Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1865-12-22
"A Change of Base.

The next number of the STANDARD
will be published at Barton, where
in fact, this number is printed
We have already removed onr Of
fee to Barton and heneeforth oul
patrons d correspondents will
please to ad dress us at tina
place. The reasons for this change
Of base are various, the principal
one, however, is that Barton is a
better place to publish the paper
than Irasburgh. We think it is bet
ter for us in regard to dollars and
cents, and we know and have known
for years that it is infinitely better
for our subscribers. At Barton we
shall have every facility for receiving
the earliest news and of giving it to
the public in the speediest manner.
Situated upon the line of fhe rail-
road we can send our paper to eve-
ry one of our subscribers the day it
is printed, while at Irasburgh this
could not possibly be done. We
have long felt that we were waging
an unequal combat with our broth
ers of thepress in being thus situated,
but as we owned considerable real
estate in town we were compelled to
stay until such time as we could dis
pose oft to the best possible advan-
tage. We have now sold our house
dare going to leave and go to
village. where there is life and ener.
gy, and liberality, and public spirit
more in accordance with our ideas {
of what a village should be. We T
believe we shall be better off for the
change. We think it is a better G
place for US than Irasburgh, though
we have nothing to complain of in
regard to the patronage Of this town. ,
We have had a better support than
any of our predecessors in the print {
ing line. But the business is not
here to be given us and it never will !
be here. The people of Barton pay
us the liberal sum of 5000 for moving {
our pressthere, whichwe think is an
earnest of their intention to support
us well after eget there. We shall
at least labor hard to merit it, and
then, five donot getit our conscience
viii at least be at rest in knowing
that we have done our best to win
their esteem.
We leave Irasburgh with a feeling
of sadness. We haye>b here
more or less for twenty years and
for the last ten years constantly
Although things have not been to our
liking, yet, it has been our home, and
in leaving it feel like one who is
leaving the threshold of his youth,
when the golden memories of other
days and other times are clustering
around and reckoning him to stay,
while interest bids him go. We
came to Irasburgh in moderate cir
cumstances and a reputation to make,
yet we found good and true friends
who gave us their influence, and for
which we shall ever be grateful
Some of those are still friends, others
are not. Perhaps we have been in
the wrong, though we cannot feel
that we have been the only one. We
have done what we could to advance
the best and highest interests of this
village. What we have done has not
taken the mere form of talk like
many who have much more money,
but we have set several examples
which have cost us heavy sums of
money. We gave $3.50 towards
the hotel; We built the handsomest |
house in town at a cost of $4,000 and
have sold it for $4,000; we have
built the Office we now occupy, which
we can sell for 5000 less than cost.
We have sunk, therefore, 1880 in
improving the place, besides giving ,
smaller sums to other objects of i'm ,
proyement In this we could have !
little cooperation. We have now
got done and shall leave it for others .
to sink their money in building up q
Irasburgh. 1t is a good point for i
paper because it is the county seat !
and people are obliged to come !,
here to do their public business, and !
that is the only reason why it is such. i