Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-06-10
The Meddler
eff the coat fits yoat, put 1t ON"
o no! The Meddler is not dead.

o no! The Meddler is not dead.
In the line of suggestions allow the
Meddler to say that the residents of
the Evansville road have been very
neglectful. A very little time in
burning the caterpillar nests along
that road would have saved the sorry
sight one now beholds along that high
way Would it not be a good work for
the Boy Scouts to get after those nests
but would have been of infinitely more
benefit month ago.
Outsiders who buy stocks on mar
gin are gamblers, pure and simple
simple.
According to a New York doctor,
1.-THE strain of the modern dances is
constant on the extensor longus digit
Drum and the extensor proprius
hallucis. That's just what | have
contended right along, and now if you
folks want to continue those newfan-
gled steps, why just remember that
you are stralning yourself.
A young married woman of this
town recently became confidential
friend. "Do you know, Mary" she
said. .I didn't accept Jack the first
time he proposed. s'No,'' said the
friend. "you weren't there
Whoever drives car No. 2295 better
attorney will want to know the reason
why.
The MeddIer understands that Ora
had some difficulty in explaining his
fishing trip to Sherburne pond, and
later decided to fish elsewhere. but ask
about it. And another party found
fishing in the Barton reservoir pretty
dry IS compared with what he thought
May pond was. And to continue the
fish business. If one John brought in
five nice fish last week, who cares
where the fifth fish went? And lastly.
If it takes four men eight days to
catch four trout at Long pond, and one
of the party gets at the rate of $25 per
day, how much did the fish cost?
Ophelia says, "Nevir let nobuddy
git yir cote, even if yir tired ov him!'
| There is irony in the fate of COWS
which were killed by the automobile of
a creamery man.
/ If any one person or particular set of
persons think this column is aimed at
them, they are going to have a sweet
time of it this summer, when the
weather gets hot and I get well linn
bered up.
Allow the Meddler to suggest that
the Village Improvement society hire
two boys or young men, one at each
end of the town for couple of hours
Monday morning, to pick up all the
loose paper about the streets and put
| it in the garbage cans. 1t isn't possi-
bic to go through band concert Sat-
urday evening without more or less
peanut and popcorn bags being thrown
about, but if taken care of Monday
morning wouldn't our streets present a
better appearance all the week.
Not once since starting The MeddIer
have [ shuddered as I did when an
undertaken looked me straight in the
face the other day and deliberately
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he saw that I was displeased at the
way he gazed at me. he enlarged his
smile and said, "I'll get you YETI
There is warning to one or two
| drivers of cars in a nearby village i'm
the news of fines in several places in
Vermont of men who have driven, or
attempted to drive cars while intoxi-
Gated. Alcohol. gasolene and speed do
not go well together.
A girl in the eighth grade recently
REPORTED that Oliver Cromwelps brain
weighed 80 pounds instead of 80 ounces.
Say. that's some brain. The square
root of 80 ounces exceeds my Drain
capacity.
It is difficult for the average man to
live up to the opinion he has of him.
tself.
/ Fifteen dollars each is price paid by
couple of Morgan sportsmen with
short trout after being hauled before
the municipal court. Ars there others
who have thus far escaped the SIS las
sessment?
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