Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-04-26
WILLIAMSVILLE.
STORY OF THREE YOUNG MEN,.
Two are Dead and The Third is
State Charge in an Insane Asylum
Curse of the Liquor Habit.

tails of whose death are given elsewhere |
i'm this paper, was taken to Northamp- |
ton, Mass for burial last Saturday. af- |
ter brief funeral services i'm the Metho- |
dist church conducted by Rev. +. s. |
Bckford of South Newfanc.
Mr.. Mitchell was one of nree young |
men who came from Northampton seven |
| or eight years ago to work i'm the basket /
shop i'm this village. They were all |
highly skilled as worltmcu and were in |
dustrious and steady for a time but it |
soon developed that they We're victims |
of the drink habit, ana after a few
weeks they began to make occasional !
! pilrrimages to their former home !
where the stringent restrictive high liz
cense law there i'm force was not suni-
| cicut to deter them from INDUCING i'm
| a weeks dcbauch during which their
| earnings were used up and their cloth
| ing Ottcutimcs pawned. Coming back
TO our viuagp after these periodical
| sprccs they expressed so much shame and
! sorrow over thicr condition. and SO strong
| desire to throw off the bonds that held
! them, that the sympathy of our neighbor-
! hood went out to them and every posi-
| bile effort was made by our people to en-
| courage and hold them up. These efforts
! for time seemed unavailing, as one of
! the three after living here several years,
| became incapacitated for his work and
went to "A charity hospital in Pittsfeld,
Mass, where he soon afterward died
| from lilt effects bl Ills years OF ulSSlld-
| ton.
The second of the trio left here about
two years ago to follow his trade in a
| town where liquor could be readily OBJ
| tanned and as the result of his increased
excuses he became the subject of hallu-
| cinations to the extent that he was COM
mitted to an insane asylum where he stll
| remains a charge Of the state. with small
| announcement that he will ever recover.
The third, George Mitchell. was pleas
| ant, kind-hearted fellow whom everybody
| liked. His persistent efforts to conquer
| his appetite were believed to be sincere
| and he was taken into the local tenn
| perance organization and afterward as a
probationer into the Methodist church.
| Not only these organizations threw
around him their strong arms of support,
| but helping hands We're held out to him
and encouraging words given him by our
entire community. Under these inhu-
ences, for a period of eight or nine
months, he was sober and Industrious
and walked the streets of our village
erect in the knowledge that he was
free man.
I Thinking himself strong enough to re-
I sist temptation he went to his former
home for a visit and came back to this
place, with pledge broken and courage
gone Since then. finding that he could
secure AN the liquor that he wanted at
or near Bratr,horo. he has made fire.
qucut trips To- that town, spending nearly
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| coming thoroughly Intoxicated When.
about "A mile from home Mitchell pitched
from the wagon the heavily loaded
wheels running over his face and sholIl-
derS. breaking his neck
In the, light of ia, story of these three
young men how ar, we going To- vote I'm
the contest that is now ON for the intro
duction Of the licensed saloon i'm Nermonto
We greatly mistak, the sentiment of
rural Niudhar county If it's vote is not
am tmpha tic one against such n praposi-
tiou And We h.li,y, 1otvithstanlinl
straw votes that Erar+r,bnro so much of
whose life blood is drawn tnroyrb the
arteries of these rural towns will never
vote 10 send corrslrs h1s, ar,jo thar
which d,haijcb.s and i,p,,,l-.risb,s
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