Edmund Pollard-Dippold the Optician Summary

In this section the reader meets Edmund Pollard, who believed the Life is for feasting upon; Thomas Trevelyan, who read Ovid; Percival Sharp, who stirred "vibrations" in Spoon River; Hiram Scates, who ran for the nomination for President of the County Board; Peleg Poague, who believed horses and men are just like one another; Jeduthan Hawley, who made coffins and died the same week as Daisy Fraser; Abel Melveny, who bought every kind of known machine; Oaks Tutt, who dreamed of righting the wrongs of the world; Elliot Hawkins, who looked like Abraham Lincoln; Voltaire Johnson, who was abused by Spoon River for pointing out their foibles; English Thornton, who hated high-class society types; Enoch Dunlap who was a leader Spoon River cursed when he fell from grace; Ida Frickey, who was a poor girl who came...