Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-03-31
ONE VINO Was THERE.

their heartfelt thanks.
ONE VINO Was THERE.
JAY.
VIM. P. Ewins moved last Saturday
on to the Greenwood place. purchased of
D. L. Hildreth. Bartlett and
B. N. Chase have gone to Canada after
a drove of colts and horses Hay is
plenty and good quality and can be
purchased at from IS to SO per ton.
LOWELL.
Guy Goodrich boasts of saving So
running cords of hard wood in hours.
Joseph Blake has sold his farm to
Mr.. Rowell of Albany, and moved to
Montpelier on to the Lucy Cook farm.
Tim Blake has abandoned his farm and
gone with Joe.
It was bad mistake Of ours last
week when we so sadly mixed up the
names in giving an account of the F. H.
Skinner wedding. 1t was very agree
able affair nevertheless. Ed.
A goodly number of the friends of
William B. Dodge and wife met at their
residence on the evening of the 2lst, to
celebrate the 25th anniversary of their
marriage. There were the usual cere
monies, a very liberal number of pres
ents, abundant refreshments and gen.
eral good time. Rev. Mr.. Phelps made
the presentation speech, and contributed
the poem below:
1t is not good for man to be alone,
And women 1 am sure do not enjoy 1t;
They're rather shy of letting this be known,
But reason tells US that if we employ it,
As man sails onward in the voyage of life,
1t were lonely trip, but that beside him
There sits kind and true and faithful wife
Whose love is sure whatever may betide him.
And ancient maidens, tho they scorn the sound
OF the word husband nor would think about one,
Yet when they do get married I'll be bound
They wonder how they got along without one.
A quarter century of welded life
Gives chance to know something about it
1t brings much happiness to and wife
Here are my witnesses if any doubt it.
Well place these friends upon the witness stand,
Sware them to tell the truth and shame the devil
Have not these years you've spent in wedlocks band
Brought you far more happiness than evil?
Are there not joys, sir, which outweigh
Even the lectures given behind the curtain?
You're surely happier for your welded day;
You hear him answer, "That is so" I'm certain.
And you who promised on that long-passed day
In these same words or others that implied it,
Is it not good to ''honor and obey?"
al do not know she says, 81 haven't tired it,"
Well, advocates before my day have found
That witnesses will sometimes prove refractory,
But on the whole think my case is sound
And proved to degree that's satisfactory.
For who that looks upon their home tonight
And sees them with their children gathered round
Their faces beamng with loves radient light Them
Could wish that Hymen's chain had never bound
Them
TITS well to marry young, tho here I'll own
My practice squared not wholly with my preaching
But that is something which you may have known
To be the case with some other kinds of teaching
There's much in choosing yet I've sometimes though
That Providence, like some wise worldly traders
Keep back some articles which would be sought
If brought to the notice of the earlier raiders.
And that although perhaps in this I'm bind.
And may receive new light time adyances,)
A few choice articles are kept behind
To give to widowers such extra chances.
But be this as it may. hold that marriage
For young folks, and still more grow older.
Compares with single life as does a carriage
With trudging with pack upon ones shoulder.
And those who have for twenty-five years tried
The welded yoke and found it not uniting
May feel content to travel side by side
And wear it fifty, Providence permitting.
| May such lot be yours if God sees best
I'm sure my wish is that of all this partly
May you in years to come be greatly best
Your golden wedding find you well and hearty.
And while you share to such marked degree
The blessings Of the life this side the river,
May it be given you by faith to
| God, and to recognize Him as the Giyer.
| And having reached that world where We are told
| They marry not, are In marriage given.
| May you through endless years OF bliss behold
Your Saviour, and enjoy the rest of heaven.
NEWPORT.
J. G. Moulton is the first man to ge
out wagon.
H. Lawrence has his store room nearl
ready for new goods.
Lucius Robinson who has been i'll 70
the the past week is convalescing.
H. S. Lawrence has been appointe
guardian for Jack Hunt of West Derby
John Walker has taken the tillag
land belonging to the o. Robinson estat
to carry on, and has moved on to tn
place.
NE WPORT CENTER.
John Dunn has hired and moved int
the J. Crawford house on second stree
The widow Cello has let her farm
her son Frank and her son-in-law Cha
Peck for one year.-Chester Allen talk
of moving to Westfeld where he wi
carry on the blacksmith business.
NORTH TROY.
Hayden and Dow of Albany, shippe
a car load of horses from this place La
Saturday to Massachusetts,.
William Phelps of Sutton, P. O., W;
seriously injured while coupling cars ;
Mansonville station last Monday.
The trains on the S. E. r. r. have
, late been crowded with Canadian EN-
grants en- route for the manufacturing
towns of New Hampshire and Mass