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Vol. 44 No. 9
BARTON, VERMONT, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1915
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and one cent per word thereafter. Cash
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ment will be inserted for less than twenty-five
cents.
for sale:
FOR
Barton.
SALE Horses, M. J.
Owen,
52tf
FOR SALE My residence on Water
street, Barton. E. E. Liddell. ltf
FOR SALE My residence on Pros
pect hill, Orleans. Dr. L. Young-.
8tf
FOR SA1 E 1 full blood Scotch
collie male pup, four months old. E.
A. Norton, Glover 9tf
FOR SALE 1914 Maxwell tourirg
car Has been run 2800 miles. C. B.
Webster, Barton. Stf
FOR SALE Three Jersey cows.
Freshened in December. H. A. Man
ley, Irasburg, Vt. 7-9p
FOR SALE Ten months' old fox
hound pup. Guaranteed to run. Extra
good voice. C. L. Phillips, Glover.
6tf
FOR SALE Farms, houses 8nd
timber lands Inquire of Barton Real
Estate company. Barton, Vt. 20tf
FOR SALE Three foot wood,
dry or green. W. F. Shepard.
'phone, 110 13,or Webster Feed
either
N E.
Store.
t6f
FOR SALK 900 bu. Regenerated
Swedish seed oats. Recommended by
Vt. Experiment Station, $1.00 per bu.
II. C. Wilson. Irasburg, R. D. No. 2.
7tf
FOR SALE Two story house on
Irasburg street, Orleans. Six rooms
and bath, all in good repair. Will sell
right if sold at once. J. K. Januszew
ski. 4-llp
WAN 1 ED
WANTED
Barton. -Live poultry.
Elrick,
18tf
WANTED First class barber, A. C.
Chester, Barton 8-9p
WANTED 200 bushels good clean
barley. R. P Webster, Barton. 7tf
WANTED To exchange a new Ford
car for driving horse. Flanders &Moss-
man, Barton
2tf
WANTED Fat poultry of all kinds,
chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese.
Smith & Jenkins, Orleans, 49tf
WANTED Middle-aged lady for
housekeeper, small family. T. M.
Drew, West Glover. 9-10p
WANTED By man and his wife,
three or four furnished rooms in
Barton for lierht housekeeping. Ad
dress, Box 487, Barton 9tf
WANTED Married man for general
farm work. Good wages to right
man. Hous? and wood free. Thad
M. Drew. West Glover. 7-9 p.
WANTED Good second-hand sap
tank, wood or iron, hold 150 to 200
pails. 'Phone No. 6-3, Independent
line. W. F. Ames, South Albany.
9-10p
WANTED FOR ONE YEAR Place
for boy 12 years old, strong and healthy,
to work for board and clothes and at
tend school. References from last
place. W. N. Potter, overseer, Albany.
9tf
1 O KENT
TO RENT Furnished room. Mrs.
E. J. Wilkinson, Barton. 50tf
MISCELLANEOUS
Full blood Berskhire boar for serv-
. i if i aii r j i
ice, also snoats ior saie. Aiuany oiock
"arm, Albany.
8-34
NOTICE I can furnish you with
clean milk, send me card or telephone.
The Jersey Milk Man. U. A. Corrow,
Barton. 8tf
BEAUTIFUL, serviceable, reversi
ble rugs woven from your old carpets.
We pay freight. Circular free. Box
392, Manchester, N. H.
37tf
We are paying the market prices
for skunk, rnuskrat. mink, red fox,
coon, etc. hides, skins and pelts. We
sell green cut one for poultry. Smith
and Jenkins. Public market, Orleans.
48tf
PAINT SHOP A. B. Morency is
now fully equipped in the Pillsbury
Baldwin plant to paint sleighs, wagons
and automobiles and to store same.
Signs and lettering a specialty. Inte
rior and exterior work done promptly.
A. B. Morency. ltf
FARMERS' NOTICE On hand, one
entire Jersey herd of ten cows, five
freshened this February, three to
freshen in March and two in Septem
ber next. Also one registered Jersey
bull 20 months old, a fine animal.
