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BARTON, VERMONT, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1917
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FOB SALE
FOR SALE 12 cows, one . fresh,
two dry. Milo J. Owen, Barton. SOtf
FOR SALE 50 fall bearinsr straw
berry plants, $1.00 delivered. Ma
thie, Glover. 32-35
FOR SALE One brown mare, five
years oM. weighing 1000. F. A. Wil
ley, Irasburg. 29tf
FOR SALE Good handmade, one
horse lumber wagon. A. D. Beede,
Orleans. 23tf
FOR SALE 3 weeks old pigs.
$4.50 each. II. W. Centebar, West
Glover, R. D. 2. Iwp
FOR SALE My farm, stock,
tools, etc., cheap if sold soon. A. R.
P. Johnson, West Burke. S3-3Sp
FOR SALE Modern house, barn,
other buildings, with good lot. In
quire of Mrs. Stowell, South street,
Orleans. . 32-3 4 p
FOR SALE First-class organ and
small square piano at reasonable
price. Lang's Jewelry Store, Barton.
SOtf
FOR SALE 12 h. p. International
engine, double wood splitter, also au
.tomobile trailer. C. S. Phillips Co.,
Glover. 2Stf
FOR SALE My farm known as
the Gray place. Also 50-acre wood
lot adjoining same. For particulars
inquire of Mrs. W. C. Daniels, West
more, Vt. . 33-35
FOR SALE IN ORLEANSMy
place on South street consisting of
house, eight rooms and bath, pantry,
finished throughout with hardwood;
has Kelsey furnace, fireplace, screens,
double windows. Barn 24x28. Gar
den. Anyone wishing a place in Or
leans should look this over. Hale
Mason. 32-35
COWS FOR SALE Oo account of
poor health, I am obliged to give up
my milk busin' s, and shall sell my
herd of 10 cows at once, 4 of said
cows to freshen this fall, the bal
ance in spring. If in need of one or
more cows, see me at once. Frank
Andres, Orleans. 'Phone 29-2.
32-34
WANTED
WANTED Live poultry. Elrick,
Barton. IStf
WANTED Sound, clean sacks. R
P. Webster, Barton. 35 tf
WANTED Live poultry. Strawn,
Orleans. Bell phone 142-12. tf
WANTED To buy 10 cords good
stove wood. Monitor Office. 33-35
WANTED Reliable farm hand.
Good teamster. F. E. Simpson, Glov
er. - 33-34
WANTED Two good reliable men
on a large farm for the season. Ad
dress, Brewster Farm, Irasburg: TeL
147-5. 26tf
WANTED Anyone in Barton hav
ing places for high school students to
work for board or by the hour should
notify Priii. Bates or Supt. Erwin.
33-35
WANTED To buy yearlings, two-year-olds
and dry cows, also new
milch and springers. Stock taken
every Monday. Also sugar and wooL
W. E. Hanson. 16tf
TEAMS WANTED We are in
-want of a number of teams to draw
slab wood from Irasburg to be loaded
on the cars. WilLpay $L50 per cord
for drawing. Er L. Chandler Co.,
Orleans. 21tf
WANTED Lady leaving for Pas
adena, CaL, in September would like
to hear from some other lady travel
ing that way alone, for companion.
For further particulars, address Mon
itor Office. 33-34p
TO KENT
Tenement to rent.- IL T. Seaver.
27tf
TO RENT Good tenement on High
street. L. P. Page, Barton. 31-33p
TO RENT Tenement on Harrison
Ave. Address Douglass Lester, 9
Summer St, St. Johnsbury. 21tf
LOST
LOST On Monday, gray kitten
with white paws and nose. Finder re
turn. Dorothy Hastings, Barton.
Iwp
LOST Young female hound, white
with yellow points. Round yellow
spot on back. Wore collar with num
ber and my name. E. G. Stevens,
Orleans. Iw
See ad wool carding and hand-spun
yams. e3w '
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PLATTSBURG ERS COMMISSION
ED. County Men Assigned, Others Called
for New Coarse.
