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Orleans
county
Mon
Vol.
43 No.
27
BARTON, VERMONT, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1914'
Single Copies 5 Cents.
CLAMfcD ADVERTISING
Advertisfmeors will be inserted under this
head at two crts per word for first insertion
and one cent per word thereafter. Cash must
accompany tDPorrier. tin advertisement will
be inserted for Jens than tirenty-five cents.
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE 4-weeks-old pigs. B.
F. Guyette, Origan. lwp
FOR SALE Nearly new rubber-tired
Concord body wagon. G. L. Merriam,
Barton. 23tf
Just received carload of clapboards
of all grades. Dwinell & Persons,
Orleans. 27-30
FOR SALE Two buggy wagons,
one single and one double harness. R.
M. Wells, Orleans. 27tf
FOR SALE One pair Stimpson No.
70 scales, also, pair platform scales.
Inquire at Monitor office. 26tf
FOR SALE Farms, houses End
timber lands. Inquire of Barton Real
Estate company. Barton, Vt. 20tf
"FOR SALE Smith and Barnes up
right piano. Nearly n$v and in al
most perfect condition. Price low.
Amos R. Robinson, Barton. 4tf.
FOR SALE Doors,
boards, lath, shingle
retail. Ritchie Bros.
Greensboro Bend.
windows, clap
and lumber at
Lumber Co.,
17-30
FOR SALE Black horse, five years
old, sound. Also bay mare, eleven
years. Each weigh 950. Are fearless
of autos and safe for ladies. H. H.
Cook. Glover. 26-28p
FOR SALE Second hand Indian
motoreyie thoroughly overhauled, 5
horse power, twin cylinder. Also one
and one-fourth acres of land on the
shore of Willoughby lake near the
church. Cash or credit. W. J. Wills,
Westmore. 27-30
FOR SALE Two Stanley steamers
just overhauled. Model X, $1175,
model EX, $275. Have been refused
license to operate so must sell. Model
EX is at my lunch room in Woodsville,
N. H. Also one Babcock road wagon
never run, $60. Will trade for a work
or driving horse or cow. Clarence C.
Colby. Greensboro Bend.. 26-27p
WANTED
WANTED A small credit register.
State size and price. Box 453, Barton.
25tf
BROILERS THIS week, 18 cents
pound. Empty crops. Elrick, Barton.
lw
WANTED Highest cash price paid
for live poultry and eggs. C. A. Nute,
Barton. 26tf
WANTED Live poultry. Eggs not
over week old. Elrick, Express office,
Barton. 18tf
WANTED First class carpenters.
No others need apply. Address Box
107, Orleans. 27-28
WANTED Old Potatoes, 60 cents
bushel cash, 65 cents in trade. C. A.
Nute, Barton. 27-28
WANTED AT ONCE Quantity of
good rags for wiping machinery. Will
pay cash. Monitor office. 6tf
WANTED Highest market price
paid for stock, and wool every
Monday. W. E. Hanson, Barton.
21tf
WANTED Honest, reliable young
man to do janitor work for tuition
while attending business 14 college.
Nashua Business College, Nashua. N.
H. 25-29p
WANTED The patronage of auto
parties and all others at Willoughby
lake. The proceeds of this tea house
are for the use of the LyndonviJle
Village Improvement society. ' The
"Boulders" Tea House, South End of
Willoughby Lake. lwp
"WANTED Ten colts by Don Pedro.
On account of trouble last season and
my would-be competitors being direct
ors will make no exhibit at Barton.
Stay at home during this fair, get your
colts ready for our exhibit going south.
Making arrangements with Arm's
Palace Car company, Chicago, for
special car to leave Sunday, Sept. 13.
Expense from Barton guaranteed.
Thanking public for past favors and
liberal patronage. E. L. Graves.
26-27
TO KENT
TO RENT First
Gay, Barton.
class organ H. C.
49etwtf
TO RENT Room up Or down stairs.
Clara Colby. Church street. Barton.
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TO RENT Furnished rooms. Mrs.