Above herd will be sold in one lot or
divided if you wish. See me at once
if in need of cows Also stock taken
March 8. Dodge, Orleans. Stf
Congregational Church Notes.
Services of the week as usual.
The Christian Endeavor society has
purchased and presented to the church
a piano, to be used at Sunday school to
supplement the organ.
"Those Few Sheep," will be the
subject of an extemporaneous sermon
by Rev. W. A. Warner at onion serv
ices at the Congregational ehurch
Sunday eveming, March 7th.
NEW CLUB NOW ASSURED.
At a meeting Wednesday evening
in Batchelder's hall, which was well
attended by the business men of the
village, it was voted to form a perma
nent organization, to be known as the
Barton Board of Trade and Business
Men's club. The proposition of form
ing a business men's club has been
under way for some time and there is
apparently a good deal of sober
reflection back of the enthusiasm
which should make this club an organi
zation for the welfare of the village.
The following officers were elected
at the Wednesday night meeting: A.
P. Underwood, president; H. W. Car
ter, vice-president; H. P. Baldwin,
secretary ; and C.A. Barrows, treasurer.
The house committee elected are, H.
W. Carter, Dr. F. R. Hastings, O. W.
Caron. J. F. Batchelder and W. W.
Reirden. Committee on by-laws, H.
W. Carter, F. D. Thompson, and W.
W. Reirden. Membership committee,
H. P. Baldwin, F. D. Pierce. The
house committee were empowered to
rent suitable quarters and if they deem
it advisable, to incorporate the orga
nization.
Village Meeting March 9.
Warnings have been posted calling
attention to the annual village meeting
at beaver s opera house at 7.30 p. m.,
Tuesday, March 9. There seem to be
no special matters to come up at this
meeting outside the regular business.
fxcspt perhaps, article II, which
reads, "To see if the village will vote
to buy a one-half interest in the power
privilege of Echo pond, Seymour lake
and outlet of Echo pond, and if so to
raise money to pay for the same." It
is said that these water rights would
make our present holdings at Plunkett
much more valuable than at present,
on account of being able to store a
large amount of surplus water during
any dry seasons, or to increase the flow
through storage in case the village
should ever want more power. The
resignation of J. V. Rowen as trustee
makes two trustees to be elected this
meeting instead of one, one of these
men to serve two years. The village
reports are out, and show that the
village has had a very prosperous year.
The indebtedness for the water system
is now entirely wiped out and there is
about $200 surplus in the treasury, now
from the water system. From now on
the water system will be a source of
revenue to the village and if placed in
a sinking fund or kept entirely separ
ate from other village accounts the
water system will now more than care
for any emergency likely to arise.
The electric light department has
decreased its indebtedness about $4500,
and would seem to be entering upon a
period not only of self support but of a
dividend paying basis, and in a few
years at its present rate will find the
indebtedness entirely liquidated. The
village department also shows a mate
rial decrease in its indebtedness. The
showing ought to be pleasing to every
taxpayer and voter in the village.
Ezra C. Martin.
Ezra C. Martin died at his home on
High street early Wednesday morning,
Feb. 24th. He had been ill since
October and of late had rapidly grown
worse, until for the past month there
has been little' hope of his recovery.
Mr. Martin was born in Concord, Jan.
16th, 1854, his parents being John and
Elizabeth Martin. On Jan. 10, 1877, he
married Hattie Kinney and on that
very date came to Barton, where they
have lived practically all of their
married life. Mr. Martin was first
engaged in the meat business here,
living in the Congregational parson
age, but in later years he became a
carpenter and there are few houses in
this village on which Mr. Martin has
not at some time done repair work.
He was an honest, conscientious man,
"doing the things which his hand found
to do," and doing them well. Arrout
eighteen years ago Mr. Martin built a
home on High street, but as the house
was too large for Mrs. Martin to care
for, it was sold and they bought their
present smaller house nearly opposite
the one he formerly built Mr. Martin
was a member and constant attendant
of the Congregational church . He was
a member of the Odd b ellows lodge
also a member of the Masonic Lodge
here, joining that organization in 1894.
