Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-05-30

set of buildings here to rent or sell.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E. Lyon ere rejoicing in
the advent of a daughter weighing nine
and one-h half pounds. She made her
appearance last Thursday morning.
Several of the mill bands went to Will
loughby last Saturday afternoon to have
an outing for a few days. They took with
them tent and will camp during their
stay.
Bernice Wheeler, who has recently COM
pleted a course in Burdett's business
college, has been given good situation in
| Boston on the recommendation of the
college faculty.
Henry Webster's block Is boarded and
shingled. The roof to the former build
ing was taken off one week ago today, and
now the old building is completely lost in
the new block.
Mrs. Bell johnson of Newark, formerly
Miss Booth, who lived here twenty nine
years ago, visited at G. S. Gibbs recently.
Mrs. Johnson has been blind for several
years from the effects of measles.
Last Thursday evening at a called meet
ing of the Masons the third degree was
conferred upon Levi Lothrop, and next
Thursday at a regular communication
Prof. G. F. Hall will take the third degree.
The schools in the village closed last
Friday. The term has been profitable in
| all the departments. Prof. Hall is much
liked and all the other teachers have given
good satisfaction and will doubtless be
secured for the fall term.
Little Ethel Bell Lyon, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. o. A. Lyon, got her fingers badly
jammed in a door Thursday night. This
is the second misfortune to the little girls
fingers. About two years ago she had one
finger jammed off under rocking chair.
Mrs. Mary (Kellam) Colby, widow of the
late John Colby, and former resident of
this town, died at her home in Roslindale,
Mass, May 25th, after an illness of several
months. Her age was S4 years. The buri-
al was in the cemetery in this village Sat-
urday afternoon.
, Fl. W. Hudson is acting as watchman at
the crossing in place of Mr.. McKenna,
who has gone to Montreal to visit his
daughter for week. Since Mr.. Hudson
cut his hand on the 23td day of April he
has been unable to work. He hopes, how
; ever, to be able soon 10 go back to the
mill.
, The E. l.. Chandler Co. are having their
mills rewired for electric lights. They will
take out their two small dynamos and in
4. stall one large one with which to do the
work of thetwo. Besides the incandescent
lights there will be three arc lights. They
: will also install dynamo at Irasburgh to
: light their mill at that place.
B1ne Dean, our charity fisherman, is
bringing in large strings of fish these
DAYS and he distributes them to his friends
o gratuitously. Friday he caught forty six
= suckers, about bushel, which he sent to
\ deserving friends in Irasburg. He has
!, given away steelhoads, whitefish, horn
+ pouts and suckers, he doing only the
3 catching while others do the eating act.
. Rev. S. G. Lewis attended the meeting oi
y the Seminary Commission, which held its
session at Montpelier last Wednesday. He
- reports that the former principal, Rev. E.
!, A. Bishop, will come back to Montpelier
q and act as financial agent for the Mont
+ pelier Seminary. Mr.. Bishop has many
q friends who will be glad to have him make
. his home In Vermont.
. Thursday, May 18th, G. G. Tripp took a
two horse team from the stable here and
q carried a runner who sells rubber goods, to
+ Irasburg, where he interviewed the mer-
4 chants; from that place he visited the fol-
O lowing places, Albany, East Albany, East
q Craftsbury, South Craftsbury and North
Craftsbury. Here they put up for the
night. Friday morning they went to East
| dxrfol tn rd dypia
North Wolcott, and MorrisviIle, where
o they dined. In the afternoon they reached
Hyde Park, johnson, East Hyde Park, Eder
"a Corner and Eden Mills where they put ur
for the night. On Saturday they went to
/. Lowell, Westfield, South Troy, NORTH
Troy, Newport Center, Coventry, ant
d reached Barton Landing at O'Clock thai
night. In these three days they visited
Al twenty-one villages and travelled 133 miles
These men, to use a western phrase, ar,
shustlers." =
The Willoughby Sunday school Asso
20 citation, which includes the Sunday
<. schools in Barton, Glover, Browningto,
rt and Westmore, will hold a rally at the M
If E. church in Barton Landing on Thurs
day, June 2, at 1000 o'clock a. m. Th
rt program Is as follows: 1O:OO a. M, DeVo
in tional exercises, Rev. E. Rose, Greetings
What are we bringing to this meeting
" (three minute talks by superintendent 0
tn each sehooD; Brief report by secretary
each school; How can we make the Sunday
ur school attractive to the boy and girl o
ng fifteen? A. F. French. 1:3O p M, DeVo
tional service, Rev. J. B. Lyman; "nat I'M
ot community owes to the Sunday scnooi
ia Mrs, James Cameron; What the Sunday
school owes to the com nunity, Rev. G.
.st Mcdonald; Music by the Cong. Sunday
,is school of Barton Landing; Parents
responsibility to the Sunday school, Mrs.
of W. L. Jacobs; How can we keep the younl
re-. men in the Sunday school? w. v. Clarke
lat Music by the M. E. Sunday Q
Barton Landing; Question box. 7:15 I
ses NJ, Song service, Rev. s. G. Lewis