Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-07-08
UP In OLD ORLEANS.
Interesting Section of Vermont Reds
covered and Some Things Noted.

interesting 0CCIlOu Oh vermont NCuIS.
covered and Some Things Noted.
Northeastern Vermont-the block of
three counties. Caledonia. Orleans and
Essex-hangs out over upper New
Hampshire on the map like a wart on
a limb a tree limb. Likewise it
hangs together, socially, industrially
and politically. No other three contig-
uous counties in the state have the
same unanimity of thought and action.
1t was to visit this hitherto Ito him.
in part) unexplored part of Vermont
that the editor set out last week for
a few days of travel and recreation,
seeking information and enjoyment.
The interesting section of Orleans
county lying about Barton and New
port was his particular objective.
Here are a few things he saw and
heard.
Barton village bears on its
face the mark of thrift, enterprise
and progress. It has several prosper
Gus manufactures, including the Peer
less garment concern. employing over
a hundred hands. Its streets, lawns
and houses are we'll kept. Its public
buildings and business blocks quite out
rank those of many a larger place.
Right at hand, so that you can sail
right up to the railroad station, lies a
beautiful sheet Of water-Crystal lake
three miles long and half a mile wide,
with numerous camping spots available
and with boating, bathing and fishing
right at hand. A nicer adjustment of
nature to the needs and comforts OF
mar would be hard to imagine. The
town is alive, too, and making the
most of its opportunities. 1t has a
good hotel, and it's summer business
ought to be heavy.
The writer found Barton in a ferment
Of excitement over Baseball. Two
games with the crack Woodstocks
played there Thursday and Friday were
up. Barton has a ~pretentious team Of
semi-professionals, and for several
years has been trying for the state
championship. Two years ago Sails
bury's Randolph team came up and
spoiled the prospect, and last year
Woodstock. in two games played there,
did likewise. A series of four games
two at Barton and two at Woodstock
is arranged for this year, with a fifth
at some neutral place in case of a tie.
Woodstock won last Thursdays game
overcoming Barton's early lead, tying
in the ninth and scoring finally in the
eleventh score. 4 to 3. Friday Wood
stock led Off with two runs but could
not score again and Barton managed
to pull five across the plate. 1t was
good hard scrappy ball all the time be-
tween teams exactly matched. Score,
Barton 5, Woodstock 2. The rest of
the series will be worth seeing. Bar
ton gave the Woodstock team the best
Of treatment and the warmest hospital
ity. with banquet and dance. Warm
blooded people live up this way.
Barton is progressive. To illustrate
"A new schoolhouse was needed. and
without opposition the district voted
$50, 900 to build it. Later this was in
creased to $37, 900 and still later there
was a call for So, 200 more. At the
meeting, instead of the So, 900 asked
for, SIS, 900 was voted so as to have il
done right. And the handsome edifice
costing SAP. 900 is about ready to occupy.
Principal Stannard has been at the heao
of the school for fifteen years. They
keep good things here.
Brother Gilpin. who is pushing
Brother Parker hard for beauty honors
in the Vermont press, has a nice new
office building from which he issues the
Orleans County Monitor weekly ane
does a large job printing business.
Everything is handy and commodious
Gilpin, they tell me, is making a sue
cess of his business and stands we'll II
his community. He is a cordial, like
able fellow. with good ideas and a fail
prospect ahead.
Barton Landing is another village
in the same town. a few miles north
nearly as large and quite as busy. a
Barton proper. Here are the Chandle.
piano sounding board works, employ
ing 200 men. Barton Landing is not
as might be supposed, a steamboa
port, but lies far up from Lake Mem
phremagog on the Barton river. TIL
Indians, on their way from the lax
across to the Connecticut, used to pad
die their canoes up the stream as ia
, as the falls at this point, where the,
landed, hence its name. The town re
, ceived it's name from General Barton
a Continental officer. s
Not far from here. in Glover, the
, are getting ready to celebrate the Ger