Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-06-08

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A very pleasant wedding occurred at
the home Of j. NJ Elliott Thursday
evening, the contracting parties being
Mrs. Stella Whitcher and E. C. Elliott,
both of whom are we'll known and re-
spected in this community. Rev. w.
B. Dukeshire was the officiating clergy
man.
John Wesley Powell, who for several
years has made his home with DR.. Mich
OILS, was recently taken to Bright
look hospital at St. Johnsbury, where
he died last night. There will be a
prayer service at the grave tomorrow
at IL 80 O'Clock, the body coming on
the noon train. Mr.. Powell was 81
years of age.
John Mcclellan has recently bought
motor boat which he has put on Will
loughby lake. The boat is Fl feet long
with five foot beam, three horse
power double cylinder. 1t is of the
Fay & Bowen Engine Co.. make.
boat this summer.
The village fathers, under the di-
rection of E. G. Collision. have been i'm
proving Main street, grading the sides,
turing the terraces on the side of the
street next to the track and putting
things in shipshape. This makes the
street neat and with the macadam
road bed gives Barton one of the best
streets in any Northern Vermont village
OF this size.
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i ley's Moving Pictures will appear here
Friday evening will only serve as usual
to bring out larger audience than
ever. Embracing his new program
are French comic pictures that are
really funny, scenery that is truly
great, glimpses of place and people
that you don't see every day or on
many journey, and variety from
the gay to the serious to suit all de-
sireS.
The voters of the Barton school dis
trict are warned to meet at the school
house tomorrow evening to see if
the district will vote to purchase the
land containing the knoll back of the
old school building, also to see what
disposition they will make of the ell
attac ched to the old schoolhouse, and
further to see if the district will vote
to raise q tax to pay for the land bar.
gained for by the special committee
appointed, including the knoll above
mentioned.
Postmaster Webster is to be congrat
ulated on having S100 added to hi:
salary He has received word from
the postal department that the re
ceipts at the Barton post office in the
past year have increased to such al
extent that the postmaster is entitled
to this addition to his salary. TIL,
receipts Of a post Office are fairl.
sure barometer OF the prosperity of
town and we may we'll congratulate
ourselves on. the fact that business il
, Barton has increased rather than de
creased during the panic of last year
: The fire alarm sounded about
o'clock this morning for t+South of E
E w. Barron's store,'' as the card reads
, The blaze was a small one on the roo
: of the Crystal Lake creamery building
] catching probably from spark fror
a passing locomotive. The fire com
panies were on the spot in short orde
and the fire was soon eXtinguished. A
someone remarked, "All it got
chance to burn was three shingles.
Care should be taken in blowing tn
kalarm so as to distinguish readily
$ tween two and four blasts; many wer
' in quandary this morning to kno,
, whether it was Park street call or
call for the upper end of Main street