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THE NEW VERMONT"
HAL Higgings" Discusses the Idea In
the Light Of the Middlebury
Opening.
From the St Johnsbury Republlcan.l


Nrom the St Johnsbury Republican,
| Our old friend and occasional cores
pohdent, HAL Higgins, is disturbed and
ulsgustcd over certain developments and
bursts over the levee as follows.
| Mister Editur:
when L last writ q Letter on to the Rca-
publican about high lisunce, the Commtty
OF 10 and other kinread polytical subjects,
my Wife Hammer made me promis most
SoIumiy never agin to SO broadcast emmy
more OF my literary productions, but she
Is onloy a ordinary woman and promiss
maze to her is goodeal better broken
| than kcapt any way
MY CRATE and paramount object at this
tlhc to show my unadulitratcd appreshon
OIL the glorarious innaugerrashion of
ftahck Creams New Yarmouth at Midle-
Jury, Adison county, as well as my I'M
speackabl disgust at this Lily-white bis
ness so prevalent in Caledony county,
ana george Morrer thrown in.
mus nigh liSunse bisncss opponed up
III Mlddlebury with Zip and bang which
10 ohct phases her into the foremost rancks
Oh commcrshal senters. Never in my day
mas town the size of Middlcbury had
Sucn blSneSS boom. The NcWsDaDera
say goodly proportion of all those
urUilckS and fines and arrests come from
Wlthout the preacincks of good Old Mid
ieeburry. Mr. Editur, thinck how. If IL
hadcnnt been for this nonsensikle I.illey-
wnlte bisness that has such a ranck grow
eth in Calcdony county. orr own S,n,o
Johesbury might have blossomcd like n
Rose with a most preferable tratick from
| al our Little sister touns When our bue
ness people wake up to the fact that lettle
niiuulcpury, with popcrlashon of less
man one-half of our one Sante .Jonesburv
,ia% scased inns New Yarmouth by the fet :
Iock ana appropriated it as all her owne
ihershall incomes, then shall the ham
| poHHled and deserved poppul,ce bcor
opouls rise up as one high lisIInse man and
stamp out and split upon this IiIlnvv,bi,a
olsheSS.
urHry Clemunt and his culerod ouortit
VA hibur singers is indicated Pursey sed
III ~ niue Book he writ with his Dictur
on 1t and sent broadcast. After 20 tiftcv
years OF the Black Mite of prohibition we
sec IN" dawn of Il Better Day." What n
com oundid set of lucke warm imhosiI
,uogots we high lisunse advercates and
hl'IeE"nltes in Caledony county must be
10 Jet Pursey's dawn of n better Dav
rls up out OF the West and stric< Uttlo
Miudlcbury amdships carrum on the addi-
sson house and cushen against the Logan
'"rNcfh when the dawn of this GloriOuss
morning might Just as well roase over
Harris hill and bathed our santolv sittv
IN us eHullgonse with all its auxellcrv
'''0'HS9. huI niue mldlcburry SnatchcS the
very hurst plum from Pursey'S dawn of n
/ petter pay and we tralc in the dust and
olft OF our own duplissitY und short sited-
ness me papers sed that Wimmin on
washington strcat in midcberry had
HlStorflchs, stubbing THERE toe and fall
ing over PROSTATE bodies of men rcDosinr
on Sidewalks resting themselves from the
hrdrrous dutye of getting up SO early to
heIp usher in the dawn Of "A Better Day.
| Mister EdItur haint it been a long dav
sense we nave had any cases of hrst-class
| 1isterrickS here in Sante Jonesbry? We
might rs well have en- n, little Midle-
berry, they mako bisness. Think Of Thad
| Chappman, high sheriff of addison co.. with
about p DRINKS all raked into ono winro
In little Midleburry. all representatives
| ot New Vermont, who come into sclebrate
the dawn of Better Day. Wouldn't il
| been more progressive and bisncs like TO
! nave mat industry or one like it in our
! own Santc JOancShurv with orr own