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BARTON, VERMONT, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1916
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
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FOR SAL.I5
FOB SALE
plants, $1.00.
-50 Cuthbert raspberry
Matbie. Glover 16-22
FOR SALE R. I. Red day-old chicks
Mrs. Fred Benware, Irasbur, R. F. D.
Tel. [phone]p
FOR SALE
cents per load.
Dry shavings at 50
E. L. Chandler Co.
14tf
FOR SALE Few grade Jersey cows.
M. E. Calkins, Telephone 33-12, Bar
ton, lwp
FOR SALE Ten tons good oat and
barley straw. Good to feei. E. A.
Norton, Glover. 17tf
Improvement Club Elects Officers.
At the annual meeting of "the Barton
Improvement club last evening at the
club rooms, C. A. Barrows was made
president, F. D. Pierce, vice president
and A. W. Buswell, secretary and
treasurer. The board of trustees is as
follows : F. R. Hastings, O. W. Caron,
J. F. Batchelder, W. W. Reirden and
H. W. Carter. The house committee
is composed of W. M. Wright, F. D.
Thompson and W. P. Barrows. Mem
bers ot the general committee are J.
F. Batchelder. H. R. Cutler, F. W.
Cutting, E. W. Barron and A. A. Cook.
The literary and entertainment com
mittee is made up as follows : Wallace
H. Gilpin, C. E. Hamblet and C. S.
Webster. The report of the finances
of the club showed it to be in good
condition and a general hope for growth
and development is looked for.- One of
the immediate undertakings of the
club is the placing of a large number
of young salmon from the state hatch
ery in the lake.
THE CHURCH AND A
DISTRACTED WORLD.
WAR-
i-UK SALU Three house iota m
Orleans, prices, $350 to $550. Inquire
of Colby Stoddard, Orleans. 16tf
FOR SALE Elegant,
.tailot-made Gent's rain coat,
.see it at Monitor office.
all wool,
Call and
17-19
FOR SALE 200-egg compartment
iincubator, "The Atlanta." Used two
seasons. Mrs. H. S. Webster, Orleans.
16tf
FOR SALE -7 horse power Indian
motorcycle, 1913 model, guaranteed.
-$100 for quick sale. T. Cook, Glover.
17-18p
rUK SALfc Atter May lutn, my
nigh grade rioJstein bun, two years
old, also young pigs. E. A. Holbrooke,
Irasburg. 17tf
FOR SALE My place en Park
street consisting of ten-roomed house,
barn, two acres of land. House suita
ble for two sraall families if desired.
J. E. William son, Barton. 17tf
FOR SALE 22 young sound horses,
just from lumber woods, also 12 grade
Holstein bulls. Canning & Hintcn,
East Charleston. . 12tf
FOR SALE Pair heavy work har
nesses, nearly new bike buggy, also all
kinds farm machinery. M. Freebart,
Orleans. lOtf
FOR SALE My farm on the Wil-
lousrhby road, registered Holstein
stock and tools. Charles E. Pierce,
Barton, lltf
FOR SALE One twohorse lumber
wagon, nearly new. One damp cart,
one pair worK narnesses, one mowing
machine. H. T. Seaver, Barton. 15tf
FOR SALE Two buggies, 2 pleasure
harnesses, express harness, cultivator,
plow, wheelbarrow, iron bar, picks,
cant hooks, stoves, crosscut saw, lot
other tools. F. W. Baldwin, Barton.
15-17
FOR SALE The J. W. Brown &
Son store and stock of new goods, all
bought for cash. One of the best loca
tions in the county and no limit to
amount of business if handled right.
J. VV. Brown & Son, Evansville. 15-18
School Operetta Pleases.
The operetta, "The American Girl,"
given by the girls' glee club of Barton
academy, Friday evening, under the
direction of Miss Edith D- Ruggles,
teacher of music, was certainly a credit
to any high school, and gave evidence
of the large amount of musical talent
among the students of our. school,
which only needs development to be
come a real factor in the community.
It vss the most elaborate musical
a .1 1 1 a
program yet undertaken oy tne stu
dents and was praiseworthy in every
detail. Much spirit was put into the
action of the opere, and the solo and
chorus work showed the efficient train
ing and eaeh participant is deserving
of the highest praise. The entertain
ment was deserving of a much larger
house.
