Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-07-02

and Mrs. Horace Wheeler and Mr.
and Mrs. Carroll Wheeler of Worces-
| ter, this state, were guests of Mrs.
Daisy Baldwin last week.
Miss Trix Gallop, E. S. Gallop,
Maude Campbell, Wilmer Coughtry,
Edith Shutter and ]. III. Kerr, all of
Montreal, who have been camping in
| Crystal Lake Grove with Miss Fanny
their praise of the beauties of Crys-
tai lake.
Ernest Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs.
John Smith, 33 years old and living
on High street, was operated upon
| Monday. The body was buried from
st. Paul's church Wednesday.
Those who attended Goddard SEM
| mary commencement in Barre last
week were Clyde Heath, Bernie Lee
and Miss Marion Redfeld. Heath and
4 Lee played in the winning Alumni
/ team against the regular seminary
team and are mentioned for their
work in the Barre Times.
Through the initiative of c. S.
Webster, a tennis court is to be grad
ed and opened to the public on the
Caron plot of ground between the
Gem theatre and the Caron house.
This is an ideal location for q court
and it is expected former interest in
the game will be aroused.
Postmaster Buckley has been au-
thorized to redeem from original pur-
chasers all unused and undamaged &c
postcards and &c envelopes, printed or
imprinted, at full value during the
month of July, giving in exchange
other stamped paper. Cards and en-
velopes cannot be redeemed in cash.
The Sherbrooke Record tells of the
trial of the young lady spoken of last
week as having been registered at
Hotel Barton and hiring local auto
mobile to take her to Sherbrooke to
get a forged check cashed. The girl
whose real name is Agnes Reed, was
sentenced to three years in the peni-
tentiary.
George H. Gorham was a guest at
the golden wedding anniversary of
his sister and husband, Mr.. and Mrs.
Alonzo D. Kerr at the home which
they have occupied for the past SO
years in Westminster West. Mrs.
Kerr, who was Mary M, daughter of
James and Temperance (Gardner)
Gorham of Coventry, was united
III marriage " @11ohEo O' IAO4A VI
Putney June II, 1869.
Homer Rushford, John Simon and
Fred Jarvis went to Tarrytown, N. Y,
last week to drive back three Chevro-
let cars for the Barton Auto Ex-
change. These three cars have been
sold and it is expected three more
will be driven in this week; The ex-
change has also sold it's last Paige
and Standard-Eight but expects to
have more of these cars and some of
the Chambers soon. Merritt Potter
is now employed in the Office of the
exchange.
A very small number of voters at
tended the school meeting held in
Alumni hall Monday evening. There
were no contests, no discussions and
the business consisted of routine bus
mess. r. P. Webster was reelected
member of the board of trustees for
three years, j. A. Pearson was made
clerk of the district, Fanny May,
treasurer; George Jennings collector,
F. W. Baldwin, moderator and c. A.
Barrows, A. w. Buswell and F. A.
Hunt. auditors. A tax of $1.20 was
voted.
At a meeting in the Improvement
club rooms Tuesday evening baseball
fans organized for the purpose of get
ting into line for Barton team. c.
C. Cassidy was elected manager and
a committee appointed to raise a
nominal amount of money with which
to finance the start Players express
their willingness to go into the game
for the love of the sport and 1t is ex-
pected some really fast ball will re-
suit. Home games Will VIII De arranged
Barton has some splendid material
and will make some of the teams of
this part of the state step lively.
The Sunday afternoon sacred band
concert drew large crowd from Bar
ton and surrounding towns. The
quality of the music was excellent,
the cornet and clarinet duet by
Messrs. Potter and Domino perhaps
being the number most enthusiast
cally encored Harry Dickens spoke
for some time about his personal ex-
periences as a Y NJ. c. A worker in |
France, Belgium and Germany. Mr.. |