Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-06-04
COMMENCEMENT.
CONTINUED ERoM PAGE SIX

Webster; vice president, Emma M.
Goss secretary and treasurer, Vera E.
Churchill; corresponding secretary.
Hazel E. Twombly.
IMPRESSIONS.
AS stranger in your county
And accordingly quite green"
| am asked for my impressions.
What I've heard, or felt. or seen.
And not to make the task too easy.
Though no poets art is mine,
must keep my humble discourse
In the limits of a rhyme.
IT'S most alluring county,
Yours. which I'm to celebrate;
Only one place is it's equal
That's of course. the Nutmeg state.
Such surprises greet the stranger,
| Sugar place, they call each farm;
Cows go strolIing down thezsidewalks,
Timid folks take wild alarm.
Curious kind of architecture.
Planned to keep Jack Frost at bay,
Spacious stables, cosy houses, all
Strung along installment way.
Everybody more than busy,
Meier drone in Orleans hive.
Who lives here takes for his motto
Hurry Up, and Look Alive"
People always open hearted,
Cordial, interested, kind,
Like Cnelr county, Tree anu rugged,
Strong in body, soul and mind.
Healthy, happy minded children.
Blest with boundless energy.
Though slightly strenuous, it's Joy
To help them climb up Learning's
Rivers ever madly rushing
| Through the valley. down the hill.
If they knew they all ran backward
Do you think they'd hurry still?
Grass of the Angora specie,
Three blades, where you'd look for
one.
Weather tickle. presto, changed
Before you know what kind begun.
Such jolly, bumpy landscape.
Always either up or down,
Proves the wise ones right in saying,
Orleans is rising town.
Then the mountains, blue and distant
Sometimes sometimes green and
! near,
Make one wish to stroke their rounding,
Velvet outlines. blurred or clear.
With happiness this good earth smiled
Some million years ago,
When it found Vermont had planned
Upon it's mobile crust to grow.
That smile produced wrinkle
By some Geographic change.
j The Great Green Mountain Range.
! And lest the hills should never dream
4 That they were fair to see,
! To mirror all their beauty
Came the lovely Willoughby.
Every season has its glory
In this land Of Christmas trees
Summer is the time for sunsets.
Thunderstorms and pleasure bees.
Country side is all aglow.
Naples blazing on the hillsides
Though Owls Head be crowned with
snow.
Comes the winter time of peril,
Every pathway sheathed with glass
Bumps and bruises, EXPLANATIONS,
Joyous smiles on friends who pass.
Then the Spring, the time of sweetness,
"Sugaring off" household word.
To the camp with spoon or paddle,
Will you have yours waxed, or
stirred?
But it's time that all this nonsense
Should be drawing to a close
Pm in danger otherwise fear
Of lapsing into prose.
Here you have my full impressions
Of Vermont, both bad and good.
Please be charitably kind and say,
And if you wish to even things
Why just put on your hat.
Take journey to Connecticut
And tell me what you think of that
The grammar school graduation was
81 Thursday afternoon at 2.3O in the op-
era hall. Anyone present could easily
n see by the carriage of the graduates
that Miss George did some excelIenf
work during her short stay with the
school. Great credit is due both the
scholars and their teacher. The fol.
lowing program was rendered: March.
Miss Winget, high school; prayer |;
salutatory. can American Girls Op-
portunity," Marion Bartlett: recita-
oAnitra's TAM" Orleans high school
orchestra Electricity. Ralph Cartee :
Glass History, Helen Beede Wireless
Telegraphy,' Robert Gardyne: Song.
II Once Had Sweet Little Doll, .
Helen Beede; recitation. 1.-The Swan
Song" Vera Richardson; THE Flags
q dictory, 1.-The Panama Canal Tolls
Question" Donald McWain; presenta-
ton Of diplomas, Supt. C. L. Erwin !:
s'In Red Rose Garden" Orleans high
school orchestra. The ushers were
Ruth Churchill, Ralph Harris, Grefa
McMu]len, Ibra Winget. The class
motto is .'Row. Not Drift. Z"
On Thursday evening the high school
j. held their graduating exercises. They
were interrupted few minutes by
the loss of electric lights but were
soon provided with lamps. Very much
credit is due Principal j. F. Smith for
his work in carrying out the com.
mencement week program. He has
certainly shown his ability in our
school this year and has been well as.
sisted by Miss Dorothy Walter. The
program for the high school graduating