FOR SALE My village farm known
a3 Mathews place, consists 28 acres
rich meadow land, good conven
ient buildings, also my residence on
East street, all modern improvements.
'Phone 75-13. L. K. Heath, Orleans.
14tf
WANTED '
WANTED Live poultry. Elrick,
Barton. 18tf
WANTED Live hens at Valley
House, Orleans, 14 cents pound. 15tf
WANTED Shingle sawyer, W A.
Scott, West Glover. 16-18
WANTED Experienced stitchers.
Union wages. B. F. Moore & Co. ,
Newport. 17tf
BARTON
Mrs. Susan Currier is ill.
Mrs. Jane Joslyn is quite ill.
The ice is nearly out of the lake.
W. W. Reirden was in Boston last
week.
Mrs. 'A. Roy is visiting friends in
Sberbrooke.
Harry Lyon of Glover is working for
F. S. Whiteher.
Miss Ethel Elliott is working at the
Normandy Cafe.
Mrs. J. F. Batchelder returned from
Brooklyn Tuesday.
H. W. Carter is in Boston and
Springfield this week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Webster returned
from Boston Monday. -
Miss Goldie Haywood of West Derby
is visiting at Judah Blair's.
Miss Mary Wheeler visited friends in
St. Johnsbury over Sunday.
Fred Gravelin of Brownington visit
ed at A. Wilkie's last week.
Mrs. F. H. Pillsbury, who has been
seriously ill, is a little better.
S. M. Bickford is working for R. A.
Ritchie in Greensboro this week.
Ernest Freeman of Springfield is
spending a few days in town.
Mrs. C. A. Chapman of Chicago is
boarding at the Crystal Lake House.
Mrs. C. A. Silver visited her brother,
C. A. Norris, in Newport over Sunday.
WANTED A meat cutter and butch
er. Horse for sale. F. W. Comstock,
Barton. 1 w
WANTED A woman to do plain
sewing by the hour. Mrs. S. M. Bick
ford, Barton. 16tf
HELP WANTED Man to work on
farm for season. Good milker. Man
ley, Irasburg. 16-18p
WANTED Car maple sugar by May
15th. Bring yours sny day except
Sunday. Ray r. Webster, Barton.
Mrs. George Gorham, who has been
ill for some time, is slowly improving.
Edmund Johnson of North Hatley,
P. Q, visited at A. A. Larabee's last
week.
George Dean of West Burke visited
his daughter, Mrs. John McLellan, last
week.
William Cassidy has gone to Sher
brooke to work in the Fairbanks Scale
works.
Mrs. John Curtis, who has been ill
the past week with laryngitis, is
better.
Herbert Lee was in Irasburg re
cently to attend the funeral of Charles
Metcalf.
Mrs. Maria Wright of Coventry
visited at George Gorham's the last of
he week.
Mrs. G. S. Scott of Jersey City, N.
J., visited her aunt, Mrs. E. W. Barron,
last week.
Mrs. Cornelius Buckley has returned
from a visit to the home of her father
in Albany.
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Patten of
Orleans visited Mrs. P. L. Webster
Wednesday.
(The following sermon, repeated by
request to a Barton audience by Rev.
I. A. Ranney and since given before a
preachers' meeting in Barre. and a
Newport audience, is now printed.)
Tb titani 6 struggle in which the
principal nations of Europe ' are now
engaged, and which threatens to
embroil the whole world, ha3. the
history of nineteen centuries inter-.
woven in it and is an outgrowth of the
pressure of population and land hunger,
militarism and greed, race prejudice
and jealousy, and surpasses in magni
tude, all previous wars in the history
of the world.
Nations once counted their dead by
the thousand ; now they number their
fallen sons by the million. Once they
computed their expenses in millions;
now they reckon in billions. The effect
of this war is seen and felt in every
department of life, economic, social,
political, commercial, ethical, religious.
