Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-12-20
THE JOB PRINTERS EXIT.

EDITORS MoNIToR:-If you will allow
me space through your paper would like
to say, 'sTo my friends and patrons that
I thank you for your generous patronage
during the past twenty-eight years, and
that may solicit some more of the same
kind of treatment by and by; but for the
present I have rented my job office to
Geo. II. Blake & Co., who have engaged
Mr.. Bert Hall of St. Johnsbury, as good
job printer was ever in. Orleans Co., to
take charge of the same. If there has
been heretofore, there certainly is no long
er any good reason why any one in this
vicinity should go elsewhere for any kind
of ordinary job printing. Mr.. Blake is,
and has always been an enterprising and
public spirited man and has done SO many
things for the benefit of the community
in which he has lived that there is no need
of my mentioning any of them to people
who have lived here as long as I have.
Mr.. W. L. Jacobs, the junior member Of
the firm. is a young man, honest, accom-
modating, energetic and anxious to serve
you to the best of his ability. Now let US
all turn in and show them that we appre-
ciate them as citizens by extending to
them not only our newspaper patronage
but job printing patronage, too. There
is no more healthy sign of the prosperity
of a community than to see the people
patronizing home institutions instead of
sending their money away to parties who
don't;care pinch of poison for us-except
for our money. Honest old Abraham
Lincoln hit the nail terrible Whack on
the head when he said; eff we send to
England for our steel rails, England has
the money and we have the rails, but if we
buy the rails here we have the money and
rails too;" to which might be added, and |
it applies not only to printing but to all
tradesiwhether mechanical or mercantile. |
If you send away from home, to Roston,
for instance, for your hairpins, Boston
has the money and home has the hairpins,
but if you buy the hairpins at home, home
has the hairpins and money too.
Now just a word in regard to the post
office, reference to which has several |
times been made, both four years ago and
this year, to which have made no reply
because of something of belief in the old
saying that ''Speech is silver, but silence
is gold.'' I am going to take the silver
side this time. I am not so sure about my
making such a boss POSTMASTER as some
seem to think l may. Things are more
complicated there now than they used to
be and there are great many more P's
and Q's to mind in order to keep things
straight, as they must be kept. All can
promise is that shall do the best | can,
and if do succeed L shall give a good deal
of credit to my predecessor, Mr.. c. z.
Jenness, who is doing everything he can
to show me how.
Another word with regard to my soldier
record. One paper stated that / was one
of the bravest soldiers that ever went to
war from Vermont. Now that hit my
crazy bone such rap that Pm not done +
feeling numb yet. As this was said by T
one of my best friends with the kindest
I should be ungrateful not to I.
appreciate it, and do, and extend thanks.
I should not say word about this if there
were not a dozen more old soldiers
scattered around about Orleans County
that were in the same company with me
down South, who know well as I do
thas was a great coward. I never went
into fight in my life when l would not
have ran like steer if had" dared to; but
it took drawer man to get through the
rear guard unless he had an arm or leg
or head gone than it did to face the
Johnnies, and always took the least of
the two dangers. True, [ was taken
prisoner and went through several south
ern prisons, but / was not taken prisoner
and did not go through those prisons of
my own free will, but because of circum-
stances over which had not the slightest
control Because [ went through with what
had to go through and couldn't do any
other way deserve no credit and claim
none. E. FL. WEBSTER,
(Which was) Job Printer.