Commissions dated August 15 have
been given many members of the
Plattsburg officers training camp
which has been in session at Platts
burg for nearly three months. Or
leans county had several men there
and Vermont as a state a large num
ber. Prominent Vermont names are
among those receiving commissions,
but it will suffice for the Monitor to
name Orleans county men, and those
from this immediate section, who re
ceived commissions.
Asa B. Nelson of Derby Line is a
second lieutenant in the quartermas
ter's department of the regular army.
S. M. Foster of Derby Line is a
first lieutenant in the field artillery
section of the officers' reserve corps.
Alton A. Doe of Orleans and Aus
tin T. Foster of Derby Line each are
second lieutenants in the field artil
lery section of the officers reserve
corns. Harold W. Batchelder of
Hardwick, Noel Noyes, John S. Bark
er and Jutten A. Longmoore of St.
Johnsbury were other men from this
vicinity who received commissions.
Commissions awarded at Fort Mon
roe, Va., include a commission as
second lieutenant in the coast artil
lery, officers reserve corps, for . H.
Roy Brahana of Lowell, a graduate
of Barton academy 2nd Dartmouth
college- .
Many men who took the training
have not as yet received commis
sions. A new set-of applicants have
been called for the next training
school which opens at Plattsburg
August '21. Only 75 of the 200 who
applied from the state have been
called. Of these butT one is an Or
leans county man and that is May
nard R. Alexander of Lowell, al
though N. Ray Underwood of Barton,
a member of trop C, 2d cavalry, now
at Fort Ethan Allen, is one of the
eight alternates named, who go in
place of any who may be unable to go
as summoned.
Clayton E. Fisher of Lyndonville
and Frank L. Cam of St. Johnsbury
are other nearby men who are called
to this second training camp class.
Fire Losses in Comity in 1916-
Orleans county contributed the
round sum of $46,450.22 to the fire
losses of Vermont in 1916. Every
town in the county had a loss, but
Westmore reports only $7 while oth
er towns report more, than $100 and
Barton reports the largest, $12,417.
16. This is undoubtedly larger than
usual as the tub shop fire occurred
during 1916. The largest loss by
months was in October, which was
more than $11,000 for the county.
The smallest loss in any month was
in March when it was only just over
$700. By towns the loss is reported
as follows:
No. Fires Damage
Albany
Barton
Brownington
Charleston
Coventry
Craftsbury
Derby
Glover
Greensboro
Holland
Irasburg
Jay
Lowell
Morgan
Newport
Troy
Westfield . .
Westmore
10 $439.50
7 12,417.16
7 160.50
8 603.75
6 158.
13 7,714.
4 3,194.
7 1,149.50
4 109.
6 4,044.
6 1,605.
6 910.
11 493.90
1 160.
12 5,202.46
11 3410.60
3 - 3,231.80
1 7.
Totals
123 $46,480.22
BARTON LOCAL NOTES
Joseph Valley, who has been ill, is
better.
The Gem theatre is receiving a
coat of paint.
Judge W. W. Miles is in Montpe
lier this week.
Miss Pearl Robinson was in Stan
stead last week.
AdoIphu3 Brooks, who has been
very ill is recovering.
Rev. and Mrs. Warner are now on
their annual vacation.
Miss Una Anderson of Craftshury
is a guest at H. D. Phillips!.
Mrs. Sarah Fox of Westmore is
stopping with Mrs. S. A. Hunt.
George Rowen of St. Johnsbury
visited his family over Sunday.
Miss Esther B running visited
friends in Newport last week.-
The bank will be closed Thursday,
the 16th, Bennington Battle day.
Mrs. John Page of Irasburg was a
guest at Burton Wing's Friday.
Miss Ruth McFarlane of Hardwick
is spending a few days in town.
Percy W. Cobles of New York City
is spending a Jew days in town.
Mr. and Mrs. John Proctor of Can
ada are guests at W. B. Proctor's.
Mis 3 Jennie Young of Orleans
spent Sunday at George Gorham's.
