Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-06-21
THE GRlEENSBOROS

Mr.. Griswold of Hardwick, our new
trouble man on the telephone lines.
spent nearly all day Monday straight
ening out the damage done in this To-
cality by the thunderstorm of Sunday.
The Greensboro band will give the
third of their band concerts in this viii
lage Saturday evening of this week.
1t is expected that a new band stand
will be erected in the center of the viii
lage soon.
The subject for the G. E. meeting
Sunday evening at 7.30 in the chapel
of the congregational church will be,
"What Is the Purpose of Our Life on
Earth?" and the leader will be Mrs. B.
]. H. Darlington.
Luther Smith, who is a student at
Harvard Theological seminary, Cam
| bridge, Mass. will spend part of his
summer in Mortified, Mass, and will
teach the classes in Bible study during
the boys conference there.
Lila Jackson received first prize
! and Merle. Harrison second prize, SIS
and So. respectively as contestants in
the eighth and ninth grades for the
prizes offered by the Hardwick Trust
company of Hardwick, for the best es-
says on Lincoln.
Rev. E. C. Hayes and E. G. Kinney
went to Orleans Tuesday by auto and
were in attendance at thestwo days
association meeting of the Congrega-
tional churches of this county. The
program was good one and Rev. Mr..
Hayes preached the association sermon
Tuesday evening in the Congregational
church.
The Orleans members of the Vermont
legislative assembly for 1912 held re.
union this week Wednesday on the
north shore of Caspian lake and were
given their meals at the home of Frank
Chase. The outing crowd was ad-
dressed by Hon. Horace F. Graham of
Craftsbury.
The dramatic club of the Caspian
Lake Grange has posted a bill for the
drama, "The Old New England Home"
to be given June 10Th in the town hall
: here, and July Sd at Craftsbury.
There are eleven characters and the
play promises to be up to the high
standard of previous plays given by the
Grange of this place.
The Christian Eudeavor convention,
which was held here in the Congrega-
tional church June 16, II and Is, by the
Orleans and Caledonia County unions,
was exceptionally well attended and
was an inspiration to the local G. E.
] society as well as to the large number
t present from the two counties. The
r program was good one, the climax
coming Sunday when Rev. r. P An
derson spoke at 80 a. M, and Gov G..
W. Gates at 2. 30 p. m. About 700 peo-
pie attended the two meetings, the au-
+ diepce in the afternoon being somewhat
: the larger. A fuller account of this
three days meeting will be found in
$ another place in this paper.
d GREENSBORO BEND
y Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Thomas are the
parents Of daughter, born June 18th
II L. S.Collins was called to MONTPELIER
;, Wednesday to attend the funeral of his
= sister.
Sherman Gage of Craftsbury is
working for J. B. Silver in the meat
- business.
J. F. A. Amsden has purchased a new
a. Maxwell auto of Pierce & johnson of
Hardwick.
r Quite large delegation from here
S. attended the G. E. convention at
is Greensboro Sunday.
e Mrs. Mary Allen has returned from
Burlington and has commenced house.
i'll keeping in her house below the village
"a George E. Colby has sold his Net
" automobile to n. z Harrim an of East
Craftsbury, taking in exchange a pail
Of team horses, wagon and sleds.
n B. o. Davis & Son have just put il
r. new cement steps and walks to both O.
20 their store buildings. w. ]. Berwick
Of Sheffield has charge of the work.
TT J. H. Pope and family leave thi
en- week on pleasure trip by aut
er through the White Mountains to Port
ok land, Me-. and from there to Boston
expecting to be gone about two weeks