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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1895-09-24
Springs!

The Sullivan Hot Springs are
pleasantly situated only two
miles and a half above the town
of Clayton, near the South bank
of Salmon river. Their waters
are of nice temperament for
bathing, and possess strong
medicinal qualities, sulphur pre-
dominating. This is fast becom-
ing a place of resort for invalids
and pleasure seekers. Mr.. Sui
Ivan has made a great many i'm
provements for the comfort of
his guests, but the leading at
traction must ever be it's healing
waters.
A carriage for the conveyance
of guests will be constantly in
attendance, and all persons wish
ing to go and return can do so
during the day, round trip only
so cents. Two fine plunge baths
are now complete and other
conveniences will be added.
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Descriptive pamphlet on Cripple
Creek and its gold mines mailed free
on request. Write for our weekly
market letter.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1895-09-24

DID YOU EVER KNOW
That there was more millionaires
made from mining investments
than from any other source.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1895-09-24

DID YOU EVER THINK
That from small investment you
might become independently rich.
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went back to his old stand, taking A.
{. Norwood of Boston, as partner.
They successfully conducted the bust
ness until 1892, having practical mo-
nopoly of the trade in the village,
when he sold out to Mr.. Norwood.
In 1894 he bought the store and
stock of Norwood, and taking his
son, George L. into his partnership put
i'll more than $1,000 worth of fresh
stock. They have largely extended
their line af boots and shoes, flour and
hardware, have also added new de-
partment of wrappers, rubber coats and
macintoShes. The junior partner, Geo.
Nolan has happy faculty of jollying
customers, especially the mothers of
pretty daughters and is a hustler be-
hind the counter. By his long expert
ence James Nolan thoroughly under
stands the wants of his customers, and
the trade of the firm is larger than ever
before. He also conducts an extern
sive business as an undertaken. Though
not farmer, he has given both time
and money to the establishment of the
cooperative creamery at East Tops
ham, and served the company as di-
rector and secretary.
In 1871 he married Susan ]. Worm
wood, and their union was blessed
with four children. Elmer d., deceas-
ed, George L., Cora and Agnes M.
Mr.. Nolan has held many official po-
sitions of trust and responsibility. He
has settled many estates, is well
known figure at state and county con-
ventions, which he has almost contin-
ually attended for twenty years. His
standing as a business and public man
is attested by his continuous service of
twenty-five years as town clerk. He
has been Supt. of schools five years,
and represented Topsham in the gen
eral assembly.
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James Nolan with his brothers
Robert and William and two sister,
came from Glasgow in 1888, and set
tied on farm in Ryegate, Vt. Or
that farm he reared family of three
sons and five daughters viz, Mary Jane
(deceased), Mrs. w. B. Gibson, Isa-
bel, Mrs. J M. Doe. South Ryegate
James R., mentioned elsewhere, Joseph
B., John A., merchant at Ryegate
Center, Louise (deceased), Sarah E.
Mrs. Fred White of Topsham, M.
Sophia, Mrs. Charles Taplin, Topsham.
]. B. Nolan was born in 1850 in
Ryegate, and was educated in the
common schools and at McIndoes
Academy. When he was seventeen
years old he went to Manteno, ILL.,, and
farmed four years on rented farm.
Then he returned to Ryegate and soon
after went to Boston and clerked four
years in a boot and shoe store. Mean
while he had married. In the fall of
1876 he purchased the farm one mile
from East Topsham where he has since
resided. The farm contains I65 acres
and dairying is specially. Mr.. Nc
Lam has made since the creamery
started, some two years and two months
since, more than 10000 pounds of
butter for which he has received the
pretty sum of $4,000, and these results
Justify his firm belief in the creamery
system. In fact his influence was
strongly felt in starting the project, for
he wrote the paper and obtained the
first 5000 of stock. Mr.. Nolan pos
sesses the native Scotch thrift and
perseverance, and has more than
doubled his crops since he came here
twenty years ago, and now keeps forty
two head of cattle, six horses and a few
sheep. He finds the ensilage system
the hand maiden of creamery butter.
He is a staunch republican and a
firm believer in protection, a result
largely due to the free trade arguments
that he used to hear from our British
cousins in Canada when he used to go
there counting He has held various
town offices and in 1888 was elected to
the General Assembly from Topsham
and was useful member.
He married Ruby A. Bell of Danville,
p. O., in 1874 and they have four chill
dren, James K who is clerking in the
store of his uncle, James R. Nolan,
Louise J., Charles E. and Harry c. Mr..
Nolan is wide awake, thrifty, energet-
ic farmer. and his example is good OBJ
ject lesson, that is being followed in
town.
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father when he was five years old,
the farm and stock were sold and
the family of five children broken
up. This was in 1912 and Mr..
Miles remembers that pair of
good seven foot oxen sold for $50
and other things in proportion.
He was thrown upon his own
resources and worked where he
could and for what he could get.
He has cut many a cord of wood
for twenty-five cents and board,
and after he was man grown he
worked for 5000 a month but
wages slowly improved so that in
1851 at the age of twenty-one he
was able to get $500.
He called up his reserve force
of Yankee ingenuity, picked up
the trade of house joiner, and
worked at it more than ten years.
During several winters in COM
pany with Luke Wilson he was
engaged building fifty wagons on
a contract. In 1868 he married
Mary D., daughter of Thomas
Jefferson Dickey, bought farm
of fifty acres in Topsham, which
he has gradually increased to us
acres. About ten years since he
removed from this farm, leaving
his oldest son in possession, to his
present fine residence near the
four corners two miles from East
Topsham. He thoroughly re-
built the house, adding another
story, doing much of the work
himself, and has very desira-
BILE small farm of about seventy
five acres.
His four children are George
Benton, John Fred a motorman
on an electric car near Boston,
Harry Hayes and Mary Ada the
last two residing at home. Mrs.
Miles is a descendent of Adam
Dickey the pioneer of this neigh
borhood, and the Miles are good
types of the hospitable, intelli-
gent, elderly, native born Yer
monters. Mr.. Miles has served
his town many years as a justice
of peace and in other capacities.
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JAMES r. NOLAN.