Mrs. Alma Wiggin of Hartford,
Conn., is visiting 3Lrs. Lucy Wright.
F. S. Whitcber and family are
spending a week at Willoughby Lake.
Mrs. Harley Wheeler of Hartford,
Conm, i3 visiting at S. M. Biekford's.
C. A. Kelley of New York spent
several days last week at Hotel Bar
ton. Miss Elsie Bowen of Newport is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. Homer Potter-
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Dr. Hastings Going to France.
Dr. F. R. Hastings of Barton has
enlisted in the Canadian Army Medi
cal Corps with a commission as cap
tain and goes to Canada September 1
where he will remain a few weeks be
fore going to France to engage in the
work of his profession.
Dr. Hastings has felt the call for
some time but on account of family
and practice has hesitated, but to :i
representative of the Monitor he said
Monday, "It will mean a great finan
cial loss to me and hardships to my
family but I just had to do it. that
is all This spirit is what will win
the war. The spirit of sacrifice which
is so evident in the case of Dr. Has
tings. His term of enlistment is for
a year..
Glover Church 100 Years Old.
The First Congregational church of
Glover will observe its 100th anniver
sary at the church in West Glover on
August 21st at 1.30 p. m. The his
torical address will be delivered" by
Hon. F. W. Baldwin. Rev. M. S. Ed
dy, Rev. G. L. Wells and other speak
ers are expected to be present. A
cordial invitation is extended to all
friends of this church to be present
at this meeting.
No Infection from Morgan Paralysis
- Case.
The family of Alansford Judd of
Morgan recently went to visit Henry
Brothers near East Randolph and
while there their six months' old child
became sick. Soon after returning
to their home in Morgan the child de
veloped paralysis in its legs and
physicians believed it to be infantile
paralysis. Their belief was later
confirmed . by Dr. Dalton, secretary
of the state board of health. The
child is past the progressive stage of
the disease and is improving and no
other cases are known or expected.
Mrs. Roy's Brother Rises in Navy.
Hector J. Gosselin, who gives as
his next of kin his sister, Mrs. T. F.
Roy of this town, has just been given
the oath of office as a warrant officer
in the United States navy.
Mr. Gosselin enlisted in the navy
on November 29, 1909 and within
four years won the distinction of
having been promoted to chief petty
officer. On August 1 he competed
with a number of chief petty officers
for the added honor of winning a
warrant appointment as an officer in
the navy, and the navy department
announces under date of Aug. 7th,
his having been warranted, the war
rant to take effect from July 2.
By this promotion Mr. Gosselin
ceases his flourishing , career as an
enlisted man and enters the ranks of
warrant - officers, in the pay depart
ment of the U. S. navy. This is an
other evidence of the navy's advan
tages to young men who are compa?
tent and willing to work their way
up. Mr. Gosselin enlisted in the na
vy less than eight years ago as a
landsman for yeoman and has been
acting as yeoman in the navy until 1
his present appointment, most of the
time being connected with the admi
ral of the battleship division, except
a few months while doing recruiting
duty, and as a chief petty officer his
pay amounted to $90 per month plus
45 per month in lieu of rations. By
his present promotion, now signed
by the president of the United States
his pay is increased to $168.67 per
month plus $30 in lieu of quarters
and light.
As an added testimony of the es
teem in which he is held by his ship
mates, he was this day also presented
with a gold-handled sword the very
highest tribute enlisted men can pay
an officer of the military service.
Homer Rushford has been visiting
his mother and brothers in Franklin
county.
Fred Sawyer of Lyndonville visited
his mother, Mrs. Clara Sawyer, over
Sunday.
H. T. Seaver and Miss Clemma
Seaver were visitors in Crafts bury
Sunday.
Mrs. Lucre tia Alexander was very
ill the first of the week, but is im
proving. .
Rev. B. L. Jennings of Worcester,
Mass., is visiting his brother, George
Jennings.
Mrs. A. W. Bus well and children
are spending a few day3 with friends
at Brownington.
Mrs. Thomas Hall and children of
St. Johnsbury visited her father, J. C.
