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Vol. 43 No. 13
BARTON, VERMONT, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1914
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FOR 8ALK.
FOR SALE 10 cows and one hv.U'
David Jerome, West Glover. 12-14
FOR SALE Full blooded regiPTed
Jersey bull. Inquire of E. C. Wilkie,
Barton. l"-u.
" FOR SALE CHEAP Heavy 'work
horse at Clark's livery sta' ' at
Orleans. 13-14
FOR SALE E. N. Raniiii's house
on Main street, Barton, H. T. Saaver,
admr. 12tf
FOR SALE Al FDay-oi j white
Wyandotte chicks. Hazen C'avk. Rar
ton. . 9tf
?FOR SALE Two turkeys, toms kjm
horse horsepower cheap. H. Cook.
Glover. I1-19"
FOR SALE Ten good young cow.
Part fresh in milk, rest nearby spring
ers, f H. B. Chamberlin, Irasbu rr
12tf
FOR SALE Sawdust at our
Brownington mill. As large load as
you want for 25 cents. Chandler
Company. 6tf
FOR SALE Smith and Barnes up
right piano. Nearly new and in al
most perfect condition. Price low.
Amos R. Robinson, Barton. 4tf.
FOR SALE 4 ft. slab wood. We
have about 500 cords of dry slabs lo
cated at our Irasburg mill and 500
cords at our Brownington mill. These
slabs make fine sugar wood and can be
purchased at the mill at $1.25 per
cord. The E. L. Chandler Co.. Or
leans. 8tf
MISCELLANEOUS.
FARMERS' NOTICE Will buy stock
At)ril 6 and 20. Dodge, Orleans.
13-14
NOTICE Hair Mattresses made over
New couches for sale. E. C. Brennan,
Orleans. 4tf
NOTICE Upholstering, furniture,
carriages and sleighs. R. E. Liddell,
Barton, Vt 52tf
Skinner, French & Co,, of Orleans
have another car of old growth cedar
shingles. Bunches are full count.
42tf
Pianos, Player Pianos, Organs,
Banjos, Guitars, Violins, Accordeons,
Harmonicas, Sheet Music, Music Books,
Stands, Rolls. Satchels, Strings and
everything pertaining to music. A.
R. Cowles, Barton. 50tf
SUGAR LABELS Order them early.
Our popular two color labels with state
seal, cover the law fully. 500, $1.25;
300. 1.05 ; 200, 90 cents ; 100, 80 cents.
Order may call for part sugar and part
syrup. Labels delivered free, where
cash accompanies the order. Monitor
Press, Barton, Vt.
TO KENT
TO RENT Tenement. H. L. Bige
low, Barton. 13-14
TO RENT Tenements and rooms.
Inquire of J. C. King, Barton. 13tf
.TO RENT Good tenement A. F.
French, Barton. 12-14p
TO RENT Furnished rooms. Mrs.
W. R. Powney. ll-15p
WANTED
WANTED AT ONCE-Experienced
table girl at Hotel Barton. 13tf
WANTED Teacher for small school.
Good chance for beginner. Good pay.
C. H. Atkins, Westmore. 13tf
WANTED A chance to save you
$2.00 per ton on your fertilizer. R. P.
Webster, Barton. 3tf
WANTED Live poultry. Eggs not
over week old. Elrick, Express office.
Barton. 18tf
HELP WANTED We need a few
good steadv men in our scythe stone
factory. To the right men we can
give steady work and good wages.
Apply at once to F. S. Foster, Supt.,
Pfke Mfg. Co., Evansville. 13-14.
Congregational Church Notes.
The annual sugar festival of the
Ladies' society is taking place at the
vestry tonight, beginning at 6 o'clock.
New sugar on snow with other good
things will be served.
The C. E. society will hold an Easter
social in the church vestry Friday
evening. Everyone is cordially invited
to comp. A pleasant evening is prom
ised. Refreshments will be served.
There will be a union service in this
church Sunday evening at 7 o'clock
with sermon by Rev. Barnlund.
The Congregational Ladies' society
held their annual meeting Mar. 18 and
elected the following officers to serve
during the ensuing year: Mrs. Chas.
Cutler, president; Mrs. A. P. Under
wood, vice-president; Mrs. E. W.
