The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-04-30
PERU.
Roads are just getting settled.
Sick are all getting better.

NOaus are just ScltlnS Settieu'
Sick are all getting better.
Cheese factory is to start up May
10th.
Listers have completed their work
but find great falling off.
A little longer of the Cleveland
regime would certainly have done us
all up.
Our schools have started with The
principle at last adopted that some of
the smaller districts must be thrown
up.
All the energies of our town and its
citizens must be given to make sue
cessful our schools. Unselfsh inter-
est can alone do the work.
The busiest place IN the parts is
the old Whitney store building OPP
posite the postoilice. Wagons, bug
gies and conveyance of all kinds are
brought hitherto for many miles
around for painting, vanishing and
repairs, The two persons employed
cannot begin TO do the work. A
sample of the work will soon be no.
ticed by Us all in Chllds' meat wagon
which has just been completed Sue
cess to anything that has courage,
spunk, and go-a-head,
A buster time than ever is in pros
pect for the lumber operation of S.
l.. Griffith and Mcintyre in our town,
especially in the clapboard line. Near
ly hundred thousand feet of butts
have been hauled to the Peru Lum-
Der Co.'S mill for clapboards by Stiles
and Hapgood operating in Mt. Tabor.
Frank Rush and wife have re engaged
at Griffith's and Johnny Russell has
moved there to work for the season.
Alvah Carley has moved back from
Manchester Depot to superintend the
clapboard business at MacIntyres.
News has been received of the
death of Mrs. Porter Batchelder, an
old time resident of our town, and a
daughter of Stowell Barnard, one of
our first settlers. They here raised
up and educated large family now
scattered over the states west of the
Missouri. Both she and her husband
were connected with the most prom.
iDent families of the town, at a time
when this town was long looked upon
as the banner town of the state.
We notice by the Boston papers an
account of the death of Rev. j. D..
Emerson of Biddeford, Me-, from an
attack Of the grippe. Mr.. Emerson
was well known to US from his pas.
torate here two years ago. He was q
man whom every thoughtful person
knew only to respect, one of those
staid old-time scholarly gentlemen
who are governed only by high
sense of honor and principle. A
graduate of Dartmouth of the class
of 1858 he has been deeply interested
in the cause Of education ever since
and persons who owe their intellectual
development largely to his Indictment
are scattered over the whole breadth
of our country. His pastorate here
was marked by the most conscientious
devotion to his duties. Upon foot be
constantly travelled the whole length
OF our town visiting the sick and the
needy and giving, without charge,
private lessons to the young in the
higher studies. Never before was a
small rural community like this privi-
legged with a higher ministration
Highly intelligent, well-read, deeply
interested in all the reform move
ments of the day, everywhere he went
he everted an elevating influence.
Whenever called to attend the coun-
ellis OF his denomination, he was quick
ly recognized as one of it's leaders
and from him our little parish took
high rank with the larger societies of
the big towns. Only a community
depraved in its tastes could fail to
appreciate him.
Entirely unsefish, devoting his life
to the welfare of those around him,
and especially to the welfare of the
young, he has now gone to his reward
to appear before the Final Judge
whose all searching eye will quickly
penetrate the cloak of venality and
give true, honest merit and devotion
to right, truth and principle Its honest
due.
DEVILS DEN.
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