W. R. Powney, High street, Barton.
16-31p
TO RENT Two tenements. Have
seven village places for sale ranging
from $400 to $4000. G. A. Katen,
Barton.
27tf
LOST.
LOST Child's red sweater in Glover
Friday. Augusta Hanna, West Glover.
lw
LOST Between West Glover and
Barton tug belonging to harness.
Please notify E. L. Ticehurst, West
Glover. lwp
LOST On highway between West
Glover and South Albany on June 25,
1914, lady's satchel containing goods,
etc. Finder please notify Mrs. C. R.
Vance, West Glover, R. F. D., No. 2.
... . .. .... 26-28
CELEBRATION AT GLOVER
Glover does not undertake a cele
bration every year, but when their
citizens do dec de to have one, every
one seems to get interested and they
make a success of the undertaking.
We believe this is the first in four
years and apparently all the stored-up
energy found expression in the many
events of the day. Lest we forget to
mention it, we are of the opinion that
the signs forbidding the use of fire
crackers and other explosives from
eight in the morning until five p. m.
lent materially to the enjoyment of
all, save perhaps the small boy, and
that there were no accidents, runaways
or fires, might easily be attributed to
this fact.
At ten o'clock the parade, led by
Rev. G. W. Douglass as marshal of
the day, marched from the bridge
through the main street to the south
end of the tow i and returned. Follow
ing the marshal was the order of
Junior Mechanics in uniform, who
were closely pursued by a band of
young Apache Indians, and as an inno
vation, Hiawacha and Minnehaha were
among them oi a tandem motorcycle,
and that certa'nly has the wonderful
moccasins 6: Pawpawkeewis dis
counted. Ne came the "'Horribles
band," its music and get-up being
wholly in a class by itself. A large
float follower, in which the army and
navy were dep eted, and then floats of
Glover creameries, one a satire, the
other a corup ete creamery in opera
tion, from th cow to the power churn.
The float in g "?en and white from S.
E. King's, wich its trailer of the small
cart and boy, was welL gotten up, and
the Japanese pagoda float in yellows
and white by R. E. Davis, filled with
tiny tots, was perhaps the most attrac
tive in the p rrade. The grange had a
very attract ve float drawn by four
horses and fi led with both men and
women of their order. The float repre
senting Slab City's dancing parlors
excited the most laughable comment,
but there were numerous others which
called forth bursts of applause from
the people on either side of the street,
one in particular where both rabbits
and poultry were shown in a double
decked cage, driven by one of Glover's
youngest citizens. It was a good pa
rade, into which there must have been
put much work and thought and there
are many teams and floats that we
have failed to mention which are
deserving much credit.
Following the parade there were the
field sports, a wheelbarrow race, a
three-legged race, the slow race,
which by the way caused much mirth,
and one fast race among local horse
men. In the bandstand the Glover
band rendered several selections. JRaces
were won as follows : Fast horse race,
Sam Bean; slow race, Mr. Stickney;
foot race, Clarence Phillips ; wheel
barrow, Edward Chapman ; hurdle
race, Lynn Anderson, with his brother,
Verne, 2d ; sack race, Clyde King.
In the afternoon and perhaps we
should say that everybody remained in
Glover, where there were several din
ing rooms for the special occasion, as
well as the excellent hotel the crowd
was still further augmented by auto
mobila parties from Barton, Orleans,
Newport, Greensboro and the sur
rounding districts : we say surrounding
districts, because about every one of
the farmers seem to have a car now.
The church was crowded to capacity to
hear the oration and many more would
have availed themselves of the oppor
tunity hp 1 they been able to get inside.
For that reason it may be well to
print at least the greater part of the
oration of Marshall Hapgood of Peru,
orator of the day.
Wiih fitting remarks E. R. Cook,
formerly a Glover townsman intro
duced the speaker, as the man whom
the town of Peru delighted to honor
by sending time and again to the state
legislature.
Mr. Hapgood's remarks were brief
and to the point :
"Referring to my friend Mr.
