Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-01-07

! Capital is needed for the development
of the resources of the town anC
} wealthy men who are looking for saf'
investments will do well to come here
Other things being equal, that com.
munity in which is found the most en-.
terprise and where there is plenty Of
New England grit is the best one in
which to make investments In no
town can more of these good qualities
be found than in Williamstown. In
two years the town has gone farther
ahead than has any other town in the
state whose situation was no better.
Good business managers can best APP
preciate what has been accomplished
here for from their Own experiences
they will be able to see that men hand
icapped by lack of capital who can in
two years time build up the amount of
business that has been built up here
must have more than ordinary business
capacity and that they are the right
sort of men to be associated with. They
have given none of their energies to
''side shows" and trivial mat
tiers, but all their efforts have been ex-
pended along the direct line of safe bus
mess progress. They have proven
themselves to be safe managers and in
spite of the lack of sufficient capital,
with which they have to contend, they
will, with the help of their townspeople,
soon make this one of the most pros
porous towns in all this region. The
greater growth viii probably be about
the village but the farmer living farther
from the village and the villager are
each to have their share of all the pros
perity that comes to the town. Farms
will increase in value and the farmer
will find home market for his produce
that will give him better prices than he
can get from commission merchants in
the distant cities.
The first settlement in Williams
town was made by Elijah Paine and
others over near the western boundary
of the town 107 years ago. Elijah
Pane was a graduate of Harvard in
the class Of 1881. He was ripe
scholar, man of great ability, and in
days when there was no lack .of strong
men he stood in the front rank. He
was a Judge Of the supreme court of
the state in 179l-4; senator, 1884,
1901 Judge of the u. S. circuit
court for the Vermont district 1901 AZ.
All Of his time not occupied by the du-
ties OF the public offices he held, was
given to his large and valuable farm,
the building and operating of manu-
factories, making of public improve
ments and the building up of religious
and educational interests. He built
road through the forest, from
through Williamstown, to
at cost of $4,000. In
1885 he offered to endow a college
with $4,000 on condition that it
should be established in Williamstown.
Hon. Cornelius Lynde was another of
he strong men of the earlier days.
General Joel Bass, the Martins and
,thers might be named in this catego-
y. The influence of these men is felt
lere to-day and the public spirited
men who to-day are devotiug time,
md money to the development of the
'esources of the town and the advance
nent of all her material interests have
he same spirit actuating them that
governed their ancestors and the early
ettlers OF this town.
As early as 1901 a public library
vas started here by DIR. Waldo who
rave 81 books to start the library.
There are now more than $500 vol
mes upon the shelves OF this library.
rhe benefit this library has been to the
own can never be fairly estimated but
many young person has found in its
-olumes the incentive that caused them
0 seek better education than could
,e gained in the public schools. The
own has remembered her sons who
ought in the last war and erected
inc monument to commemorate their
ervices. Congregational and Universa-
list societies were organized sometime
n the nineties of the last century,
Methodist and Freewill Baptist socie-
les were organized later. Perkins
Bass of Chicago, son of Gen. Joel
Bass, has had the Congregational
louse painted and is now having it
thoroughly repaired at his own ex-
,ense. The cost will not be less than
1920 or $500.
There are no solves" or saloons in
he town nor would any be tolerated
hould an attempt be made to establish
me here. The inhabitants are quiet
,ut at the same time intelligent, ener-
,etic, self-sustaining and self-respect-