Barron, secretary and treasurer. The
society has had a .prosperous year, re
ceiving five newjnembers.
Academy Baseball Team.
The baseball season has fopened at
the academy and the boys are rounding
into shape in the old school building.
Several veterans were lost last year
through graduation but in spite of this
the remaining few and the recruits,
are entering into this season with the
true spirit and "pep" that will bring
success. Athletics in the school is a
very essential feature in the develop
ment of a sound body and a quick mind
and should never under any condition
be neglected. Baseball is the only
branch of athletics which is left in our
school and therefore should receive
the attention of the public. The boys
will do their share to uphold the past
athletic standard of the school but
without the assistance of the towns
people B. A. athletics will have to
be dropped. We ask you who are
interested (and those who ought to be
interested) to come out and push the
national game along at B. A. To meet
the needs of the team this spring a
dance will be given in the near future
and we ask again for your support.
Manager Paige has arranged for the
following games for this spring : April
25. Open ; May 2, Lyndon Institute at
Lyndonville, May 9, open; May 13,
Orleans at Barton ; May 16, Lyndon
viJle at Barton; May 20, Barton at
NoWport;. May 23, Derby at Barton ;
May 27, Barton at Orleans ; May 30,
Newport at Barton.
BARTON.
George Goodheart is visiting in town.
Greta Daniels has been ill with the
grip.
Miss Hazel Alexander was ill last
,week.
Robert Levene visited friends in
Island Pond Sunday.
Fred Kinsey SDent the week end with
his parents in Irasburg.
Frank Sheldon is in Granby . for a
few weeks on business.
Chas. Austin has closed his restaur
ant in the Gilman block.
Roy Chenev of St. Johnshnrv visited
John Batchelder last week.
Percy Elliott of Newport has been
spending a-jfew days in town.
Harold Porter of Hardwick visited
friends in town over Sunday.
Henry Ryther is visiting his brother
in Coventry for a few weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Merriam are
spending a few days in Boston."
Remember the sugar supper at the
Congregational church tonight.
Mrs. Cora McVicker is caring for
David Jerome at West Glover.
Painters are redecorating' th interi
or ol the Vereoe millinery shop.
Mrs. Geo. Kiner attended the funeral
of Geo Alger in Glover Monday.
Nellie Gott spent several days re
cently with relatives in Newport
Mrs. Ruggles, who was ill in bed
last week, is somewhat improved.
Miss Lydia Colburn has returned
from a business trip to New York.
Miss Enna Goss of Irasburg spent
the week end with friends in town.
Dressmaking. Mrs. H. C. Wheeler,
Park street, Barton. Adv. lwp
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Elliott visited
Gustavus Foss in Evansville Sunday.
The Raymond Sisters are in Malone,
N. Y., to fill a theatrical engagement.
Mrs. F. W. Cutting of Haverhill,
N. H.t visited relatives in town this
week.
Mrs. Carroll Webster, who has been
ill for several weeks, is able to be out
again.
Judge Miles is in Rutland holding
court. He is accompanied by Mrs.
Miles.
Attend the Easter social at the
Congregational church vestry Friday
evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Webster are
visiting relatives in West Burke for
the present. ,
Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Hobson attended
the funeral of Col. Mansur at New
port yesterday.
. F. W. Baldwin was in Montpelier
last week attending sessions of the
supreme court.
Clayton Burrows of St. Johnsbury
visited his father, who is ill with the
grip, yesterday.
M iss Carrie Jones and mother are
visiting relatives in Stanstead, P. Q.,
for a few days. . -
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Whitcher are
entertaining relatives from Concord,
in. ri.,,ims weeK.
Mrs. Geo. Powers of Derby visited
her daughter, Mrs. Vernal Elrick,
several days recently.
Miss Clemma Seaver of Simmons
college, Boston, is spending her Easter
vacation at her home here.
John Batchelder has returned from a
trip to Boston and New York. Mrs.
Batchelder is expected this week.
Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Webster are
visiting the Rev. and Mrs. F. W.
Lewis in Groton for a few days.
Nearly 40 persons from here attend
ed the commandery dinner and enter
tainment at Newport last evening.
Blanche Cutting has moved from the
Glazier house on Lincoln avenue to the
Willard tenement on Cemetery hill.