Probably no two persons look at it
from the same standpoint, therefore it
presents a different phase to every
man. However, all most lament a
calamity so far-reaching, so ruinous in
its effects. All Europe, 33 well as our
sister on the north, is drenched with
blood. Every day adds its quota to the
list of widows and orphans, blighting
human hopes and blasting human loves
Every day marks the destruction ot
millions of dollars worth of property,
public and private, sees colossal for
tunes swallowed up in the vortex of
war, threatening to engulf the nations
in hopeless bankruptcy. Every day
the tide of civilization in Europe is
setting backward, making the expres
sion, "Christian England," or "Christ
ian Germany." a byword among the
enemies of the Cross, even shaking the
faith of multitudes of the professed
followers of Jesus in the Father's
wisdom and love and power. - Unbe
lievers are asking: "Where is now
that God who holdeth the world in His
hands, and ruleth over the nations of
the earth, and yet alloweth such things
to be?" Probably nothing in human
history has so profoundly stirred men
everywhere. Coming at a time when
it was generally thought that war was
a thing of the past, at least a war of
such alarming proportions ; that arbi-
CONTINTJED ON PAGE SIX
Miss Octavia Brooks, who has been
working in Lowell, Mass., is home for
the summer.
There will be Episcopal services at
Odd Fellows hall Sunday evening at
7.30 o'clock.
Charles Sheldon of Piermont, N. H:,
is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Sheldon.
The Woman's Literary club will hold
its next meeting with Mrs. C. L. Erwin
Wednesday, May 3.
Henry Valley of Lowell, Mass , has
been visiting his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Israel Valley.
Mrs. Esther Titus, who went to Pem
broke, Ont,, several weeks ago, is visit
ing friends in town.
E. A. Smith and little son, Robert, of
Woodsville, N. H., were week-end
visitors at V. F. Hunter's.
George Valley has moved from the
Shores house on High street to a tene
ment in E. F. Flood's block.
Miss Coughtry, Miss Neil, Miss
Sellier, Miss Allen and Miss Ferguson
of Montreal are at the Mays .
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Blanchard have
gone to Bradford, where Mr. Blanchard
has bought a bakery business.
Clyde Heath has gone to Randolph
Center to coach the agricultural college
baseball team for two months.
Congregational Church Notes.
Ret. W. A. WaenbIb, Pastor
Sunday, April 30 :
1Q. 45, morning service.
12.00, Sunday school.
6.00, Christian Endeavor meeting
led bv Mis3 Mary Wheeler. Subject.
"Using Sunday for This World and the
Next." Isa. 58:1-14.
,7.00, preaching service. .
Thursday, April f.au, prayer
meeting, "The New and Living Way,"
John 14 : 1-6 ; Heb. 10 : 1-25.
Mr. Warner preached a very helpful
Easter sermon Sunday morning.
Mrs. R. P. Webster, assisted by C.
S. Webster with violin obligato, sang
,in a most acceptable manner, "Behold
the Risen King, by Dressier, for
offertory, Sunday morning.
The Fidelity class sent flowers
many of the "Shutrins," Easter.
to
. The Easter concert given Sunday
evening by the Sunday school and choir
was attended by a crowded house and
greatly enjoyed by all present. The
singing and speaking by the small
children was especially pleading. Great,
credit, is due Miss Clemma Seaver and
Mrs. Daisy Baldwin, whj had charge
of the drilling.
Thera was a fair attendance of
yoarg reople at the ioverty social at
the church last eenirg, and all
appeared to have an enjoyable time.
Methodist Episcopal Church Notes.
The subject of the morning sermon
was "The Question of the Ages," the
text from Job 14-14. being, "If a man
die shall he live again?" The sermon
proved conclusively that Christ lived,
died, arose and ascendsd into heaven,
and because He lives, man has a right
to believe in his own immortality.
The Watch service held by the
Christian Endeavor and Epworth
League on Sunday morning was led by
W. H. Gilpin. All those present found
the service extremely helpful and
expressed a desire to have more morn
ing services held during the summer
months.
Remember the
Thursday evening
stead of 7.30.
prayer meeting
at 7.15 o'clock in-
The first quarterly conference will
be held Friday evening at 7 o'clock;
WANTED Cows to pasture in the
Dudley pasture. Terms, $8.00 for
season, inquire Jerre Marston. 16-17
wantku At one?, zu cows, new
milch or to freshen in May. Also dry
cattle to turn out. G. S. Dodge,
Orleans. 17-18
WANTED Orders for 400 bushels of
Mammoth Cluster seed oats at $1.00
per bushel. Ray P. Webster, Barton.
lltf
WANTED United States postage
stamps before 1870 on original envel
opes. George A. Hitchcock, Ware,
Mass. 15-17p
MISCELLANEOUS
5 CENTS POUND paid for large
clean wiping rags at this office. 15tf
WANTED All around tinsmith and
dumber. Whipple. French &Co., Or
leans. 15tf
Car of E. Frank Cos's fertilizer on
track. Spsak quick. Ray P. Webster,
Barton.
