Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-08
EarWlnton.

Now is the time to turn over new leaf" and to make good resolutions" if you are short of lem.
 The January thaw got up in the morning, this year.
 Mrs. Fred Kimberly has recovered.
 Miss Lucy Fenn, of Thomaston, is visit ing friends here.
 MT. Samuel Drew has gone to St. Louis Mo, to work at his trade of wagon making, much to the regret of his many friends which he leaves behind him.
 MT. Silas Hart cut bad gash in his foot, last Saturday.
 F Mir. Fred Kimberly has again been unfor tunate; this time he cut his hand badly with an axe.
 Miss Maria Andrus, the last of five daugh- te:s of the late Phineas Andrus, died in Bris- tol, last Monday, and her remains were brought here for interment on Wednesday.
 The members of his flock paid our pastor donation visit, on New Years day.
 As MT. Levi Leonard was crossing one of the roadside dltches, last week, his axletree broke short off, and his horse took fright to the detriment of the harness.
 --Apropos of the statement in your last weeks paper, copied from the Hartford Times, to the effect that ''one half of the farms here were mortgaged," we were at first inclined to indignantly deny it. but, onthink- ing the matter over, we do not feel qualified to do so, for, though we live in a town where nearly everyone as rule knows more about his neighbors affairs than the neighbors them selves; we, even though we are reporter, endeavor to mind our own business" except to gather legitimate items for the press. But we have ascertained that many of our farms are niortgaged, and many. of our farmers, perhaps fully half. encumbered with debt, from various causes. But we think that such state of affairs by no mean indicates a great depression of business" On the contra ry, some of our most enterprising farmers are those who have mortgaged their farms, or otherwise borrowed money, to invest in some other more lucrative business, to build saw or grist mills, to remodel or enlarge old, or to build new and more tasteful residences, or to improve their farms and lawns, or perhaps to buy additional land or another farm for them- selves or one of their stalwart sons; who, having faithfully served the "old man" dur ing their minority, now looks to paterfamilias to give him 'lift'' as he starts out in life for himself. As for ourself individually, we have always found it for our interest to get into debt by getting goods on credit, paying for them as our notes matured, having in the meantime made dividend out of said goods. We think that the street which is stated to ''run the entire length of the town, and where only three of the farmers out of the twenty three living thereon, are out of debt," must be what is known as East Street." on the eastern outskirts of the town, remote from us, that several of them ore in debt, more or less Some have recently purchased, and are stead lily reducing their mortgages; a few have be- come indebted by undersigning their sons, or others, in unfortunate business speculations. While we believe the majority of our farmers are ''forehanded," few apper to be always behind, and uever have dollar that they can call their own such would never succeed anywhere in any business A few are unfor- tunate in not having suitable help-meet, and have to do the work indoors as well as out, besides having to ''tend baby" L.G.