St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-07-07
settlement and affairs RAPIDLY crystalized


donation party, and the three moose
with a bushel of salt for seasoning, which
cost him SIS, provided meat for himself
and family all winter. The following
year the town granted him three lots of
land, but it was also agreed that he re-
ceive no salary for four years. He died
in 1888, and his descendants yet remain
here and honor by their lives the integ-
rity, industry and faithful labor of this
early father.
Col Alpha Warner came from Hard
wick, Mass, in 1895, and for over so
years kept the tavern at Hardwick street.
Largely through his influence the town
was named for his native town.
Judge Smith then paid deserving
| tributes to Elnathan Strong and Lewis
H. Delano, who also settled on Hardwick
street and built up and maintained the
most extensive business ever carried on
in this section of the country. Little re-
mains today he said, lat Hardwick
street to remind one of the business ac-
| tivity which made it the centre of at
traction seventy-hve years ago. There
| is not a store nor hotel nor even post
office. The forms of the active business
men who daily gathered there are no
longer seen; trade has found new chan
nels, and Hardwick street has returned
to almost primeval quiethood, sug-
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time and progress are hourly making"
East Hard wick was settled by Samuel
Stevens in 1898, wholbult the first mills
in town, a saw-mill in 1913 and a grist
mill in 1900 In 1895 Captain John
Bridgman from Hanover, N. H, settled
in what is now the village of Hardwick
and built a log house which he opened as
| a tavern.
Judge Smith then dwelt somewhat at
| ,1r1n11 those who SETTLED in town
at the beginning of this century and who
! helped makeit whatit is today. Among
the names he mentioned Paul Spooner,
DR.. Amasa Morse, Francis Whipple,
Dea. Thomas Fuller, Asahel, Levi and Jesse
Goodrich, whose 26 children have been
among the most useful and worthy sons
and daughters of the town; Major John
Goss, Charles Bailey, Charles Bailey, Jr.,
and Whitefeld Bailey, who through their
own lives and descendants honored and
enriched the fields of Christian labor, ed
ucation and business Elihu Bronson,
Andrew Wheatley, Joseph Thomas,
Asahel Hall and Jonathan Ward. Hard
wick, he said, would not soon forget
Truman Way, Samuel Britain and Ora
Crosby After naming many more of the
earlier inhabitants, Judge Smith paid
touching tributes to some of the towns
citizens who had recently died, DOrman
Bridgman, Daniel W. Aiken, Alden E.
Judevine and Lyman D. Hathaway.
The religious history of the town was
next briefly sketched, followed by
tributes to the towns part in the civil
war. The opening of the railroad in
| 1871 put the town in closer touch with
all that is progressive in the world out
side.
In closing Judge Smith said at is not
a debatable question that the imperative
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that for the century to come they may
be not merely so many acres of diversified
hill and vale, but through the ever-in-
creasing intelligence and virtue of their
citizenship, an active and recognized force
in every upward moral and political move
ment. Buildings may multiply and pop
ulation increase but without a cor
responding development of the nobler
| qualities in men, what we would fain cali
progress, will SAVIOR, after all, too much OF
sounding brass and tinkling cymbal.'
Fellow citizens, you are proud today
of the past and justly so-from a single
settler with his ak, has grown goodly
citizenship; from the value of a rude
shanty and few acres of partly i'm
proved land, you have property real and
personal of hundreds of thousands,
in place of meagre facilities and rude &C
commodations for social and business
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blush to exhibit this day. Let these be
only beginnings. You have the virtue and
courage of the fathers to inspire you, the
examples of patriotism and selfsacrifice
to encourage, and the boundless field of
opportunity to bec1on you forward. Go
on in the path of duty which the light OF
each new day shall make plain to you, so
that those who gather one hundred years
hence to celebrate the second centennial
shall have for the coming century no
words of apology Or reproach."
Immediately after this address
there was a sham battle between the
St. Adams Militia and st. Johnsbury
Guard. The two companies of the
Vermont National Guard gave a
creditable exhibition of attack, re-
treat and wing assault.
After the battle the crowd came
I back to the tent to hear some more
speeches. Judge Fullerton spoke OF
, the rapid growth of the granite in
dustry and of Hardwick's bright
future as this industry was de-
veloped. Alexander Davis and others
! spoke on what this centennial cele.
bration meant
After supper the St. Johnsbury
band gave an outdoor concert in
front of McLoud's store.
The concert in the evening by
: Sherman's band and the Mahogany
quartette of St. Johnsbury was hello
in the big tent. The crowd was en-
, thusiastic and the band delighted
I I them by their good music, while th'
. Mahogany's songs called forth en-
r thusiastic encores.
! This ended the days festivities ant
: the celebration was grand success