The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-12-31
EAST DORSET.

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cleric in New Jersey was organizing
the like. Beecher said "the devil
ought not to have all the best music"
Perhaps he thinks the devil ought
not to have all the thick, sweetest
cream of social joys.
Thomas Lee has moved to Wor-
cester, Mass.
Our Lou M. Wall, daughter of
Hon. G. M. Wall, was in the 95
per cent and over class at Burr and
Burton Seminary last term and Mary
Bowen, Katherine McDevitt of South
Dorset and John Petty of North
Dorset in the 80 per cent and over
class. Our Amelia Griffith, daugh-
ter of g. f. Griffith, and prize
winner at kimball Union academy
last year is home again with stand
ing among the best four in class of
25, their per cent being 80 or over.
Paul Landon has just arrived from
Tennessee and only two of the family
of eight are left there now, the pater-
familias and his daughter Lena.
We see in the last SITTER that its
Peru correspondent is again disgrunt-
led with us, We naturally like to be
thought well of and like to please all
but somehow we fail to tickle him.
His deer beats us. The mash was
"mutual" at first sight. He "would
no more have shot that deer than he
would have chopped his hand off"
Hasn't he but one hand T! The diam
eter of our esophagus .isn't quite lon
gitudinal enough to swallow that
statement whole He didn't believe
it himself and nobody else believes it.
Why if he had amputated "his hand
he would have painted the snow blood
red all the way from the slime kiln"
to Peru village and shuffled off his
mortal jacket and been attending a
choir meeting IN Kingdom come be-
fore our DR. Bartlett or Esculapius
from the East could have got to him.
Being "sum plus Eneas"( am pious
Eneas) some amateur of ancient art
might have painted his ascention with
the whites of his eyes turned skyward
and with wings twenty feet or so from
! tip to tip. The said correspondent
insinuates that we are "seeklng nu-
triment from this green earth"-hunt'
ing cowslip and dandelion greens and
ouccotash -uppoeo. No Dir.
"Gentle spring and ethereal mild
ness" haven't come over the mountain
yet. He thinks we are "down on
politics" Nay. We were thrice
elected town Representative in the
early sixties in smart town and by
some of the best people in the world.
We would smile TO duplicate it in the
nineties. And we are "down on
schools" Should he say that IN one
of our schools his vocalization might
be hissed into silence. We have been
town superintendent Of Dorset most
of the time for thirty years, member
of the county board of education and
its chairman When we visit the
schools the wide smile of welcome
greets us and both teachers and
taught are pretty careful about what
they say in eliminating their KS and
VS.. We are no friend of the new
school law and we don't care who
knows it, or of crowdiag everything
into the schools. 1t is reported that
we shall have "water colors" also in
the schools next year and that towns
that do not teach it will be deprived
of their public money. "a stream
divided into many channels ceases to
run either deep or strong" Dorset
has built seven new and good school
houses in the last thirty years and
every one of her school houses are
good and has probably paid more
money for school purposes and for
the education of her children at home
and away than any other town in Our
valley betw cen Bennington and Rut-
land. Our village school house and
grounds cost some $500 and when
we had got it paid for and were run
ping two good schools with twenty
five cents on the dollar Dorset took
our keys and since then with no bet
ter or more schools it has cost us
about three times as much. What
we said about the questions atour late
teachers examination we stick to
"like puppy to root" II Mr..
Critic will be so kind and condescend.
ing as to tell the readers of the SIF-
TER "what five men did the most to
make this country historic" they can
judge whether or not he sis fit to
take charge of one of our schools"
Please do. And we are "down on
religion" saith the critic. From that
phase of the moon when Abel was
let loose among the sweet potato
vines in the garden of Eden to its
present phase there has never been
time when one could get SO much
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