Mrs. Martin is left to mourn the loss of
her husband and the sympathy of the
entire community goe3 out to her in
her great bereavement. Mr. Martin is
also survived by one brother, Hosea
Martin of Craftsbury. The funeral
services were. Friday at 2 p. m., and
following a prayer at the home, the
services were conducted from the
Congregational church, Rev. W. A.
Warner officiating. The Masons at
tended in a body. The interment was
in the Welcome O. Brown cemetery
here.
CARD To all the neighbors and
friends, who in the kindness of their
hearts extended to me so much of aid
and consolation, to the Ladies' society
and Masons, who have so cheerfully
helped to lighten my sorrow, and for
the beautiful floral tributes. I wish to
extend my most sincere thanks.
Mrs. E. C Martin.
Stereoptican
Lecture at
Hall. '
Odd Fellows'
Friday evening, March 5, at Odd
Fellows hall Supt. Erwin will give a
stereoptican exhibition and lecture on
the Indians of the Southwest Free
to pupils and patrons of the rural
schools and to members of the Grange.
The lecture will begin promptly at 8
o'clock. -
Teachers Examinations.
Teachers' examinations will be held
at Barton academy March 4th and 5th.
The examinations will epen at 8
o'clock a. m. C. L. Erwin. Supt.
QUIT FOR MARCH MEETING
Legislature Adjourns over Few Days for
Elections Surprise at Defeat of Suf
frage Bill. Adjournment Mentioned.
One of the surprises of the week
was the defeat of the Woman's suffrage
bill in the house. It was freely pre
dicted even to the hour of taking the
vote that the bill would pass . but the
actual vote stood 100 for and 129
against. An attempt to reconsider the
measure was made but was emphati
cally turned down by a vote of 186 to
32, thus denying the women the vote
for at least another two years. There
is much disappointment among the
supporters of the measure and the
prize seemed at one time assured and
was so near. Defeat of the measure
is merely a delay say its friends.
Orleans county members were almost
evenly divided in the vote, nine voting
for and eight against the measure,
while Sweet of Lowell is reported as
absent or not Toting. Those voting for
the bill were: Adams of Coventry,
Babcock of Greensboro, Blodgett of
Newport, Caswell of Derby, Hitch
cock of Westfield, Russell of Irasburg,
Thompson of Craftsbury, Wiggins of
Brownington and Wright of Albany.
Those voting against the bill were
Anderson of Glover, Coburn of Jay;
Dubois of Troy, Durgin of Morgan,
Flinn of Holland, Hamblet of Barton.
Hinton of Westmore.
A bill has been introduced to abolish
the state factory inspector.
The special committee appointed to
investigate Theodore N. Vail's offer of
Speedwell Farms have reported unan
imously in favor of accepting the pro
position and appropriating $20,000
annually for maintaining the school as
a splendid opportunity for self-respecting
and self-educating boys to become
a valuable addition to the rural com
munity. There are no strings at
tached, says the committee report,
which states that the fine conditions of
the farm and buildings and livestock
farm could be maintained out of the
revenue under competent hands.
Dewey T. Hanley, state purchasing
agent, has been reappointed and his
appointment confirmed by the senate.
When the house adjourned Saturday
it was until this afternoon, thus allow
ing tne members to De at home over
March meeting.
The bill to repeal the $300,000 state
nouse addition Jaw was advanced to a
third reading last week.
A report on the financial condition
oi tne state was made oy Mr. rroctor
of Proctor, chairman of the finance
committee which shows that we are
running very close to the margin and
unless college appropriations andother
expenses are rigidly cut there will
need to be a direct state tax.
Elsewhere in this issue the Monitor
quoted a resolution passed by the legis
lature thanking a southern lady for
her aid to the late Col. Bedell, a sol
dier son of Orleans county.
County Agricultural Assotiation
H. R. Talmage, president
Notes
of
the
iong island rotato urowers associa
tion, gave three very interesting talks
on "The Requirements of the Seed
Potato Market." to well attended
meetings in Derby, Orleans . and
Greensboro, on Feb. 22 and 23. There
seems to be considerable interest in
the formation of an organization to
produce seed potatoes.
