The sea coast echo., 1896-04-18
He STILL LIVES,
The Editor Who Doesn't Go In for Met
ropo1itan Style.

| The Editor Who Doesn't Go In for Met
ropolitan Style.
1t gives us pleasure to announce hat
the intelligent and cultivated wife q,
Sam Barrett, the genial and first-class
carpenter living IN the HILL has pre-
| scnted him with a bouncing boy weigh
ing II pounds. rne fond parents have
our congratulations and next week
Sam will reshingle the roof of this Office
at wages of $3.50 per day.
During the last week Squire johnson
has painted three sides of his uaru all
ny himself, and the improvement is
great credit to the entire community.
We wish that all our citizens had the
enterprise of this well-known and iuct.
ly popular official.
Later-As we 60 to press the squire
is working on the fourth side of the
barn.
We saw some particularly fine pate.
toes in Taylor's grocery the other day.
and were pleased 10 be told that ttry
were raised on the farm of Mr.. George
l'loom, about three miles west OF town.
George" as we eve to call him, drcps
in occasionally 10 chat with us, and we
always feel the better for it. What tais
country needs is more men of his stamp.
We are glad to know that his two hogs
Lave recovered from the cholera.
The town trustees had meeting in
the engine house last night. and it wns
resolved3t TO put five new planke on tie
driveway of the bridge, and pay Widow
Brown S4 cents for damage dore n
her smokehousc by the fall of the
fagpole. Our trustees are active, cncr-
gctic men, who have the best interests
of our town at heart, and we take pleas.
ure in chronicliu5 the fact. The five
rev planks will be quite boom for
the bridge.
Our heartfelt thanks are due to Mrs
George Colchester for 12 beautiful hca's
eggs and bunch of peppermint left
cn our table one day last week during
cur temporary absence to visit onr
first wife's grave at the cemetery Mrs.
Colchester is a farmers wife, ant proud
OF the fact, and tEnt she is big-hear:ed
end likes to see other people get along
Is proved by her generous and timely
gift. We hadn't an egg in the house
when these came, and it really seems
as if our guardian angel had whispe rcd
The fact in her ears.
What might have proved sad calam-
ity to this whole community was avert
cd last Wednesday afternoon by the
Judgment and bravery of Charles Hop
son, the genial and much-beloved keep
CT of the village pound. Mrs. Hastings,
mother of the popular Abijah Hastings,
rad been trading at Smiley's. just
as she was about to get into the one
horse wagon to drive home again Nr.
Hopson noticed that the tire on the
off hind wheel was loose. With com.
mendable bravery he sprang forward,
borrowed hammer of Jim Elliott, ard
IN few moments had it back in place.
1t is such little everyday incidents rs
these which endear the people of this
town to the editor and make him salts.
fed to live on six dollars a week.
In walking by the home of the whole
souled and warm hearted Abram Potts,
Just north of Dickinson's tannery, we
i'phNCu 81 siHu VI L OF SaIe on Tho
fence. We were astounded. We Won
tured to intrude, although it was Sun
Cay afternoon, and Mr.. Potts gave US
warm welcome. He explained that
it was not the house and lot which
were for sale, as we supposed but
quantity of grapes growing in his
yard. This relieved our mind at once.
The grapes are two dollars per bushc!.
We learned incidentally thatMrs. Potts
las whitewashed three bedroom cell.
iIgs with her own hands this year, be-
sides doing up two bushels of peaches
and working motto of "God Pless Oar
Home" for her sister in Milwaukee.
Mr.. Potts, as our readers know, directs
the buzzsaw at the sawmill, and is per-
haps the best judge of sawlogs in this
whole state.-Detioit Free Press.