Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-09-11

| Inc next regular meeting OF Low.
ell Grange will be Tuesday evening
Refreshments will be served and al
members are urged to be present.
Miss Una Rice of Hopkinton, N
H., arrived Wednesday. Miss Rice is
the domestic science teacher in the
junior high school.
S. G. Cello, E S. Coolidge and Mrs
Ella Dana motored to Burlington on
Thursday to visit Mr.. Cooledge's
daughter, Mrs. Burdette Start.
| Mrs. Annie Kelly, of Moretown has
been staying with her sister, Mrs
Mike Dyer the past week. Mrs. Dy-
er is reported as being but little more
| comfortable.
The Lowell Junior high school
opened today with an attendance of
"A in the four grades. This is a rec
ord attendance for Lowell. 1t is ex-
pected that there will be few adj
ditions during the week. In the ele-
| mentary grades there was an attend
| ance of 81 making SO in the building.
Although the school is one teacher
short, they were able to carry the full
schedule except a course in French
and a tenth grade course in mathe-
MATES. 1t is expected that the other
teacher will be here by the end of the
week.
WESTFIELD
Miss Hazel Gilpin is teaching in
Greenfield, Mass, this year.
Stanley Clapp of Burlington and
Mr.. Nelson of Lyndonville visited
their friend, Lee Miller, Sunday.
Monday Ivan Burnham motored to
Burlington for the day, accompanied
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy George and Miss
Iris Bailey of Mansonville came to 0.
w. Bailey's Saturday for weeks
visit.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Dana Gilpin, formerly Of this town,
now of Brattleboro, Sunday. Con-
gratulations.
Ivan Burnham came home Boston
last week to be here to register the
18th. Albert Eastman came home
from Barton for the same purpose.
Eugene McAllister, who has been
sick with rheumatism for some time,
is just out of the hospital at Camp
Devens and was allowed to come
home for four days last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cleon Seaver Of
North Troy spent Sunday with her
sister, Mrs. w. O. Wright. Mrs.
Leonora Ewens of North Troy came
with them and visited Mrs. Homer
Burnham.
This town is not going into the
winter resort business as we have
heard but Saturday Mrs. F. D. Hard
ing found one of her apple trees in
bloom and the same day Herbert
Anger picked a five-pound lard pail
of ripe, luscious wild raspberrles.
This is going some.
Mrs. J. S. Young of Los Angeles,
CAL, who has many friends here, has
sent the following clipping from their
city paper regarding the son of Mrs.
Frank True, former Westfeld girl,
who with her son have many friends
still living here "a department of
Physical Correction, said to be the
first of it's kind in the United States,
is to be organized in the Los Angeles
School system. The department is a
war measure. 1t is to be organized
as the direct result Of experience
gained by the exemption boards and
autnOrlCleS, VINO nave QealL
with the thousands of young men
called to the service under the selec-
tive service act. DR.. Herbert E. True,
the eye, ear and nose specialist of the
school hea h and development depart
ment, has been placed in charge of
the new department. DR.. True will
be given an assistant to begin the
work, and additional aids will be ap-
pointed as the work grows. Los An
geles high school boys who are below
a normal physical standard, but who
may be brought to normal condition |
by corrective measures, will receive |
the principal attention of those in
charge of the new work. Washing |
ton authorities are intensely inter- |
ested in the physical corrective work,
assert members of the education
board, who said today that the inter-
est of civil and military officials in
the pioneer movement will lead to an
adoption of the Los Angeles plan
throughout the United States. The
physical correction will not be in any
sense a division of medical investiga-