Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-01-09

He leaves widow, a son, three daughters
and two sisters, Mrs. Corse and MrS'
Goodrich of Hardwick, to mourn his loss
At the special village meeting held lsse
Tuesday evening, to consider the matter
OF selling twohundred horse power o.
electricity to parties in Newport and Deroy
for railway and other purposes to be caiIeo
for only in the day, was voted down unan-
1mously. TIE feeling seemed quite gen.
ersl that we ought to bave the power our
selves on day service and that the call for
power was sufficient to warrant the change
from the one circuit we now have to two
circuits, and therefore giving US the
chance to have day power and day lights
il wanted.
The Afternoon Study Club met with
MIRA. s. e. Currier, on Thursday, Jan. D.
Roll-call was responded to with current
events. There were twenty eight ladies
present. Instead of current events Mrs
W. r. Aldrich gave piano solo and Mrs.
c. A. Barrows sang "Tm a Pilgrim" fol-
lowing this was most interesting paper
by Mrs. j. A. Pearson, giving an account
OF her visit to the st. Louis Fair. Two
minute talks on Generals of the Revolu-
tionary War called out interesting art1-
cles from several ladies. The next meet
ing will be Feb. 2, with Mrs. w. r. Aid
rich.
At the annual meeting of the Orleans
County Fair Association held at the Crystal
Lake Hotel January 8 the following
officers were elected for the year 1905:
President, H H. Somers of Irasburg; vice
presidents, F. E. Alfred, Newport, John
Mcclellan, Glover; secretary, @. E. Hamb-
let, Barton; assistant secretary, @. A. Bar
rows, Barton; treasurer, o. d. Owen,
Barton; assistant treasurer, I'll. G. Pierce,
Barton; directors, 81. FL. Somers, F. E.
Alfred, II. G. Pierce, John Mcclellan and
c. A. Barrows; auditors, w. W. Miles and
&. A. Dodge; manager of the grounds, 81.
T. Seaver. 1t was voted to pay six per
cent. dividends for 1904. Next annual fair
September II, 13, IA, Is.
The community was shocked last Tues
day to learn of the sudden death of Mrs.
Margaret L. Bryant. She was taken sud-
day. Mrs. Bryant was born in Pomfret
sixty-seven years ago, and lived there
until 1859 when she married Gilman E.
Bryant of Bloomington and removed to
that place. After her husband died about
fifteen years ago she came to this place to-
educate her children and has lived here
since that time until her decease. She was
a member of the Congregational church, a
faithful Christian, and a devoted mother,
Industrious, intelligent aud beloved by
many. She leaves to mourn her loss, two
daughters, namely, Mrs. G. w. Comstock,
and Mrs. w. F. Gilman of this place, and
a son, DIR. J. E. Bryant of Haverhill, Mass,
besides many more distant relatives and
friends. The funeral was held at the res
idence of DR.. W. F. Gilman on Thursday,
Rev. W. A. Warner officiating. Interment
at Bloomington.
The Afternoon Study Club met with the
Woman's Literary Club at the home Of
Mrs. Batchelder last Wednesday evening.
Members of both clubs and visitors to the
number of forty-fiye were present, and
spent a thoroughly enjoyable evening.
Mrs. Busweu gave an excellent paper upon
''St. Isaacs and the Crown Jewels" and Miss
Powell read Longfellow's "King Robert
of Sicily" in a very pleasing manner.
Mrs. II. r Cutler gave a most interesting
account of her recent journey in Europe,
where she visited Liverpool, Chester,
in England; Antwerp and Brussels in
Belgium; Paris and Versailles In France;
Lucerne in Switzerland Milan, Venice,
Rome and Naples in Italy. Mrs. Cutters
narrative of her stay in these places was
full of interest, and she showed many
pictures which added much to the even
ing's enjoyment, among them photographs
of famous masterpieces of art, the
originals of which she saw. She also
showed specimens of Brussels and Vene-
tian point lace. The meeting was very
pleasant and profitable one.
The basket ball game Thursday evening,
Barton VS. st. Johnsbury Y. M. c. A., lin
| Seaver's opera hall was well attended and
all saw fast, hard game OF ball. From the
| first it was seen that neither side would
carry off the honors without a struggle
The game consisted of three periods of ten
minutes each. At the end of the first
| period the game was about even, at the end
of the second it seemed that the Barton
| team would be the winners, but in the
third period the st. Johnsbury team, by
| the aid of seemingly unfair decisions on
the part of one of the officials, was able to
win out by a score of 26-25. We are un-
able to obtain the lineup and 'baskets
made" The game played Friday evening,
between Barton Academy and the Defend
ers of .Hardwick, was also fast, hard
fought, and we may well add, clean game
of basket ball and was witnessed by q
large audience. Twenty minute halves
were played and Barton Academy won by
a score Of q to Is; 1t was not without diff
Guilty. That the audience appreciated the
work of Umpire, Ed. LawIess goes w1thout
saying. The following men played: Bar
ton, Underwood, Winslow, BarroWs, Dut-
ton, Wilkinson; Hardwick, Oclair, Rich
ardson, Ward, Dockondoff, Titus. Fol
! Barton, BarroWE made baskets WinsIoU