King, Last week.
Miss Clara Colburne of New York
is visiting her sister, Miss Lydia Col
burne for a month
Mrs. Malvina Wright is spending
a fewdays in West Glover with her
son, C. F. Wright.
Dr. J. A. Pearson is entertaining
his son, Erwin A. Pearson, and fami
ly of Lowell, 3Iass.
Miss Thelma Young of West Derby
was the guest of her aunt, Mrs. E.
W. Barron, last week.
Mrs, Clara awyer Las moved into
one of the tenements in the Eaten
house on Glover street.
Mrs. Henry Devereaux of West
Burke spent Sunday with her daugh
ter, Mrs. Fred MarteL
. Mrs. Leonard Hennessey of Stan
stead has been- a visitor at E. B.
Robinson's the past week.
Everett Buggies of Boston is the
guest of his sister. Miss Edith Bug
gies, in Crystal Lake grove.
Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Burdlck and
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Akley visited
friends in Danville Sund&j.
Ralph Jennings. left the last of the
week for Detroit, Mkh, where Mrs.
Jennings went some time ago.
1 " 1 1 ' &
200 MORE COUNTY
MEN SUMMONED.
Physical Examination Eliminates
Large Percentage. Exemptions
Being Considered. Towns
Visited.
On the final count, the local exemp
tion board consisting of O. C Miller,
H. B. Cushman and Dr J. F. Blan
chard, all of Newport, examined 154
of the 184 men summoned before
them last week. That is, examined
them physically. Of these 154 only
65 were qualified, while 8S were re
jected on physical grounds. The dis
crepancy between the 154 examined
and 1S4 called is made up by the fact
that aliens are not examined unless
asked to be and transfers have been
made" in several instances.
Just how many the board will final
ly accept of the 65 who are physically
fit is not known because the exemp
tion claims are being considered. O.
C. Miller, chairman of the board, and
State's Attorney Stoddard made a
personal visit to the towns of the
county the first of the week in order
make first-hand investigation of
ircumstances and claims where ex
emptions - are asked. Upon their
indings will be based the board's de
:ison in many cases of exemption
:1a ims.
Two hundred more men have been
ailed and will be examined today,
Fhursday, Friday and Saturday, 50
ach day and it is expected enough
raalified men will be found inthis
number to fill the county's quota of
92 men.
The only official list given out by
the board as yet is the official exemp
tion list of those disqualified by
physical examination, and that list
follows. Exemption buttons have
been given these men.
Ray C. Arbuckle, N. Craf tsbury
Roland W. Bliss, Newport
John A. Beebe, Newport
-Charles Blair, West Derby
Fred A. Burroughs, Morgan
- Center
(Continued on Page Three)
Local Life Insurance Payments in
1916.
A compilation of the payments of
life insurance policies in the towns
and cities of the United States and
Canada for the year 1916 shows that
the life insurance business in Ver
mont is large. Burlington heads the
places in the states .with payments of
$225,000 during the - year. St. Johns
bury is second with $127,750. The
cities rank next and Newport comes
in ninth place in the statewith claims
of $52,000 paid. Though the name is
not given one payment in Newport
was for $18,000. Lyndonville ranks
nineteenth with payments of- $16,500.
North Troy ranks 22d in the state
with payments of $15,500 and Bar
ton ranks 25thwith payments of $11,
625. Irasburg ranks exactly with Bar
ton in amount of life insurance paid
and West Burke is the only other town
in this vicinity that gets in the clas3
above $10,000, and the amount paid
here is exactly the same as Barton
and Irasburg.
The largest single payment on any
one life in the country was on the life
of Thomas J. Shevlin of Minneapolis,
Minn., of $1,525,000.
Mrs. C. L. Holthaus and son, Lew
is, of Baltimore, Md., visited friends
in town the first of the week.
Mrs. Delia Willson and Mrs. Lu
cretia Alexander visited relatives in
West Derby part of last week.
Dr. L. A. Dana and John O. Thorn
of -Lynn, Mass., were guests at the
Crystal Lake House last week.
