The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-01-08
PERU.
60 SIFTERs taken in town now.

60 SIFTERs taken in town now.
Earl Whitney is again in Massa
chusetts, taking Buss with him.
Hiland Sheldon is picking up tc
leave. Letting Moulton finish his
job.
Subject for next lyceum Monday
evening, Woman Suffrage.
Until further notice services on
Sunday begin at IL.
Will the party who has the missing g
volume of Mrs. Hemminway's Ver-
mont Gazetteer please return it i'm
mediately to the town clerks office.
A petition is before the selectmen
for winter road around the West
hills, thus avoiding all drifts and
steep pitches. In fact there is a
strong sentiment that the permanent
highway should be there located. 1t
seems strange that, for SO many
years, the two parts of the town
spould have been thus joined together
by route across the tops of two pin
acles, when feasible and level route
lay at their feet without any increase
of distance.
The last New York Sunday World,
now the greatest newspaper on earth,
contains portrait of Miss Mary
Howe, CHASING her as a remarkably
handsome woman and as one of the
most brilliant concert singers that
ever appeared. 1t overlooks the i'm
portant and suggestive fact that her
mother is a pure bred Peruvian.
Mrs. Laura Bigelow Fairchild from
Marietta, Wis.,, sends a letter of in
quiry as to how we are here. Will
some of the older residents who re-
member that good old Bigelow fami-
ly, and were her old time mates, ans
wer her I?
We understand that j. B. Simonds
has in contemplation a condensed
singing book for Sunday Schools and
social meetings comprising selections
from the good old tunes that have
some ring in them and serve to stir up
ones blood. There is great need for
it, as nothing but squawks and squeals
can be wrung from the present works,
new editions of which are continually
put upon the market in order to wiring
money from credulous public. Mr..
Simonds has met with success in sew
eral of his published compositions for
the piano.
Lecture at the Church upon Satur-
day evening at half past seven by M.
j. Hapgood upon "The early settlers
of Vermont, their struggles and tri-
umphs." One hour only will be taken
and all freely invited. The social
meeting will precede at prompt.
Peru, Jan. 5, 1891.
Editor Sitter: In your valuable paper
of Jan. 1st. find the following:
"The stage now runs through the Hol-
low, thence around by Clarksville, be-
cause land owner refused to allow him
to dodge the drifts by going through his
moving"
wish to say right here that this shot
at me is false, as have never refused to
let said stage cross my land when the
roads were blockaded But with ak and
shovel and bar have been every winter
till this, since the stage changed to this
route, and torn out from two to five fences
and helped them on to Peru city, and this
winter there has not been day but there
has been one or more teams over said
road, which passes through Gland
owners" premises, and the time referred
to must have been when the stage was
stalled at Manchester most three days,
as it passes said "land owners" premises
and has most every day this winter and
on as good road as will average through
town-shunpike, turnpike or any other
pike-and will further say to the gentle
man, lay aside your pen, take your shovel
and follow me from a. m. till 6 p. M,
after these gentle breezes which are so
frequent here on the mountains, and l will
guarantee road that the Peru stage or
an other can travel unmolested, and
please take for your text Exodus Xxx, 16.
LAND OWNER.