Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-08-29
uelen gave a little gasp. "Ney

Helen gave little gasp Ne'ei'
sbe cried. Never
THO blackboard stopped on the Her
o,d corner. and here and along Main
s,raet the line of vehicles which had fol-
Ioxed II from the station took positions
20 await the parade. The square was
oIr,,ost n solid mass Of bunting, and
tho north entrance Of the courthouse
nod heen decorated with streamers and
eags so as to make sort or stand
IJither the crowd was already stream
ing and hither the procession made its
nov At intervals the gun doomed
,ror, the station, and Schofields' Henry
was winnowing the air with his bell
Nobody had a better time that day than
Scboaelds' Henry, except old Wilker-
son. who was with the procession.
In advance came the boys, whooping
and somersaulting, and behind them
rode a band of mounted men, sitting
their horses like cavalrymen, led by the
sheriff and his deputy and Jim Bard
lock Then followed the Harkless club
of Amo. led by Boswell, with the mag
unanimous Holloway himself marching
in the ranks, and at sight OF this the
neonIe shouted like madmen. But when
uelen's eye fell upon Halloway's fat.
rather unhappy face she felt pang or
pity and unreasOning remorse, which
warned her that he who looks upon
notifies when it is red must steel his
eyes to see many man with the heart
hurn After the men of Amo came the
Harkless club Of Gainesville, Mr..
Bence in the van with the step OF
grenadier. There followed next Mr..
Ephraim Watts, bearing a light wand
in his hand and leading detachment
If workers from the oil field in their
stained blue overalls and blouses, and
after them came Mr.. Martin and Mr..
Lands at the head Of an organization
recognized in the "order of procession
nrinted in the Herald as 1.-The business
men of Plattville." The band played in
such magnificent time that every high
stepping foot in all the line came down
with the same jubilant PUNK and lift
ed again with a unanimity as complete
as that Of the last vote the convention
had taken that day. The leaders of the
procession set brisk pace, and VINO
| could have set any other kind of q pace
when on parade to the strains of sucf
band playing such tune as "A New
Coon In Town" with all its might ant
| main?
But as the line swung into the squar
| there came a moment when the tun
was ended and the musicians pause'
for breath and there fell comparat1v
quiet. Among the ranks of the "bus1
ness men" ambled Mr.. Wilkerson, sing
ing at the top of his voice, and now u
| could be heard distinctly enough TO
those near him to distinguish the me
ody with which it was his intention t
favor the public:
GLORY, glory, halleluiah!
AS we go marching on
The words, the air, that husky voice
recalled to the men of Carlow anothe
day and another procession not like thi
one. And the song Wilkerson wa
singing is the one song every norther
born American knows and can sing
The leader of the band caught til
sound. signaled to his men, twenty in
struments rose as one to tWent
mouths, the snare drum ratified, the b1
drum crashed, the leader threw h
baton high over his head, and mus
burst from twenty brazen threats:
GLORY, glory. halleluiah!'
Instantaneously the whole processio
began to sing the refrain, and the pc
pie in the street and those in II
wagons and carriages and those lea
ing from the windows Joined with OF
accord. The ringing bells caught II
time of the song, and the upper a
reverberated in the rhythm.
, The Harkless club Of Carlo
7 wheeled into Main street, 200 stron
with their banners and transparenci'
Lige Willetts rode at their head, al
: behind him strobe William Todd a.
: Parker and Ross Schofield and Ne