Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-10-15

call, "My Birthplace and Its Environ
ments." Papers: History of Vermont"
by Miss Ida Austin; aBeautifuI Ver-
mont" by Miss vira Ball; "vermont In
dustries" by Mrs. Emily Baldwin; ssNoted
Men and Women of Vermont" by Miss
Minnie E. Gilpin. Mrs. Davis and Miss
Mabel Gay gave interesting reports from
the annual meeting of the Vermont State
Federation of Woman's Clubs, which they
attended recently IN Bennington, and Miss
Mcclellan gave fine solo.
The wind, little short of a hurricane,
Tuesday. III. B. Orcutt's steamboat, Adam
Dummett's row beat, and Charles Bald
wins gasoline boat were all more or less
injured. After the wind calmed about two
inches Of snow fell and about an inch re-
NAMED and was found on the shady side Of
the buildings a day later. This was the
first snow of the season outside light
furry the Sunday night previous, which
lasted only an hour or two. The spell of
good weather being broken it began to
rain Tuesday night and rained till We'd
nesday afternoon when the weather cleared
again and with the exception of few
showers the fine weather of the summer
and fall has prevailed.
The spell of remodelling and improving
continues. Early in the season the Tower
block was remodelled to accommodate B.
Paino, the fruit dealer, where the post Of
flee went out. After Geo. G. Lang went
out of the Davis block, Mr.. Davis remod-
elled that part of the block to accommo-
date his increasing mems clothing depart
ment, making model clothing store. To
accommodate Mr.. Lang, the part of the
Nelson block where the bank went out
was rebuilt, the old styled piazza being
| taken off and the brick walk extended to
| the building, granite blocks being put in
| to support the posts that hold the upper
piazza. This gives Mr.. Lang additional
room and first class store. After the
| Hildreth jewelry stock was cleared out of
the store in the Seaver block, Mr.. Seaver
! had door cut from his main store to this
part and otherwise remodelled it and placed
what might be called ladies' department
of his hardware business, consisting of
/ kitchen utensils, ETC., in this room. Early
in the season the club boat-ho Use was built
larger and better (Which has been spoken
of in other issses) and now Mr.. Comstock
is repairing part of his buildings on Main
street to accommodate notion store to be
put inby FL. g. Perley, and ]. G. King. is
remodelling the block recently purchased
of D. D. Bean. Many other minor repairs
and improvements have been made on
4 dwellings and business blocks. Let the
good.work go on.
The members of the Barton W. G. T. U.
held their regular meeting and third
annual reception to the teachers Tuesday
afternoon at four O'Clock at the home of
Mrs. G. 81. Davis. About forty members
and friends responded to the invitation
and listened to the program. Responses
to roll call were favorite quotations. A
temperance recitation was finely given by
Miss Mildred Lang, and a temperance
song was beautifully rendered by Miss
Marion Bickford Of Glover. A paper,
"How Mothers May Help the Teachers y
by Miss Mecomber, was followed by a
paper by Mrs. g. FL. Davis, entitled CHOW
Does the School Help the Mothers?''
Both these papers proved to all those
listening that the teacher and parents are
indisisnsable to-eech other, and that when
the parents .Will take a little time from
their duties. Snd make themselves more
familiar with 1teur schools and their in
structors, then we may look for better
results. After an informal conference in
which plans for making scientific temper
ance instruction in the schools successful
were discussed freely by the teachers anc
members of the union the meeting wa
adjourned, and ice cream and cake wer,
served by, the hostess. The members o.
the union wish to express their thanks tC
Miss Macon Der, Miss Mildred Lang anc
Miss Marion Bickford, for so kindly con
tributing to the program and to' tb'
enjoyment of all present.