Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-02-02
COUNTY OFFICE HOLDERS.
Pete Hopkins, Back on the Job at Mont
pelier, overhears an Interesting Con-
versation.

Pete Hopkins, Back on the Job at Mont
pelier, overhears an Interesting Con,
versation.
DEAR JIM
| Didn't rite las week becos / went
over to Barrie and dident git bak to
felein rite till late in the week. Barrie
ain y no phase for childrun or pro high
bisioners. Ain It goin to rite what hap
cned but III tell when | see yer.
| jim, I'm beginner to see sum things
as you sed l d see. Their s pesky lot
ter lawyurs hangin aroun all the time.
Square dunnets here most all the time.
Saw him las mite navigatin about tom
hafey's going left eye foremost jes zif
he was looking fer porter Dali. Then
| brunt Stikney and jerry Sarjint, them
that Bill jones SEE is the gold dust
trims are bizy gretein evry kernel an
Jedge as comes in an Their are sum of
EN-. Then Jedge alfred of import with
his canady pasifc smile CONS i'll to see
harry Blak to see if nothings got by
him, and Bill Lord WHO'S ben in the Sd
hous so long and dun so well the voters
of montpelyur wuldn t tax him away
| frum it, and little charlie Bak. with
inherent looks whoos got chet Writers
ole job, and charlie ain I so innersent
as he looks, or as greg Sniff sez he is,
An Jon Gorden! Say, Bill Jones seq,
sez he, that jon Gordon bees got SO
mulch wizdum in him heel bust sum
day. Chansy Brownel lookin as plus as
ever. An jon Redmun who thinks bees
instrukter for the Soopreme cort. an
lot more of EN- as they say haz hung
aroun evry legislachure for moren thir.
ty yeres. Wisht they'd go hum and
mind there own bizness.
Spoze thyre hear to Sc about the
court bill. You know Jim we can't
max jedges outen any thing but law.
yurs, that's monopoly for yer. Sum of
| thees jedges must ben 2x4 LAWYERS
at that. Bill jones sez, SEE he, them
| lawyers elaine the publick owe EN- a
Twin and thyre hear to see faint taken
away from EN-. l don't kno butlI be
hard sleddin fer sum of EN- judges if
Hold hez things as hees planned. Wy,
| there's ferdie South gate and Toni
shrunk, they've ben DRAWN salarys
sence they're nursin bottle was takn
away an if they he'd to go wurk fer
liven, like us fellers, they wuldnt
kno how. What'd they do if they cud-
ent pass on wills joodishusly? Take
them lawyurs at brattleboro. You
know EN-, Jim, an so duz every one in
the county. goin to write you more
about EN- sum time, and how they max
theyr clyents work for EN-. Twould
max us all mad, jim, eff we want all
Wilsonized and wuld rather Civ up our
wives and children rathern start a
rukshion.
Herd Frashur Metser talkin long
with jorge Dunam bout window county
lawyurs as he'd OFFICES. An Dunam
was a tellin him Their was Waturman
hees jedge, and tom o brine hees
jedge, an Frank barbur, hees jedge,
and toni Shrunk hees jedge, and jon
Gail, hees bankrup jedge, and bill
Delay, hees jedge, and Gipson hees
ben jedge, and Hurb barbur hees tur
ney genrul, and Claire Miller hees
sistent turney genrul and probat orr
| fcer, and Hermun eddie he senattr
and sistent to toni Shrunk, an orion
Hews hees turney for the state, an
AID cudwuth hees chairman joodishary
comitte, and arthur car painter hees
marshall, and Bob Baken hees chair
man publik serve us comishon, and
Kneele Klosson hees skout fer sub
marines for the serve us comishon- an
Warren CRANE hees also iedge-
''Stop!" sails Frasher, "yure taken
up too mulch time; orifces must be
ketchen down yure way. Tell me
who haint an offic mongst the law
| yurs. AS / KEN away Jorge was
asayin that Herm eddie cud tell him eff
he was there but as for hisself. he
| culdn 4 tell No wunder. Jim. thev
don't want the corts changed.
Look out fer the holstine hcffer
Hope ter git home to see bout ther
butcherin.
Truly yurs,
PETER HOPKINS,
p. Sind out how meny Hurb bar
bur hez in his oriicc as lint paid
by the staff Hold sez he wants to
know eff one can be found, an if the
stait hcz gotter run the hole orfce-