Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-11-11
The Meddler
"J the coat fits you, put it on"

"F the coat fits yoa, put it on"
Election being over it is time the
Meddler got busy. There are so many
things that need stirring up we don't
know where to begin.
There are some people in townywho
are getting some free advertising by
not paying their election bets It's a
cheap man who sQueaks out of paying
square bet because Une cannot collect
1t by law.
Don't let the Meddler ever catch a
man doing an act like that [ saw few
mornings ago. A prominent business
man Of this town was seen hurrying to
his Office and in spite of his haste he
deliberately stopped, turned and depos-
tied piece Of waste paper, q wrapper
! from newspaper, in one of our rub
bish cans. Such a violation of the
usual custom will not he tolerated.
A fearless young lady. Miss Hooking,
Went out with hole in her stocking,
This lady then said,
With a toss Of her head,
Il don't give darn if It's shocking."
Some two hundred voters in this
town did not get to the polls. A GER
tain few. possibly so, could not possi-
bly, do so because of necessary absence
or sickness, but any other excuse is
but an excuse and such conduct ought to
| be penalized in some manner. One ell
derly man made his boast that he had
never voted for one president Our
feelings toward such men are beyond
the Meddler's vocabulary to pronounce.
| When the president of this United
| States spends hours Of travel and time
/ to cast his vote, and other men, sick
but feeling call to express their
privilege of suffrage are assisted to
the polls, the stay at-home ought to be
deprived of the right of being called a
citizen of his state or the United
States.
Persons who recently had occasion
to visit our beautiful cemetery re.
marked to the Meddler that it was too
bad that stone pile and snow roller
were so conspicuous there.
passenger station reminds the Meddler
of newspaper office after publication
and hurricane. Of course the snow
will soon hide it.
Our sidewalks at the street crossings
have been in awful shape most of the
| time this fall. Isn't there some way
in which we can have them better at
tended to?
A friend of mine boasts he can pro-
nounce any name mentioned in the war
dispatches. Such names as Borisbliesk,
UhmSk, SlobOdishtchl, etc., bother him
not at all, and it's for the reason that
he has SYSTEM" All he does is to
work up a good cold in the head, throw
in little liver complaint with touch
of rheumatism, and jumping tooth
ache, and the war map looks to him
like first "primary'' reading book
. Not long ago the Meddler passed two
men standing in the gutter and talking
(politics possibly and one deliberately
turned around and spit on the sidewalk
despite the fact that it would have
been easier to spit in the street and
despite the fact that there is law
prohibiting "expectorating on the side
: walks" Perhaps that was not an ex-
pectoration. but judging from the size
of the "gob" and the circumference of
, the spot it made on the walk we should
call it a fair-siZed relief.
The Duck Pond Road Philosopher
says: "I seen two hens tother day
comm down to town. One run across
the road afront O. my mare and tother
whzzed past in an automobile. AS fer
me I'd choose the first one mentioned.
, A real hen is some useful to a feller
when she lays or sets. and makes good
eatin' too. It's not SO with the tother
kind. -
The Meddler noticed this lying
around on an editors desk recently and
as it is not an unusually large request
of newspaper. print it herewith:
''Send me few copies of the paper
which had the obituary and verses
about the death of my child week or
two ago You will publish the en-
closed clipping about my niece's mar
riage. And | wish you would mention
in your local columns, if it don't cost
me that l am going to have few
extra bull calves to- sell. Send me a
couple of extra copies of the paper this
week, but as my time is out you can
stop my paper. as times are too hard
to waste money on newspaper"
The Meddler believes the fresh-air
treatment is fine. 1t should be
!, preached and practiced more than it is.
Most people need it. But when it
, comes to farm implements, it's diff
ferent thing. / have noticed in GER
tain sections of Orleans county the
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