A. M. Tower and Mrs. C. S. Webster
and son, Willard, visited friends in
Newport Wednesday and Thursday.
Regular and annual meeting of
Orient Chapter No. 13, O. E. S.,
Friday evening at 7.30. Electon of
officers for the ensuing year and instal
lation. F. D. Thompson and G. E. Jennings
made a trip to Long Pond in Westmore
Saturday, returning Monday, getting
things in shape for the opening of the
fishing season.
Mrs. E. W. Barron and Miss Mary
Wheeler, officers of the county mission
ary organization, have sent out posters
for a missionary institute to be held in
North Troy June 1st.
Mrs. Louis McVicker and little
daughter of Waverly, Mass. , who have
been visiting he? parents, Mr. and
Mrs. O. H. Mossman, for two weeks,
have returned to their home.
A letter form Louis Danne of
Chicago, who spent the summer at the
Crystal Lake House, states that Mrs.
Danne is still in very poor health and
they have purchased a home there.
The following letters remain uncalled
for at the postoffice. Please say ad
vertised when calling for these Mrs.
A. W. Carron,. Mrs. II. T. Chase,
Mrs. F. B. Howard, Mrs. Winnie A.
Nourse, Mrs. Levi Richardson.
FARMERS' NOTICE-Will be at
stock yards, Orleans, every Monday,
to buy your hogs, calves, beef and bo
logna cattle, sugar and wool. Also for
sale or trade, one Ford touring car.
new last June. isotn telephones in
house. G. S. Dodge, Orleans. 15tf
SAVE TRADE MARKS from Bab
bitt's Cleanser, Babbitt's 1776 Soap
Powder, Babbitt's Lye and Babbitt's
Best Soap. Bring 50 to F. D. Pierce's
Pharmacy, Barton, or Austin's Phar
macy, Orleans, for a useful Cedar Oil
Dry Mop set. Every family should have
a set. 15-18
FARMERS AND SUGAR MAKERS
Shall be at our storehouse, Orleans,
Friday, Saturday and Monday, April
28, 29, May 1, to pay you ten cents for
hard tub sugar, with a guarantee of
any advance in price made by the
company in a stated time. Yours for
business, Churchill & Dodge. lw
TO RENT
TO RENT Tenement,
ver, Barton.
H.
T. Sea
14tf
Mrs. Nellie Allen is moving into
rooms in the house on Elm street,
formerly known as the Benton place.
Maurice Niles of Newport, who
recently moved into Mrs Clara Colby's
tenement, is moving to Wallingf ord.
Nathaniel Weed of Richmond, Que. ,
visited his cousin, Mrs. L. M. Hub
bard, at Crystal Lake House last week.
Philemon Kimball, who finished
work for F. S. Whitcber a shdrt time
ago, has gone to Orford, N. H., to
work. -
Mr. and Mrs. G. C.Lang went to
Barre Monday. Mrs. Lang will visit
riends in Laconia, N. H.t , before her
return.
Hiram McLellan has been home from
Dartmouth college for a few days
vacation previous to going to Michi
gan to take up his work.
Henry Valley, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Israel Valley, who has been working
in a munition factory in Lowell, Mass..
is home for the summer.
The E. L. Chandler comnany are
having a bargain on shavings for the
next ten days, and will sell dry planer
shavings at 25 cents per load.
Mrs. L. G. Frost, who has been
spending the winter with her brother
in Coventry, has returned to her home
in the J. W. Batchelder house.
John T. Campbell, machinist, em
ployed in the Westinghouse factory at
East Springfield, Mass., is home on
account of a strike at the factory.
Miss Gladys Christie and Miss Maude
Hubbard nave recently come into
possession of the Story house on Glover
street, by the will of the late A. K.
Story.
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Brunning will
J? xl. A .
remove irom me Austin nome on
South Church street to the Merriam
tenement on Park street about the 1st
of May.
