Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-04-15


evening, with the addition of salads, eggs
in various forms, and other delicacies. |
The class viii be in charge of Miss Vira |
Ball. The price of admission will be 10
cents; tickets on sale at the door. Mrs.
Dewitt c. Ovens cookbooks will be on
sale for the small sum of ten cents each, |
and some of the receipts In these books
will be used in the demonstration. An
affair of this kind is novelty in this
town, and is sure to prove interesting and
instructive.
The reception given to Rev. w. c. john
son and family Friday mig ht was attended
by about two hundred of their friends. Mr..
Johnson's family have made many friends
during the seven years they have lived
among US and the size of the gathering and
the kindly feelings expressed by all classes
to the family indicated public sentiment
was very favorable and the community ap
preciated the worthy efforts put forth by
Rev. Mr.. johnson to better the moral con-
dition OF society in this place. Light re-
freshments were served and Rev. w. A.
| Warner made some remarks, expressing
| the high regard in which Mr.. johnson was
held and regret that he was to leave this
| town, TO which Rev. Mr.. johnson feeling
ly responded.
! The Foresters' ball Wednesday was an
unqualified success, Notwithstanding
weather conditions of the worst. The bal
cony at Seaver's hall was early filled to
overflowing; SO large a number participant
ed in the dancing that the floor capacity
was overtaxed at all times, even up to 2s.
m.; the music was fine; the supper ia bles
were patronized by nearly one hundred
and fifty; and the affair was we'll ordered
throughout. At the supper intermission,
while sixty were being served at the first
tables the greater number were entertained
at Odd Fellows hall with graphic define
alton of the benevolent work of the order
and its wonderful development, by Mr.. ID.
J. McPhee of Toronto; also by the presen-
tation of two exquisite gold watches as
prizes, to j. l.. Archam bault of Barton and
Thomas Lynch of West Derby.
Our Barton readers who know Prescelle,
the hypnotist, who spends his summers
here, will be interested in the following
clipping from the BrattIeboro Phoenix of
April IL:
PresceIle has been giving exhibitions of
the real thing In hypnotism all this week
in the Auditorium and has sent large
proportion of the townspeople away from
the theatre filled with wonder at his re-
mark able power as we'll as delighted with
the evening of amusement that he had
. afforded them. Besides his remarkable
} feats in the theatre he assisted DR.. x.
Lynch in performing a delicate surgical
operation yesterday. afternoon, using his
| hypnotic power in place OF the usual
anesthetic The subject was a woman
over 70 years old and Prescelle held her
mind il such absolute control that Dr.
3 Lynch removed cancer from the back
of her hand without causing the least
| exhibition of pain or her part. Three
e, other doctors witnessed the operation
Last night DR.. Lynch said that he was
ready to perform an operation for ap-
pendicit1s with the aid of the wonderful
hypnotist. HypnOt1sm has been tried fol
S minor operations several times, but never
. for such serious one as append 1c1tls as
. far as known.
, The entertainment which Preecelle af
4. forded has been we'll worth the attention
= of any one from the professor OF sciences
to the schoolboy. His control over his
ubiects is so apparent and complete thai
Q there is no room for doubt of its genuine
d ness. None who took any Of the perform
ances with serious thought coulu fail tx
be impressed with the fact that Prescell
: had abandoned the commoner fields o
It mixed fake and mental teIepathy and wa
h giving an exhibition of Ireal hypnotl
power such as they had never seen be-
10 fore. The first Of each evenings per
70 formance was given up to feats OF hno1ni
hidden articles, and the last to som
mirth provoking stunts With a class o
subjects. He is assisted by Edna Ma.
p Magoon, no proved herself skilled fol
70 lower by putting the class through som'
of the performances herself. Wednesoa
le night the class gave minstrel show an.
s. sang and danced clog dances at the VIII
d of the hypnotist, while their own mind
= wandered off in cloudland somewhere.
t. Crystal lake with feet of 10 power boat
and score or mora of row boats an canoe
promises to be the center OF attraction thl
:, summer in Barton. There are now 16 pow
- :. er boats on the lake and three extr
=. fine ones will be placed on th
:. lake when the season open
:, this spring. Frank B. Tower has his boa
- about ready to launch. The boat We
:. built by George r. Scott, who is now max
- ing preparations to build one for Ray I
- Webster. Towers boat is 25 feet long an
is driven by Fay & BoWden seven hors
power gasolene engine, and will have
: speed OF 10 miles an hour. The boat
- - equipped with electric lights and all tt
:. modern equipments of power boat. II
" finish inside is solid quartered oak and tt
u boat is put together in first class snap
oh The second boat of the three to be put O
7n this spring is by Ere D. Pierce. This boz
III will be q feet long, driven By Fay
al Bowden 81 horse power engine WI
ny come ready to launch, and is fitst-cla
ne pleasure craft. The third boat will
built by Mr.. Scott for Ray Webster an
nd will be 25 feet long and driven by seve
asst horse power engine. These three boa
it will make 19 In all as follows: E. B. Towe
cir r. P. Webster, E. d. Pierce, j. F. Batcl
nts elder, G. C. Baldwin, Fred Percival, Ge
as Barstow, J. N. Webster, II. B. Orcutt, de
eft Buswell, Fred Richmond, Geo. FL. Dav
her John Arkley, Prescelle and Magoon, Il.