Cook's remarks about my politics and
ambitions whether right or wrong I
have always been conscientious. What
I have to say to you today should be
on lines of independence, and I want to
preface roy remarks by calling atten
tion to the grand and noble character
of the earlier settlers of our state,.
We have every reason to be proud of
our lineage. While for many years
there were settlements above and
below us, ours was neutral territory,
banded about through the influence of
the French and English wars, but
when at. last we were opened, we
actually got the cream of the Massa
chusetts settlers. Some of these first
settlements to be sure were abandoned
and one town that I recall actually has
100 less population than it had 100
years ago, although it is on the rail
road, today you will find the cellars of
the old settlers actually forest covered,
but when we were at last actually
settled it was by these men and women
who knew what independence was
and what it meant, and how it felt to
CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUE
MISCKT.LAHEOUS.
See adv. wool carding and hand spun
yarns. 24etw
MR. POULTRYMAN: Caponize
your surplus cockerels at age of 10 to
16 weeks and realize multiplied profits.
Capomzmg done reasonably by Tf
Cook. Glover. 26-280 s
HAVING PURCHASED the famous
stallion. Red Homer, will meet cus
tomers at my stables, or wilj b.e.met at
reasonable places this season. , Both
phones.
A. M. Clark, Orleans. 23tf
See our 48-inch round dining tables,
retail prrce $25. We are closing out
what we have left . at $15. A real
bargain. Over Bert Adams's shop at
foot of Water street. Genuine quar
tered oak and mahogany. 26tf
Barton Band Concerts.
We truly have reason to take a good
deal of pride in our local band, and
that we do is apparent by the large
number of people who attend these
concerts Saturday evenings. We have
always had a good' band here in
Barton and one that has been in every
sense progressive. Only one of the
original charter members, Martin
Brunning, remains, of the original
band started here twenty years ago,
and probably this member has done
more to keep the band going from
year to year than any other single
member of the organization. Under
the leadership of Homer Potter in
recent years it is noted that our musi
cians are playing a much better and
more difficult class of music and play
ing it well. At all our concerts not
only do our' townspeople turn out, but
you will find that practically all the
neighboring towns and outlying farm
districts are well represented. The
band here is one of our very best
attractions, and any money voted to
the maintenance of it is an investment
that brings to us a direct reward. We
do not remember a year, in which the
concerts seem to have been as good as
those of this season, and we congrat
ulate the twenty members and their
leader, on the programs they are
giving us. The concert this week will
be at the upper end of the town Sat
urday evening at the usual time with
the following program : March, "Fair
est of the Fair;" overture, "Royal
Emblem ;" baritone solo, Mr. Hutchins ;
waltz, "Last Night Was the End of
the World :" clarinet duet, "Nannie
Polka," Potter and Owen; march.
"Down by the Old Mill Stream;"
galop, "Slap Bang;" march, "Peg
o' My Heart." Finale, Star Spangled
Banner.
Congregational Church Notes
The Fidelity class meeting will be
held with Mrs. Seaver on Tuesday
evening.
Remember the C. E. meetings are
now at 7 o'clock Sunday evenings.
Everyone is invited to attend.
The King's Daughters of the Congre
gational church Sunday school met at
the home of their teacher, Mrs. J. F.
Batchelder, Monday afternoon. The
class is again engaged in making
some books, which are distributed to
the hospitals in the state. A number
of these books were made last year
and sent to the Heaton hospital at
Montpelier, where they were very
gratefully received. This year's books
will probably be sent to Brightlook
hospital at St. Johnsbury.
Annual Meeting of Independent Tele
phone Association.
The annual meeting of the Indepen
dent Telephone association was held at
Graham's hotel, Greensboro Bend,
June 30. The old board of six direct
ors and three new ones were elected,
R. A. Dutton of Brownington, John
Buckley of Wheelock and S. W. Drake
of Sheffield being the hew members to
the board. At a meeting of the direct
ors R. A. Ritchie was chosen presi
dent, F. J. Corliss, vice-president ; A.
C. Chase, clerk ; F. A. Amsden, treas
urer; A. P. Bean, secretary; R. J.
Shurtleff and C. P. Bean, auditors.