Frank Lemos has sold his large farm
just north of the village to Felix
Senecal of Canada, and moved to W.
E. Hanson's farm on Elm street. Mr.
Lemos will work for Mr. Hanson. It i
is reported the price is $15,500.
A number of Endeavorers and others
plan to go to Newport Thursday even
ing to hear William Shaw, general
secretary of the United Society of C.
E., and Clarence C. Hamilton of Ohio,
another Endeavbrer of prominence.
The remains of Mrs. Cornelia Ber
wick, aged 26, of Norway, Me., were
brought here Monday and buried in the
family lot in W. O. Brown cemetery.
She was the daughter of Enos and
Caroline (Brooks) Hyatt, former resi
dents of Barton.
Oscar Owen, who came home to help
in sugaring, has returned to Water
bury, Conn., to resume his work with
his contractor, Russell. Owing to the
large munition plants there, the city
has grown greatly in population in
the past two years, and many houses
will be erected there this summer.
It will be of interest to those who
attended the recent school in home
eonomics held here to know of the
marriage engagement of Bernard A.
Chandler and Miss Bessie. M. Thayer.
Mr. Chandler is in the forestry depart
ment of the University of Vermont,
Burlington, and Miss Thayer is in
structor and lecturer in home economics
in the extension department of the
agricultural college.
Miss Catherine Wilcox, who is well
known here, and one of the instructors
at People's academy. Morrisville, met
with a serious accident while playing
tennis at the Morrisville gymnasium.
Her spectacles were struct by a
passing ball, and the lens broken, so
that some of the particles of glass
lojged in one eye. She went to Bur
lington tor an examination, it is
thought the sight will not be de
stroyed.
Card of Thanks We wish to thank
the friends and neighbors for their
many acts of kindness during the sick
ness and death of our dear son , and
brother, and also for the beautiful
flowers. We would especially thank the
Peerless friends for the many flowers
sent during his illness.
Mrs. Laura E. Potter,
Dotie M. Potter,
Merritt J. Potter.,
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Potter,
Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Potter.
Seventeen members of the Afternoon
Study club and four visitors met at the
home of Mrs. C. E. Hamblet Thursday.
Mrs. uurrier arranged the program
for the meeting, taking op the subject,
"Modern. Business and Business Men "
Roll call, "What business appeals to
ycu?" Paper, "Will the Mail Order
Business Eventually Ruin the Smal
Stores?" was given by Mrs. Currier
Mrs. Ruth Webster and Miss Bernice
Hamblet sang a duet: reading, "Four
Succesful Business Men of the Dsy,'
Mrs. Ellen Webster.
The Woman's Literary club met with
Miss Fanny May on Wednesday even
ing. April 19. Reponse to roll call,
"Birds I hae seen this season."
Paper, "Our Song Birds," Mrs. Daisy
Baldwin ; reading, "TheSong Sparrow"
and "The Hermit Thrush," by Henry
Van Dyke, Miss Fanny May; whistling
solo, "Happy Birds," by Hoist, Miss
May Wheeler; reading, "The Revolt,"
Mrs. Flanders ; piano solo, "Romance,"
by Libelus, Miss Eveletb. A delight
ful social hour followed, during which
the eighteen members and five visitors
who were present, enjoyed homemade
candy served by the hostess. The
next meeting will be held with Mrs.
Erwin.
At the annual meeting of Orleans
Lodge No. 55, F. & A. M., Friday
evening the following officers were
elected and installed after hearing the
reports of committees for the past
year. H. T. Seaver, W. M. ; W. P.
Barrows, S. W. ; W. M. Wright J. W. ;
F. W. Cutting, Treas. ; C. E. Hamblet,
Sec. ; H. Roy Barron, S. D. ; A. D.
Phillips, J. D. ; H. M. Gardiner, S. S. ;
S. Rook, J. S. ; W. A. Warner, Chap. ;
F. D. Pierce, Mar. ; W. I. Metcalf
pianist; F. G. Burdick tyler. The usual
committees of finance hall and griev
ance were appointed. Thi3 is Mr.
Seaver's third election as master of
Orleans Lodge, having acted as master
in 1890 and 1894.
