Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-01-12

The Western Fever Dying Out.
This blending of village and country
is producing one significant and far
reaching result, the Vermont boys and
Vermont savings are staying here that
is, 20 a greater extent than for several
years past. They are seeing the ad-
vantages of the State and are either
staying on the farm or simply going to
the villages. They have found that
where one Vermonter has been success
full in the West, two have returned
poor to begin life anew. The matter
was sized up the other day by mid
dle-aged native Of the State who was
returning to the old home, with his wife
and two daughters, after an absence Of
six years in Wyoming. He said eyes,
we are coming back to Vermont to live.
We are convinced that dollar will buy
more substantial comfort in Vermont
I
than two dollars will in Wyoming.
And then we want to educate our girls
and have some comforts ourselves.
We want to go to church, to be near a
market and to see our friends once in a
while and we know that Vermont is
the best place in the world for these
things"
I This dying ont of the Western fever
was peculiar to 1892 and shows that
the State, instead of squandering its
savings and its young men, is storing
up both, so TO speak, or using its own
increased wealth All classes of pro-
fessional men have joined in the move
ment and people are saying, Improve
the State and keep our boys and girls
here"
I Good roads mean much TO Vermont.
They mean more summer visitors.
Vermont, with her mountains and hills
and with her bracing air, is destined
10 become summer Mecca to the tir-
ed city worker, whose available means
are fast increasing and whose money
will add not little to the material
prosperity of the State. Now these
summer visitors want good drives aud
they will not stay long III a town where
the roads are poor. Our people real
lied this most forcibly during 1892 and
will act accordingly. Summer board
ers spent nearly 100000 in this
State last year, and the indications are
that more will come next year. These
visitors, then, contributed not little
to the years prosperity.
Naturally this general advance pro-
, duces variety of industry unknown in
Vermont % years ago. The State pro-
duces more different kinds OF articles
than ever before-boots and shoes, but
tons. canned goods, thousand and one
things made from lumber, from friend
ship ladder TO a house ready to be put
! up novelties in toys; agricultural i'm
, plements, several of WHICH are protect
ed by patents issued to Vermonters
machinery for mill and factory; knit
. goods, and many other articles. The
farmer, too, is producing more differ
! ent products than formerly variety in
grains, live stock, honey, wool, etc.
: and this is improving the farms.
! The year 1892, then, was prosper
! Gus one, and the prosperity has been
not merely financial but social and edu-
E cational. The dollar and cent idea was
5 not as prominent as in the years just
5 after the war, but the State as State,
5 and as community, took long steT
i forward and made itself a better place
. to live in. A well-known Nermontel
, saws .sThe advance of 1892 was sub
. stantial in all that constitutes good So
ciety and home-substautial in put
. ting new life into the people and assert
e ing the advantages of our New Eng
e land society-substantial in causingth'
a scales to drop from the eyes of thos'
: who have been praising the Black Hill
and silently cursing Vermont-substan
Y tial in partially convincing the people
5 that education cannot be estimated il
dollars and substantial in laying
: a part of the foundation of coming gooC
y citizenship. ."-RHtland Herald