Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-03-30
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

have her daughter married to a good
newspaper man than to any duke on
earth. The newspaper men Wou
probably prefer to have her get
duke, as they are very fastidious about
h cir mother-in-laws. = Northtleld
News.
In contrast to recent recelvershlp
| in Vermont is the tremendous cost OF
| the Knickerbocker Trust company OF
receivership in New York city. The
New York law entities the receivers to
five per cent of all moneys collected
and disbursed by them. In this case 1T
will surely be eleven millions and may
run as high as fifteen millions. Five
per cent of the latter amount would
give $3.50, 900 to be divided among the
three receivers, one of whom, by the
way, is Judge Ide of ST. Johnsbury.
And that for five months work J
Barre Times.
The Island PondHerald says Word has
been sent to the Herald from Lunen-
burg that the friends of Martin V. B.
Vance will present his name as candl-
date for senator at the coming Essex
county republican convention. Mr..
Vance was a member of the House IN
1894. He has for the past 20 years
held the office of town clerk of Lunen-
burg, and various other offices IN the
gift of his townsmen. He enlisted as
a private in Company D, First Vermont
Cavalry, September FL, 1861, and was
mustered out with his regiment Au-
gust 9, 1865. He served as corporal,
sergeant, commissary sergeant, order
ly sergeant, and May 9, 1865. was com
missioned second lieutenant by Gov.
Gregory J. Smith. He was in nearly
every engagement participated In by
the company. His great-grand
fathers on both sides were Revolu-
tionary soldiers. He is man OF clean
life, upright character, and justly popu'
lar with his townspeople, and known as
on of the leading men in the county. A
: man of ability and integrity, would
faithfully represent the interest OF Is
sex county and we are not afraid OF his
republicanism or his Vermontism.
Vermont Sunday School.
A monument is to be erected and ded
icated at Greensboro this summer O.
more than local inerest. 1t is to mari
t the last resting place of man proml
nent in the first Sunday school work II
+ Vermont.
-, 1t appears that in 1903 Deacon Asa
l bel Washburn began to teach his large
/. family, as class, on Sunday evenings
e to recite scripture, hymns and catech
ism. At the end of two years lead
:, ing woman of Greensboro asked tt
have her own children join Deacon
e Washburn's class, the first encourage
S ment he received from any source. II
. 1911 Rev. Samuel Goddard of Concord
- of Groom
and went home and organized Tin 1917
the first regular Sunday school in Yer
mont. In 1914 January 25) Deacon
=. Washburn's house having become over
. full, he went with his class to the
schoolhouse and organized, with
superintendent, and three teachers, Ash
/, bel Hale being on of them. In 1871
r the moral society" of Greensboro
!, Craftsbury and Hardwick concluded
), that Deacon Washburn had found 1.-THE
5 best means of promoting morals
r and decided to promote his ethics
i Accordingly, June rs, 1917, the frs
= "exhibition'' of Sunday schools wa
- held in Mr. Hale's new barn, 400 chill
L dren marching there to music from thu
t schoolhouse. The influence of tina
Y gathering led to the formation Of Sun
! day schools in all the surrouning towns
= Deacon Washburn was general super
T intendent over many of these, and MIR
d Hale became superintendent OF the or
r iginal school, in which capacity served
n until his old age.
Mr. Hale died more than threescort
S years ago, and his grave has been I'm
n marked all these years. Some time
: ago, Rev. P. B. Fisk, we'll known
, ali through northern Vermont, dis
q covered a beech ''girt'' and a birch
"brace" of the old Sunday school barn
e He caused them to be cut up, and he
e made them into canes, which ne sole
: at dollar apiece, the proceeds to bf
= used for the erection of monumen
+ over Mr.. Hale's grave. By his energy
u and perseverance Rev. Mr.. Fisk raised
the required sum, and the monumen
has been completed and paid for, an(
will be dedicated appropriately during
: the coming summer. For the presen
i generation and for years to come l
= will be as much of monument to Mr.
Fisk as to the Sunday school pioneer O.
r three-quarters Of a century ago.-Bur
liporfoy,