The Press., 1909-12-22

paign beautiful, slim tapering and l tall hickory pole was raised on the Hill. nearly opposite the Baptist church. remember distinctly now how that pole looked.
 From my knowledge of the nature of the ground I should think the people must have found 1t hard to flnd spot suitable for the digging of the hole for the pole, but they did, and the pole was set deep and thoroughly braCsd with strong bfaces set at augle of about forty five degrees, and some i've or six feet high. think Shat there were four of the braces
 Of course the whigs did not like to see hickory pole on the Hill, and one night the pole was bored with an Iaugur just above the braces till it could be easily pushed over with 8 lspike pole. It was ns yer known who did the job, but it was thought that certain young men in the east hollow knew who turned the augur.
 Van Buren was elected by a large majority, thus indorsing the policy o' Jackson, and history says that Jatk son, after his reelection, thinking that his policy in opposition to the United States bank had been sus- tained, removed all the public money from the United States bank, and il being in private or state banks money became plenty and borrowing easy and speculation rife. Credits were extended.
 Very soon after Van Buren wss in. augursted thex5 banks curtailed theil circulation, and what was known as the panic of 1897 came, and the same history says that the depreciation oi Iproperty in New York alone W 14O, 900. 900 dcllars, and New York then was only fraction of that of itf present size
 How we'll I remember those two years of panic. not only two years ot panic, but of short crops as we'll, especially the year 1888, when there was frost every month of the year. and fathers corn was all damaged by the frost. with none that was suitable for the next years planting.
 I don't think that the panios of the times then were so universally felt as at present. as the people then lived almost entirely from their farms. Flour was high $12 per bar rel, but in our family of ten We used but one barrel year. Rye and Indian wore the staple grains and ou1 meat. vegetables and fruit. of which we had good supply, were raised on our farm.
 My impression Is that during the panic of 18378 the glass factory kept steadily on it's way, thus making 8 good market for any surplus from the farms and for wood which could be cut aud delivered
 There was very little money, but net much was needed. The company had a very good general country store and exchanged their goods at a fair price. There was 8 fair competition, IS there were two other stores in the town and no trusts in restraint o1 trade.
 have already referred to the card ing machine and the fullipg mill and the cloth dressing at Daleville, and at what is now South Willington. and in this connection I will me ntion that some ten years ago I was at Fay lor's Falls, some fifty or more miles above St. Paul's, on the St. Oroix river, a farming community, and in a local gristmill I saw one of those carding machines for carding roll for the farmers wives to use on their hand spinning wheels, as of old. There were in WilliDgton at the time of whiUh speak families who were we'll to do and able to send their children away to better schools than the town afforded. such as Esq Rider, Eqs Glazier and Jonathan Weston on the Hill and others, but with the majority it was the common school, and that only some 12 to 15 weeks in winter
 The we'll to-do families could supply themselves with imported woolen goods for the clothing of their fami. lies. and satinets manufactured 8t