Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-04-13
Christening a New Town.

The people of the thriving village of
Groton Junction, Mass, having out
grown their village bounds and become
town, petitioned the Legislature of the
State, and the village Of Groton juno
ton became the town of AVER, named
after DR.. j. G. Aver, name familiar
with every household in the country.
Not long since, the people of Aver
gathered en- masse to celebrate the i'm
portant event, and the new town was
christened amid general rejoicing
Upon the occasion DR.. Aver was pres
ent, as well as many distinguished gen.
tlemen of the State; and, when the
Doctor was introduced, he responded as
follows:
( Ladies and Gentleman
On the western coast Of 5eol.al where L
slopes into the Irish Sea, a river, rising on the
mountains Of the inner land, winds down
among the hills and empties into the Firth OF
Clyde. From remote time it has been called
! Ayr from an old Scotch word Ayry, meaning
an eagles nest-the river of the eagles nest.
Near its mouth and q contiguous harbor, long
stood q hamlet which became royal burg or
town named from the river, and now about
one-thir d as large as Lowell--the city of Ayr.
! For more than 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 because he
WAS there cured of leprosy. Oliver Cr\ hwell
made it one of the depots and headquarters of
his army in his attack upon Scotland, and one
OF bis old forts is now the Citadel of Ayr.
But above all its distinctions, Ayr was the
| birthplace of the poet Burns And what a
poet! What voice he has given to all the en-
dearments of home. How has he hallowed
the cottage and all it covers-weans and wife,
patches and poverty, beans, barley, ale hard
ship 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,
thlstles and heather. His Bonny Doom, John
/ Anderson, My 10 John, Aud Lang Syne, and
Highland Mary roll round the world IN ever
ringing symphony with what is purest and best
I In human nature. His songs WOO and melt the
hearts of youth and maidens, bring solace to
the sorrowing and courage to the overburdened
| by their lot. His inspiration has set the affeo-
tons to music in strains that are immortal.
! No other one man ever made language
classic, but he has rendered that lowland Scotch
Doric dialect of fame The name of his home
and his beloved rver Ayr was lifted on the
/ wings of his pathos, and now the approaching
traveller yearns to reach the spot his genius has
! sanctiied.
! Along the borders of the sea in q parallelo-
! gram and surrounding the town is q county of
| the same name-Aryshire.
| 1t would weary your patience,t to hear the his
| tory of my ancestors from one ancient John Of
! Ayr, then John AYR, down through the CEN
! turles to this Aver now before you; through
their vicissitudes of poverty and plenty-of
fortune and misfortune; how they have inter-
married with England, Ireland and Scotland,
and later with the Americans, who are an
excellent mixture of them all.
! My Jriends,-you have chosen the name l
inherited for your town with an extraordinary
/ unanimity, and have thereby conferred an
/ honor upon me- the proper acknowledgment
of which do not feel fully able to express.
But beg you to be assured that it is apprecia-
ted and that it will be gratefully remembered
with living interest in your prosperity while
life remains to me, and, l trust beyond that,
my children after me.
| If this name has become noted among the
many that are worthIer around you, that is
greatly due to it's publicity. MayI be permit
ted to state whence that came? Until within
few centuries all the civilized nations of the
globe were pent up on he Eastern continent.
Two or three hundred years ago they leaked
over into this few and fearfully at first, then
more and more, but always in their settlements
timidly hugging the Atlantic coast. Within the
last two or three generations. they have burst
! out, as it were, and over-run these vast CONT
nents of the West. Now they are scattered
| here and possess these measureless stretches
of mountains and valleys hills, plains, forests
and prairies with the boundless pampas and
| mountain ranges of South America. Former
generations lived in villages and towns, thickly
settled together, where physicians were plenty
and near at hand. Now, the people are widely
scattered, In many sections of these many
countries. For great numbers the timely
treatment of physicians cannot be had over
large tracts of country good or competent ply
sicisns cannot be had at all. They cannot visit
patients enough many miles apart to live by
their profession, nor can they carry medicines
enough with them on horseback for their re-
quirements Hence has ARISEN in these modern
times, a necessity for remedies ready at hand
with directions for their use-a present recourse
for relief in the exigencies Of Sickness when
no other aid is near. 1t is new necessity con-
sequent upon the changed conditions of human
hfe-a want have spent my years in supply
ing, and will tell you something of its extent
Our laboratory makes every day some $50, 900
potions or doses OF our preparations. These
are all taken by somebody. Here is number
equal to the population of fifteen cities as
large as Lowell, taking them every day (for
sickness keeps no Sabbaths) nor for once only
but again and again year after year, through
nearly one-thlrd OF century. We all Join in
jokes about medicines as we do about the Doc
tors mission to kill the clergyman's insncer-
ity and the lawyers cheating. Yet each of
these labors among the most serious realities
of life. Sickness and it's attendant suffering
are no joke neither is the treatment of them
This system of transportabble relief, to be
made available to the people, must keep its
remedies fresh in their memories. This is
done by advertising. Mark its extent. An
advertisement, taking the run of the news
papers with which we contract (some 1900
annually is struck off in such numbers, that
when piled upon each other fatwise, like the
leaves of book, the thickness through them
is sixteen miles. In addition, it takes
some seven millions of pamphlets and twelve
millions of circulars to meet the public demand
for this Kind Of information. Our annual
issue of Pamphlets alone, laid solid upon each
other max es h lie eight and one QUAR- or milas