Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-02-25
MEMORIES OF GLOVER.
It's People Sixty-five Years Ago and
Since.
Letter No. 5.


At night after writing one of these
lettsrs lie thinking, and cannot help
il, and many things come to my mind
in relation to each line, and facts that
Ihave to return and finish up as best
] can.
There were men who lived in Glover
in my early days whom l have not
mentioned. For instance there were
the two Blanchards, Nathan the far
mer. and his brother, Sewell. Sewell
as a young man was very gentle and
morally a model. His first venture
which 1 remember was travelling
around the country on foot selling
silverware, and be had the confidence
of nearly everybody. He atterw ards
opened a store which Jack" Drew
used to occupy. Another man who IN
call to mind was a Jonah French liv-
ing in the southeastern part OF the
town, and his daughter, Sally, has re-
Gently died in Glover. He had two
sons whose given names have escaped
me, but the memory of one is very
clear. as he was in some respects
wonder. He was a very plain farmer
boy and not very grammatical in his
language, but wonderful reader and
a gatherer of information and was
literally ga walking encyclopedia" as
well as ageographical.s scholar. The two
young men went west and they called
on me once while lived in the state
of Wisconsin. There was also Daniel
Goodwin, a brother of Moses, he lived
on a farm not far from Zedekiah
Phillips and among the most stirring
and noisy men in town. William
Merriam, known by everybody as
"Bin Merriam" was genial, jolly and
hearty and was wealthy resident.
There was also rather eccentric
little Englishman we'll known as
s'Billy Roe" one of the "honestest"
little men / ever knew. Another
man overlooked as.Milton Bickford,
brother to Stillman Bickford. He
lived not far from Solomon Dwinel.
You will notice, Mr.. Editor, that L
use contracted names good deal and
the reason is that everybody in those
days was on a common level, and
socially very familiar in their inter-
course, and as friendly as they were
familiar. There is another thing
about the people of Glover in those
days, and that is that morals ran
high, even If protested religion was
not so prevalent and the town wac not
devoid of the latter by any means, of
which l will write later on. Now as
to morals; never knew in those old
DAYS but one Glover man to go to
states prison and he was raised in
Greensboro. However along in the
thirties there was a young man who
got into line in that direction, he
was only 10 years old. In the
township of Barnston, Canada, there
used TO be a great deal of counterfeit
money made, and some one got hold of
this green yonngster and persuaded
him that he could make lots of good
money getting counterfeit bills chang
ed. The result was that he was
caught. tried in court and found
guilty. He belonged to good fami-
ly, and it was shown he had been a
boy, so the Judge reserved judgement
and on his promise to be good there
after was allowed to go home with
his father. He was afterwards 6
good citizen and died many years ago
give no names in these cases as
have no reason to cast reflections OIL
any family after people are dead
In connection herewith l wish tt
point a moral in direct opposition tt
the credical doctrine of total depra
witty. have lived nearly So years
have lived in several states, ant
travelled from Denver, Colorado, Il
Augusta, Maine, and am glad to ga.
that have never seen Satan's clover
foot stamp crime on any tombston
any where. John Smith, murderer,
"Sam Patch, swindler," "Peter Fox
thief" has never been engraved on
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there Is in the human nature. An
other line of thought occurs to me
and that is the difference in the Gus
toms and habits of the people as wei
as in methods.
Speaking about the carding machin
and falling mill brings to mind the
fact that most people spun and WOW
their own clothing. Many girls use
to go out to work doing houseworl
and spinning. In those days hire
girls were thought as much of as any
body and were as one of the family
Spencer Chamoerlain's daughters
Amanda, Janet and Melissa and an
other, Nathan Norton's daughters
nanial Froat's daughter and man