Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-06-03
THE THREE CRAFDTSBURYS

Miss Stevens of Littleton, N. H., is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. Daniel Hodg-
don.
Mrs. Witt has gone to Barre to stay
some weeks with her daughter, Mrs |
Richard Allen.
Mrs. Clara Town, who has been
visiting friends here, has returned to
st. Johnsbury.
Miss Williams from Lisbon. N. H.,
visited her father, N. B. Williams,
Decoration day.
Rev. Garvin of East Craftsbury
preached Sunday morning in exchange
with Rev. E. R. Gordon.
| The ladies were invited to Mrs.
Chas. Roots Monday afternoon to give
| Miss Taylor linen shower before her
departure. We are sorry to lose Miss
Taylor. who has been such a faithful
teacher for the past three years. but
! if she must go, we wish her much
happiness.
ACADEMY COMMENCEMENT
The Craftsbury academy closed one
Of it's most successful years Thursday
evening. The exercises were fine from
all classes, not one had to be prompted.
Craftsbury orchestra furnished the
music. The program follows: Music.
1.-The Busiest Man in America" Ste
phen Ward Newton; 1.-THE Modern
Newspaper, Mary Miles ;;"Habits that
Help" Will Ernest Thompson; music
1.-The Psychology of Advertising. -
Barbara Chase Dawson; United
States-Its Perils and Opportunities, -
Arthur James Uric; 1.-THE Measure of
Life,'' Paul Leonard Hartman; music
1.-THE American Girls Opportunities, -
Mary Verna buckles; 1.-THE Trend OF
Civilization" Clarence Dexter Pierce
diction, music, reception at academy
hall. Class roll Latin = Barbara
| Chase Dawson, Mary Verna buckles.
Paul Leonard Hartman, Mary Miles.
Clarence Dexter Pierce, Jr., Will
Ernest Thompson; Euglish-Stepher
Ward Newton, Arthur James Uric
Commercial-Bernie Morgan George
Teacher training-Belle Maude Bailey
Maud Elizabeth Grant, Julia Frances
Pike.
. MEMORIAL EXERCISES
Memorial exercises were held here
Saturday. About 80 children marched
with the veterans and sons of veterans
| ana OCnGTS Co CnG cemetery Co nOlO the
Memorial service and to decorate the
graves Of the heroes. who have passed
; away.
Special interest attended the annua
, Memorial day address because it was
given by one of our own most honoreC
and respected citizens Of the town, DR.
!. G. w. Dustan, who has been practicine
his profession in this town for Al
years. He was preceded by hi!
!; father, who practiced about so years
AS the elder DR.. Dustan. began prac
: ticing in 1920. these two men. father
!, and son, will by the year 1920 have
served this community as physician fol
full century. This is remark able
. record of father and son. The title
of DR.. Dustan's address was, "Recol
lections of the Civil War by a Mar
who Stayed at Home" He began by
saying that the period of the Civil wa
was the heroic age in America, which
was characterized by spirit of adven
ture. enthusiasm and patriotism. HI
said that the spirit of the age was wei
r expressed in the poem, columbus, ,
by Joaquin Miller. which he recited
from memory, with great feeling ant
expression.
The doctor proceeded to show tn
2 character of the lives both of general
and privates in the war, by telling in
teresting incidents. Probably the mos
interesting of these was the experienc
= of woman, who was native of thi