At the Methodist Church.
There was no sermon Sunday morn
ing on account of Xhe communion
service. One was baptized and two
received into membership.
The theme at the evening service
was, "The Making of a Man." Text,
I Kings. 2:2.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
society held their regular meeting
with Mrs. Wilbur Mason Tuesday.
BARTON.
Miss Kate Ferrin was a visitor in
town last week.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Adolphus Brooks July 4th.
Mrs. Lucretia Alexander is visiting
at her old home in Evansville.
Miss Wilmer Coughtry of Montreal
is a guest at the Misses May's.
Henry Charldon is visiting his
parents in Bloomfield, Canada.
Mrs. Chas. Morse has gone to New
York to visit her son, Ora Piper.
Sam Maxwell has finished work for
Charlie Pierce and returned home.
E. M. Laclair has shingled his build
ings and made other minor repairs.
W. Z. Twombly has sold his residence
on Glover street to Albro Larabee.
Miss Jennie Foss visited at her home
in East Albany a part of last week.
The Gem orchestra will play Thurs
day evening at a dance given in Orleans.
Mrs. E. G. Baldwin and son, Freder
ick, are visiting relatives in Connecti
cut. Mrs. Kate Folsom was a guest of
Mrs. Cassidy and friends in town last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer E. Webster and
son are guests of his brother, C. B.
Webster. ;
Mrs. H. B. Borland goes today to
spend several weeks with " her son in
Glover. ' . .
Wm. Merriam is spending a week
with his aunt, Mrs. Johnson at St.
Johnsbury. j
Mrs. F. H. Pillsbury was the guest
of Mrs. Bigelow of Lyndonville a part
of last week.
Mrs. Abbie Winslow, . who has beer!
critically rll tne past week, is some
what better.
Mrs. Eugene Hobson of Newport is
working in G. C. Lang's jewelry store
for two wueks.
SIGNS OF ADVANCE
Many Evidences of Progress and Growth
In Barton. A Set Back to the
Pessimist.
Even our worst pessimists and ham
mer swingers, must believe some of
the signs and figures of our present
business activity and growth, and it is
hard to reconcile statements that the
village is actually going backward
with the facts as follows.
There has been a material increase in
our grand list, this year over that of
the past shown in a previous statement
in these columns. The school census
just compiled by Dr. J. A. Pearson for
this district, shows an increase of 77
pupils of the school age for 1914 over
that of 1913, census. Last year we
had 273 pupils in our school and the
coming fall we will show something
over 300 about seventy of these pupils.
attend the Parochial school the remain
ing 250 will attend the academy and
graded school, ani this census does not
include the many academy students
who come from out of town
Daring the spring and early summer
there have bean over twenty ie?.i
estate transfers within the village and
its immediate surroundings and there
is not a piece of propertv in (.lie
village that can be cal!c? t a dead issuf
al though there ate a low pieces of tea";
estate held by out of town parties, a;
prices that prohibit tneir sale, hut
there is a de-maod for village property
at a fair valuation. .
There are very few, if any, very
desirable tenements vacant and we
know of seconri-floor tenements being
rented at $12 per month, not too desir
able at thst.
The post office here has done, busi
ness enough the past year to increase
the salary of its postmaster $100.
The bank statement for July 1 shows a
very material increase in its list of
depositors and the amount of deposits,
in fact an increase of nearly $60,000 in
the last six months.
The Crystal Lake House, which has
been closed for the past two years is
again opened and doing a good busi
ness, and we do not remember a time
when there have been more summer
sojourners in the village at this time
of the season than at the present time.
Every industry in the village is well
employed and there is as little com
plaint by our local merchants as is
found in any town of our size in New
England. We can point to a number
of village improvements in streets and
cement sidewalks. Our new granite
industry promises each year to in
crease and has lived up to' that promise
the past two years.
We don't mean that we can't use
more industries and that we do not
need them. We don't like to hear the
continual howl of the pessimist, who
without knowing or caring, informs
everyone who will listen that the town
is really going backward. We have
one desirable property here that is not
being used to the best advantage, but
it has been tied up in an estate and
could not be handled, until the past
few weeks. We expect that we will be
able to show some manufacturing com
pany an attractive inducement to come
here and that this . valuable property
will again be employing labor and
manufacturing goods within another
year.
