Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-06-13

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Mrs. II. J. Stannard is stopping
with Mrs. Emma Per1ey while work
ing in the May jewelry store.
Miss Evelyn Shompany Of Laconia
has been spending few days with
her sister, Mrs. Charles Townsend.
Miss Doris Spafford is home from
Boston where she has spent the past
month visiting relatives and friends.
E. E. Doe spent the last of the
week in Springfield, Mass, on bust
ness for the E. L. Chandler company.
Miss Heidger entertains her ex
preston class at her home in Crafts
bury Saturday and Sunday of this
week.
Miss Myrtle Stewart of Hanover,
NJ. H., is spending few days with
Mrs. w. F. Scott and Mrs. L. E.
Spafford.
Mrs. Wilmer Leach, Mrs. Perley
Herman and children and Ray Wilder
of Coventry visited In West Charles
ton last week.
The Agricultural club has present
ed the school with a barometer which
will be a great addition to the schools
scientific equipment.
Monday some lantern slides were
received from the University of Yer
mont and were enjoyed by the boys of
the agricultural class.
Letters remaining uncalled for in
the postoffice are for Mrs. Harold
Stumpf. Daniel J. Maloney, G. Nc
Allister, Hon. Homer Wright.
Miss Hazel Harris, Miss Harriet
Myers, Charles Taplin and Lieut.. K.
S. Webster took dinner at the New
Willoughby Lake hotel Sunday.
The Knights of Pythias will OBJ
serve their annual field day Tuesday.
There will be baseball game be-
tween the North Troy and Orleans
teams. A small admission will be
charged which will go to Red Cross
work. Everyone is invited to at
tend.
The graduation exercises of the
grammar shoot will be held Thursday
at 2 d. m. in the opera house. Two
plays will be presented by the school,
fThe Fairest Spirit" and "The Ar
row-Maker's Daughter" All are
cordially invited to attend.
The w. C II. u. will meet at the
home of Mrs. r. A. Hamilton Tues
day afternoon at 2.30. Mrs. II. B.
Smith will give a paper on, Getting
Out of Ruts," and there will be re-
ports on the county convention. All
the women of the village are invited
to be present.
Every member of the Red Cross is
urged to be present at the special
meeting to be held this evening at the
chapel at o'clock. This meeting is
called to determine the ways and
means of raising our share of the
S350,000 which mustibe raised in Yer
mont during the week beginning June
18th, for war relief work. NJ. NJ
Taplin, Rev. R. A. Hamilton and F. J.
Kinney spent Tuesday in Burlington
receiving instructions concerning this
campaign and will be present this
evening.
The baccalaureate service was held
in the opera hall Sunday at IL a. m.
The service was opened by the school
chorus followed by a scripture read
ing by Rev r. A. Hamilton and a
prayer by Rev. w. S. Smithers. The
ADDRESS was gwen DyssE' T@kS.s- 1nOknaS
of Midllebury college, who took for
his text the following passage of
scripture found In the 7th chapter of
Matthew: edo unto others as you
would that they should do unto you. y /.
Mr.. Thomas showed that this 4Go1d-
en- Rule" has been IN existence for
nearly 1000 years and possibly long
er and that there never was so good
time to put it into practice as now
in these troublous times His whole
talk was very well appreciated and
gave everyone a good thought to carry
home with him. His closing words
were:
"Oh, it's great to be out where the
fight is strong,
To be where the heaviest troops be-
long
And to fight there. for man and God.
Oh, it sears the face and wracks the
brain,
It strains the arm until ones friend
is pain
In the fight for man and God"
Rev. w. S. Smithers pronounced
the benediction.
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