Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-07-02
uP IN OLD ORLEANS.
Interesting Section Of Vermont Ne
dIseovsrsd and Some Thines
Notod

Noted.
Northeastern vermont-the block of
three counties, Caledonia, Orleans and
Essex-hangs out over upper New Hamp-
shire on the map like q wart on limb
tree limb. Likewise 1t hangs togfher,
socially, industrially and politically. No
other three contiguous 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 . few
days OF travel and recreation, seeking in
formation and enjoyment. The interest
ing section of Orleans county lying about
Barton and Newport was his particular
objective. Here are few things be saw
and heard.
Barton village bears on its face the
mark Of thrift, enterprise and progress
1t has several prosperous manufactures,
including the Peerless garment concern,
employing over a hundred hands. Its
streets, lawns and houses are well kept.
Its public buildings and business blocks
quite out-rank those of many q larger
place. Right at hand, so that you can
sail right up to the railroad station. lies .
beautiful sheet OF wster-Crystal lake
three miles long and half a mile vide.
with numerous camping spots available
and with boating, bathing and fishing
right at hand. A nicer adjustment of ma
ture to the needs and comforts of man
would be hard to imagine. The town is
alive, too, and making the most OF its
opportunities. II has good hotel, and
its summer business ought to be heavy.
/ The writer found Barton in ferment
of excitement over baseball. Two games
Thursday and Friday were up. Barton
has pretentious team of semi-profession-
ais, and for several years has been trying
for the state championship. Two years
ago Salisbury's Randolph team came up
and spoiled the prospect, and last year
Woodstock. in two games played there,
Z did likewise. 4 series of four games
/ two at Barton and two at Woodstock-is
arranged for this year, with nth at
some neutral place in case OF tie.
Woodstock won last Thursdays game,
overcoming Barton's early lead, tying in
the ninth and scoring finally in the elev-
enth; score, 4 to 3. Friday. Woodstock
z led on with two runs. but could not score
again, and Barton managed to pull I'VE
across the plate. II was good, hard,
scrsppy ball all the time, between teams
exactly matched. Score, Barton 5, Wood
stock 2. The rest of the series will be
worth seeing. Barton gave the Wood
stock team the best OF treatment
and the warmest hospitality. with BAN
| quet and dance. Warm FLOODED people
( live up this way.
Barton is progressive. To illustrate:-
A new schoolhouse was needed, and with
out opposition the district voted go, 900
D to build il. Later. this was increased 10
4 So, 900 and still later there was q call for
/ 1000 more. At the meeting, instead OF
5000 asked for. 5000 was voted, 20 as
to have il done right. And the hand
some editic costing ss2. 900 10 about ready
to occupy. Principal Stannard has been
/ ut the head of the school for fifteen years.
They keep good things here.
Brother Giipin. who Is pushing Broth
er Parker hard for beauty honors in the
Vermont press, has a nice new Office
from which he issues the Orleans County
Monitor weekly and does q large job
printing business. Everything Is handy
and commodious. Gilpin. they tell me,
is making a success of his business and
stands well in his community. He Is .
cordial, likeable fellow, with good ideas
and q fair prospect ahead.
Barton Landing is another village in
the same town, q few miles north, nearly
as large, and quite as busy, as Barton
proper. Here are the Chandler piano
sounding board works, employing 200
men. Barton Landing is not, as nigh
be supposed. a steamboat port, but lies
far up from Lake Memphremsgog on the
Barton river. The Indians, on their way
from the lake across to the Connecticut,
used to paddle their canoes up the stream
as far as the falls at this point, where
they landed. hence its name. The town
received its name from General Barton,
/ Continental officer.
Not far from here. in Glover, they are
getting ready to celebrate the centennial
Of Runaway pond. In 1910, during Q
drouth, men interested in Q sawmiil I'M
dertook to widen the exit from the pond
so as to increase the flow OF water. They
succeeded SO well that the whole body
dug its way down through quicksand and
ran out with such suddeDness that they
barely escaped with their lives, while the
food carried destruction down through
the valley below. The highway now
runs right through the bed OF the old
lake, and frequently, in excavations, ce-
dar trees are exposed, rs sound as when
they fell before the onrush of water.
Some household utensils buried At the
same time have also been uncovered.
Nothing could be finer than the loca-
tAou oi NEWPORT Suihge, on pfomontory
jutting out into the upper end OF Lake
Memphremagog. But then, II is in en-
tire keeping with the whole plan of ma
ture hereabouts, which seems to have
done its best to make this locality livable
and lovable. The air Of cleanliness and
abundant prosperity that one notes at the
minute of arrival continues to the end
Newport Is not merely nice to look at but
ut to live in, and the problem of liveii-
hood is no harder here than in other
places where comforts and luxuries are
less. The village is the trading center
for large and rich farming and manu-
featuring section. II has nice stores and
business places, whose proprietors are
men Of increasing fortunes. The public
buildings and churches OF Newport even
surpsss those of Barton. on the whole,
and some Of them would do for cities.
Newport is the shire town; a railway CEN
ter; at the head of lake navigation, and q
big port of entry for customs and imigra-
ton. II all brings grist to the mill, and
with Newport's deyeIopment in nj her d.