E. E. Liddell is doing some interior
painting and varnishing at Ed. Miles's
in West Glover.
Philip Davis returned to Burlington
yesterday after a week's visit in Bar
ton and Glover.
Miss Ruby Thompson, telephone
operator at Orleans, is ill at her home
on Glover street.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Merriam are at
their camp at Willoughby lake for a
two weeks' stay.
Mrs. C. E. Buswell, Jr, with her
two children are visiting at the home
of C. E. Buswell.
W. L. Dow of Hardwick has pur
chased the A. K. - Story cottage in
Crystal Lake grove.
Mrs. A. M. Vercoe was called to
Barre last week on account of . the ill
ness of her son there.
There will be services at the Episco
pal mission in Odd Fellows hall Sun
day, July 12, at 7 p. m.
Mrs. Annie P. Strowbridge of White
River was the guest of Mrs. Annie
Jewell a day last week.
Mrs. Delia Willson spent part of last
week visiting friends and relatives m
Coventry and Newport.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hazen of
Boston are at the home of his brother
on the farm for a vacation.
Fr. Turcott, a v former priest of
the Catholic church here, wa3 a visitor
in town the past few days.
W. G. Turner, chef at Hotel Barton,
has returned from his vacation spent
at his farm in Bucksport, Me.
George Rowen has finished work at
Hotel Barton and James Rowen has
taken his place on the hotel bus.
Mr. and Mrs. Kneeland of Portland,
Me., and their son and daughter are
guests at Mrs. Edith Comstock's.
. Judge . and Mrs. Miles and H. R.
Cutler and family will occupy their
Long Pond cottage for their vacation
Mrs. James Sco'tt and . daughter,
Margaret have , been visiting at Lynn
Anderson's in Albany the past week.
Perley M. Smith with his son of Gran
iteville is taking a vacation at his ' old
home with Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Smith;
H. P. Baldwin and family from
Springfield are here at their camp in
Crystal Lake grove for several weeks.
Miss Marjorie Brown of Montreal, a
former" resident of town, is visiting
Mrs. Eunice Collins and other friends.
Mrs. E. E. Pierce.
After an illness of nearly six
months, Abbie J. Pierce died at the
home of her son, Chas. E. Pierce, June
30. Mrs. Pierce was born in this
town July 6, 1854 and with the excep
tion of three years spent in Lowell,
Mass., she has made Barton her home.
On July 6, 1875 she united in marriage
with Edwy E. Pierce. To this union
six children were born, Bertha, who
died when a small child, Lillian, wife
of E. E. Flanders, Maud, wife of V.
C. Sweet of Newport, Charles of Barton,
Ray of Orleans and a son, who died in
infancy. Her funeral was Thursday,
Mr. Warner speaking words of comfort
to the bereaved relatives. The hymns,
which were beautifully rendered by
Mrs. Aikins and Mr. Bickford wTere,
"We Are Going down the Valley One
by One," "Saved by Grace," and
"Some Sweet Day By and By." The
bearers were Frank Emerson, Geo.
Fisk, Harry Fisk and Edwin Grow.
The floral tributes were: A beau
tiful pillow with words, "Our Mother,"
from Mr. and Mrs. Flanders, Mr.
and Mrs. Sweet and Mr. and Mrs. R.
S. Pierce; a pillow from Mr. and Mrs.
Wo' !ard and Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Pierce, a spray of 59 carnations with
word, "Wife." from Mr. Pierce, roses
from Miss Julia Randall, sweet peas
from Miss Sara Randall, basket of
roses and forget-me-nots from Mr. and
Mrs. Temple, white roses from Miss
Lucy Robinson, spray of carnations
from Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Pierce and a
wreath with words, "Our Loved
One." from Mr. and Mrs. King and
Mrs. Delia Drown. Besides her hus
band and children she leaves to mourn
her loss a sister, Mrs. Delia Drown
and a brother, George Woodard. "She
hath done what she could," and it can
tiuly be said, "A good woman hath
gone to her reward. "
Card We desire to thank her friends
and neighbors who so kindly gave their
sympathy and help during the trials
incident to the death of our beloved
wife and mother. We also desire to
most heartily thank the singers.
