The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-06-19
EAST DORSET.

The weather is much the same day
by day nowadays. 92o in the shade
some days and everybody praying for
rain. Grass is unpromising and how
any vegetation keeps green is past
finding out.
A well attended teachers meeting
was held here last Saturday.
Sunday was Children's day at the
Union church. The church was
handsomely decorated and the exer-
cises interesting.
Frank Canary of, or near, Cinci-
natl, a son of Michael Canary and
formerly of this place was drowned
last Sunday. His body is expected
here for burial on Tuesday evening.
Mrs. w. c. Landon had an auction
on Saturday evening and dance
after. A. l.. Bowen auctioneer.
Mrs. Landon left for Knoxville on
the noon train on Monday.
d. l.. Kent & Co. are having q
switch put in, running from north of
the depot west of their marble mill.
This will be good economy and a
great convenience. Their marble
blocks can be unloaded with their der
ricks and their coal run right to the
coal house.
We are pleased to notice that Post
Adjutant, John Fisher, of Fuller
Post reads and writes for the SITTER
but sorry to see that former little
news item of ours about Decoration
day should be thought by him to con-
tain "grave charges" In writing Of
the ''boys", that is, the said Post,
we wrote "East Dorset is very sell
dom or never honored with the least
show" that is of course by them as a
Post in body. This, adjutant Fish
er confirms, officially, over his own
and his official signature. He says
Fuller Post was organized in 1880
and he makes no claim. that they have
since ever observed Decoration day
here but once. son the 30th of
May 1887" he writes the last SITTER,
"Fuller Post and Fuller Relief Corps
in body and the Pawlet Elite Cor
net Band of Pawlet went to East
Dorset" Once in eleven years, once
from 1880 to 1891 inclusive. Ism
that, Mr.. SITTER, pretty near ever.
seldom ?" We said not one word il
the item to which the adjutant re
plies about decorating soldier
graves, all his blows. therefore touch
ing this honor to the dead are agains
the air. The adjutant complains bit
terly of the Posts reception here il
1887, of the "fault finder and hi
neighbors." This seems to be pu
forward as his excuse for not comm;
again. But what was his excuse 70
!, staying away from 1880 to 1887
seven years-before he found on
what kind of cattle we were !! W
once entertained the boys from Man
chester, tables were set the Who'll
length of school house hall for tn
multitude and furnished largely !
not wholly by our people. We ha
a good time and the only skin
hearted man" the adjutant foun
among us was one of the orators c
the day. But doubtless we hav
since deteriorated. The adjutant as
serts interrogatively in his "answe
/ to East Dorset" that "the east sid
I of the town of Dorset is less patr
otto than the west" and he is ricl
"Two members of the Post windin
their way over the hill not to tn
poor house" and we were $50 bus
! wrestling with the difficult problem
of life." The rule is, Mr.. Adjutant
that those who have much of a goo
thing whether it be religion, patrio
ism, cold cash or anything else don
brag about it. If yours is an excel
tional case, if you have an uncon
: monty large piece of the "root of a
> evil you might parcel it out in loan
in the far west and so relieve th
!. government of the pressure from tn;
: region for governmental loans. BIZ
: you must know that your feet al
standing on slippery places and ths
you are in danger. You must hay
: read the little sketch about the cam,
and the eye of needle and the dt
scription of the locality so much i
need of irrigation where Dives abides
Finally, Mr.. Adjutant, you ma
know that more than one-half of til
t grand list of Dorset is to the cred
: of the east side of the town and tbs
the grand list of the school distrit
in which our village is and whel
you saw us wrestling with the dit
ficult problems of life" is nearly one
S fourth of the entire grand list of Do
: set. If our town has paid you $50
J. or less since 1880 we have pal
about one-fourth of it and are so f.
as money is concerned squarely an
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