Mr. Kugler of the Bradford Clothes
Shop is taking his vacation. Mr.
Bernstein of New York is here.
Rev. and Mrs. W. A Warner were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Root
in North Craf tsbury Thursday.
Mrs. Zelora Marsh has been spend
ing a few days with her daughter,
Mrs. B. H. Sherburne in Glover.
Miss Martin, vocal instructor at
Dean academy, Franklin, Mass., i3
the guest of Mrs. R- P. Webster.
Mrs. Thomas Fyfe and daughter,
May, of New York have been guests
at O. A. White's for several days.
Mrs. Fred Hart and daughter, Dor
is, of McLndoes, have been- guests of
Mrs. P. J. Plunkett, the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Caron and son,
Bruce, were in Eden Sunday to see
Mrs. Caron's father, who is very ill
Miss Mary Hanson has local
charge of the Curtis Studio, recently
purchased by A A. Bishop of New
port. Ernest Freeman returned to
Springfield, Mass., Sunday night af
ter spending a week in camp at Stone
pond.
Mrs. G. A. Carter of Hardwick and
Mrs. Frank Churchill of Orleans vis
ited their brother, H. E. Paige, last
week.
The postofSce will be closed Thurs
day, August 16, from 9 a. m, to 11.30
a.m., from 1.30 to 3-30 p. m. and at 7
o'clock.
A son wa3 born to Mr, and Mrs.
Louis Lavoie of Lake, Aug. 2. Mrs.
Lavoie was formerly Mss Helen La
Bounty.' Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Lang, Slayton
Lang and Rev. and Mrs. W. A War
ner were in - Morrisville the first of
the week.
Thomas Harrington has gone to
New York to visit his mother. Fred
M artel is taking his place in the
creamery.
Westmore Boy with Pershing's Force
On the house of Mr. and Mrs. A. E.
French of Westmore is the only sign
of its kind in the county of which the
Monitor knows. It is a large plac
ard in red, whita and blue furnished
by the governments and reads, "A
man from this house is fighting in
France with the United States ma
rines." Their son, Wayne, is with
Pershing's force. In a note received
by his parents last week he says:
My Dear Mother and Dad:
Just received four letters from you
so I feel somewhat cheered up. The
weather has been rainy for the last
few days, so that makes it somewhat
gloomy. We are now in a different
place than when I last wrote. I like
it better. I am alright and feeling
fine and expect to remain so and re
turn home safe, so do not worry
about me. I shall have a lot to tell
as the new surroundings are interest
ing, which helps to make things
pleasant.
Have made the acquaintance of a
little French boy 14 years old and am
picking up some French from him. I
go down and talk with him every
night.
1 have had no time to write in the
last few days, as between breaking
ramp and making camp, also travel
ing, I have been pretty busy. I ex
pect you have received my first let
ter by this time,, at least, I hope so
for I know how you feel about it. My
letters will come more regularly
now that things are more settled I
will try and write twice a week so
you can hear as often as mail goes
across. Am not going to write more
now but will write again in a couple
of days. "
Somewhere in France,
From W. W. French,
Fifth Section, H'dqtr. Co.,
5 Reg.,
U. S. Marine Corps.
Congregational Church Notes.
There will be no morning service
or senior department in the Sunday
school for the coming two weeks, Mr.
Warner being on his vacation. The
Christian Endeavor society will meet
as usual at 7 o'clock min the evening
and the junior department of the
Sunday school will meet Sunday",
August 26 at the usual hour but not
next Sunday. -
The Christian Endeavorers held a
successful early morning meeting on
the rocks back of the Hubbard houses
Sunday morning.
Local members have been notified
that there will be a meeting of the
members of the First Congregational
church and society of Barton, at the
church vestry on .Monday, August
20th, at 7.30 p. m., to consider what
will be done towards celebrating the
100th anniversary of said church,
which takes place Sept. 24th, 1917.
The C. E. meeting will be held
Sunday evening at 7 o'clock. Topic,
"A Definite Purpose and the Success
It Wins." Leader, Doris Whitcher.