M. C. Wilson, farm efficiency dem
onstrator for Vermont from the de
partment of agriculture, Washington,
D. C, will be in the county this wee,k
with the results of the farm records
which were taken in January and will
discuss the general results at meetings
as fi Hows: Oil-ans Tuesday Mar. 2. at
tie Va lev House; Brown:ngton, Wed
nesday Mar 3, at Grange hall ; Irasburg,
Thursday Mar. 4, at Grange hall. Mr.
Wilson will be at the same places
on the days following to talk over the
rceords individually with the farmers.
He has some very interesting results
and farmers can do well to study them.
BARTON
Will Heath is ill. j
P. L. Webster is quite ill. .
James Rowen is away on a vacation
Miss Julia King is ill with chicken
pox. .
Mrs. MarthaN Seaver is in very poor
health.
Mrs. C. P. Jenness is in poor health
and unable to be at the store.
Miss Vera Webster of Lebanon, N.
H., was at home over Sunday.
Mrs. S. Ai Hunt is visiting relatives
in Warren and Lancaster, N. H.
Miss Hazel Drown has gone to Or
leans to work for Mrs. E. E. Doe.
Miss Bernice Day of Sheffield has
been a recent guest at H. E. Paige's.
Mrs. Geo. Lang has been visiting in
Sutton and Lyndonville the past week.
C. McFarland, who has been ill, is
again able to be at his place of busi
ness. A daughter was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Maxwell of Hardwick last
week. -
Miss Dora
Reirden spent
Troy.
Mitchell and Stanley
the week-end at North
Miss Ida Stuart of
Hazen's during the
Hazen. :
Troy is at J. L.
illness of Mr.
Mrs. W. A. Roystan who now lives
at St. Johnsbury was a guest in town
Saturday.
Mrs. Lyman Brown of W heel ock has
been the recent guest of her father,
C. E Si sco.
Varnam Abbott has returned to his
work in the Dwinell drug- store at
Lyntfonrille.
TOWN MEETING.
The annual March meeting yesterday
called out one of the biggest votes
ever recorded in the town at such a
meeting. There seemed to be no
special . matters of great importance.
however, there was on several occa
sions a good deal oi oaiioting. With
out opposition W. W. Reirden was
again elected as moderator and F. D.
Pierce was elected town clerk and
treasurer. By viva voce vote A. C.
Harris was elected to succeed himself
as lister for three years. A. M.
Beach was elected on the first ballot
as school director. The first real clash
came on selectman. Geo. Reed was
nominated to succeed himself, but H.
A. Cleveland was also nominated as
was E. C. Miles. The result of the
first ballot failed to show a choice as
did the second ballot, but upon the
third ballot, in which over 260 votes
were cast, H. A. Cleveland was elect
ed. ;
The reports as printed in the town
report, with the exception of that of
the overseer of the 'poor were adopted
and accepted. The overseer's report
was tabled for a time, but later was
adopted and accepted. Much trouble
was found in getting a man lo accept
the position as overseer, but after
much balloting, B. Lane,- who came
within three votes of election on last
ballot, was elected viva voce without
objection. For grand jurors, A S
Drew and Harry Dickens were elected
It was voted to have two road commis
sioners and Judah Brooks and E. C.
Drown were elected. As first consta
hie there was no contest and Georare
Jennings was re elected and A. D.
Beede was elected as second constable
As library trustee for five years J. H.
Bartlett was reelected and an appro
priation of $300 divided between the
two libraries of Orleans and Barton,
was voted.
A 70 cent town tax was voted, which
is 15 cents additional over last year,
but the selectmen showed there must
be two hew bridges put in this year.
One thousand dollars was voted to
take advantage of the state aid
jaw ;
pertaining to the building of high
ways. W. W. Reirden was re-elected town
agent. He briefly explained the pend
ing suit of Lowell against Barton.
After a little wrangling it was voted
to raise 60 cents for school purposes,
and voted to have 150 days of school
as provided by law. For highways it
was voted to raise 20 cents in addition
lo the 20 cents prescribed by law,
and also to raise three cents for main
tenance of winter roads.
