Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-05-06


the Congregational parsonage by Rev. w.
A. Warner. Mr.. and Mrs. Hall will reside
in Lennoxville, P. @, where Mr.. Hall will
go into business with Mrs. Halls brother.
Both young people are well known and
popular here and have the best wishes of
all.
The MONITOR is sorry to state that the
play, ''The Deacon that has been re-
| hearsed several times, has been given up
and the Village improvement society will
raise money in some other way. Futile at
| tempts on the part of the management of
the drama to get all the players together
for rehearsals has been the great drawback
and was the ultimate cause of dropping
the play.
We note in Saturdays Montpelier Jour
nal that Clyde Heath of this place, now in
Goddard seminary, Barre, played at short
on the Intercity Northern league team at
| Montpelier Friday. The paper says,
Heath, the Goddard athlete, played at
short and with the exception of one error
played a bright game" This was the first
game of the season for the team and they
| beat the Montpelier high school five to
| three.
| High water in the lake last week caused
some trouble along Water street and but
! for timely action of. men at Pilisbury &
Bald wins shop the river would have been
running down Water street from the saw
mill. The water was said by those who
know to be the highest in the lake that it
| has been for years. The screen in the
outlet became filled, causing the excep-
| tionally high water, and when the screen
was taken up the rush of water down the
river caused the trouble. The water was
two feet high on the upper side OF the
sawmill, running into the mill and caus
ing considera BILE damage. The writer was
told by Mr.. Underwood that the Peerless
register showed IL feet of water one day
last week and but a short time before it
had registered two feet, rise of eight feet
in short time.
The second special town meeting was
held Saturday and passed into history
without any special excitement. 1t was
the'opinion of several who spoke, includ-
ing attorneys, that the election of officers
at the March meeting was legal but the
proceedings otherwise were not and would
have to be ratified by legally called meet
| ing. Fhus the articles were acted upon
separately and all matters of business were
ratified as voted at the regular March
meeting. The proceedings of the second
meeting were then ratified except the
election of road commissioners, a school
| a l. De- A
ballot was then cast for a road commits
missioner fer he south end and the totai
vose was SO, of which Geo. r. Reed received
46 votes and G. l. Drown 81. E. e. Pierce
was elected road commissioner from the
north end without opposition, VIM. Baird
was elected school director and j. l.. For
rest cemetery commissioner for South
Barton.
1t may be of interest to Or readers to
know about the accidents by drowning
that have occurred here during the mem-
ory of the oldest Inhabitants, and we give
the following. The first that is known
was that of Daniel Manp, who was
ldrowned in the summer of 1856. These are
the circumstances: Alonzo Fields owned g
! l.
Here he cut quite quantity of hay each
year. About the last of July he hired Alva
Martin and Daniel Mann to do the haying
of the field. In those days men imbibed
more freely than at present. and these two
carried some whiskey which they used to
excess. At noon one day it appears they
took their boat to go to the cold spring
/ Cjofanao north of the
Whether they reached the spring or not is
! still mystery, as the first that was known
that trouble existed was the fact that Mar
tin was seen with his boat bottom side W
: and he war drifting toward the eastern
t shore clinging to the boat. Help was sum
: nloned and the first words be uttered were
1 these, "Dan's.gone, Dams gone" Strenu
Gus efforts were put forth tc find the hody
but in vain; the body was never found
The next accident took place in the sum
= mer of 1862. A young man by the name o
Moses Merrill, who lived on Barton Noun
tain, one day was missing from his home
As he was about thirty years old his par
8 ents wele not specially alarmed. On
!. Sunday about two weeks later a couple o
Il young men were boating near the hlgl
8 rocks on the eastern shore of Crystal LAX
: and discovered the body of man floating
on the water face downward. The bod.
a was towed across and taken out at tn
e outlet, a large number of people bein;
8 present. Later his clothes were found OIL
V the eastern shore. Whether he com
y mitted suicide, or whether he went Il
bathing and was drowned, will never b
). known. The next drowning accident wa
;. In Barton river near the Jenness bridge
1t was that of boy about eight years oil
by the name of Chauncey Harrison,
:, nephew of Mrs. O. V. Joslyn. 1t was o.
May 6, 1881. He, with Elmer E. Webster
was coming from Elm street to Churc
% street. AS they came by the bridg
: Chauncey saw stick he wanted down b
II the river bank and in trying to get it b
~ lost his hat in the river. As the no