The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-02-19
PERU.

An item is going the rounds Of the
State papers that a lumberman up
north cut nineteen II foot mill logs
from single pine. The workmen of
j, j. Hapgood & Co., of this town,
last week cut nineteen twelve foot
mill logs from the body of single
pine, besides an eight foot log con-
tanning over two hundred feet.
Our Peru girls, after waiting two
hours at the Grand Central for their
promised escort, finally made their
way across New York city alone, and
safely reached their destination at
Easton, Penn.
One "Shanks" has gone up, al
though not, we are happy to say, the
SITTER Shanks. 1t is the old horse
kept by the Hon. l. X. Batchelder
of Townshend. He should have
mentioned this horse in his history.
When a frisky, lively colt it was used
by Chas Barnard now of Granville,
ILL.,, in the team which carried the
eleven Peru boys over to the depot
in 81, to begin their three years army
service, most of them, however, to
return home, prematurely, sick,
wounded or coffined. All of our
older inhabitants will remember the
day when they left us with flag flying
amid the cheers of all behind who
could command their voices.
Misses Mary Lyon, Fife Lakin,
Della Hapgood and Eugene Lyon
and NJ. J. Hapgood attended the
Institute at North Bennington from
this town. They report a very prof
liable and enjoyable time. The lee
ture of Prof. Wager of Middlebury
College was especially interesting,
upon the subject, "The Great Es-
sential to Education" which boiled
and simmered down he declared to be
"pure air and healthy food" A RICH
down common sense chap he is. The
fact most strongly brought out during
the whole proceedings was that bare
book knowledge is only small part
of true education. 1t depends more
upon what we see and what we hear
prompted by the hearty desire tc
make the most of our surroundings
Hon. Ira X. Batchelder and Mr.
Hobart from Townshend visited oul
place week before last. There is now
prepared and ready for delivery thu
HISTORY OF PERU
. written by Mr.. Batchelder and thu
result of years of careful research
: 1t is finely printed, well bound, ant
contains $50 pages besides ~ por
traits. 1t is quite impossible to con
ceive the immense amount of car,
and research required to get togethe
, the mass of facts therein contained
. Every farm and separate family i
4 treated of in detail. Of course som
t errors and COMMISSIONS are made. w
e notice, in particular, that the faziilie
e of Thomas and Dana Wyman ar
unmentioned. They have been tw
q of our old "stand-bys" and the omis
= sion is much to be regretted. Ger
tainly the history of Peru is not com
:. plete without them and especial men
ton should, at least, have been mad
= of Mr.. G. N. Wyman who has sue
cessfully taught fifty terms of schoo
in orr midst, noble record and we
> worthy of the most honorable mention
We think, too, that mistake ha
been made in not giving special men
ton to the many noble ladies VIII
have lived, loved, reigned and, man
o of them, passed away, in our town
The record of the part that the son
. of Peru took in the Rebellion is nc
as complete as we should have wish
ed, yet we should remember that th
matter was an experiment and tbs
: space was limited. Altogether, it
solid, substantial, heavy work, il
. dicitive of the character, as well 9
e the physical proportion, of its author
Price S1.00 and for sale by D. K
l. Simonds, Manchester, and NJ.
5. Lyon, Peru. Only 200 copies wei
printed and an early application wi
be necessary in order to insure