Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-09-08

Hazel Abbott this week. Mr. Ketchum
was Miss Abbott's art teacher at
jamaica Plain, Mass.
Henry Harding met with a slight
accident at the St. Johnsbury fair last
week when he was run into by another
sulky. Mr.. Harding finished the race,
however, taking second money.
John Teller has further enhanced
the looks and value of his Church
street property by increasing the
height of the stone wall on the south
side and covering it with cement.
Mrs. G. T. Darling and son, who
have been spending several months
with her father, W. w. Norris. have
gone to Hardwick, where Mrs. Dar-
iing's son will enter the school there.
The cement piers for the sills of the
and carpenter work is rapidly progress
sing on the building which will be 4Ox60
feet at the lower story. with tene-
mentS above.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. A. Barrows are
motoring this week through DixviIle
Notch to Norway and other Maine
towns and will return from Portland
through the White Mountains the lat.
ter part Of the week.
Al Dana's team was saved from run
ming away Monday night through the
prompt action and good sprinting Of
Clayton Wilson, who succeeded in
catching the horse after it had made a
good start down Church street.
Announcements were out last week
of the marriage of Mrs. Annie NJ
Jewell to George Batchelder of Lyn-
donville. Mrs. Jewell will make her
new home in Lyndonville, where she
lived before coming to Barton.
MIR. and Mrs. Will Goss and children
are guests of Mr.. and Mrs. F. D.
Pierce at the Pierce cottage in Lake
Grove. Mr.. Goss has just returned
from a Pacific coast trip, where he
went with party of tourists.
A little informal party and dance,
was given at lie Beau Lac Boat Club
house on Wednesday evening, by
several young ladies of the village
About twenty couples attended, the
gentlemen being the guests of honor.
Other entertainments materially re-
duced the size of the audience at the
| Gem theatre last evening to see Quo
Vadis, but all who were fortunate
enough to be present say it was the
biggest picture ever put on at this
| theatre.
Mrs. A. M. Vercoe and son, Ray
mond, who have been spending several
months in Virginia, have returned and
are again in the Barron camp at Lake
grove. On her return trip. Mrs. Ver
coe attended millinery openings in Bos.
ton and New York.
About twenty Royal Arch Masons,
went from here to Island Pond Friday
night to attend banquet and work by
the Chapter there. All report a very
excellent time, although there seem
to be some of the party who did not
make particularly good time on the
return trip.
R. w. Laird took Clyde Heath and
Henry Stafford to Burlington Monday
to play with the 1rasburg ball team
against Burlington, at their Labor day
celebration held in that city. Iras-
burg's clean, fast ball at the fair here,
has made them appear as one of the
states fastest teams this season.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. F. Batchelder and
Miss Gertrude Skinner left the first of
the week for an extended trip in the
Batchelder car, touring the White
Mountains to Portland, Me-, and then
by coast route to Boston, where Miss
Skinner will take the New York boat
and return to her school in Brooklyn.
Notice is posted at the postofice
that proposals for rents for the Barton
postoffice for a five-year term from
January l will be received until
September Is. Terms of lease may be