E. E. Pierce and family.
Masons Dedicate Hall at Craftsbury.
Although very threatening weather
and bad roads kept many Masons in
this section of Vermont from the
dedicatory exercises of a new Masonic
building by Meridian Sun Lodge No. 20
of Craftsbury Tuesday, June 30, nearly
100 visiting Masons including M. W.
G. M. Darling of Burlington and many
other grand officers were present. The
formal ceremony took place in the new
hall at noon and after dinner served by
the ladies of the churches public exer
cises were held in the town hall. H.
F. Graham presided and Rev. W. A.
Warner of Barton was the orator of
the afternoon. His address was his
torically very interesting and instruct
ive and loudly applauded. Grand Mas
ter Darling made appropriate remarks
and the exercises closed with music by
the Craftsbury band.
Several from Barton attended the
golden wedding anniversary of Deacon
and Mrs. Hitchcock at Coventry last
week.
Mr. and Mrs.
Johnsbury were
Smith's and J.
week.
Homer Smith of St.
visiting at Norman
W. Murkland's last
H. R.
Graham
cottage
week.
Cutler and family entertained
Hall and family at their
at Long pond a part of last
Mrs.
Lowell
illness
there.
Olive McGorty was called to
last week on account of the
of her daughter, who lives
Miss Mary Wilkinson goes today to
Sutton, P. Q., where she will remain
for several weeks, visiting relatives
and friends there.
Frank Clifford and family are camp
ing in Crystal Lake grove in the
Hubbard cottage, and entertaining
friends from Newport.
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Burger of
Boston are the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
J. M. Elliott. They will later camp
at Crystal Lake grove.
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Clark of Sharon
Springs, Kan., are visiting at C. E.
Hamblet's. Mr. Clark owns and oper
ates a 1600-acre ranch in Kansas.
Fred B. Danforth and Miss Hattie
Brown of Brownington were married
at the Congregational . parsonage by
Rev. W. A. Warner on June 30th.
The Roy Granite company have
placed a monument in the Barton
cemetery for J. P. Telfer that is a
credit to any concern or workmen.
Miss Avis Young of Bathurst, Cana
da, a cousin of Miss Marjorie Hastings,
will be a guest at the home of Dr. F.
R. Hastings a part of the summer.
The members of Le Beau Lac
Boat club are dnvited to be present
with their lady friends at a dance
given at the club house on Friday,
July 10. ,
We learn with regret that Miss
Nellie Hayes, formerly a teacher here
and now a resident of Salem, Mass.,
lost practically everything in the big
Salem fire.
The Village Improvement society's
supper held in the Congregational
church Friday i night, did not receive
the patronage so "good a cause is
worthy of receiving.
Lewis McVicker. who graduated
with honors from Norwich University
last week, is in Albany, N. Y., on
business. He is considering a position
offered him by a telephone company in
that city.
, The old Dewey place has been pur
chased by Will Hanson and others. We
understand the purchase to be one of
speculation and that Mr. Hanson does
not intend occupying it himself. . . . "
Esther Brunning and Ruth Burnham
spent several days in Newport last
week. Ruth went from there to West
Charleston, where she joined her
mother for a visit with relatives.
Philip Thompson of New York city
is the guest of his brother. Judge F.
D. Thompson, the present week. Mr.
Thompson is with a large city pave
ment contracting company in New
York.
Chas. Clogston of Holyoke, Mass.,
has arrived for his summer vacation, a
part of whioh will be spent at the
home of his parents andva part in
Crystal Lake grove, where he has a
camp.
Mrs. Vinnie Willey is moving from
one of the tenements in the Dr. Blake
house to one of the Geo. Keating
houses and Pat Guertin and family
win move into the tenement in the
Blake house.