The annual junior play has been
selected and work commenced prepara
tory to staging this sometime in May.
Annual convocation of Keystone
Chapter No. 16, R. A. M., Monday
evening, April 6. Election of officers.
THE NON-PARTISAN CREED
Republicans, Democrats and Progressives
Speaking from the same Platform. Ad
dresses Before the Non-partisan
Prouty Club at Randolph.
The Non-Partisan Prouty Clubs of
Vermont find their ideal in the club
recently organized at Randolph. The
call for the meeting was issued by the
chairman of the town committee of
each of the three great parties. The
officers of the club are all earnest
partisans who for the time being have
laid aside their partisanship. Patriot
ism has taken the place of prejudice.
At the first rally held by the club
addresses were made from the same
rostrum by the author of the last
Republican party platform, by the last
Progressive candidate for governor,
by an enthusiastic Democratic educator
and by a representative of the Prouty
club of Orleans.- The following report
of the addresses is quoted from the
Randolph Herald and News :
"Editor L. B. Johnson was the first
speaker and represented the Republi
can party in this non-partisan move
ment, which reminded him of the
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Mrs. Emily Comstock.
Mrs. Emily Comstock, whose sick
ness has been mentioned in the
Monitor, died at the home of her
daughter in Watervleit, N.. Y., Mar.
28. Mrs. Comstock has been declining
in health during the past winter and
died of heart failure. Emily Blood
was born in the town of Essex, Aug.
6, 1837, where she spent her girlhood
days until she was married to Daniel
Comstock at Burlington Mar. 4, 1860.
They resided in Burlington for several
years and then moved to this town
where they lived for a time on the
Bridgman farm and later on the home
farm on Westmore road. Mrs. Comstock
lived here 29 years when at the death
of her husband she went to reside with
her daughter, Clara, at Plattsburg, N.
Y.( later moving to Watervleit, N. Y.,
During the number of years that she
made her home here Mrs. Comstock
made many friends. Her whole life
has been spent caring for her family,
never sparing herself and always
cheerfully and patiently-meeting every
duty. She was the mother of seven
children, three of whom survive her, a
son and daughter, Fred and Jessie, of
this place, and a daughter, Clara of
Watervleit, N. Y. The funeral was held
yesterday at the home of her son,
Fred, Rev. W. A. Warner officiating
and the interment was in the family
lot in the W. O. Brown cemetery.
The sympathy of the community is ex
tended to the family.
Mrs. Abbie Nye of Charleston is a
guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Cowles.
E. R. Cook has moved into his
recently purchased house on Park
street which has been thoroughly re
paired. Mrs. Joseph Labounty and son Law
rence, who have spent several weeks
in New York city, have returned to
their home.
Mr. and Mrs. Irving Alexander, who
have been spending the winter in
Florida, are guests of his sister, Mrs.
Delia Willson.
Annie Wright, who went to Water
bury for treatment several months
ago, returned home Tuesday night,
much improved,,in health.
Mrs. Wm. Williams, who has been
spending several weeks with her
daughter, Mrs. Chester King, in Pas
sumpsic, has returned home.
Mrs. H. R. Cutler. Mrs. H. T.
Seaver and Mrs. Abbie Nye attended
the meeting of county executives of
the W. C. T. U., at Newport Thursday.
Armour Urie, who has been spending
several weeks at his home in West
Glover, has returned to town and will
continue his work in the Davis garage.
Mrs. A. R. Cowles's fractured arm is
slowly improving. Mrs. Abbie E.
Nye, who has been with her, will
leave for her home in West Charleston
soon.
Amory Seaver and a friend, Percy
Slay ton, of Woodstock, from U. V. M.,
are expected tonight and Maynard
Foster "from Norwich is expected Mon
day for the Easter vacation.
Our weather item this week will
report some progress in sugar making,
the appearance of the first wagons in
town, and a reported robin. The snow
is going rapidly under the sun.
Patrick Guertiri, who has been in a
critical condition, at St. Johnsbury
hospital since his operation there three
weeks ago, is thought for past two
days to be slowly improving.
Among the college boys that are
home during the Easter vacation are
Harley Leland of Lyndon Institute,
John Campbell of Prattjs Institute,
SI ay ton Lang of Dean academy and
Frank Corley of U. V. M. j
Rev. Barnlund will preagh a sermon
Sunday evening at the Congregational
church with especial reference to the
young people on the subject of,
"Possibilities, or What Shall Your
Life Be?" All young people .should
be present to hear this message.
