The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-03-30

though aeeting weekly Barre paper
which died at the early age of fifteer
numbers.
The copy Is not printed on pink pa
per, as tradition has it, Possibly that
tint of paper was used for local cir
culation only as fitting the sentiments
expressed in the "valedictory." The
heading of this six page nine by thir
teen paper is, "The Town News" 1t
is dated Barre, Vt, Friday July II
1890, and the editor unquestionably
believed sincerely it was an unlucky
Friday for the Granite city of Yer
mont. The date line also included this
brief but pathetic legend Vol. l, No
10, and last,
The paper carries the caption, Bert
IL. TAYLOR, editor, published every Fri
day morning, Granite block The edi-
torial column has q general heading
"Editorially Speaking" There follows
the quotation Of this fitting stanza,
which might also have been included
in his final "Colyum;
Il hear voice you can not hear
Which SAYS ! must not stay.
see hand you can not see,
Which beckons me away
Then comes one of the most unique
and striking newspaper yaledictories
ever written. under the heading
"Adios." 1t is as follows:
Owing 10 circumstances land other
parties which have become uncon-
trollable. | feel it my duty to an.
nounce that The Town News this week
ceases to illumine the literary and
journalistic atmosphere Of America and
Barre; this number of
Times noblest offspring is the last.
Il do not wish for a monument Of
Barre granite. The paper as it stands
shall be its own monument. In remov
ing my classic brow from this commu
nity, ands4my hands from its pocket,
| feel thatJ am only doing myself jus
tice, and | em encouraged to move by
the thought that Horace Greeley never
lived here feel assured that, in
point Of regret. We the management,
will feel the lightest pang
For more than three months the
News has striyen against odds to as
sist in bringing Barre to the front. as
she ought TO deserve. But encourage
ment to literary or journalistic work,
and an honest effort to boom the town
and that at personal risk-has met
with almost as little encouragement
as one might expect sympathy from
her stony hills. No paper can live
without liberal patronage. Barre has
failed to bestow that patronage. As
it taacitly says it is not suffering for
my presence, all that remains for me
to say is Farewell
Barre has since the last census
gained about $500 inhabitants, but
it has lost The Town News. The nat
ural inference Of the outside public |
will be that Barre thinks il can grow |
to be place of consequent intelligence |
and worth without that element which |
has always been sought by every boom
ing place in the country newspaper
Well, perhaps il can. | shall interpose
no further objections ! have found |
you a newspaper; ! am not obliged to
find you an understanding TO appre
ciate it.
Barre. | fear, will never build an
Eiffel tower. Her present purpose ap
pears TO be to dig a hole in the ground.
I refuse to get into said hole Barre
aspires to the title of the Granite
Queen. She fails to perceive that one
Of the fairest jewels in her crown
would be a bright growing newspaper.
These words are written with re
grct. not bitterness. ] should like 10
continue to live in Barre, continue to
rast my fortunes with this town, which
most certainly viii keep on growing,
at least, until II becomes
me Of the largest in the state But
have demonstrated thar
wind. as an article Of diet, is not ron
iucive to longevity; that violated
promises Of support never built up q
and that soft answers nef
n butter any parsnips. So
Farewell, Barre. garden Of the god-
Ind paradise Of horse trots!
Farewell, old Milestone hill. your
-ocks and rills and wooded hills, DER
which ! clambered, Quixote like, in
luest Of subscribers!
"'Absence makes the heart grow
onder.' III
1sle Of beauty, fare thee well!-
editor Town News"
Then follows a series Of brief, pert
uips which will appeal to all who
ave enjoyed the "Colyum' of "B.
4. T."
"If the News has done nothing else
{ has accomplished one thing Il has
SISTED in checking the epidemic Of
pavined poetry at one time threatened
" the Medford poet-no, not poetry, II
mt pose run mad" iii
Referring 20 the Barre Enterprise
he News man said; we hope the En-
erprise win comprehend the gravity Of
he situation, and make no fippant re II
larks upon the demise Of the News II
We shall also esteem il favor If the Il
Dung man with the warty intellect II
ill refrain from writing any obituary Hi
Oetry on the occasion. Barre is vel II
1me TO the Enterprise; and, for that II
natter. the Enterprise is welcome to
ARE" iii
Unar the heading "Editorialets, II
. l. 7 wrote the following: Til
"The spiritual address Of the News II
Box 269. Montpelier" HI
For reason best known 10 the III
rinter, the News is a little late thi
eek We wish 20 apologize. and II
romise that it viii not happen again
Senator Ingalls, declares. the talk
I political corruption proceeds from
he .tea-custard and syllabub dilet
lntism, the frivolous and desultory