The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1898-08-12
EAST DORSET.

report we shall see whether "the per
is mightier than the sword. ;" What
roomy chance we now have to obey
the command, go We into all the
world and preach the gospel to every
creature"
Our soldier boy, Thomas Dunn, is
sick with malarial fever and in hospi
tai at Chickamauga. Reported re-
covering. His mother and sister
Anna, left here Friday of last week
to see and care for him and arrived
in camp Monday.
Ernest Seymour has been alarm.
ingly ill but is better.
DR.. and Mrs. Bartlett are still alb
sent visiting in the north part of the
State.
Picnicers by the car load and other
ways are still visiting lake Bebee.
Herold Buffum left Monday to at.
tend the Post Graduate Medical
school of New York.
Lawyer Edward Griffith and wife
of New York are visiting their pa.
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. M. Griffith
DR.. John L. Cochran of New York.
with his fiancee, daughter of Pro.
fessor of the University of Virginia,
is at the old home.
The inference seems fair one
from 81 Clones budget of last week
that town politics are at white heat
in Dorset valley. Nothing OF that
sort here unless it is very quiet still
hunt. However, no East Dorset man
will hang back and resist till his coat
is torn completely off of him before
he will yield and consent to 60 to
Montpelier. He will succumb to the
boys.
School directors, Fisher and Tor
rev, attended the meeting of school
directors at Rutland Thursday of
last week and took look into the
sea of fair faces of the summer
school there in session and heard DR..
G. S. Caverly's address before the
school on "The Relation of The Pub
lie Schools to Public Health" The
apparent purpose of the address was
to make teachers sort of trained
nurses and to make health catching
instead of disease. The effect would
be calamitous. Lots of NJ. DIS
would have to 60 to preaching, teach
ing or hoeing beans and drug store
goods and patent medicines wouldn't
be worth more bushel than potatoes.
Doctors know a great deal, they know
lots, but SO long as they can't hea
themselves and don't live so long as 9
class as the clergy, who take nc
thought for the body but only for its
supposed invisible and immortal lin
ing their rules of health don't i'm
press US as of especial value in or Out
of school. The manly men, men Of
bodies and brains that have estab
lished American prestige in peace
and in war and those who must be
depended upon to maintain that pres
tige unimpaired forever were and will
be "chips of the old blocks" they
were and will be born not made
GAN are not men that wear the hui
man FORM" but the fault.is back Of
their introduction to Vermont schoo
houses. 1t is better philosophy t
doctor the cause than the efect-bet
ter to drink at the fountain than a
the stream. Sour last legislature
Says DR.. Caverly, "took long steE
in the right direction when it passed
the following law Section 3. Al
school houses hereafter built shall BE-
constructed, in respect to heating
lighting, ventilation and other SAM.
tary arrangements, according to reg.
ulatlons furnished by the State board
of health. Good law. The State
board of health is school house build.
ing committee for the commonwealth
of Vermont"
Benz. Roberts, son of Benoni T.
Roberts, was arrested and taken tc
Bennington, Tuesday, charged with
throwing stone through window OF
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