The members of the Schubert club
gave F.v W. Cutting a surprise party
the first of the week. The evening
was spent with music and a delightful
social hour during which refreshments
were served and a birthday cake cut
and enjoyed. -
ine inend3 of Stanley Berry are
pleased to learn that he is captain of
that fast U. V. M. baseball team.
which is making good on their southern
trip. Reports state that he stars in
every game. His team has now won
more than half of " the games on the
trip. .., ," .
Property Transfers.
With the return of spring real estate
and other property has taken a start
and several deals are reported.
One of the most important is the
purchase of the Case farm by C. T.
Miles of Irasburg. Mr. Miles will
build a fine set of buildings on the
place and is already getting out some
of thelumber. This is a fine place
and Mr. Miles's people will be wel
comed back to Barton where they have
made many friends during their two
years' residence on the Smith farm
here.
Another deal is the purchase of the
the town farm by F. E. Lee of Iras
burg, who will soon move here. Mr.
Lee will find a welcome. The price
paid for the town farm was $5645.
H. S. Chappell of West Burke has
purchased of H. V. Drown the table
manufacturing business in this village
which Mr. Drown has successfully
carried on for several years and en
larged to some extent. In the deal
Mr. Chappell traded his tenement
house on High street.
W. A. Roy stan has purchased of F.
D. Pierce the tenement house on
Lincoln avenue occupied by E. B.
Robinson for many years.
Mrs. S. H. Holbrook has purchased
the Cowles house of John Allen on
Elm street.' Mr. Allen will remain in
town.
Other deals are "in the wind" it is
reported.
At the Methodist Church.
The services for Sunday will be
the following: Morning worship at
10.45. Subject of Sermon, "The
Atonement." Epworth League at 6
p. m. Union service at the Congrega
tional church at 7 p. m. Subject,
"Possibilities, or What Shall Your
Life Be?" Midweek meeting at 7.30
Thursday evening. All are cordially
invited.
At the Methodist church Sunday
morning Rev. Barnlund preached a
thoughtful and forceful sermon on the
subject, "Burying the Yoke with
Christ," from the text, Take my yoke
upon you and learn of Me. The entire
choir was present and rendered a very
acceptable anthem, the solo part being
taken by Mrs. White.
The evening sermon was on "The
Sin of Unbelief" in which the central
thought was that a man has no right
to be an unbeliever unless he has
qualified himself for that attitude by a
full and honest consideration of the
evidences of Christianity. Rev. Barn
lund sang a very beautiful solo,
"Unanswered Yet."
A dance will be held in Seaver's hall
Tuesday, April 7, for the benefit of
the ,academy baseball team. Music
will be furnished by the school orches
tra. Everyone should attend and
enjoy themselves. Admission 75 cents
a couple.
Guests last week at the home of C.
E. Sisco were Mrs. Emma Miles, son
Charles and daughter Madeline of
Wheelock, and Gladys Drown of New
port. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Sisco of
Bradford and Mrs. Cora Wakeman of
Newport are visiting there this week.
Past Matrons' and Patrons' night
was observed by Orient Chapter No.
13. O. E. S.. Fridav evenine-. and
much credit is due them in the manner
they exemplified the beautiful work of
the order. About 125 members and
visitors partook of the bountiful ban
quet served at 6.30.
A family reunion took place at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Ai Dana
Sunday. They were visited by their
daughter, Mrs. C. W. Sheaff, and two
children, Florence and Margaret of
Skowhegan, Me., their son Lynn and
wife of Lyndonville and their son,
rrank ot .North Troy.
The attention of the ladies of the
Afternoon Study club is called to the
change of the place of the next meet
ing, which will be held at the home of
Mrs. Underwood on Thursday after
noon. The topic for the afternoon is
Domestic Science. A chafing dish
lunch wm be served and each member
is requested to bring ten cents.
"A small party of the friends of John
Campbell gave him a pleasant surprise
at the home of his sister, Mrs. Franz
A. Hunt, last evening, it being the
anniversary of his twenty-first birth
day. Games were played, after which
light refreshments were served. Mr.
