Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-07-22
REASONS ENOUGH.
Dear E. itor:-

Dear E E,itor:-
l am enclosing $1.5O for a years
subscription to the Monitor. Until re-
Gently could see little if any reason,
for parting with good money for
county paper. [ take daily, some
farm publications, and one of the cur
rent magazines and that seemed to be
all the reading matter we needed. but
owing to some peculiar circumstances
of late, which [ am anxious to avoid in
the future, and which | am aware
might have been avoided had l taken
your paper. | am becoming subscri-
Der. You may be interested to know
what the reasons are for my change
and l therefore have decided to give
them to you:
About the last of June the price of
veal calves went up little. and as l
ed to market them. 1t happened to be
the week before the fourth of July
that took them to market. but that
week they were not shipping any stock
and had to carry them home On the
way back old Bill Higgins asked me
what l had been buying. and after I
told him the circumstances and freely
cussed the drOvers Bill said that YOUR
paper stated there would be no stock
taken that week. But | didn't take
the paper.
The next Monday I was up early be-
cause Mrs. Newman had decided to go
North on the eight o'clock train. We
arrived at the depot early enough, but
the train schedule had been changed.
| Monday mornings there was no train
north, and new train on the summer
schedule arrived half an hour earlier.
A notice of this change and new sum
mer timetable appeared in your paper
a few weeks previous. But [ didn' t
take the paper
have been intending to buy a new
buggy wagon, for some time but hated
to pay $75 to $100 for one. The other
day Smith Barnes stopped at the house,
had been wanting, said he only paid S35
for it and it was good as new. He saw
it advertised in the Monitor. But |
wasn't subscriber.
Down at the postofice the other
night | got into a red-hot argument
over the fish laws. and | was right
too only the last legislature had
changed the law and didn't know it.
They told me that the paper had print
ed a pamphlet with all the new laws
enacted at the last assembly. l had
made fool of myself in the argument
But didn't take county paper.
We had prosperous year ard after
selling lot of potatoes, I thought
could afford to sort of rig up the
whole family. with new clothes and
shoes and things. asked one of the
neighbors where I could get the best
that I ought to have taken advantage
of the advertised sale. where the mer.
chant had to sell out in order to make
room for another business. He said
there was big advertisement in the
pager. But you see | didn't have the
paper.
aways like to go to good entertain
ments especially in the winter wher
there isn't much work on the farm,
, but last year [ missed good many of
them at the villages, because I didn't
know about them until they were over.
find they were all noted in advance in
, your paper. But I didn't have it.
complimented the good wife the
other day, on a dish that just hit my
palate and she just smiled and sale
it was from receipt she had copied
from Mrs. Browns Monitor.
just happen to mention these few
reasons why [ am enclosing the 81. sc
| and becoming new subscriber to your
paper, there are a lot more reasons
there are more than a dollar and a
half's worth of them.
Very truly,
l. M. Newman.
P. S. Mrs. Newman has just learned
that you are to run in the Monitor as
serial story ''The Secret of Lonesome
Cove' by Samuel Hopkins Adams, ane
she allows that this would cost S1.5
in book form. She would probably
, have bought it too, so you see the pa