A four week session of summer
school will begin July 2u in the Orleans
Graded School building to further
prepare pupils of 8th grade for high
school.
C. L. Erw'in.
Mrs. Joseph Castle with her grand
daughter, Miss Ruth Castle, of Carson
City, Nevada, and Mr. and Mrs. E. E.
Webster and son, Ellery. of Quebec.
visited at Carroll
Webster's the first
of the week
A reunion and picnic of the Wrighr
and King families was held at Parket
pond Glover on Saturday, at which
there were over 50 members of the
two families, and a' few intimate
friends present.
Mr. and Mrs." F. D. Pierce, accom
panied by Will Goss and family of
Newport took an automobile triD to
Burlington yesterday, where Mr.
Pierce will attend a Vermont Pharma
ceutical meeting.
The regular meetine of the Crvstal
Lake Grange will be held at their hall
July 16 at 8 p. m. Work in the 3d and
4th degrees. Supper will be served
after the work. Every member is
urged to be present.
J. Q. McClellan of Boston, who is
now the sole owner of the properties
of the former Willoughby Wood &
Lumber company in Sutton and West
more, arrives at Hotel Barton today
with a large party of Boston people.
The following were guests at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Hawkins
the past week: Rudolph Pike and
sister, Agnes, Curtis Parker and
sister, Merle, from Greensboro. Miss
Lola Hawkins was home from St.
Johnsbury the latter part of the week.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Fitch of New
York are at the Crystal Lake
House and will remain for some time,
Mr. Fitch being in the employ of the
Mitchell Motor Car company, and is
to be engaged here in changing some
of the older model motors in Mitchell
six cars to the latter type.
Geo. H. Davis was in Burlington
Monday, to be near his sister. Mrs. E.
L. Gaskill, during a very critical oper
ation performed at the Mary Fletcher
hospital there. Mrs. Gaskill has
it
aireaay oeen compelled to submit to
two operations previous to th s and
fears are entertained for her recovery
Are you a Spug? The
ing slowly. This is not
society. We want every
and child in this village
1 m
use is grow-
an exclusive
man, woman
to send their
name with ten cents to
Mrs Barrows
betore the first of December. Then
i i j i i
.vuu can utjip ueciue now to make a
happy Christmas for every child
this village.
rn
Judge and Mrs.- Miles, Mr. and Mrs.
L. t. cutler, Mr. and Mrs. W. M.
Wright and Madam Wright, Geo. E
King ana tamily and several others
attended services at West Glover Sun
day morning, when Rev. R. B. Wright,
D. D., of Boise, Idaho, delivered his
annual Sunday school address to a
large congregation.
Hotel Barton had one of th hnsic
j weeks, if not the busiest, of its history
tne past weeK. ihere were fourteen
automobile parties in three days and
every room m the house has been
occupied every day by commercial
travelers or summer people. Among
the new guests remaining for d time
are Mr. Whitney and two nieces.
Onaccount of the slight advance in
prices and because there was no ship
ment of stock from our local yard
a week ago, W. E. Hanson made . a
record shipment for calves and hogs in
a single day since the yards have been
maintained here. One hundred eleven
calves were shipped and over 80 hogs
as well as much other stock, the
farmers receiving over $3,000 for the
day's shipments.
The Flanders & Mossman company
sold Mr. Morgan of the Wood-Morgan
Detective agency, Boston, a 37 Buick,
and Gordon Joslyn is driving Mr. and
Mrs. Morgan back to Boston in the
car this week. The Flanders & Moss
man company have probably sold more
cars this season than any other firm in
northern Vermont." At present they
have not a new car of any kind in
stock, but have another shipment on
the way.
A baseball team from the tub shop
here played a team from Newport on
local grounds in the morning of July
4, and with Duffy M artel 1 in the box
were able to win by a score of 12 to 8.
The return game was played in the
afternoon at Newport with exactly the
reverse score. We have often noted
what is called an even break on double
headers, but to have the two scores
exactly tally is exceptional.
