Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-06-15

will have free lunch and in the eve
ming there will be fireworks. Brattle-
boro is handling the situation in a
sensible manner. If the boys Of any
community are left to do their own
celebrating with no guiding hand,
pandemonium will reign and serious
accidents will result. To start with |
the sale of giant crackers, toy pistols
and perhaps high pressure explosives
which are always menace to limb |
and frequently to life, ought to be |
prohibited absolutely. Then to insure |
a sane and sensible observance of the |
Fourth, the boys should be given some
thing to do, in other words their pent |
UP and noisy patriotism should be di-
rected by adult hands. Boys while cele-
brating do not intend to injure them
selves or others. They just don't
think. They don't know as much as
they will after they have had few
more courses in the school of expert
ence. Bellows Falls Times.
Changing Historic Names.
The above referring to Mr.. Hoyt's
letter printed in the Monitor last week.
states the matter exactly. The
changing of the name Of town is only
a nuisance and done simply at the
suggestion of somebody's whim. A
place has to have a name, and when
the old one is changed, it is simply
for a new one to take its place. 1t
is simply change of name-nothing
more. A place that grows up like
Barton Landing" should continue so
for all time, and the older the place
grows in years, the richer it sounds in
name. For years to come the real
identity of the place is lost. Think of
the name Of "South Barton" being
changed to "Willoughby =, How I'M
reasonable the change. Why. lady
called in our office one day and said
"What a pretty lake Willoughby is;
do not wonder you choose it for place
to build cottage. | saw it across the
lake as | passed by" t'From what
point?' l asked. From the car
! down." she answered; 81 could see it
plain" "No railroad at Willoughby
! Lake." 1 replied. you mean
Crystal Lake "Why, the conductor
: called out 'Willoughby' at the station,
she said, $50 of course l called the
! lake Willoughby." And any stranger
5 would. The changing of the name
as happens in most all cases, is dam
7 age to the whole community. Express
} and Standard.
, A Runaway Pond.
7 The Orleans County Historical
society held a celebration of thu
r centennial anniversary of the absurd
, ly uncalled for and altogether indeco
t rous behavior of what is known a.
: Runaway pond. This was a thrilling
instance when even pure water weariet
of the lily-white region and got out O.
. it into Canada as fast as the spee'
r ordinances of those times would allow
e Incidentally it taught, or should hav
: taught, the Orleans county man not t.
h monkey with water when it is wet an
: stirreth in the pond.
e There used to be pond known a
: Long pond, situated partly in Glove
r and partly in Greensboro. 1t was abou
!, a mile and a half long and half mil
n wide and its waters discharging to tn
!, south, went to form the Lamoill
r river. That was where they belonged
l. Anybody stopping to look at the regio
}, round about would know that because
t long before man, that is, the whit
h man, on his pilgrimage from tn
n Garden of Eden, struck Orleans county
r all the water there had been runnin
h down hill for years. But the Orlean
ID county people were fussy and jealou
lie of the people that dwelt in the regio
y of the Lamoille and they wanted t
- make river of their own. So the
conceived the brilliant idea of divert
ing the waters of Long pond, thu
Nature had ordained should run souti
IF to the Barton river that ran off to tn
no q
o of June, 1910, about sixty men gail
at cred at the northern end of the pom
it with their shovels and began cuttin
i an outlet through to the Barton rivel
to They had cut a small ditch and TT
water had begun to run into it whe
al well, the occasion for this celebr
l. ton took place right then and there.
lie Orleans county never has bee
= successful in getting rid of water.
he st. Adams Messenger.
I'd T. N. Vail,
40 T. N. Vail, of Lyndonville has pc
a formed service to the state tn
a. cannot be overestimated in providir
l5 an agricultural and industrial cour
~ at Lyndon Institute, to be opened ne
al September. One of the crying nee
"a, of Vermont is scientific agricultur
60 training for her young men. We ha'
IL educated for the learned profession
T. and have turned out an overproducti
ne of doctors and lawyers, but we ha
80 proceeded on the theory that farm
NC needed no education; that man W
We could do nothing else could run far
Al Recently we have begun to reali
that in hardly any occupation is the
an opportunity for the use of expe
>, scientific knowledge equal to til