It was voted almost unanimously to
pay our portion of the expense of the
county agricultural agent, this'to be
an appropriation of
auditors elected for
are E. W. Barron,
about $200. The
the ensuing year
L. M. Kinsley and
W. W. Reirden.
The minor officers which are now
appointed by the selectmen were read
and approved by the voters. The
license vote showed 190 NO and 43
YES. For fifth class license, 156 NO.
61 YES.
Town representative, C. E. Ham
blet, was present and in a very able
manner presented the proposed legis
lation on the tax laws by the present
legislature.
Floods Delay Mails.
The floods of the past week seriously
affected the mails from the south
Wednesday and Thursday and no
Boston or New York mail came through
from Wednesday night until Friday
afternoon.
There were washouts near St. Johns
bury which caused, it is estimated,
over $75,000 damage, . both at Pas
sumpsic and Barnet and all along the
B & M. road on the Connecticut river
branch, as well as trouble on the other
B. & M. divisions. Near the high
bridges here there was a small land
slide and the express north after pass
ing slowly across, left a man to get
help from the Barton section crew to
clear ' off the track. Considerable
damage was done along the river road
between Barton and Orleans and the
bridge across the river near Fred
Smith's was carried away by the floods.
County Senator H. T. Seaver and
Mrs Seaver are home from the capitil
for a few days.
Mrs. H. W. Phillips of Sheffield is
the guest of her daughters at the home
of Clyde Brooks.
Mrs. E. L. Hutchins is in Boston to
attend millinery lectures and to buy
spring millinery.
Miss Hattie Brooks haserone to
Newport and expects to make her
home in that town.
L. R. Cook of Yarmouthville, Me.,
has been the guest of his brother, E.
R. Cook, the past week.
Miss Helen McFarland and s sister,
Mrs. Nernsick, of Greensboro visited
friends in town recently.
Mis3 Wilda Wells of West Burke was
the guest of her aunt, Mrs. A. P.
Underwood, for the week-end.
Mrs. J. V. Rowen has gone to Law
rence, Mass., to visit her sister, Mrs.
Will Forbes, for several days.
. H. J. Stannard was at Barre last
week taking inventory for the Frank
McWorter company of that city.
Mrs. F. D. Thompson has returned
from a two weeks visit with relatives
and friends in Nashua and Bostn.
Charles Buswell, Jr., of Bradford,
Mass , was the guest of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bus well, last
week.
There will be a special meeting of
Orleans Lodge, No. 55 F. & A. M., on
Friday evening. Work in the F. C.
degree!
The W. CVT. U. will meet with Mrs.
C. B. Webster Tuesday afternoon
March flth. at 3 o'clock. Topic "Our
Literature."
THE LICENSE VOTE
One Town in Orleans County Votes Yes.
Montpelier and Waterbury
Change to Dry.
About the same number of towns
as in the past few years are again in
the license column. Twenty towns
were reported as going wet. up. to a
late hour last night. Both Montpelier
and Waterbury changed from the wet
to the dry column.
Barre is reported dry by seven
majority, while Bennington changed
to wet. Island Pond is still license,
while Burlington stayed license with
only 25 majority and St. Albans by 56
majority. The county license vote
with comparisons in last years' vote
follows. Jay i3 the one town in the
county voting license.
License Vote
1915
1914
No Yes No Yes
Albany . 59 18 98 33
Barton 190 43 156 61
Brownington 57 3 55 3
Charleston 95 14 85 15
Coventry - 65 11 47 8
Crtftsbury 85 25 91 26
Derby 120 57 128 53
Glover 92 9 83 13
Greensboro 84 1 89 4
Holland 68 3 60 4
Irasbuig 65 12 81 20
Jay 16 23 25 21
Lowell 79 27 106 37
Morgan 48 2 26 7
Newport 254 65 264 96
Troy H8 25 110 41
Westfield 46 7 38 6
Westmore 16 13 24 8
1557 358 1566 456
March Meeting Returns
Albany: Moderator, T. J. Wallace:
town clerk, D. H. Hackett; selectman,
M. B. Anderson; treasurer and collect
or, J. G. Martin; overseer, W. N.