This meeting will take the place of
the regular monthly consecration
meeting as the roll call was - post
poned on account of other matters.
James Dow, who has been board
ing at Ernest Baker's in West Glov
er, is with his daughter, Mrs. Gerald
Plunkett.
Misses Kate and Minnie Tomkins
of Montreal are in camp in 'Crystal
Lake Grove with their sister, Mrs. A.
M. Vercoe.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Webber of Lyn
donville were guests of Mr. and Mrs.
C. A. Barrows at their camp at Stone
pond Sunday.
Mrs. Melissa Shedd and grand
daughter, Bernice Riley, of Franklin
have been guests at George King's
for several days.
Miss Esther Brunning is assisting
in the bakery during the absence of
Mrs. M. E. Willis, who is in Newport
with her parents.
Miss Grace Kent, who has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. F. D. Pierce,
returned to her home in Beaver Falls,
Pa., Saturday night.
Robert Scott, who is on the survey
of the Connecticut river and is sta
tioned for the present at Earnet, was
in town over Sunday.
Mrs. Ray Pierce and daughter and
Mrs. Earl David of St. Johnsbury and
Virgil Sweet of Newport visited at E.
E. Flanders' Saturday.
Mrs. Elmer Smith and children of
Woodsville, N. IL, are visiting at
John Smith's and Mrs. Smith's sis
ter, Mrs. V. F. Hunter.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Naatz of
Newbury were guests of Mrs. Naatz's
parents, Mr. and Mrsr George Jen
nings, the first of the week.
A. P. Underwood and Mr. and Mrs.
F. W. Cutting are spending a few
days in Newport, N. IL, making the
trip in the Cutting automobile.
Mrs. Edith Dyas and son, Richard,
and Mrs. W. L. Graves of Beverlv,
Mass., who have been visiting at O.
A. White's, returned home today.
Shirl Hutchins of St. Johnsbury
was home over Sunday. Mr. Hutch
ins has a responsible position with
the American Express company there.
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Daley and two
children, Madame Daley, Mrs. II. A.
Black and Gordon Black of Newport
were guests at W. M. Wright's Sun
day. Mr. and Mrs. Fitzpatrick and &on
of Central Falls, R. L, and Mr. and
Mrs. E. A. Gaudette and son of Lyn
donville were guests at J udah Brooks'
Sunday.
Mrs. C. C W. Heath entertained
her sister, Mrs. Powers, and family,
of Fitzdale, and her niece, liizs Helen !
MURDERED GIRL'S BODY FOUND
Crippled Child Probably Choked to
Death by Women.
The body of cight-ycar-ohl Alice
Bradshaw, murdered July 5, was
found Thursday night in the mowing
field of E. A. Gray, two miles from
the Bradshaw farm. In a part of the
meadow where hand-mowing was
necessary and under a clump of elms,
Mr. Gray came across the decom
posed body of the child at 6 o'clock.
The body out in the intense heat and
the fearful storms of the past month
was badly decomposed, but an autop
sy was possible.
It appears that the child was prob
ably choked to death and the body
dragged to the hiding place by one or
more of the parties held in the case,
Mary Hicks, Mrs. Alvah Kenerson
and John Kerwin, against whom
charges of first-degree murder have
been brought.
It will be remembered from former
reports that the child was a cripple
from paralysis of one side and could
walk but little. The apprehended
women claimed in "confessions" that
the child was such a burden to care
for that she murdered it, but none
of the confessions of the place where
the body was hidden, proved true.
Mrs. Kennison, asked why she had
told such varying stories about the
hiding place of the body, said she had
intended to tell about half the truth
all the time. It is thought now that
John Kerwin's connection with the
tragedy was the disposal of the body.
Kerwin is under arrest. If the little
girl was murdered on the hill back of
the Bradshaw farmhouse as now
seems probable, the distance to the
farm of E. A. Gray, where it was
found is about 100 rods across lots.