Campbell is home for the Easter vaca
tion from his studies at Pratt Institute.
Brooklyn, N. Y., where he is taking
the S. M. D. course.
The grange program for April 2 if,
topic, "New England Agriculture. Its
present Conditions and Future Pros
pects. " Discussion led by W. S. and
F. May; music, Mrs. Adams; paper.
".New England Agriculture," Mrs. M
Wilson ; reading, Mrs. Comstock; song.
Ruth Gleason; reading. Mrs. Roystan;
music, Mrs May and Mrs. Chase;
recitation. Beatrice Jennings; music.
Harland Paige ; social hour. New sugar
will be served.
A small crowd of wrestling fans
witnessed the defeat of Leonard at the
hands of Young Landry of St. Johns
bury in two straight falls, last even-
t 1 TTT 1 111 .
ing in tne wooaman nan. it was a
fast, clean match from start to finish
and deserved a much better crowd.
"Leonard displayed all of his former
knowledge of the game but wore Trim
self out trying to pin Landry, who
saved himself and came in strong at
the finish. The times of the falls were
30 and 29 minutes respectively. Ora
Lyon refereed the match.
At the Woman's Literary club meet
ing held March 25 with Mrs. Cutting,
a delightful evening was spent. Next
after the regular routine of business
and roll call, "Welcome Guests" was
given by Miss Fannie May, piano sclo
by Mrs. McFarland. Original stories
in rhyme by each one of how one
hundred pennies were earned, was a
COUNTY COURT.
County court took a recess on Mar.
26, until April". 15 when some cases
which were delayed will be ready for
trial by the court. The following
divorce cases have been granted dur
ing this term of court : Etta L.
Rogers, vs. Harry Rogers. Bill grant
ed for wilful desertion. Frank L.
Simino vs. Vanessa A. Simino,
adultery. Custody of minor child to
the petitioner. Minnie M. Scullion vs.
Arthur Scullion, petitioner to resume
her maiden name, Minnie M. Colburn.
Alice G. Story vs. Carl P. Story, wil
ful desertion. Estella Willey Levett
vs. Charles John Levett, intolerable
severity. Custody of minor children
to the petitioner. Carroll L. Stimpson
vs. Wilfred A. Stimpson, adultery.
Myron Morse vs. Maude C. Morse,
wilful desertion. Pluma M. Tucker
vs. Clinton J. Tucker, wilful deser
tion. Real estate described in the
petition decreed to the petitioner.
Etta Tripp vs. Rufus D. Tripp, bill
granted for intolerable severity,
neglect and refusal to support.
Alimony granted. Lyman D. Sweet
vs. Ida M. Sweet, wilful desertion.
Florence Fields, vs. Albert Fields,
intolerable severity.
special feature of the evening. The
total shows an appreciable gain to the
library fund. Dainty chafing dish
refreshments were served by teh
hostess and her committee. Twenty
four members were present. The next
meeting will be held April 8 with Mrs.
Roystan.
WILLOUGHBY
Mrs. Roy Lord is visiting her parents
in Derby Center.
G. F. Wheeler is laying a hardwood
floor in his house at Undercliff.
Geo. Duke and family of Lyndonville
spent Sunday at E. C. Drown's.
Several from here attended the auc
tion at the town farm Thursday.
Frank Kimball, after six months'
leave of absence, went back to work
Monday.
E. J. Wheeler of Westmore is in
town doing carpenter work for G. F.
Wheeler.
A. J. Waterman has snlrl his Virvnao
here and is moving into Chas. Nute's
tenement.
Gibson Gray has moved his goods to
one of the company tenements and
gone to housekeeping.
Roy Lord and E. U. Ferrin went last
week to Coventry where they have
employment on the steel gang.
Clarence and John Gray of Lyme
Center, N. H., spent Sunday with
their brothers here.
, COVENTRY
Carl Goss has been ill.
W. E. Niles is on the sick list.
Louis Rowell was ill last week.
Mrs. Wm. Stevens is not very well.
Milton Hale has been ill with a hard
cold.
Master Dean Perry is again able to
be out.
N. A. Rowell is moving into Mrs. S.
D. Morrill's house.
Mrs. F. H. Frasier spent Wednesday
in town visiting friends.
Mrs. J. G. Kidder slipped and quite
badly injured one foot last week.