Son of James and Agnes L. Nolan
was born in Ryegate in I84I. His
parents came from Scotland to Gale
donia County in 1890, and James re-
ceived good, practical education in
the schools of Ryegate, supplemented
by course of instruction at the Gale
donia Grammar school and at Mcln-
does Academy. He remained on the
farm with his father until he was 20
years of age, then went to Boston and
for three years engaged IN the business
of trucking.
After a years tour of inspection in
Iowa he returned to Ryegate, and fl
nally moved to Topsham, where he en-
gagged in general trade for four years,
and then parted with his interest in the
business to Mr.. Stewart, with whom he
had been connected. For several
years he gave his attention to insurance,
pensions and town affairs. He then
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1870, removed with his fathers family
to Corinth, when he was 9 years old
and lived there until he was IS. Then
he formed life partnership with Mar
tina ]. Rogers and came to her paternal
home, where he has since resided
Their only daughter, Mrs. Anna J
Hight, who is now i'll, is now with her
little son temporarily stopping with her
parents.
Until recent years Mr.. Eastman's
attention has been principally devoted
to the care of his farm. In the spring
of 1890 he saw an opportunity for a
favorable investment in the growing
village of East Barre, and there pur-
chased some land and built two tene-
ment houses and boarding house. In
the spring of 90 he built nice tene-
ment house, and in company with T.
L. Sargent he bought water privilege
and built a fine two-story grist mill ;
also stone shed 1oox36, and store
house 34x4o, also polishing mill with
steam power connected. Mr.. East
man has strong faith in the future de-
velopment of East Barre, and has
shown his faith by his works. That his
faith is we'll grounded is shown by the
fact that the grist mill is doing a bust
ness of $4,000 per annum. In the
fall of 1893, Mr.. Eastman, in company
with his brother-in-law, ]. E. Davis of
Warren, N. H., erected Opera House
block 7ox42, two stories high, with
basement laid with cemented granite.
The first floor of this fine building is
occupied with stores, which are con-
nected with the railroad, by side
track on the backside. The Opera
House, said to be one of the finest in
the state, occupies the second floor.
There is reason to believe that Mr..
Eastman's enterprise will be rewarded
with financial success. Mr.. Eastman
is a republican and has held various
town Offices. He is recognized as
man of sound judgment and steadfast
principle, and is valued citizen of the
town. With him and his estimable
wife. lives his father the veteran William
Rogers, and we are indebted to this re-
we'll preserved and intelligent
gentleman for many valuable facts con-
1ected with the early history of the
own. He was born in 1909, walked
hree miles to attend school on lions |
Hill, the Calvinist Baptist settlement
ind former center, and situated less
han mile from West Topsham.
He has been life long farmer and
esident of the town, a man of strong
rame and great worker, His men,
Try is unimpaired, and he is still great
eader, and much interested in current
vents. His grandfather, Thomas
Scotchman, was one of the
ioneers of the east part of the town,
,hich was first settled. Mr.. Rogers
married Sarah Y. Colby of Gambia, N.
L., in 1884, and moved where he now
ives in 1847, where his wife died three
ears since at the age of SO years.
heir only child is Mrs. Eastman.
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Edmund HI. Smith was born on
the lower plain at Bradford in
1923, and his father, VIM. Smith,
came there in the early history of
the town. Edmund served as.
apprenticeship as a mechanic
with Abraham Shaw of that
town, married in 1874, moved to
Lowell, Mass, and worked SOME
three years in a machine shop.
About 1850 he came to West
Topsham, and for many years
followed his trade there and built
or helped to build fully a dozen
houses in that vicinity. III 1862
Mr.. Smith traded with Charles
Poole for farm on Zion's Hill,
neighborhood just east of West
Topsham, and continued to- fol-
low the double occupation of
farmer and mechanic.
He bought the place where he
now lives with his son Arthur,
about 1870, built the present
house and ell, and has since re-
sided here. He married Huldah
Kidder in 1874, who bore him
four children, ai.1 died in 1887.
Edmund and Huldah Smith were
consistent members of the M. E.
church, and contributed literally
according to their means for the
support of the gospel. Their
children are George W., who died
in infancy, Albert D., enlisted
when he was IS years old, was
taken sick in camp at Bratt1eboro
and died at Bradford, Charles F.
elsewhere mentioned, and Arthur
T. who was born in Topsham in
1856.
The activities of his youth and
early manhood have been expend-
ed in this town. AS the home
boy he has successfully carried
on the paternal acres, and during
the last dozen years has been
largely engaged in the purchase
of live stock for M. G. Flanders,
to be shipped to the Brighton
and Watertown markets. Mr..
Smith is energetic and enterpris-
ing, and no one did more jealous
work than he for the starting of
the West Topsham creamery, of
which he is vice president. He
married Nettie D., daughter of
E. M. Collins of Topsham in
1877. Their children are Arthur
Leroy, Victor Collins, and Nettie
Thesie. Mr.. Smith is one of the
and public spirited
men of the town, and deserved1y
possesses the esteem of all
classes.
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r. M. HARVEY.