It certainly looks as though Fred
Pickel, who has been handling his
string of horses at Roaring Brook Park
this season, was something of a
feature at the races at St. Johnsbury
the Fourth. Mr. Pickel took a string
of eight horses to St. Johnsbury and in
the 2.27 class the Pickel horses took
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The Meddler
If the coat Jits you, put it on"
Why do men swear? Probably be
cause they think it gives emphasis to
their,remark. We judge this to be the
answer on hearing, in passing a stable
recently these remarks: "He's a
d m good hoss," from No. 1,
followed by this explosion from No. 2:
"He's more than that, he's a G
d good hoss." Probably the second
speaker thought he had added another
degree to the characterization of his
neighbor, and neither of them thought
that they were taking the name of the
Supreme Architect of the Universe in
vain. The extent to which swearing
is practiced is unaccountable. It is
simply degrading and debasing. In
this connection we quote from the
writings of one of the most eminent
clergymen the Universalist denomina
tion ever produced, the following
paragraph committed to memory, in
childhood :
"Profaneness is a low, groveling
vice. He who indulges in it is no
gentleman. I care not what his stamp
may be in society I care not what
clothes he wears or what culture he
boasts, despite all his refinement,
the light and habitual taking of God's
name in vain betrays a coarse nature,
and a brutal will."
Think it over.
We are in favor of the youngsters
having all the fun they can, but roller
skates in the post office and at a two
minute clip around the corner near
the fruit store, can make a public
nuisance of what might otherwise be
clean sport.
If anything appears in this column
which is not to your liking, just kindly
let me know and 1 will see whether
I can't make it a little worse next
week. If you happen to get a little
puff this week don't brag about it, you
might gat your block knocked off next
week.
It seems inconsistent to the Meddler
for one man to take out a milk dealer's
license and do business according to
law and for another to sell without a
license (.because he can't afford to take
one out) and cut the price of milk.
L-onsistency is a jewel but this kind
is not a first water jewel, (from the
dealer's point of view).
A correspondent writes the Meddler:
"We observe by last week's Monitor,
June 10, that the (the Meddler
man omits this name) Sunday school
of (and this) held a picnic
at Willoughby lake and had a fine
time. We are glad that they did and
hope that they may come again ; but
some of us around the county, who
own cottages in the grove where they
visited, are wondering how
people would feel toward us if we
should hold a picnic in their village and
trample papers and boxes into the
long grass of their vacant lots ; spread
bread and butter, pie and cooky dough
on their posts and floors of their veran
das ; throw orange and banana peels
about- their lawns and then depart
without picking up any of the litter?
I once saw a unique sign prohibiting
expectorating. It read, 'Spit on the
floor here if you do. at home. Come
again."
If it takes a Democratic congress
from March 4, 1913, to June 24. 1914 to
settle on a postmaster for Barton, and
if it takes 24 hours to shift the Pro
gressive state committeeman in Or
leans county, how long will it take the
Republicans to fill a vacancy on their
town committee?
I am told that umbrellas are safer in
Barton than in any other town in
Orleans county. One has been known
to stand in front of a store for days
without being taken by its owner or
anyone else. Which speaks volumes
for our honesty. Thank you, Mr.
Man. (Aside to the audience). I
haven't seen any that were worth tak
ing. If you would like a receipt for
chapped hands inquire of Miss Davis,
a correspondent with the Meddler.
Two of our townswomen being
unable to agree on certain matters,
entered on a hair-pulling contest and
fist fight one day recently, and it was
deemed best to have Geo. Jennings act
as referee. Jennings, feeling incom
petent to decide the matter, took them
to Newport.
Boys who deface the walls of the
bath house on May shore should be
ashamed of themselves. Defacing the
walls of any public building is a mark
of ill breeding or wrong training.
Ophelia says, "A baloon & a plow
shud nevir marry."
The Duck Pond Road Philosopher
says: "The only difference between
the dress o' the upper part o' men and
women this warm weather is a under
shirt, shirt,' vest, and coat and a
peekaboo waist. If the women would
let us fellers take off our coats and
vests and put on a undershirt them
selves, things would be better bal
anced." .
The Meddler
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