Miss Myra Douglass is home from
Bradford. She returns next week.
Ector Douglass's son of St. Johns
bury has been visiting relatives in
town.
C. O. Litchfield went to St. Johns
bury one day last week to visit his
daughter, Etta.
Dana Alger passed a successful
operation at the hospital in Hanover
and is gaining nicely.
Miss .Muriel Wells of Newport spent
Sunday at thev home of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. John Wells.
The Needlebook club meeting, which
was to have been Wednesday is post
poned on account of bad roads and the
busy sugar season.
Mrs. Alida Niles's sugar house was
burned early Saturday morning. This
Kill This Winter Fly That May Become
Ancestor to Countless Others.
Flies multiply rapidly. One fly can become the ancestor to several
billion other flies in a single season. The importance of exterminating
the winter fly is apparent It Is something that the individual house
keeper must do. Be sure to kill the first flies of the season. Don't let
one escape, as everjr fly killed in early spring means billions less of the
pest this summer. .
Local Boy Scout Movement.
Barton is considering the possibility
of establishing a Boy Scout movement.
Recently a number of representative
men had a meeting to canvass the
matter. The great value of the move
ment was recognized. The greatest
need seemed to be some man to take
up the work. In this connection we
would like to publish an extract from
an address by Ernest Thompson Seton
given at the National Council meeting
of the Boy Scouts of America.
The most important years of the
boy's life are from fourteen to eight
een. These are the years above all
others that are formative. Before
that the metal is too soft, after that
it is too hard. The period between
fourteen and eighteen is just the time
when you can mould that character
into any desired shape, and here again
is a difficulty that the average Ameri
can boy has to meet.
He leaves school at fourteen that
is the history of most of our boys. He
naturally wants to have some fun ; he
is beginning to earn a little money,
and becoming more or less independent
of father and mother ; he is released
from supervision and not yet aware of
manhood's, responsibilities, and yield
ing to the proper and natural impulse
of youth he wants "fun."
There is only one place open for
him, and that is the street, and most
of the influences there are I, am sorry
to say, for evil.
At this point the boy has been
allowed to drift. I am not forgetting
the noble work of church, of Sunday
school, of Y. M. C. A., of synagogue
or benevolent organization, but it is
obvious that they have not solved the
problem, because thi3 dreadful waste of
our most precious national resource
has been going on almost unchecked.
What we think we can do is just
this to give them a new weapon' of
infinite possibilities. We invite them
to use this weapon, to take our materi
al and digest it and absorb i and then
they will come in and cast their lot
with us and work with us on this truly
national idea with the certainty of
uplift for the whole nation.
Give us men enough to lead the
groups and we will carry out our
program so completely that in ten
years ail the jails will be empty and
abandoned !
All any boy needs is a fair chance,
and we want to give it to him. But
what would you clergymen think if
some day you found your church door
jammed with a string of boys, or the
Sunday school overflowing with . lusty
young fellows clamoring for longer
hours and more teachers, or even
midweek meetings and more lessons?
What would the steady business man
think if early some morning a deputa
tion of boys were to come begging him
to be their leader in the study of
civic duties and virtues? Yet this is a
daily experience with the Boy Scout
organization. And it is sad, almost
tragic, when in some cases we see
these boys turned hungry away. I
have seen whole troops go to pieces
because of this lack of leadership.
I say that every school teacher,
every clergyman, every college man
should feel himself called to this
work. He is ex-officio Scout Master.
And when the country wakens up to the
importance of this, there will be a
chair of Scouting in every university.
and a Secretary of Scouting in the
Cabinet. At the present time I believe
we can get all the money we want to
carry out our program, we can get all
the boys we want, eight million of
them but alas, we cannot get the
proper men to handle these boys.
That is what we want how.
is a sad loss for Mrs. Niles just at the
beginning of the sugar season.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Fairbrother
have been in Rock Island, P. Q., to
help care for their daughter, who has
been very ill with rheumatic fever.
The W. C. T. U. will meet with
Mrs. W. E. Niles Tuesday, April 7.
Subject, "National Constitutional Pro
hibition. What Can We Do to Help
Bring it About?" Let everyone, who
can, be present as there will be an
interesting program.
