Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-03-16
PETE HOPKINS WRITER
Mentions Local Men, Orleans County
Roads and Gov. Hardness.


The famous "Pete Hopkins" who
writes letters for the Londonderry
Sitter, has a recent letter in that pa
per which contains so many local
names that we are copying it.
Montpeelyu, Mar. z.
Dear Jim:
Didn't rite last weke, Yer see it
hapned this way. Bill trasy wuz
heer frum jonsun, kinda lookin ter
glitter rase in hiz pay long Their rest
Nv them Staets turneys. Bill sed as
how thay left it all ter him an he
he'd set Their thing up os Their kudnt
help but win. So he invited me upter
stay ovur sunday with him. WAL
went. Bills wief want ter hoam an
didn't fele like ritin. Bill izzer CRATE
Teller, let Bill tell it. Guess he wuz-
ger kinda wurried fur fere hiz wief
wuld run agin hist falls. Bill SEE
Garry Nashun haint gut ennything on
her.
Rolf series, clare Powell, frank
Tomson an Dave portur hedder con-
ferense hear tother mite. 1t muster
ben kwite important fer they didn't
git thru till near mornin.
Seen Chansy brownell frum Berlin
tun kummin in on Their trans. CLANCY
wuzzer cryin with Their teres runnin
doawn his. chekes as fast as jon
Southik kuld wipe EN- away. Thot
sum ov hiz narest relativs must be
ded. What's the matter seq l ter
Chansy, kinda simpathizin lick. Waal,
SEE CLANCY line felin ser bad bekose
Bill Mekkillup didn't git lected mayer.
He wuzzer goin ter fix things rite
fer my lectric rode, an now I've gutter
go inter bankrupsy. Cess them vot-
err up ter Mart Villasses toawn must
be gittin outer o. p. Smifs komberna-
shun. After turnin doawn Bill an lit
tel Levi all in wun yere they otter hav
a medul frum kongrass.
4 O, Jim, we've ben havin heluva-
item here. Their old gard amt plesed
an jentle as they thot. Fer a item
thay didn't kno jst whatter du. Then
Stod bates rekruted a galvant army
konsisten ov hisself an field marshul
an jenerul kady ov Middulbury, hoo
hez a distinguish servus baje fer SER
Wis ter Their old gard, an tergether
thay nader attak on Their dugout
WHARF Sunny Jim hez hiz -herwarters.
Thay gut past Their wire entangul-
ments an sprized Julis Wilkox an Their
gunner plannin a flank movemunt
with Bill holden frum Massachusetts,.
Lookin up an seem Their enemy rite in
frunt ov him Sunny Jim kalled fer
endorsements an in KUN latin Char
ley forbs. Their gunner had left fred
Kressy ter gard Their doris sost Stod
kudnt git in sudden lick, but fred bein
def didn't here stods army when it
marcht past.
Surrender, sed Stod! / wunt, seq
Their gunner. Whot have yer ben say
in bout me, SEE Stod. I've ben saying
that yove bilt all them good rodes in
Orleens kunty just fur to giev the
rumrunners a good start ter git doawn
thrugh Their staet, sed Their gunner,
you think you wanter good rode sost
yu ken gle inter Canedy jest az you
| wanter, and not gin us ennything
You doant halter hav rodes in Spring
feel, SEE Stod, you've gut enuf stills SO
yer doant halter go inter Canedy, you
an herb Blanchard. All the item twas
gitten a little hotter, an Stod was ed
| lin a little cloaster. All ov suddin
| Their gunner started an ink baraje an
Stod sent jeneral Kady ter bring up
his reserves, consistin ov Charley
Cats and Kurt Emry. Kady. kudnt
find EN-. You see whiel thay waz a
waten fer orders they seen Alum
Fletchur walking up an down Their
Korrider, Helen blases sed Kurt,
Doant kno hoo she was, but that's
whot he sed, an then and estes run in
thrugh Their waten room and doawn
stares. Thay he'd sum sperience with
Fletchur. Thare wuz nuthin fer Stod
ter do but a retrete.
Looks zif W had sum gunner aftur
all. y
yures Truely,
Peter Hopkins.
p Sole Martin Lufer amt Their
only wun that thru an ink well at Their
devil.