Potter; constable, F. W. Tenney, 2nd
constable, jL. P. Bowen; lister, Ci. M.
Eldridge; auditors, A C. Cheney, I.
O. Davis, Don Courser; town grand
jurors, J. D. Kelley, L. P. Bowen; road
c mmi sioner, C. M Keith; school
director, C. M. Hitchcock; town agent,
J. D. Kelley; trustee of public nioney,
A R. Miles; per cent raided for taxes
$1.99. Vote on liquor license, No 59,
Yes 18.
CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT
Methodist Episcopal Church Notes -
Rev. I. A. Ranney preached an
excellent sermon Sunday morning on,
"The Religion of Backbone," taking
for a text Dan. 6:3, "Then this Daniel
was preferred above the presidents and
princes, because an excellent spirit
was in him ; and the king thought to
! set him over the whole realm."
Determination: In religion as much
as in anything else. Daniel's spirit
was to do right at any hazard, fie had
learned to say no. A large part of
the religion of backbone is sheer reso
lution to play the man. A good way
to determine right from wrong is to
ask yourself the day after what you
wish you had done. Devotion: Daniel
had a life of devotion with God. Many
pray only when in trouble. Direction:
Everything in life depends on direction.
Which way are you facing? Daniel
faced the right way. The choir sang.
"Saviour, W'hen Night Involves the
Skies," by H. R. ShelJey. Solos were
taken by C. B. Webster.
In the evening the
"Stones Rolled Away.
Mark 16:3. We were
turn aside because
sermon was on
Text found in
warned not to
of imaginary
obstacles. Never mind the obstacles
but trust in God and go ahead. One
half the difficulties we think are in the
way have been rolled away by the
Unseen hand.
Remember the prayer meeting Thurs
day evening at 7 30.
The Men's class with their ladies
are invited to the home of F. A.
Lemos Friday evening.
The services for the week are as
usual. See how many of them you
can attend. .
Mrs. B. R. Bement, who was caring
for E. C. Martin during the latter part
of his illness, has returned to her
home in Evansville.
Rev. W. A. Warner officiated at the
funeral of Alva Brooks of Coventry
Saturday, several people from Barton
attending the services.
Miss Clara Buswell, who has been in
Brightlock hospital for some weeks,
has not been sufficiently improved to
be able to return home.
A new departure in school study
hour3 has been inaugurated, the high
school students meeting at the school
building from 7 until 8.30 p. m.
A telegram has been received by
Augustus French and family announc
ing the death of Mr French's youngest
son March 1st in Covington, Ky.
A new pool contest is on at the Laird
pool rooms. This time the six men
running the highest score will play
each other for the prize April 1st.
The Episcopal Mission service will
be held Tuesday, March 9th. at 4.15 at
the residence of Harley C. Wheeler.
All are cordially invited to be present.
Tom Tighe, formerly of Barton is ill
at St. Johnsbury with dropsy and is
obliged to walk with crutches. He
would be glad to hear from old friends.
"Sealed Orders," a six part photo
play at the Gem on Friday night is a
naval and military story, of more than
usual interest and many novel features.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Kirby of
Rochester and Mrs. Stewart of Troy
were summoned here en account of the
serious illness of J. L. Hazen, who is
failing.
A Department
Editor-in-chief : Jui.ta E. King, .'15
'17 Class Editor: Daisy Shkrbttkne
Training Class Editor:
BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUB WORK
A boys' and girls' garden club has
been started in the community for the
young people between the ages of five
and eighteen inclusive. This club has
been formed in response to an ever
increasing need for interesting children
in agricultural and home industries in
order that they may realize the oppor
tunities offered them in our own rural
community. The organization of this
club will be very simple, its object
being only to stimulate the interest of
the children in home affairs. Meet
ings will be held during the summer
from time to time, at which local
authorities on different home indus
tries will tell their experiences,
demonstrations will be given, and an
opportunity will be given to discuss the
problems that are bound to arise in our
first ventures in this work. There are
people already promised to inspect the
gardens and to offer suggestions and
encouragement. In the fall an exhibit
is to be held at which prizes will be
offered in groups according to ages of
competitor. Prizes will be given for
the following lines of work : Vegeta
ble and flower gardening, improvement
of door yards, special crops, farm am
mals, maple products, forestry, butter
and cheese, sewing, cooking, canning.
carpentry and pets. The children of
our rural schools are leaders in this
work, having last year begun to raise
crops with this club in mind. The
interest and co-operation of the parents
and the community in general is neces
gary to the success and your help is
solicited.