The play, "Breezy Point," given by
the ladies of the V. 1. S., drew a full
house. Considering the fact that the
play was gotten up in less than two
weeks, everyone had their parts well
and the play passed off very nicely.
The receipts of the evening were $26.
The Meddler
"If the coat fits you, put H on"
There is a man in Barton who wears
whiskers, smokes a cheap pipe, lives
in the center of the village and has
nothing particular to do, whom the
Meddler intendes to get atter "good
and rentv." beginning right now. I
shall give the initial letter of his name
further on in this paragraph, lhat
man deserves all that is coming to
him and more: He ought" to be ridden
out of town on a rail. He s not only
mean, stingy, and sour, but a dirty,
low-lived specimen of humanity. The
Meddler teels that it is nis auiy to
show this gentleman up, regardless of
what feelings it may stir up in your
breast. If this item don't stir him up
we shall print one still stronger in a
nearby issue that will "start things"
in the slang of the day. Of course if
you don't wear whiskers it don't mean
you, if you don't smoke a cheap pipe
it is not you, if you are not sour you
are not meant, if you are not stingy
you are immune. Now I said I would
give the initial letter of his name and
I meant it, I will, and more, lhat
initial is A and the rest of his name is
pril Fool. Yes, you thought someone
was going to get "hit" didn't your
My. how you like to read about the
other fellow's shortcomings. But we
all have them, even the Meddler.
"Have you " noticed the fact that
there has not been as much soliciting
of late?" said a Barton lady to the
Meddler last week. "I really guess
your item helped us out a little," she
added. Say, if I thought that was
true I would ask for a pension. If it
is true e I would ask two or three
people who have been a little "sore"
on something that was said in this
column (and of course they couldn't
get "sore" unless the 4eoat fitted) to'
rise up and call me blessed.
A shocking .tale has come to me
A man in town about,
Who keeps a horse for business .
But doesn't clean him out.
The tattler entered the barn one day
He thought the horse on its knees,
Bnt no, the animal merely stood
t At an angle of 40 degrees.
To the owner of poor old Dobbin
A remedy I would suggest.
Apply seven parts of elbow grease
To a shovel, add plenty of zest.
The Duck Pond Road Philosopher
says. "There is two kinds o' lemons,
the kind with the yellow skin an' the
Meddler. Out o' the first menshioned ,
kind (with the right kind o' women
behind 'em) are made fine pies, good
drink and other things." The last
named variety is less useful, some
folks think."
Some folks right here in Barton
have developed a great faculty for
getting on the fence when matters
political, religious, social or economic
come up. Where their backbone
ought to be has grown a wet piece of
spaghetti. But as Ophelia says, "Ef
yir on the fenze you won't git run
over."
The Meddler has been told that a
well-known farmer in this end of the
county was seen going out of the
village about two weeks ago with
several barrels of granulated sugar on
his sled. He would have at least
aroused less suspicion had he got the
sugar home at some other season of
the year.
A citizen of one of our small Ver
mont towns which voted for. license
states the reason for the act as follows :
"If we are going to stand for our
women folks wearing shadow and slit
skirts and our younger women learn
ing to dance the boll weevil wiggle,
Texas Tommy tango, the bunny hug,
the bear dance, the half-canter, the
buzzard flop and so on down the line,
the men folks might just as well have
their saloon and the whole . push go to
hell together."
Which man is the most dishonest?
The one who fails to give in an honest
list, the fellow who steals money from
the town or the "financier," who
sells bis mortgages to the bank the
last of March each year and takes a
bankbook, buys the mortgages back
again in a few weeks. We suppose
the last-named gentlemen do just clear
the law, unless it may be that part of
the law which lays a man liable who
in any way avoids just taxation.
Amedee J. Massie sends a communi
cation to the Meddler which calls
me "bigoted," unjust, unfair and
un-American." Well, that's going some
but we admire the gentleman just the
same. He says what he thinks. He
seems to have been excited by the
Meddler's mention of the postoffice
squabble and reference to the candi-'
date whose name begins with B.
Apparently Mr. Massie did not know
that there were at that time two candi
dates whose name began with B, not
to mention the G. candidate, who by
the way, has some very formidable
looking names on his petition.
.' I notice it ain't the lies I tell about
people that get them mad. It's the
truth that always seems to hurt.
The Meddler