Miss Isadore Foss, librarian, has
received from H. L. Bailey, assistant
commissioner of agriculture, in charge
of insect suppression, a specimen
mount of the gypsy moth to be placed
on view in the library with the object
of familiarizing the public with the
appearance of this harmful pest. The
mount contains specimens of the egg
cluster, cccon of a male and female
moths, caterpillar and full grown
moths. A placard also has been re
ceived with a statement of the habits
of the moth, which has already been
found in several places m this state.
Every person should be on the lookout
for the pest. The egg masses may be
found on tree trunks and branches
from September to early in May.
Apple and oak trees are among the
favorite food plants. The caterpillars
or larvae will be found from May to
August, and the adult moths for the
most part in August.
COVENTRY
Mrs. William Slevers i3 quite ill.
Miss Ruth Shippee till remains quite
ill.
C. E. Gorbam is at home from Clara-
mont, N. H.
Mrs Leland Hermon has returned
from Irasburg.
Mrs. Gladys Noyes has returned
from a visit to Newport Center.
Mrs. L. S. Eaton has Durcbased the
Nichols house of A. D. Thurber.
Asa Hancock has returned from
Glover, where he has been at work.
Mr. and Mrs. George Corrow have
returned from their mountain sugar
camp.
Mrs. Emma Adams has been spending
a few days with her friend, Mrs. W. C.
Brooks.
Lonnie Herrick has finished work for
W. R. Thurber and Milo Hancock wil
take his place.
Mr. and Mrs. Eric Corrow are the
happy parents of a son, born April 21.
Congratulations.
John Corrow and son, Oliver, have
returned from New Hampshire where
they have spent the past few months.
Barton Acadeiny and
Graded School
Sadie Wilson, '16: Editor-in-chief
Assistant Editors: WalteeIMetcaif, '17
Leslie Elliott, 18 Maejoeie King, '19
Ernestine "Willson. .
Teacher-training mass
The board of civil authority will
meet Saturday, April 9, at 1.30 p. m
for the pnrpose of revising the check
list. .
F. L. Hall,
H. A. Cleveland,
E. C. Miles,
Selectmen.
The annual business meeting of the
Alumni Association of Barton academy
will be held m the school building
Friday evening at 7.30 o'clock. The
members are most earnestly urged to
be present, as an effort is being made
to make this aiumni reunion the crown
ing feature of commencement week.
The incorporators of the Welcome O.
Brown Cemetery association are here
by notified and warned to meet at the
town clerk's office in Barton village,
on Tuesday, May 2, at 7.30 o'clock, p.
m., to hold its annual , meeting, elect
officers, and do other legal business,
when met. ,
F. W. Baldwin, secretay.
BROWNINGTON
Charles Joslyn is in very poor health.
Mrs. House is working for Mrs. H.
H. Day.
Mr. Stone of St. Johnsbury preached
here Sunday.
Ruth Newton spent the week-end
with her sister in West Burke.
Carrie Going has commenced work
for Mrs. Lyman Heath at Orleans.
The Ladies' Aid society will meet
with Mrs. Wicrgin for a business hour
Thursday.
BROWNINGTON CENTER
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Rowe visited at
Ivers Drown's Sunday.
Mrs. W. P. Smith is suffering from
an attack of rheumatism.
Elmer Seymour has finished work at
Newport and is working for Ira Gray.
Mr. Lacross has moved to his farm,
purchased of the E. L. Chandler com
pany.
Mahlon Seymour has. purchased a
house of Ira Gray and will move here
soon. j
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Heath of
Barton were guests at W. F. Smith's
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Russell and
Miss May Govro of Barton visited
Lyman Seymour's Sunday.
Schools began here Monday, Laura
Whitehill, teacher, and Mrs. Orange
Simpson in the Powers district.
At the next regular meeting of the
Jr. O. U. A. M to be held May 3d,
there will be an initiation,' supper and
a general good time. It is hoped there
will be a good attendance.
it is reported that the house owned
by Mrs. Fred Campbell has been
purchased by Mrs. Zelda Tyler of Wes
Derby.
The Hi. Li. Uhanaier company are
having a bargain on shavings for the
next ten days, and willsell dry planer
shavings at 25 cents per load.
Mr, and Mrs. George Currie o
Woodsville, N. IL, and Miss Kate
Stevens of Orleans visited their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eben Stevens,
over Sunday.
