Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-03-31
Inauguration of the new town oil
Aver, Mass.

Inauguration of the new town OF
Aver, Mass.
A new town has been chartered in
Mass, and named after the distinguished
medicine man, DIR. j. G. Aver, of Lowell.
The new town is composed of parts OF
Groton and Shirley, the town of Groton
being the "capital," On Monday OF
last week, the people celebrated the event
and several distinguished citizens of the
State were present, and Treasurer Bout
we'll, unable to be present, sent his con-
CALCULATIONS, DR.. Aver himself was pres
emit, and received very cordial greeting,
and on being introduced spokeas follows;
Ladies' and Gentleman On the west
ern coast of Scotland where it slopes in
To the Irish Sea, river, rising on the
mountains of the inner land, winds down
among the hills and empties into the
Firth of the Clyde, From remote time
| it has been called Ayr from an old
Scotch word Ayry," meaning an eagles
nest-the river of tn eagles nest. Near
its mouth and contiguous harbor, long
stood q hamlet which became royal
burg or town named from the river, and
now about one third as large as Lowell
the city of Ayr. For more than u
thousand years it has been noted in the
history of Scotland. During the wars
of Robert Bruce it was one of his resorts,
and was especially favored by him be-
cause he was there cured Of leprosy.
Oliver Cromwell made it one of the de-
pots and headquarters of his army in his
attack upon Scotland, and one of his old
forts is now the Citadel of Ayr.
But above all its distinctions, Ayr was
the birthplace of the poet Burns. And
what poet What voice has he given
to all the erdearments of home How
has he hallowed the cottage and all it
covers-weans and wife, patches and
poverty, beans, barley, ale, hardship and
the poor mans toll. How he wraps with
tenderness whatever he names even his
bleak leagues of pasture, the stubble
field, ice, snow, sleet and rain, brooks,
birds. mice, thistles and heather. His
Bonny Doom, John Anderson, my 10
John, Aud Lang Syne, and Highland
Mary roll round the world in ever ring,
ing symphony with what is purest and
bestin human nature. Hissongs WOO and
melt the hearts of youth and maidens
bring solace to the sorrowing and cour
age to the overburdened by their lot
His inspiration has set the affections tt
music in strains that are immortal.
No other one man ever made language
classic, but he has rendered that lowlanC
Scotch Doric dialect of fame. Tit
name Of his home and his beloved rive
AYR was lifted on the wings of his pa
thos, and now the approaching travelle
yearps to reach the spot his genius ha
sanctifed.
Along the borders of the sea in pal
allelogram and surrounding The town
county Of the same name-Ayrshirt
It would weary your patience to hea
the history of my ancestors from on
ancient John of Ayr, then John Ay
, down through the centuries to this Aye
t now before you; through their vicissitudt
of poverty and plenty of fortune an
misfortune; how.they have intermarrie
!. with England, Ireland and Scotland, an
later with the Americans, who are an e,
cellent mixture Of them all.
= DE- fiiends;-you have chosen thenam
a inherited for your town with an extr;
b ordinary unanimity, and have theret
$ conferred an honor upon me, the prcp,
acknowledgement of which / do not te
' fully able to express. But | beg you
be assured that it is appreciated and tn
it will be gratefully remembered with
5 living interest in your prosperity viii
/. life remains to me, and, | trust, beyor
!. that by my children after me.
:, IF this name mas become noted amor
a the many that are worthier around 20
}. that is greatly due to its publicity. Nj
/ be permitted to state whence that cam
: Until within few centuries all the civ
zed nations Of the globe were pent up
ii the Eastern continent. Two or thr
e hundred years ago they leaked over in
70 this; few and fearfully at first, then mo
Of and more but always in their settlement
Id timidly hugging the Atlantic coast. Wit
e, in the last two or three generations, TIL
y have burst out, as if it were, and owe
run these vast continents of the We
e. Now they are scattered here and posse
these measureless stretches of mountai
o. and valleys, hits, plains, forests al
ye parties with the boundless pampas al
be mountain ranges of South Americ
I'd Former generations lived in villages al
m towns, thickly settled together whe
20 physicians were plenty and near at han
ct Now the people are widely scattered,
many sections of these many countrit
For great numbers the timely treatme
of physicians cannot be had /; over lar
al tracts of country good or competent pb
scians cannot be had at ALL They C
40 not visit patients enough many mi
I'D apart to live by their profession, nor C
lie they carry medicines enough with the
e. on horseback for their Requirement
"a Hence has arisen in these modern tim
:, a necessity for remedies near at har
III with directions for their use-a prese
hit resource for relief in the exigencies
OPP sickness, when no other aid is near.
in is new necessity consequent upon
"A changed conditions of human life
~ want | have spent my years in supplyil
and l will tell you something of its
tent. Our laboratory makes every d
ma .on,a EQn 000 ,ort;,,s ioea, &c ,