Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-04-13


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 tie village of Groton juno
ton became the town of AVER, named
after DIR. j. G. Aver, a name familiar
with every household in the country.
Not long since, the people of Aver
gathered en- nsasse to celebrate the i'm
portant event, and the new town was
christened amid general rejoicing.
Upon the occasion DIR. Aver was pres
ent, as well as many distinguished gen.
tlemen of the State; and, when the
Doctor was introduced, heresponded as
follows:
Ladies and Gentleman
On the western coasI of Scotland where it
slopes into the Irish Sec, river, rising on the
mountains of the inner land, winds down
among the hills and empties into the Filth 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 a contiguous harbor long
stood q hamlet which became a royal burg or
town named from the river, and now about
one-thir ae large as Lowell-the city of Ayr.
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 Cromwell
made II one of the depots 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
poetl 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.
thistles 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
IN human nature. His songs WOO and melt the
hearts of youth and maidene bring solace to
the Borrowing and courage to the overburdened
by their lot His inspiration has set the affec-
lions 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 river Ayr was lifted on the
wings OF his pathos and now the approaching
traveller yearls to reach the spot his genius has
sanctified
Along the borders of the sea ina paraIlelo-
gram and surrounding the town is a county of
the same name-Aryshire.
ltwould weary your patience.to hear the his
tory OF my ancestors from one ancient John of
Ayr, then John Ayr. down through the GEN.
turies 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.
Ny friends, -you have chosen the name 1
inherited for your town with an extraordinary
unanlmity, and have thereby conferred an
honor upon me, the proper acknowledgements
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, trust beyond that,
my children after me.
III this name has become noted among The
many that are worthier around YOU, that is
greatly due to its publicity. May he permit
ted to state whence that came? Until within
few centuries all the civilized nations of the
globe we're pent up on the 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
tlmidly hugging the Atlantic coast. Within the
last two or three generations they have burst
out, as 1t 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. Nov, the people are widely
scattered, In many sections of these many
countries. For great numbers the timely
treatment of physicians cannot be had over
sicians 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 i'm these modern
times, 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
lfe-a want have spent my years in supply
ing, and will tell you something of its extent.
Our laboratory makes every day some $50, 600
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 third of a century. We all join in
Jokes about medicines as we 10 about the Doc
tors mission to kill, the clergyman's insincer-
lty AMI the lawyers cheating. Yet each of
these iabors among the most serious realities
OF life. Sickness and its 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
taking the run of the news
papers with which we contract (some 1900
is struck off in such numbers, that
ha lad ~, N.t n.
leaves of a 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, makes pile eight and one quarter miles
high. The circulars measured endwise reach
1884 miles, and these assertions are matters of
certainty. Whatever the esti-
nation in which these publications may be
held here, they reach the firesides of millions
upon millions of men who do treasure and
regard them, and who in their trials do heed
the counsel they bring.
Not only over these great Western continents
but throughout that other land so little known
to you, under your feet, the Australian conti-
nent, there are few villages as large as this
which are not familiar with the name you have
chosen, and employing the remedies that
bear it.
Thus, gentlemen, have 1 striyen IN nv
humble sphere to render some service to my
fellow men, and to deserve among the afflicted
and unfortunate some regard for the name
which your kind partially hangs on these walls
around me. We may look forward with conf
dent hope to the renown you viii gather under
it, and the prosperity, which there is reason to
trust the future has in store for you Situated
as you are here on one of the main arteries
between the west and east, between the great
of the plough and spindle you must
aid in their exchanges and thrive with them.
Soon these channels will be opened wide and
pouring through your precincts streams of men
and merchandise that will need your further
ance and must contribute to your growth.
Located here in the centre of New England
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