W. E. Cleveland went to Burlington
last week . and purchased a Paige
Detroit automobile. Mr Cleveland
will act as representative for the Paige
Detroit company in this section.
Tuesday May 2 the W. C. T. U. will
hold their annual meeting with Mrs.
Claris. There will be reports of
officers and superintendents followed
by election of officers, also delegates to
the county convention at North Troy.
It is hoped that all who have not
already paid their dues will do so that
this time. A chapter of "In Times
Like These," will be read by Mrs.
Claris.
A hash supper was held in the M. E
vestry last evening, after which the
following program was listened to:
Piano solo, Mrs. Ira Wheelock; recita
tion, Horace Hancock; reading, "The
Boy with the Boston Brain," Mrs. Ira
Wheelock ; solo with chorus, Miss Mona
Bickford ; recitation, Vernon Hancock ;
recitation, "The Auta and the Mule,"
Mrs. Kate Hancock; solo, with chorus,
Mrs. Gertrude-Ware after which a
prize was offered for the one finding
the animal cards scoring the most
points. Cleon Corrow was the winner,
receiving as a prize a potted primrose.
The booby prize went to Maurice
Eaton.
The Barre Daily Times printed some
time ago an account of the fifteenth
wedding anniversary celebration given
Rev. and Mrs. M. W. Hale, formerly
of this place, but now at Cabot. The
Monitor quotes: One of the most
enjoyable events of the season took
place Monday evening March 27, at
the parlors ot the Congregational
church in honor of the 15th wedding
anniversary of Rev. and Mrs. M. W.
Hale. At 8 o'clock the pastor and
family were invited to the church,
where they were greeted by about 100
friends and neighbors, including sever
al from the sister church. A 1 om
Thumb and Jennie June wedding cere
111 GUV V uS then Der formed. The whole
proceeding had been cariied on for
three weeks under a ban ot secrecy,
while several laughable incidents which
occurred during that time and on the
preceding afternoon did not unlock the
mystery, and even when the parson
wa3 defeated in gaining an entrance to
the church that he might show to a
friend the memorial windows, he did
not dream that inside was a trio carry
ing out a plot for the evening's enter
tainment, but gave "Jack Jrost" the
honor of having made havoc with the
church underpinning and informed this
friend that he would have to call again.
To this friend the mystery was
already solved, he having been pre
viously informed and requested to keep
mum. The evening's entertainment
brought a double surprise, when Pliny
Smith, with a few appropriate re
marks, in behalf of the people, pre
sented Mr. and Mrs. Hale with a beau
tiful set of dishes, to which the pastor
readily responded in his usual pleasant
way, while Mrs. Hale extended thanks.
Appropriate remarks were made by
Rev. F. E. Currier and Dr. L. W.
Burbank. Refreshments of cake and
coffee were served and a bride's cake
from Mrs. Jennie Rogers was presented
Mrs. Hale. Congratulations were ex
tended, all wishing to meet the worthy
couple at a similar gathering 15 years
hence.
HOLLAND
B. A. NOTES
The Junior play. "The Vision of
the Graduate," will be given Thursday
evening, April 27, at Seaver's opera
house. This is a commencement play
and is said to be very good of itsjsind.
The scene is laid in Barton in 1917.
The members of the cast are aa';fol-
lows: Professor Ebenezer Mansfield,
an absent-minded philosopher, Gerald
Phillips; seniors, George Brayton,
Paul Parker; Raymond Clarke, Alfred
Rollins; Edwin Marshall, Chiton Dun
ham; Frank Payne, Rawson Calkins;
Katherme Wayne, Lillian Mason; Mary
Delaven. a friend of Jack's, Alice Wake
man ;Helen Jackson, much given to girl
ish "gush," Rose Sherburne; Susan
Marshall, sister to Edwin, and well
aware of his failings, Theda Dunham ;
Jack Wilde, the leper, also a senior,
Walter Metcalf; Clem Daniels, a soph
omore, high school . reporter for the
"Daily Sun," Albert Gilmour; Walter,
a gallant young freshman, Lee Emer
son; Mrs. Mansfield, the professor's
wife, her husband's keeper, Daisy
Sherburne ; Alice Gray, Grace Greene,
juniors, Vera Carpenter, Marjorie
Fisk; Edna, a freshman, Hazel Bra
hana; junior girls, chorus work.