Roney M. Harvey, is perhaps more
widely known than any other citizen OF
Topsham now living. His father, John
Harvey came to Topsham in 1898. and
settled as a pioneer on tract of I'M
broken wilderness in the north part of
the town. and there reared family of
ten children, all of whom lived to be
nearly fifty years of age. The men,
bers of the family are now widely scat
tered. John Harvey was man of
prodigious strength and endurance,
and the children were taught the les
son of thrift and self reliance.
Roney NJ. was born in Topsham in
I843, attended the common schools,
Newbury Seminary, Peacham Academy
and a select school at East Topsham
taught by Rev. N. R. Johnson. In
youth he was employed to "teach the
young idea how to shoot" and ga
brisk wielder of the birchen ruler" when
occasion required, his services were al
ways in demand in the VIGOROUSLY hard
In 1866 he visited the Pa
cific coast with the view of making his
home there, but was soon recalled by
the sickness and death of his father.
He commenced the study Of law in the
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Mr.. Rogers cast his first presidential
vote for "Old Hickory" and has usual
ly acted with the democratic party
He has repeatedly held the office of Sc
lectman, lister, assessor, and overseer,
and was constable ten years, deputy
sheriff three years, justice of peace five
years, carried the U. S. mail thirteen
years, has taken the Argus and Patriot
sixty years, and has kept daily jour
nal fifty years. In his long life his lips
we're never stained with tobacco nor
profaned with an oath. He attributes
his rare retention of his mental facul-
ties to his continued use of them, and
his temperate habits through life.
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to r. Augusta, daughter of James
and Rachael (Anderson) Perkins
OF Boston. Their union has been
been blessed with a son and
daughter, Bessie May and Brad
ley z. Sheriff Smith is a member
OF Hiawatha Lodge, l. O. o. F.,
OF Barre. Mr.. Smiths perennial
good nature and lively wit, as
well as his neighborly kindness,
have rendered him social favor
tie with all classes, and he is
loyalty devoted to the advance
ment of the public and business
interests of his town and section,
and a widely known as royal good
fellow.
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CHARLES F. SMITH.