It was to the Gray farm house that
Mary Hicks went to telephone the
officers the morning after she had
announced that the child was lost.
She could have passed the place in
in the meadow where the body was
found in going in one direction to the
house.
Keating of West Lebanon, N. IL, is
now her guest.
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Hibbard, Frank
Thorp of Glover and Miss Lida Niles
of Boston have been taking an auto
mobile trip through Lamoille county
and other towns.
Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Cutting and
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Batchelder and
Miss Gertrude Skinner took an auto
mobile trip to Connecticut Lakes, N.
IL, the first of the week.
Miss Marion Redfield with a party
of her Camp Fire Girls went on a
hike to Willoughby lake yesterday,
where they will remain for a few
days camping in the open.
Miss Kate Sinon, who has been
caring for Mrs. Mary Norris, who
broke her hip some time ago, has re
turned home and Mrs. Charles Web
ster will care for Mrs. Norris.
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Barnes, Carl
Seeber and Miss Gertrude Olcott of
Bristol, Conn., and Miss Ruth Kei
gum of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., have been
spending several days at Hotel Bar
ton. Sixteen little girls met at the home
of Miss Dorothy Barron Saturday af
ternoon to help her celebrate her
fifth birthday. The afternoon was
most happily spent and refreshments
were served.
Miss Carey of Proctor, who is a
member of the state board of Red
Cross was here Thursday and in
spected the work of the local chapter,
finding it very creditable. We have
received $25 from Westmore for the
war fund.
Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Wells and
daughter, Maria, of Orleans, Cecil
Wells of Boston, Will Dowand daugh
ter, Marguerite, of Mclndoes, How
ard Dow and Miss Corinne Vancour
of Berlin, N. IL, were visitors at Ger
ald Plunkett s Sunday.
The number of offending autoists
at the band concert Saturday night
was so small as to be almost negli
gible, although there were more cars
than evef. Non-glare headlights are
strictly necessary according to law
and so are lights on all teams.
Miss Nellie Cassidy who graduated
with high honors at the University of
Chicago in June and has spent her
vacation here, will return and make
teaching her vocation. Her friend,
Miss Alberta Cooper, who accompan
ied her home, is a hairdresser and
manicure in the city.
The Fidelity class of the Congre
gational church, Rev. W. A. Warner,
teacher, who were advertised to meet
on the lawn with Mrs. John Curtis,
one of the members, were obliged to
adjourn to the piazza where a pari of
the program was carried out, and to
the parlor for music, where several
appropriate hymns and songs were
given. Refreshments of cake and
ice cream were dispensed on the ver
anda and a very pleasant evening
was spent, with a goodly number
present.
Miss Charlotte Pierpont, who has
been taking up the work of the ex
tension service of the University of
Vermont, gave a most helpful talk
and demonstration upon thecold-pack
method of canning fruits and vege
tables, in Alumni hall Tuesday after
noon. , Mis 3 Pierpont's talk was very
practical and during the afternoon
tshe canned peas, string beans, car
rots, tomatoes. raspberries, and
peaches before the housewives as
sembled, explaining carefully each
step in preparing the products,
blanching and sterilization. She al
so spoke of the other processes of
conservation, salting, and drying of
fruits and vegetables. We feel we
were very fortunate in being able to
have Miss Pierpont with us.
TELLS OF CONDI-
TIONS IN FRANCE.
Former Orleans Boy Near Firing
Line, Make Observations. Was
On Attacked Boat
The Monitor is privileged to make
copious extracts from intensely in
teresting letters received by Orleans
relatives, from Milton D. Brown, for
merly living on the Brown farm,
north of . Orleans, on the river road,
the son of Charles H. Brown, and a
nephew of Fred C. Brown and Mrs.
C S. Skinner, both of Orleans. Mr.
Brown is now near the firing line in
France, driving a hospital ambulance.