There will be a dance after the play.
Music will be furnished by Sawyer's
orchestra. The members of the junior
class hope to see a large audience in
attendance
BASEBALL FAIR
The boys of the Athletic association
are planning to give a big fair in the
school hall on Wednesday evening, May
10, for the purpose of raising funds for
the support of the baseball team.
There will be a program consisting
of selections by the boys' glee club,
and a farce, "A First Class Hotel,"
which will make you laugh as you
never laughed before. There will be
dancing after the entertainment until
twelve o clock. The usual hawkers and
fakirs found at all fairs will be on
hand with their wares. The admission
to the hall will be ten cents ; dancing
will be ten cents per person. You can
come for a dime but be prepared to
spend a dollar. We promise you thi3
fair will be something of a novelty
and will appeal to young and old.
MAPLE SUGAR.
The twentieth of March is considered
about the time when sugaring may
begin, when after a clearing-up storm
the snow crusts soften in the woods,
the ice breaks from the mill ponds, and
with cold nights and warm days the
sap is ready to flow.
The farmer has his other work all
done in preparation for this time and
drives to tha sugar place with a load
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Rev. John Robinson was in town
Monday and Tuesday.
Mr. Cobleigh, county road commis
sioner, was in town Monday.
Mrs. Hitchcock of Troy is .visiting
her daughter, Mrs. O. L. Kelley.
Mr. Weeden of Morgan was a visitor
at Orville Kelley's the past week.
DEMICK'S MILL
School has commenced with Mrs.
Myra Gray as teacher. ,
Mr, and Mrs. G. T. Ames of Derby
Line visited in town recently.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ladd visited
at Baldwin's Mills last wee.k.
A. D. Wilcome of St; Johnsbury was
a business visitor in town last week.
Miss Hazel Wark was home over
Sunday from her school in Burlington.
Miss Cora Hartley has closed her
work at the Derby Line hotel and is
at home for the summer.
Mrs. Sillars, who has been spending
the winter with her daughter, Mrs. H.
W. Demick, has gone to Mclndoes Falls
to spend ths summer.
H. W. Demick has commenced saw
ing; with Thomas Shields of Groveton,
N. H., at the board saw, and Frank
Robinson of Newport, filer.
LOWELL
Miss Marjorie Sinclair spent Satur
day in Newport.
Mrs. Lizzie Benware spent the week
end in West field. .
Mrs. Almon Clark has returned to
her home in Cambridge.
Miss Ruth Gilbert of Westfleld visit
ed relatives here last week.
D. P. Naramore and M. R. Alexander
were in Newport the first of last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Derusha were in
Newport and Charleston the last of
the week.
Parke Farman of Springfield, Mass.,
is visiting his parents, . Mr. and Mrs.
Freeman Farman.
Arthur Taylor has traded his farm
for the blacksmith shop and house
owned by Leander Pudvah.
George Miller of Westfield and son.
Carl Miller of Cambridge, Mass., visit
ed relatives and friends here Sunday.
Abel Sawyer is moving to the
Snider farm, which he recently traded
for his village ' residence, and Rock
Snider is moving in the Sawyer house.
Henry Avery of Wakefield, Kan.,
died on March 10, aged 78 years. He
was a Vermonter who went to Kansas
in 1861 and served two years in the
Civil war. In 1866 he married Miss
Orpha Farman of this place, a sister
of Freeman Farman. Mr. Avery was
ill in the hospital when .the fitfieth
wedding anniversary of the marriage
occurred. He is survived by Mrs. Avery
and two sons. For sixteen years he was
postmaster at Wakefield. In 1875 he
introduced the first registered Percher
on horses into Kansas and was known
throughout Kansas in connection with
the breeding of the Percheron stock.
WESTMORE
Mrs. Eliza Hunt is better. -
Rogean Laclair is working for Mrs.
M. E. Calkins.
Mrs. Margret Leland is failing.
F. J. Orne and Mrs. Morrill of Iras
burg were recently married. Congrat
ulations. Bessie Rash of Barton visited her
brother, and sister, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Tatro, Sunday.
W. W. French has leased the Wil
loughby House of William Richardson
and takes possession May 1st.