Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-07-19

accomplished quite Ieat last week
when in two days they loaded and put
into the barn 106 loads of hay.
Saranac Lake, N. Y. and Harold
Merrill and daughter of Essex juno
ton called upon Mrs. Fl. D. Phillips
Monday.
Mrs. w. C. Ufford of Spokane,
Wash, spent several days last week at
Hotel Barton. Mrs. Ufford will be
remembered as Miss Ethel Bickford of
this town.
Should not Barton do something for
the Vermont boys at the front? Most
of the other towns our size have done
something either through the Red Cross
or directly.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merton Wilson were
in East Charleston Friday to attend
the funeral of Mrs. Wilson's brother
in-law, F. P. Armstrong, who died of
typhoid at Montreal.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Baldwin, Mr..
and Mrs. E. w. Barron and Miss Mary
Wheeler attended the meeting of the
Passumpsic Congregational club at
Greensboro yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Barrows enter
tained Mr. kand Mrs. George King and
Mr.. and Mrs. Reirden entertained Mr..
and Mrs. John Mcclellan at their camps
at Stone pond Sunday.
2 Mrs. A. R. Cowles has taken rooms
of Mrs. Abbie Nye in F. w. Baldwin's
/ house and will remain in Barton. Her
/ son, Percy W. Cowles, returned to New
York City. Sunday night.
; Mr.. and Mrs. Adam Dummett of
Boston and Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Knowles of Waterbury are spending
several weeks in Mr.. Dummett's cot.
| tage in Crystal Lake Grove.
Several men went from Barton to
Fox Hall, Westmore. Monday to help
in the raising of the big barn which
is being built there. The Normandy y
men.
Mrs. Martha Seaver. who has been
i'll for several months, died at her
home on Elm street Monday morning.
Funeral services were held at the home
at o'clock this afternoon. Obituary
next week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leland Green and two
little sons were in town Thursday.
Mr.. Green, who was Barton academy
graduate, is now principal of the
Vermont state agricultural school at
Randolph.
Dean P. Mcclellan, Miss Lucia Hol-
Celestia Gates of Richford, Mrs. Sin
clair of West Lebanon and others are
spending few days at the Mcclellan
cottage, Willoughby lake.
. Recent new subscribers to telephone
service of the Passumpsic Telephone
company in the Barton exchange in.
clude H. " Drown, F. J. Gleason,
Ellsworth Heath, Homer Hitchcock, G.
P. Jenness residence, JIG. Moquin, w.
M. Magoon cottage, Willoughby house
Mr.. Thompson from the st. Johns.
bury fish hatchery spent last week
with H. P. Baldwin in Crystal Lake
Grove. Mr.. Thompson and Mr.. Bald
win were engaged in gathering the
spawn Of black bass from the lake here
for the fish hatchery at st. Johnsbury
The campers at Stone pond were
astonished Sunday afternoon to see
large doe swimming in the pond. She
entered near the Phillips cottage anc
. was evidently going straight across
but, being frightened by some people
in boats, turned up the pond and went
into the woods at the inlet only sfev
rods from the camps of w. w. Reirder
! and G. A. Barrows.
Twenty members of the Barton bant
, in four automobiles took their fourth
} annual outing Sunday and report tn,
, most enjoyable trip they have ever had
The full mileage was trif1e over 20
+ miles and the route was Irasburg
! Lowell, Eden. Montgomery, Berkshire
. Enosburg. Swanton, Alburg, down th
: Islands. Sand Bar Bridge, st. Albans
Cambridge, Johnson, Morrisville, Hard
g wick and Greensboro Bend. Th
], weather was ideal and they were NO
f stopped on the whole trip by acciden
or even tire trouble.
l. Considerable excitement was cause
# Thursday afternoon by the runawa
) down Main and Church streets of til
ice team belonging to Blake & Ma,
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