SCHOOL NOTES
There was no school the afternoon
of Washington's birthday.
Mrs. Lance and Miss Dwinell. teach
ers in the Orleans graded school, visit
ed the high school and grades here
Friday.
Attendance was not so good last
week as usual because of bad roads.
which prevented many out-of-town
pupils from attending school. Sickness
also kept several away from school.
The school had an opportunity Tues
day morning, Feb. 23, of listening to
an interesting address by Thomas
Brooks Fletcher. Those who have
heard Mr. Fletcher lecture, can appre
ciate the statement, that the school
heard something worth while.- Mr.
Fletcher in his address emphasized two
points : first, that everybody should
have a definite aim in life and second
ly, that they should stick to that aim,
no matter what may happen in the
way of discouragements, failures and
disappointments. It is a fact that
very few high school pupils have any
idea as to what their life work is go
ing to be. As a result, they merely
go through high school, and perhaps
through college without an aim. with
out a goal toward which they are striv
ing, without preparing themselves for
their life work. The best-prepared
and best-trained men and women get
the best positions today. The place to
begin preparation for life work is in
the high school.
Here is a story from a member of
the sophomore class. We are wonder
ing if the other classes can do as well.
By the way, it is said that this is a
true story. .
HOW IT HAPPENED.
Johnny was a bashful boy ; in fact so
bashful that all his friends called him
"sissy," but he didn't care. So he
continued to go to school, for, as he
said, the boys must have something to
make them laugh or they could not
learn their lessons.
Johnny was bashful sure enough, but
he was a good boy all the same. He
had no bad habits, such as swearing,
and smoking cigarettes, one of which
nearly every boy in school had He
was not a very goo i scholar althoneh
he studied more than anyone else. The
boys said it was because he was so
basnful. "Maybe it is," answered
John."
Days went on. and at last came the
time for graduation. When all the
boys were on the stage, the first
speaker stepped forward, greeted the
audience and then said, "All the ladies
and girls will have to get out of sight
when John Phelps gets up to speak.
For if you don't he will never dare
try." All the boys in the clas3 had a
jok on Johnny, for he was the last to
speak. At last his turn came and
after much stammering and coughing
he delivered his essay.
In his twenty-second year he began
courting Deacon Brown's daughter.
Everybody sajd it would never be a
match, Johnny was too bashful to
propose.
After four years of, courting, John
suddenly married Miss Brown. After
John returned from his wedding trip,
his boyhood friends got together and
i i t i :i i i ft,
asKea mm now it .Happened. uq;
said John, "We were going out for a !
walk one glorious June evening. As
we passed through the garden she ,
stopped ta- pick some roses. I gath-
ered a little courage and asked her if
she ever intended to get married. She
said, Yes' I asked her when. She
said, 'When I was ready.' Now, boys,
that is how it happened"
Alfred Rollins, '17.
C. E Hamblet is at home from
Montpelier during the recess of the
Vermont . legislative bodies, which
permitted the members to go home and
vote at March meetings.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Atwood of Ran
dolph are guests at the' Crystal Lake
hotel. Mr. Atwood is state sealer of
weights and measures and will be in
this vicinity for a time, testing scales.
for School News
Assistant Editor-in-chief: Ida Weight, 16
'18 Class Editor: Gordon Campbell
Geneva Whitchek
THE VALUE OF GAMES!"
Games are of great educational
value when played under the proper
conditions, that is, when they are prop
erly supervised and controlled. We?
all know of children who appear slow
and dull, who move about slowly, who
think slowly, and who even notice but
little of what is going on around them.
