Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-09-13
LOWELL

COl. huSn was a DuSlueSS CdIleF Ill
Newport. Thursday.
w. III. Gilpin of Barton, was bust
ness caller in town Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Percy of Jay
are visiting their son, Cecil Percy.
George RoweH of Orleans was
business caller in town, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. B. Cello were bust
ness callers in North Troy, Thurs
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Kinsley Wis
tied relatives in town during the
week.
Ed. Richardson and wife of East
Highgate. visited his mother, Mrs.
Richardson, Sunday.
DIR. Slayton of Morrisville, secreta-
ry of the state Board of Health. was
a business caller in town Thursday.
Will Rivers has moved from the
Taplin & Rowell farm on Irasburg
mountain to Newport, Harlie Lock-
wood of Irasburg is now occupying
the farm.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Stafford and
daughter of ST. Johnsbury and Mr..
and Mrs. Seymour and daughter of
Sutton, visited at Olin Laplant's and
Alex DeblOlS' Sunday.
Mrs. Ella Lockwood entertained her
sister and her husband Mr.. and Mrs.
Ricard and Mr.. Charles Roberts and
son Ernest and Seymour Mecham of
st. Johnsbury, the first of the week.
LOWELL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
A Senior High School has been es-
tablished this fall in the town of
Lowell. Formerly there was only a
Junior High. but this failed to
meet the growing needs of the stu
dents of Lowell, at the last town
meeting. Money was raised to hire
more instructors and to equip the
| building for the additional two (2)
| year course.
The school opened Tuesday. Sept.
with an enrolment of sixty (6O)
! pupils. The instructors are Benja-
min w. Barrett Principal Agriculture
and mathematics. Mary FL. Wyman
! of the University of Vermont, French
and Latin, Kathryn Aldrich, a grad
uate of New Hampshire college, hav-
| mig a degree of B. S. in Home Econo-
| mics; Science and civics, Elsie A.
Gorham. graduate of Mount Holy
oke, having a degree of A. B. Eng
fish and history.
The registration by years is as fol-
lows: first year, IL; second year,
II; third year, II; fourth year, 6;
fifth year 10; and sixth 3.
% Seldom Besaw and Florence Taylor
of Troy; Arnold King, Alta Bailey
and Alfred Benoit of Westfeld; Beu-
lah Wiltshire of Eden; and A. Dyer
of Albany have enrolled in the third
class of Lowell high school.
The ceremony of flag raising will
| be observed by the grade and high
school pupils every morning and the
Pledge of Allegiance will be given to
the flag once a week.
The courses in individual piano and
vocal lessons as well as the chorus
work of the different classes will be
continued as of last year.
The operetta "Love Pirte of Hawii''
that proved so popular last spring,
will be repeated by the students in
October.
! A reading and reference room has
been established for the benefit of the
students, and the following papers
and periodicals will be at their dis
posal. Burlington Free Press, Bos-
ton Herald, New Yorker, Popular
/ Mechanics, National Scientific National
| Geogra phic, Ladies Home Journal
! Worlds Work, Outlook and Literary
| Digest, Review of Reviews, Golfers
Scientific American Radio Magazine
! New England Homestead, Holestin
Freisian World and Jersey and a
Guernsey paper.
The cooking project of the Home
! Economics class for this coming
months. will be canning, picking and
making jellies. Anyone desiring the
class to take care of some of their
| fruits and vegetables should notify
| the instructor and bring the neces-
| sary materials to the laboratory at
the appointed time.
The Lowell High School will have
the Coit-Alber Lyseum Course fo1
this year. An impersonator, John
McCaruson will appear Oct. 10, he
will interpret different types OF
| people and entertain with dramatic
readings. The Henderson trio will
come Nov. 6, Saxphone, singing and
clever readings with the special fea-
lures of Scotch dialect work given in
song and story, including some es-
pecially clever Harry Lander imper-
sonations- William II. Stout will
| give a lecture Dec. 8 he. speaks OF
fundamental things. with the rugged
sincerity of man who has tested the
truths he breaches, and with a hope
full optimism that inspires his hearers
The last number of the course will
be on March 15.. The Demarco-Ais-
trup duo will entertain with music
and sketches from the Italian Life
Miss Demarco is an artist of brilliant
Il attainment. She is an noted harpist
while Aistrup is one of the young
= American artists, who is rapidly
!, coming into prominence.
The ticket selling campaign will bt
conducted by the high school students