Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-03-23

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Remember the soe,able Al the Con-
gregational church next Wednesday
evening The entertainment will
consist OF instrumental music, select
reading, recltations, songs. trios and
the reading Of . paper, after which
warm sugar will be served. All are
invited. /
The lrasburgh people, who have
tested, during the last fouf years, a
a roller for breaking winter roads,
will build three or four more for use
next winter. They find the expense
of keeping good winter roads is much
less with the roller, than by the old
means, while the roads in the winter
and in the early spring, are in very
much better condition than when they
have not been rolled. They use a
roller twelve feet long or rather
two rollers six feet long on same
shaft. An iron shaft runs through
the whole and is firmly held by a
frame that runs around the rollers.
The rollers are left about eight inch
es apart in the middle and a stout
pole runs through between and fast
ems on to both sides of the frame
with shaft bearing in the middle.
The rollers ought to be from six to
ten feet in diameter-the larger they
are the better they roll down the snow.
They are made by fastening arms to
the fan9es on the shaft, on which IS
a circular rim and the outside is COW
cred with slaves light band is
shrunk on to the ends of the rollers
over the heads and when all is done
thoroughly and the rollers taken care
of they will last for years. The ex-
pense need not exceed ,S25. A frame
is built on top, as on the common
land roller, and the driver rifles. Two
span of horses are needed in billy
sections, or where the snow is deep
and hard. The roller makes per-
feet road where there is no difficulty
of travel or turning out.
DEATH OF A WELL-KNowN CITI-
zEN.-Slmon X. Locke died at the
residence of his son-in-law, A. C.
Bryant. on the 18th inst, aged 80
years. Mr.. Locke came to Irasburgh
with his fathers family from Lyman,
n. H., when he was twenty years of
age, and has always resided in this
town, except the few years when he
| lived in Barton. He was a man of
great industry, energy and executive
ability; few farmers accumulated the
property he did by labor and the pro-
ducts of his farm. without specula-
ton of some sort. During the time
when income taxes were assessed, he
gave in a heavy income, only one
man in the county paying a higher
tax than he did. Always partially
disabled by lameness, he found no
man who could excel him in any kind
of farm labor. During the past few
years, by reason of old age, he has
withdrawn from the active manage
ment of his financial affairs, and has
found pleasant home at Mr.. Bry-
ants. He has two brothers living,
William L. Locke of this town, and
Albion Locke of EPSON, n. H., both
present at his funeral. He had sew
en- sisters, viz. Mrs. Jesse Barrows,
Mrs. W. p. Dodge, Mrs. Alexander
Jameson, Mrs. B. f. Herbert. Mrs.
Peter Merrill, Mrs. Hilas Forsaith
and Mrs. John Kellum. Mr.. Locke
was the oldest of large circle of rel
atives. He leaves two children to
mourn his death. His youngest son,
Rev. Edwin S. Locke, was we'll and
and favorably known as a devout
Christian and an able minister.
ANOTHER TALK ABOUT Our SCHOOLS.
The importance of the subject is
reason enough for referring again to
the town system of schools as very
desirable for Irasburgh. The very
last way to economic is to knock the
heads off of the children, or in other
words, keep them in ignorance. With
the district system, the man with chill
dren can seem to feel that he is pay
ing taxes for the good of his own
family, and his heart may not be
warmed by the thought that the same
tax helps his neighbor, also. But
the taxpayer with no children, may
as well include the whole town, as
the recipient of his forced contri-
buttons, and feel the better pleased
that the whole town is benefited.
Now, the fact is, scholars going from
one district to another, or attending
village schools, pay tuition in adj
dition to usual taxation. In district,
and in village schools, there are some
times votes and other indications that
outsiders are not wanted. Not only
is advanced education discouraged.
but to the backwoods boy in poverty,
the very rudiments are substantially
denied, by the cost of tuition and
books, and by the plain words of the
district that no outsider need apply.
1t would be advantageous to the
whole town if the village school was
of such character in all respects that
the older scholars of the out districts
could get better education there,
than the districts can ever give. by