Games will help such a child materially.
It will not be long before he realizes
that be is not a desirable partner
unless he is able to act when his turn
comes, and also to help his side to win.
He must move away quickly to avoid
being tagged; he must see the ball
when it is coming in his direction and;
be ready to catch it ; he must listen in
order to hear his name called ; in fact
he must be ready to see, to hear, to
feel, and to respond quickly to what is
going on around him. The child tries
to do his best, and if he falls or drops
the ball, and these things take points
from his team, he tries very hard to
avoid them. His movements become
less awkward, and by degrees he gains
control of his muscular movements.
Then, there is the child who is odd, or
timid, or unsocial, the one who does
no t make friends readily or work with
others easily. Children of this kind
are likely to be unappreciated, or
even disliked. In the game the odd
child discovers that it is necessary for
him to do as the others do, or they do
not care to play with him. The timid
child comes to realize that what he
does counts just as much as what any
other child does, and that others meet
defeat as well as he. In this way con
fidence is gained. The unappreciated
child is given a chance to show his
skill and thereby gains the respect of
the others. The bold, selfish individual
finds out that he is no more important
than any one of the group. Each
comes to realize that he must do what
is expected of him, must co-operate
with the rest in order to gain glory
for the side, and not merely for him
self. This working together gives the
child practice in social service, and is
a good training for his later life.
Games also help in the training of the
will power. The slow or timid child
learns the value of taking a risk now
and then, and this gives courage. It
also affords an opportunity for the
individual's originality to assert itself.
Another aspect of the development of
the will power, which games help is
that of self control, or the power of
restraint. The child comes to know
that he cannot always do just as he
wishes, but instead must take into
consideration the desires of others; he
must have the good of the whole at
heart, or the group will not toleyate
him. He mast observe the iu es cf the
game, be ready for the signal, aim for
some particular place with the ball.
These rules must be observed, even
when he most wishes to be unhampered
by them, as in a moment of great
emotional excitement. It is necessary
for him to learn to choose betweers
the fair and the unfair means of secur
ing a victory, to distinguish between
right and wrong and to be able to do
what he considers right at any and
all times. It is this trained power and
the habit of doing right which makes
character. The lack of this power
makes business men win at any cost,,
and makes wrecks of the lives of able
men.
Anyone, who has sat in a classroom
for a whole day cannot fail to notice
that a great nervous strain is produced
by the school work By degrees the
papils become mentally and physically
fatigued. As the time goes on they
grow restless, listless, assume un
healthful sitting postures, and try to
comunicate as an outlet for their social
instincts. Plainly the pupil needs a
change. Formal gymnasium work will
help the posture and the playing of
games will help to relieve the other
conditions. The game gives a chance
for the expression of the normal social
instincts. One cannot help but notice
the difference in attitude of those
pupils who have enjoyed a recess and
those who have had none. The former
are bright and ready to work again
the listlessness is gone.
We might conclude that the use of
games helps to conserve the physical,,
mental, animal vitality of the pupils..
THE APOLLO CLUB
The Apollo club had one of the most
interesting meetings of the year Tues
day evening, Feb 23d, at the home of
Julia King. The program for the
evening was devoted to the reading
and study of a Latin play, which the
club hopes to give in the near future
Choice refreshments of ice cream and
cake were served and after singings
several Latin and B. A. songs the
meeting adjourned. This club serves
to help keep alive the interest and
enthusiasm of the Latin classes of the
high school and the meetings of the
club afford not only pleasant social
evenings and also much valuable infor
mation about the Roman people, their
language, and the influence of the
ancient languages of Greek and Latin
upon our own English of today.
Leslie: "I go to the pictures
be-
cause I like to spend my money."
Marjorie: "Yes, Leslie, and I go so
that you can."
Miss Harriet Austin, who has been
conducting a sanitarium for paralysis
patients in the Mrs. Mary Freeman:
home, is returning this week to her
rooms in the Mrs. Colby house on
Church street. Miss Austin has only
two patients now and finds her former
home is large enough for present pur
poses. . cohthhtetj on t-agh foub;
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