Charles F., son of Edmund H.
and Huldah (Kidder) Smith,
was born in Topsham in 1854.
He was early Injured into the
cares and labor of the farm and
there gained an amount of prac-
teal experience that was benefi-
cial in after life. He acquired
such an education as the common
schools of Topsham afforded, and
before he had attained his major
ity he found his way to Boston.
He worked first in a shoe shop,
then ran meat and provision
market, after which he carried
on the business of a sale stable
for about six years. At the So
licitation of his father he then
returned to Topsham and his orig
inal occupation in 1882, devoting
much attention to the raising of
poultry and also buying and ship
ping butter and poulty to Boston
and the White Mountain market,
He soon purchased a stock of
groceries and general merchan-
disc, and for several years did a
lively business as a country mer-
chant, never emitting a favorable
chance to buy or sell horse
when the opportunity offered, and
to keep himself from rusting out,
he meanwhile carried on the vii
1age saw mill.
By this time the reader will
perhaps have formed the opinion
that ''Charlie" Smith is a hust-
Ter. In addition to the above EN-
Payments, he sought little rec
reation and the Development of |
his lungs by auctioneering and,
extended his acquaintance by act
ing as constable, collector and
deputy sheriff. In the fall of 1892
seeing a better opportunity to
acquire a competency and realize
more fully his mission in life of
doing good, he sold out his store
and purchased the good will and
stock of the valuable preparation
styled the Green Mountain Lini-
ment and cough elixir, and to
this he added the we'll known
Green Mountain Sarsaparilla,
and the Columbian Condition
Powders for horses, cattle and
poultry, with a varied and extern
sive line of drugs, extracts, oils
and tinctures. His trade is ex-
tensive in Vermont, New Hamp-
shire and he also ships goods to /
various parts of New England !
and the west. At first he put s
one team on the road, but now he 1
has three actively engaged; his
have been more than ]
realized, and he is laying the j
of a widely extended,
and lucrative trade. J
He has had several offers to re-
move and capitalize his business ]
put has preferred for the present,
to expend his means and activi- I
les in his native town of Tops Z
1am.
Mr.. Smith is a republican, and '
IS such represented Topsham in I
he General Assembly in 1890. s
lie was five years assistant post
master and post master. He was v
appointed deputy sheriff in 1886 Z
md is now serving his second L
ERIN as sheriff of Orange County L
position which he fills with f
ignal ability. h
Mr.. Smith was married in 1877 /
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THAYER.

