Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-09-11
For the Freeman
AndOver, Vt.


me space for the following: In the FREE
NAN OF the 25lh ult., under the head of
" Vermont News" for Windsor county,
you state TO your readers that the average
depreciation of real estate values in Wind
sor county, for the last four years, is Is
per cent; the depreciation in Barnard be-
ing ~ l-2 per cent, the greatest, and An
dover the least, 2.S per cent. II you
had left the matter of fact here, it would |
have been comparatively complimentary
to Andover, but you made damaging |
suggestion, probably from some other pa
per, and without examination, that, In |
Andover where the land is so poor that il
hasn't any chance to Gepreciate." Now
you will find on examination that land in
four or five towns in Windsor county is
appraised considerably lower than in
Andover, and is actually worth much less
per acre than land in Andover. 1t seems
TO ME that | have read this in the FREE
MAN this year-I have read it somewhere.
This Item of news" will excite surprise
in Windsor county.
am pretty well acquainted in Andover
was born in Chester. about one-half mile
from Andover south line. My mother was
born and educated in Andover, my wifi
ditto" My great grandfather, Moses
Warner, and his wife and my grandmother
their daughter), came to Andover from
Enfield, Conn, in June. 1776, and settled
on tract of land which yet remains in
The line of descendants, being now owned
by Mr.. j. II. Hutchinson, great grand
son, who has traversed the far west, as far
rs the west line of Nebraska, and has
come back to Andover. and has settled
down on the old homestead where he was
born. My only brother, who has been a
resident of Woody Wisconsin," has re-
turned to Vermont, and is settled on Il
farm from which he can see Andover-
about one mile distant.
I taught school in Andover in the win
tiers of 1910 and Al, and in 1914 and 45,
and never boarded better or among bet.
ter people, or of average higher intelli.
gence, or a people who read more news
papers, periodicals and books in proper
ton 10 the population.
In this town resided my grandmothe,
Hutchinson, during pretty much all hel
life, and my father, in my early years
lived in Landgrove, so | had to 90 through
Andover to see my grandmother Cook il
Chester. so l was frequently in Andover
The boy loves his grandmother for he
goodness and amiability, and by intuition
and his grandfather more by reason, so
, shall not mention these excellent men, a
am now going by intuition!
Some slxty.seven of the descendants O
Moses Warner, with several hundreds o
the good people of Andover, in 1876 had
centennial reunion on the old Warne
homestead. and l beg our democrats
, friends to pardon the suggestion, Their
was not democrat in that crowd, and NJ
one in town that day, and not single ON
that we know of in all the descendants o
. some one hundred and fifty, Or near as W
can estimate, that was democrat. We
us u people, are scattered in all the north
ern states, from Maine to California, an,
, there are two of us in Texas, aud not
greenbacker," silver crazer," or dem,
, crat in our number. Can any other equal
, ly numerous people show better record
a Political errors and heresies are not in
digenous to the soil or people OF Andove,
| The democratic party has not had an
standing in the town since 1889. At man
!. elections there is no record in town of
single democratic voter. There is on
+ now living in that town, l am told, an
he record this year is, Proctor &c, Bling
4 ham |. There was no Tilden vote In 1876
Three democrats from out of town vote
p that year Tor governor in Andover. Fo
political integrity Andover stands A No. !
, among the faithful in front, the best in Il
state, think.
Andover is a small town. it having bee,
divided to make the town of Weston, an
in this original territory have arisen man
| eminent men, whom l would be glad ,
/ mention, but l am not writing history
only correcting the grand list, so hi
pleasant duty must omit.
d Andover lies off from railroad, whic
r renders its land less valuable per acre 70
, people who wish to live on line of raj
i way communication, and in winter tim
, the snow falls deep, and Is inclined
e move about, when the winds are hiyt
! This county is billy, and land inclining t
= be rough; but have seen the time whe
on the low lands of Florida, Alabama an
i Louisiana, that would have given goo
: deal of money if l could have been place
j. on the hills of Andover. or even have see
b the snow. At that time had bad feve,
p Andove- is quite free from fevers. 40
g what side soever" l approach Andovt
Il | always take off my hat out of respect f
o The good old town and for people past m
t present.
e Iregret that any portion of Vernon
!, should drepreciate in value in her re-
/ estate, one township of which, in its d
preciated value, will produce more We.
citation than some whole counties in Il
g southern states, and infested with yello
=. fever at that Please encourage our PEI
pie to stay in Vermont and improve Il
=. dilapidated or WORKOUT lands of the stat
}. Say good word for Windsor county.
0 NJ. II. c.
Castleton, Sept. 9th.
Y I'VE plead guiltyito M. H. C.'s charge
!. non examination, and after reading h
h letter believe the item must have BET
# started as democratic thunder. We thin
e our correspondent should WRIT history an
e would suggest that instead of our saying
- good word for Windsor county "a thin
i by the way we are always ready to d.
hn dn II himself ne hn spems abundant