The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-12-18

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idle season but chiefly because work
can be much more economically done
on runners than wheels, and if the
runners cannot go business through
out the State is affected to an extent
by no means generally realized. The
unreasonable "bare ground last win
ter caused very heavy and wide spread
loss, and the effects in some localities
were felt all summer.
This winter, however, opens in a
way to cheer the heart of the logger
and to help the machine go for great
many other people. There is less
snow in the vicinity of Rutland than
in most other parts of the State, but
even here it is what young men with
cutters sometimes call "tol'able neat
slippin'," while elsewhere they have
what farmers know as "bunkum sled
ding"
Snow in a Vermont winter is
thing of necessity as well as beauty,
and there is good start made in the
supply.
History OF Woman once a resident of
Londonderry,
Manchester n. H., Union:
On Tuesday Auctioneer Fairbanks
sold for Wherefore Ireland, execu-
tor, the house which was the home
for many years of the late Eliza A.
Eaton, remarkable woman with Gu
rious history. Eliza "A. Eaton left
her property, the house mentioned,
and several hundred dollars in the
bank, to the city library, without re-
strictions, and in a short time the
trustees of the library will have turn
ed over to them nearly $4,000.
Eliza A. Eaton was born in Lon
donderry, Vt, of Scotch-Irish paren-
tage. Her maiden name was Thomp-
son, and family came from London
derry, Ireland to Londonderry, N.
H., and then moved to Londonderry,
VT, having lived in three London
derrys in short time. The tolls and
hardships she endured in early life in
the little frontier Vermont town, left
an impression upon her which never
faded from her memory. Her life
was hard and discouraging, and from
her tenderest infancy she did the
hardest kind of work and had the
scantiest kind of comforts and the
barest necessaries of wretched exis-
tence. When II years old she began
to work in a cotton mill, and in lS4l
she came to Manchester to work in
Amoskeag mills. The work of weave
girls then was no joke. They had
wretched little cramped workrooms,
poor light, foul smells, insufficient
ventilation and their board and lodg-
ing mean in the extreme. This girl
went through this for years, and came
out a handsome, proud, intelligent,
high-spirited woman, with all the
qualities which beseem and adorr
complete womanhood.
Her courtship and marriage were
tinged with romance. One day while
looking out of the weave room win
dow, she called the attention of some
of her companions to day laborer at
work on the foundations of No. 3 |
mill and said: "There is the man
there whom | am going to marry"
She was as good as her word; she
and John Eaton became acquainted, |
and after courtship in which it is
said she led him merry dance, they
were married in 1916 in Vermont.
John Eaton later on became fire.
man on the railroad, and in 1860 was
scalded to death in railroad acct
dent.
Mrs. Eaton attracted special notice
and obtained high repute as clair
voyant and after her husbands death
she began to turn her alleged powers
to good account. She never adj
vertised, but it soon became known
that she set up to be natural healer
and fortune teller and people of all
sorts and conditions focked to her
and invoked her aid at 20 cents a call.
Her reputation grew and she put the
price up to 30 cents, and finally to 81.
Her success was great and enabled
her to make the requests above men
toned.
She was a woman of many personal
attractions. From her earliest years
her sharpness of wit and perception
was marked and her ability was I'M
questioned. She had but scant ed
ucation but, she wrote good prose,
and poetry that has been pronounced
better. She died April 4, 1889.
She designed her own monument,