His first letter dated Paris, May
14, tells of his trip across, when the
boat on which he was sailing was
attacked by a German submarine,
and gives some observations about
France and present day conditions
there.
lie says:
"We have enjoyed ten wonderful
days in Paris with every opportunity
to go sight-seeing; since there have
been no regularly assigned duties,
other than to go for uniform fittings
at the tailor's, take the typhoid and
para-typhoid inoculations, and re
port at the office every day to fill in
numerous blanks covering our life
histories and future intentions.
"On Thursday, we received word
that fourteen men were being chosen
to go to Fe Camp to put in order and
drive back to Paris 21 Fiat automo
biles, seven men having previously
been sent down to unload the ma
chines from the Italian boat. We
made the journey of four hours by
train stopping over night at a weird
little hotel on the top-most point in
Fe'camp. In the morning we donned
overalls and went down to the
wharves to assemble and prepare the
cars for the trip back to Paris. By
noon, Friday, we were able to leave,
headed by a convoy of French officers.
Little wooden boxes had been built
on the bare frames of all the cars,
and only two boards added for the
drivers to sit on, as these cars are
merely frames with the engine and
running gear, which will be fitted
later with a proper ambulance body
at a garage in Paris.
"Well, we bumped along at a rate
of 45 miles an hour all Fri
day afternoon and early evening,
through that wonderful Normandie
country, arriving at Rouen about
nine o'clock, and put up at a hotel for
the night. Each driver was beyond
recognition from the layers of dust
gathered along those limestone
roads, and worse luck not a bath
room available after nine o'clock in
any hotel. (The tax on water and
the extreme cost of heating it, due to
the lack of coal, has made many
a Frenchman resort to talcum powder
baths). However, a cold-cream ap
plication helps some, at least one
needn't soil his pillow if he has a jar
of it along.
"Our officer in charge gave orders
to assemble for breakfast at eight
o'clock, so three of us got up at six,
in order to have time to see that
marvelous cathedral with its lacy
stonework, and also to witness the
spot where Jeanne dArc was burned
at the stake.
"I was delighted at Rouen, for
somehow it seemed to fulfil every
thing that I had imagined a truly
foreign city would look like. Never
have I seen such verdure and abund
ance of flowers. All along the way
we passed little thatch-roofed stone
houses, literally covered up with
wistaria and strange vines bearing
great clusters of white flowers re
sembling apple blossoms.
"We left Rouen about noon on
Saturday, after a morning spent in
putting the cars in better shape, for
some of them had given considerable
trouble from Fecamp to Rouen. We
also took on several hundred-weight
of coal in each car, for use in the Red
Cross garage in Paris, as there is
comnarativelv no coal here, and
people are making all sorts of plans
lor next winter, several stneincs Lt
ing under consideration for communi
ty lodging. We finally reached Paris,
only one car breaking down seriously
en route, and it was towed safely to
its destination.
"now I adore Paris. In all my
dreams it never assumed any of its
real beauty. It seems to possess an
atmosphere of having been laid out
carefully by a landscape gardener and
finished long agowhile New York
seems still to be in the process of
construction, with its torn-up narrow
streets and constant reconstruction.
At present the horse-chestunt trees
are in full bloom along the wonder
ful, wide and beautiful Champs Ely
see and Avenue Bois du Boulogne,
to say nothing of the lilacs and other
spring Mowers which make sad old
Paris quite gay. One appreciates
the beautiful spring season in the
presence of such evidences of sorrow
and suffering. We are located near
two government buildings recently
taken over for hospitals, and every
where in the neighboring parks one
sees euch terribly maimed individu
als, all cheerful even those hun
dreds of poor, blind soldiers whom
we see constantly being led about the
city by their friends and relatives.
Only a small percentage of French
women still wear colors and a subway-
train or a tram-car i3 a mourn
ful spectacle, if one stops to count
the number of Borrowing widows and
mothers dressed in deep mourning.
"Mr. Martin and I have visited all
the churches of any note and most of
the other points of interest in Paris.
The Louvre is closed, with the excep
tion of some statuary galleries, much
of which has been packed away in
asbestos and hidden somewhere or.
other, including, of course, dear old
Venus. The pictures have been sent
to some cities further removed from
the 'war zone.
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