
ing Jocelyn, Earl Twombly and Will Bail
ey have been temporarily incapacitated in
recent practice games by injury to their
hands.
| CARD.-We, the undersigned, wish to
| express our thanks to friends and neigh
| bors for their kindness and sympathy at
1 i 4. ~;1I- - 1.5oh ohn1,H forh a
| brother.
| MRS. g. Fl. CLIFFORD,
r. LAWRENCE CLIFFORD,
| CARROLL M. HITCHCOCK.
Mark off Thursday, May 18th, on your
calendar as cleaning day for the Village
Improvement Society. The committees in
charge of the several districts throughout
the village should be in readiness on that
date to respond promptly to the call. The
| society will have rally to- morrow, Tues
day )evening, the band rendering music and
the children speaking and singing.
A reception was held at the Methodist
church last Tuesday evening in honor of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Cove, who were about
moving to Bradford, and Mr.. and Mrs. f.
J. Kinney, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Dixon, and
other Methodists who have recently moved
to this village. The social season was es-
pecially pleasant and the young people en-
| tertained with several musical selections.
The season of fish yarns has begun. The
following is vouched for, however, by re-
liable authority. May End, (of course il
was MT the 1st) Irving Joslyn caught two
trout in Willoughby river, one weighing
81 lbs, and another Il lbs. Then young
Pelow went out Tuesday and captured 6
speckled beauty tipping the scales at foul
pounds and two ounces. This is official
remember; and it's up to you to report {
bigger catch.
Several months ago some of the member
from the Sunday schools in Barton
Bloomington, Glover and Westmore me
at the Cong1 church in Barton and organ
lied District Sunday school Association
comprising all of the Sunday schools in
above named towns. The executive com
mittee, consisting of the officers of tn
association and the superintendent of eacl
school in said town, are requested to NEE
at the parlors of the M. E. church in Bar
ton Landing on Saturday evening, May Ia
, 1904, at o'clock p. m, to make arrange
ments for holding district convention II
the near future at such time and place q
the committee shall designate.
The anti-saloon fight is on in Oregol
and Rev. B. F. Rowland, former pastor o
the M. E. church here, is in the thick of it
After hot contest in the city of Eugen
the temperance men won by majority c
five votes. The Eugene Register says
conditions were made ripe for the strug
gle by the vigorous work done by the Anti
Saloon League under the leadership c
Rev. B. F. Rowland of the Methods
church" During the contest Mr.. Rowlan
{, was struck by a saloon councilman. B
r wayIot apology he brought a young cou
pie to the parsonage to be married. Th
: state election occurs June and Mr.. Row
e land is booked for four weeks campaig
on the stump. While at Astoria b
waged a vigorous crusade against tt
saloons and gambling dens, yet when
left there the organ OF the saloon men cam
out in an earnest request that he remain
" A genuine tribute to genuine man. l
u less than three years in Eugene he has re
& ceived over 300 mem bers into his church
which now mum bers more than 700 men
e bers. He has also built an addition to th
e church edifce.
I Isaac Cushman Smith fell asleep in deaf
April 24th, 1904, aged 81 years, 6 month
g ana 21 days, ripe In years, experience re
l. specta bility and in the enjoyment OF a
l. abounding esteem in which he was held b
all who were so fortunate as to be honore
g with his acquaintance and friendship
:. Think of itl A life almost century i
- duration and coeval with the emotion
= enkindling sympathies and inspirations {
the grandest history of achievements, in
be ventions, discoveries and adaptations I
,g the material, moral and political advance
ment of mankind that the world at lare
has ever witnessed. He was of America
sh and Puritan descent and lineally descende
sh from the parent stock of the family In tt
v. person of Thomas Smith, who was a re