The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1909-08-26

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dali. for several months, died last Fri
day. Her funeral was held on Sunday
IL 2 o'clock, Rev. w. A. Mclntire of
Daaby, officiating She was only nine
teen years Of age and will be greatly
missed by her many friends.
SOUTH DORSET
The quarries are running nights
Everything moves along AS usual.
Work il plenty and wages good.
Road Commissioner Matson is put
ting in the State road along this valley
aud is doing good work.
Certain parties who have been
bowling aud swearing through the
streets Of Jerusalem have got through
disturbing the peace of that quiet city
on the divide.
Bowen has just secured the sale OF
The best paying business in Vermont.
81 900 will earn "a 900 ia year Act
quick. Adv next week.
IN A LIFE TIME.
The passing away of my old friend
Judge Fowler recalls how fleeing is
life aud how quickly death can cut us
III, yet in the 81 years Of the busy life
Of the Judge he had lived to see more
inventions, moreprogress and advance
ment in human life than in all the hun
lred- Of years before. The breaking
II the hold Of ignorance, superstition.
higotry and religious intolerance had
more than 100 years ago left the human
mind free 10 act 10 the line Of thought,
research and advancement freed from
be fear of the stake. the torture and
humiliation practiced by the cruel,
bigoted and ignorant rulers of church
and state that had always suppressed
any invention not in accordance with
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which was based upon the supposed
revelation of law, which was written
by men totally ignorant of the laws of
nature AS we know them today. AS
say, over 100 years ago man was let TO
act, think and DO as his mind dictated
and then and not until then did the
human race forge ahead. and so fast
has il gone that IN the last 100 years,
or the life Of single man. has been
developed all our recent improvements,
in so much that all the mechanical
works from the beginning of time were
not n comparison to the last 100 years
and the end is not yet at hand. In the
u years of H X. Fowler's life railroads
we're pushed over our land. steam boats
iud ocean Steamships, telegraph and
telephone. electric lights. electric
power, wireless messages, sewing ma.
.hine, moving machine, automobiles,
and other internal combination power.
Paper from wood, high explosives Of
various kinds, machine guns, photo-
graphy, machine type settlers, flying
machines, etc, in fact il we wipe out
he inventions of a life time and 90
back 100 years we would lose more ad
yancement than all the advancement
made before and this has been
made possible only by the doing away
IF superstition, and yet today we
have among us many who they could
would again established the old rule
aud stop all advancement because it
wns not in olden times. 81 CLONE.
DANNY FOUR CORNERS.
Mrs Nelson Nichols is on the sick |
list.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. f. Otis were in
Rutland last Monpay.
Miss Pheba Condgon is seriously
IL with typaoid fever.
Mrs. David Parker and daughter
Florence, were in Rutland Friday.
Harold Nichols of Clayton. n. Y.
j. spending few days in town.
Mrs. Vim. 3. Edgerton Of Man.
hester i visiting relatives in town.
Mrs. ST.. Griffith called at Mrs. l..
!. Pauis' aud W. +. Otis last week.
The infant daughter Of Mr.. and
sirs. Il. NJ. v Otis, who has been ser.
ausly III, is slowly improving.
Mrs. A. l.. Niles. who has been
listing relatives IN Salem, n T., and
Manchester, has returned home.
Miss Winona Woodward, who has
,een spending a few days with her
'riend, Miss Sampson in SALISBURY,
Ias returned home.
Stephen Frost. who has been spend.
ng few days with bis family in town.
'etnrled 10 Troy last Friday accom-.
panied by his daughter, Myrtle Frost.
Any skin itching IL temper tester.
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