Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-04-27

Pillsbury & Son finished saving logs
Saturday, and will shut down their
mills for week or ten days prepara-
tory to starting other business.
The annual meeting of..the,WelcomeO.
Brown cemetery association will be
held at the office of F. W. Baldwin. on
Tuesday, May 5, at 7:30 O'Clock p. M.
Harley Wheeler will move from the
Gilbert house into the front tenement
over the Grapes store in the G.. M.
Darling block, known as the Grow
block
W. J. Cooper who has been working
during the sugaring season for shis
brother-in-law, O. S. Sheperd Of Iras-
burg. has finished work there and is
home again.
The academy and high school Baseball
team play their first game here Satur-
day with the Craftsbury academy team.
and good crowd is assured if the day
is not rainy.
The following letters remain un-
called for at the post Office April 27.
Please say advertised when calling for
these letters: Michel Cummings, Burt
Miles, Peter NORM.
F. B. Lang has vacated his house
sold to Mr.. Blood and has moved into
the dining hall on the fair ground,
where he will live during the erection
of his residence on the corner.
B. B. Blake and Frank May have
bought the ice business of w. L..
White. They went to Woodsville, N.
H., recently and and bought span of
horses which will be used in the bust
ness
Mrs. E. J. White is still quite sick.
Mrs. P. H. Duke. who has been
poorly all winter, is improving. HON.
er Rushford's little boy is very sick.
and Mrs. Cutler are both improving.
A meeting Of the Alumni association
of Barton academy will be held at the
schoolhouse in room No. Wednesday
evening at Z 80. AS arrangements for
the annual alumni banquet will be
made at this meeting, large atten-
dance is desired.
The work on the new school building
is practically complete and only one or
two carpenters are now working. The
grading is yet to be done The Monitor
has in preparation descriptive article
on the building which will be printed
in the near future.
The work of grading has been begun
on, the new baseball ground. The
the grading and rolling continued and
.I / +p1 cI
tice. so the boys may be getting into
condition to "play ball" when the sea
son commences.
Raymond Winslow was engaged to
sing at four different services on Eas-
ter Sunday, which was high compli-
ment to his talents as q singer. Ray
mond is at Brown university, where he
is member of the second baseball
team, and it is reported that he stands
at the head of the team in batting
average.
AS politics in the county and state
take shape the representative question
is before the towns, and aspirants are
: beginning to look the ground over. Ir
Barton G. A. Drew has expressed a de-
sire to represent the town, and now
the friends of J. w. Murkland present
his name as candidate and will work
for his election.
! Miss Helen Nye commences schoo
to-day in the Beach district near Wes
Glover. Mrs. C. C. w. Heath viii
S teach at West Glover, and Mrs. E. J
3 Jennings, who taught last year a
d. Glover village, will teach the summer
= term there. The two ladies will drive
: from their homes here daily. Th,
committee at West Glover are fortunat,
: in securing the services of Mrs
: Heath, most successful teacher.
: Mr.. Phillips, who. has for ii year
boarded at the Brandon hotel in Bran
don, has arranged to come here with
!. horses and colts to be kept at the fai
: ground He and his niece will board a
t Hotel Barton, and if he likes as wei
as he expects he will make his perma
!. nent home here. 1t is also expecte
j. that Frank Hayden of Lewiston, Me.
will be here with string of seve
horses during the training season thi
summer.
h H. B. Orcutt was on the sick lis
J. last week after arriving home fror
DOSCOIl. AhA. O1NUCC S1FCO q S1dplll
- description of the Chelsea fire whic
! he witnessed while he was in that tow
II recently. He says he never saw
- crowd of people so panic stricken a
at the fire. Some of the scenes wer
is heart rending and some most comica
e but altogether it was sad sight to Sc
t. so many thousands of homes and pie
ces of business wiped out in day.
e The Woman's Literary club met wit
s Mrs. Geo. G.. Lang Tuesday evening
N Apr. 81. The evenings pr gram wa:
as follows: Music. selection for plan
IF and clarinet, Mrs. Batchelder and Ma!
- ter Slayton Lang; paper, "Scientif
o Progress along Lines of Motiv
Power" Mrs. Batchelder; magazir
articles on Recent Progress alon
le Surgical and Medicinal Lines" selec
e, ed by Miss Hamilton, were read
III Mrs. Story. A vote Of thanks was e,
tended to Master Slavton Lang for til
le musical numbers rendered.