Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-04-09


Ia lsOS ve bad terrible siskBess.
Z The dissuiaFy eouuseuosd ths 6lh 81
Jelly and rsgel fsarfaily ahout three weeks
mostly amous ehildren.- thea SLATED
zone. Every Oh person 10 ioEu died.
Il took al an the vel enss in toEn 10
take care Of The SICK tsy Asd uight. Dee
ter Dsvesr had jest cone into toaa- Oaly
tour OF fre adults died. Al this iinse
most ~ the fanilivs keps a oos-three
or four had tuo-Eith bell on each aul
they all run IN the woods beam being
plenty. they Killed namber Of eoEs,
shea the neishbors would help se' anoth-
er. The inhabitants lived Ike brethren.
and If che 60, 10 a tight 6E. all would
take hold aud help him out. II by sick
ness or by accident neighbOr could not
get his crops 10, all would take hold and
help him harvest, aud no holding back.
Our crops Of all kinds were good, but no
sales except 10 new comers for eonsumT-
tiCu and seed. All the way We could get |
money vas TO make salts aud draw them
to Waterbury and there get SIS per hun
cred. o: e JOSEF b Dake ial no team, but
berg a larg strong man, be made him a
trough about three feet long that would
bold about $50 pounds to carry on his
! b OK to Waterbury, ten miles.-A hard
: way to get money.
5 We could make good pork in those
2 days; We knew how, for corn was plenty
: and no sales. Wheat, so. corn, 25;
e potatoes, l2k cents per bushe'. Our
, hogs were no. the right kind, like those
Z | saw in Illinois. | told the man where
6 ! was stopping, his hogs were not so good
= a kind as our Vermont hogs. He said
h theirs we're the 18th row breed"
d asked what gave them that name, and he
Y said il was because they could put their
: noses through a rail-ienee aaj reach The
q 4th row. Our hogs, when fatted, aver
" aged about 200 lbs. and if neighbor gor
b one to 800 lbs, it was town-talk. BeeI
ct we seldom had; hut in fall, and early win
a ter. the hunters would supply us will
ct good venison and moose. which was splcn
did. Our streams we're well tiled with fin,
d. trout. We could at any time take larg'
10 string on short notice.
he am the only person in town that wa
a here when came, and think hav,
On done more hard work in town, than an,
W. other man. Some may call this Dragging
Ir so | will explain: | have lived in tow,
Sc the longes. Of any man, have beef
Nv Dlest with an iron constitution aud neve
hal lazy streak about me. | hav
ok husked IS bushels of ears of corn, be
las tween sun aud sun, put in the basket an
mn emitted them into the cart. 1t was huske
- on the hill and did it TO see what
tb could do. Next day, blood had settle
"a, under my fnger-nails IL those days W
de raised a undsnce of flax our girls wcr
rk oil brought up to spin and weave, an
Is lie splendid cloth for frocks and pant
~, Our ladies would make splendid checke
in aprons and get copperas or sulenaine an
If color yellow and make striped cloth f
nd dresses that was very nice, and man
.rt wore them to church. This was previol
all to the fashion of black -kitck ems 'attache
mr. todresses.
,or The road we used to travel went up ii
,rn hill between A. =. Holmes house an
nor shop and over the hill, west Of the mil
,or then near where John Moody's hou'
,ed stands. by John Straw's house, then crosse
NO. the small stream near where M. Ii. @
ov. dys black.smlth's shop now stands Che
zc- back of the burying-grouad, folcwir
h;s the meadow 40 far as Columbus Lovejoy
nv and as it now goes, or nearly so, to Mo
ont riStown line.
,te The FIRST school in town was taught
loo Abial Stiles near M. Ii. Cady's, aud the
being no other school, all in town atten
brio ed. Our lessons were Reading, Spelin
MO Arithmetic, Writing aud whipping-tl
cot last we got pretty thoroughly.
bod The first Ball held in town some CALI
1ov it a junket) was presided over by bla'
mn man who was teaching music in town. v
T, hired him to play for $l.OO an evening
in had something to eat and drink. The ne
20, morning Johns folks asked bin how t
r.. Il iunkelt came out, and he told them
., cost IS cents couple, the pa gucy ga
ate and drank and did not pay cent"
age W0lc0H.
anu Tho item in relation tn the Peck q