Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-06-29

connecting ROADS OT uiVLSlOHS.
DR.. J. A. Pearson expects to be ir
his office again Thursday, July 7.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter LeBell are on q
motor trip to Boston and other points
Miss Laura B. Case has moved tc
the home of E. D. Alger for the sum
mer.
Supt. C. L. Erwin and family of Bel
lows Falls are in town for short
stay.
DIR. Foote, dentist, will be at Hote
Barton Friday, July 3. New low
prices. adv
Miss Catherine Wilcox of New York
is the guest of her aunt, Miss Lydia
Colburn.
Mrs. Sumner Prescott of Lyndon
called on her cousin, Mrs. F. P. Smith
last week.
Mrs. George Rash had a severe
critical condition.
Miss. Sarah Priest of Glover sus-
tanned an operation at Sunshine san
itarium last week.
w. J. Utton has gone to Maine
with a string of horses where he will
enter them for races.
Mrs. A. M. Vercoe and son, Ray
mond Longley, were in Montreal last
week visiting her sisters.
The Orange and Black sewing club
will meet with Mrs. Carter Thursday
afternoon at o'clock.
Miss Pearl Hubbard recently spent
l. L,
Lyndon and st. Johnsbury.
Albert Quilliam and mother of
Magog recently spent few days with
his aunt, Mrs. D. j. Huntington.
A. w. Buswell picked Is pounds of
green peas from his garden Sunday.
Who can beat this for early garden
ing? "a
E c. Wilkie of High street has had
his buildings newly painted. F. w.
Comstock is also having his house
painted.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. @. King of West
Glover are in town and will occupy
the downstairs tenement in the Stiles
house on Lincoln avenue.
The following letters are advertised
this week unclaimed: Carl Wilder,
Churchill Bros, L. M. Jackson, Paul
Kaye, R. H. Sillibon, Leslie Wilkie:
w. D. Caswen of Concord, N. H., a
native of Barton and an employee OF
the Monitor office several years ago,
was visitor in town last week.
The Congregational parsonage is
receiving some much needed repairs.
A new veranda has been added in
front and considerable inside work is
being done.
Remember the annual school meet
ing at Alumni hall Thursday night.
One article is to see whether the dis
trict will vote to remodel Alumni hall
to make it suitable for athletic put-
poses, and vote tax for the purpose.
The other articles concern routine
business.
Complaint has been made that mon
ey was lost from the pockets of cloth
ing hung in the bath house Sunday.
1t is a shame that thievery of this
kind has to go on at a bath house gen.
erously provided for the public. The
water is now fine and there is much
bathing on this splendid beach.
The public library will be closed
during the period of the pageant
from Friday, July 1st, to Monday, July
4th inclusive, when new books will be
put into circulation, but one will be
to any one family, juveniles
included and no renewals.
Rev. Charles S. Frost of Providence,
R. l., is in town on brief visit to his
aged aunt, Mrs. Lydia Milligan, and
is being entertained in the home Of
her daughter, Mrs. H. E. Paige. Mr..
Frost at the invitation of Rev. Turn
er, delivered a sermon at the Sunday
evening service in the Methodist
church.
Miss Ina N. Paige has returned to
Barton from Ohio, having been grad
uated in this years class from Ohio
Wesleyan University. Miss Paige re-
ceived her B. A. degree, being fourth
in class of 232, and receiving "mag-
ma cum laude" honors. Miss Paige
was accompanied on her return trip
by Miss A. Vivian Grant of Boston,
Mass, who attended the commence
ment exercises. The trip to Barton
was made via Niagara Falls, the
Thousand Islands. the ST. Lawrence
rapids and Montreal.
l.. j. Hartman, at one time Bar
ton banker but for several years in
the banking business in California,
has recently accepted position as
manager of the new business depart
ment of the Bank of Italy at Fresno,
Calf. This bank is the largest bank
west of Chicago and Mr.. Harriman's
friends here congratulate him. For
eight years he has been with the First
National Bank of Fowler, Calf, but
now goes to Fresno.
Joseph L. Downing died at his home
in Willoughby Tuesday of last week,
where he had lived for years. The
cause of his death is given as a shock.
Mr.. Downing was a quiet man but
man of splendid character and a re-
spected citizen of the town, having
lived in Barton all his life. He was
born January 27, 1912, one of a fam
lly of eight children, all of whom have
died, as well as his wife and onIv
daughter. He enlisted in Co. d. 3rd
Vermont August Is, 1862, and was a
member of George w. Quinby Post.
g. A. r. Funeral services were held
Wednesday, June %, and burial was
It Willoughby cemetery, Rev. j. ].
Hutchinson officiating.