In the northern part of the
hamlet of Waits River there is
large, white, two-story house with
outlying barns, that has tidy,
well kept look.
AT the door you will meet a
portly well preserved old gentle
man, with ruddy complexion and
shrewd eyes, who is a good rep
resentative of the last generation.
Lyman NJ, son of John and
Hannah Smith Thayer, was born
in Peacham, VT, in 1916. His
father died when he was three
years old, and his mother moved
to Newbury and then to Corinth.
Lyman worked his own way and
picked up such education as his
meager chances afforded in the
district schools of Corinth. When
he was eighteen years old he
worked out on a farm for 5000
per month, and the next year for
$40. That fall he went to
Plymouth County, Mass, and
worked in the rolling mill and
nail works, at first for $500 per
month and later by the job. This
mill was located twenty-five miles
from Boston, and the stock was
hauled in by horse teams at first
but soon after the Old Colony
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JOHN NlILES.

John Miles is a representative
farmer of Topsham.
By energy, economy and per-
severance he has wrested substan-
tial advantages from adverse cir
cumstances. His father, Joseph,
and his grandfather, Joseph,
were Corinthians, and farmers
born and bred. John Miles was
orphaned by the death of his
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sides several light buggies and express
wagons. His original shop was oox24
feet, two stories high and an adjoining
blacksmith shop. He has just erected
a new paint shop and store house "a
feet square and two stories high.
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CHURCH..

Ot1ONOf1.
Richard Church, born in Orange II
years ago, has been almost lifelong
resident of Topsham.
George K. Church was born in 1874
and his youthful days were passed here
in the labors of the farm and at the
district school. In September 1862,
at the age of eighteen, he responded
to his country's call and enlisted in the
Sixth VT Regiment, Col. Nathan Lord.
Georges first experience of army life
was when Burnside crossed the Rap
pahannock on pontoons and charged
rebel position at Fredericksburg. That
day it rained necessarily and the tired
soldiers stretched themselves in their
blankets on the muddy ground beside
the road and Church remembers that
the next morning there was deep
wheel rut within a few inches of his
head made by the passage during the
night of several ammunition trains I'M
needed by him. He was excused from
duty only one day during his entire
service, was all though the Shenandoah
campaign and took part IN every i'm
portant battle, some twenty-five in
number in which the old brigade was
engaged.
At second Fredericksburg a rebel
'got drop on him" but his gun miss
ed fire and ,,hurch brought him down.
During the last year of the war he was
detailed as the man from his company
forming a company of division sharp
shooters that were known as "Getty's
Hellions"
Since the close of the war Mr..
Church has enjoyed quite varied ex-
perience and has touched the world at
many points. He has been a farmer
at Topsham and in the west and sub
Sequently worked year at Manches-
ter, N. H., for the Amoskeag corpora
ton. Soon after his return fIom Man
chester he commenced to peddle YAM
kee notions, drugs and medicines. He
compounded and sold Church's Green
Mountain liniment and cough elixir
and he travelled extensively for fifteen
years making large sales. Having sold
out this business for four years he en-
gagged in numbering at the mills on
Waits River. In the fall of 1891 Mr..
Church bought out the stock of goods
Of c. +. Smith at the old Tabor & Col
Inns store and has since conducted the
leading mercantile business of the vii
lage in the lines of dry goods, groceries
boots and shoes, -four, feed, hardware
and agricultural implements.
Mr.. Church married Lydia R. Celley
of Topsham on his return from ser vice,
and their two children are Myrtle L.,
Mrs. W. A. Corliss of Bradford, and
Lena Church, now a student of Water
bury. Mr. Church is republican in
politics, and member or Ransom Post
G.. A. R. of East Corinth.
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One stormy winter afternoon we re-
Gently spent an hour of unalloyed en-
joyment in the cosy home of Edmund
w. Eastman of West Topsham. Under
this hospitable roof were gathered four
generations, and it was a pleasure to
see the love and affection that binds
the little infant in arms to the great
grand-sire Of sour score and five years.
Mr.. Eastman was born in Orange in