Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-04-10

Charles Harris of Barton Landing visited
his grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Litchfield of Newport Center, last week.
Regular meeting of the Rathbone Sisters
tomorrow, Tuesday, night. Initiation work.
All members are requested to be present.
Miss Elizabeth Jones of the local school
spent her vacation at her home in Island
Pond. She returned to her duties last
week.
The Epworth League will hold social in
the NJ. E. church, Wednesday evening,
April r. Admission, five cents; assess
ment, five cents.
A special business meeting of the Book
and Thimble Club at Mrs. F. E. Wheeler's,
Thursday, April 13. All members are re-
quested to come.
The annual business meeting of the VII
lage Improvement Society will be held at
the home of Mrs. H. NJ. Wh1pple, Mon
day evening, April II.
DIR. ParIin of this place and DIR. Nichols
OF Barton made a post mortem examina-
tion upon the body of DR.. Fl. H. Hill, who
died suddenly at Lowell last week.
The Thespian Club is preparing for the
presentation of "Up Vermont Way on
May s. This is the second presentation of
the drama by the local company.
At the Methodist church yesterday Rev.
S. G. Lewis poke in the morning on "Hu-
man and Divine" and in the evening he
answered the question, "Why Should be
a Christian?"
The Sunday school OF the Methodist
church Will hold an Easter concert. The
following committee have been appointed:
Miss Mary Wiley, Mrs. Ordway, Mrs. Fos-
ter J. Kinney.
Last Friday evening the members OF the
1--WE Four Club with their husbands took
supper and spent the evening at the home
Of their president, Mrs. Herbert Cowles,
the occasion being their red letter night.
Thirty nine hens, Rhode Island Reds,
laid respectively each OF the last seven
days OF March-31, 80, 27, %, S6, 27 and 29
eggs J. e. Chase on the Barton road owns
the hens and informs us of the clay"
A new lodge of the New England Order
of Protection has been organized here.
The officers are, Junior past warden, w.
@. Twombly; warden, Colby Stoddard;
vice warden, Mrs. E. A. Mathews; secre-
tary, E. E. Mathews; financial secretary,
Mrs. Thomas Buzzo; treasurer, Mrs. Edith
Lothrop; chaplain, Mrs. G. E. Dean; guar
dian, Mrs. W. c. Twombly; sentinel, MIR.
Bagley; trustees, H. D. -StRnnard, Mrs.
Bertha Lothrop, Mrs. Foster ]. Kinney.
The lodge meets on the fist and third
Mondays of each month. at present they
are meeting in the K of P. hall.
Rood q Wiley have been located in their
new meat market on School street since
the 14th of February, and are doing a
steadily increasing business. Tue block is
24x52 feet, "a feet to the street, two stories
tigh with rock siding walls and fiat roof.
A tenement will be finished off on the
second floor. The market room proper is
2OI22 feet, fitted with all the up-to- date
market implements. As the whole meat is
brought from the slaughter house it is
placed in one side of a double refrigerator
while the cut meat is kept in the other
side with a large ice chest between. The
firm have sausage cutter run by two
horse po Eer gasoline engine, this engine
also runs bone cutter. Lard is tried out
at the market by patent process whereby
all steam and scent is carried off. The
slaughter house is located on the road to
Irasburg just beyond the village and Is
probably the most convenient and modern
house in the county. This building is
24x44 feet. The ice chest at the slaughter
house is built after the style OF Swift's at
St. Johnsbury, holding seventy cakes of
ice, and is SO constructed that the fresh air
is continually circulating about the ice
and meat. The scalding tub is so built
that fire is kept under it all the time,
| thus keeping the water at an even temper
ature. The boys plan to run two carts
this summer. c. E. Gay built the block.
The concert OF "Queen Esther" given
| under the auspices OF the Barton Handel
and Haydn Society Tuesday evening, was
success in every way. A large and
responsive audience was present, which
stimulated the singers to do their best.
Inc stage was one nlgnly appIOFSu VI ny
the director, Prot A. Ell. Newton, as being
especially suited to the opera. While the
drills were spoken of last week 1t seems
fitting to again mention them as one OF
the most pleasing parts of the entertain
! ment. We especially mention the ieaoers
of the drills IS doing excellent work.
Mrs. ]. M. Blake took the part OF Queen
Esther. She was gorgeously arrayed, and
| the little Misses Burdick and Murray
gracefully bore her train. The part OF the
| 0neen REQUIRES fine dramatic action TO ftiy
nersonify the many sensations which are
co,led forth by the exciting character OF
the events enacted. Il is sufficient to say
| Mrs Blake maintained her high reputa-
/ tion as both soloist and dramatist as
evidenced by the applause which she
/ called forth. The part of King AhasGerus
was taken by DIR. ]. M. Blake. This is
| another difficult part but was we'll exc
cuted. His wrath after the queens
pathetic appeal was terrible to behold Tor