July 12, 1881 Machias Union Date: 97-08-25 15:25:54 EDT (c) 1997 by Kenneth A. Dill please send corrections to: e-mail ctyankee@bigfoot.com or snail mail: Kenneth A. Dill 581 Crown St #27 Meriden, CT. 06450 Why is it? That so many places are left in the turnpikes where a barrel or half a barrel of water will remain after every shower when in nine cases out of ten a wheelbarrow full of dirt would fill the place and make the road smooth? That so many stone are left with sharp, jagged edges in the wheel track of turnpikes, every wheel that strikes one such is sent off at an angle of fourty-five degrees, doing more damage to the carriage than a month of steady running on a smooth road? That Road agents and surveyors will persist in putting in logs and brush crosswise the road "to fill up" when all experience shows that logs and sticks so placed and buried never so deep will soon be second story gridirons? That there should be at this late day an uneven, hillocky turnpike in any town, when not an hour more time is required to make the mile of it smooth, symetrical and pleasant not only to look at but ride over? No doubt most road agents "know how" but they fail in too many instances to put their "know how" into practical use. [ 116 years later and we are still asking the same questions. Ken] Calais High School The graduates were Miss Katie A. Washburn, Miss Lulu V. Rapley, Miss Nellie Mitchell, Miss Fannie Foster, Miss Anna W. Horton, Miss Ida M. Dyer and Charles McCathrine. Six girls, one boy! That is about the proportion as we notice in a majority of the High Schools in the Eastern part of the State and may be so all over the State. Boys avoid schools: they avoid study, they dislike application, they, as a class, lack perseverence. True, there are exceptions. Some boys take to mechanical trade, they are industrious, not lazy; and industry, as a rule, carries with it a degree of intelligence that will make itself felt in the world. The boys who are habitual drones, who take to loitering, idling; find nothing to do, but somehow fall into habits of smoking, drinking, licentiousness, will one day see women in the pulpits, in the doctor's gig, in the counting room, in the school room, book-keepers, clerks, "salesmen," in the telegraph office, printers, publishers, editors, everywhere where intelligence, industry, responsibility are demanded and where highest salaries are paid. The idle boys by and by will be men in growth and age; they will be wondering "Why is it that women are doing so large part of the work and I can't get anything to do? Boys, if you continue much longer to lead slothful lives, you will live to see women not men governing and controlling and why not? The Cutter and the Hare In the month of April 1813 the American Cutter (Cutter's name not known) Daniel Elliot of Machias, master, was cruising off Jonesport. The Cutter hailed from the Machias Custom House. The British armed sloop Hare espied the Cutter and gave chase. Capt Elliot knowing that resistance was useless ran into Sawyer's Cove and beached his vessel. The Hare followed near to the shore as depth of water permitted, anchored and despatched a barge well manned and armed to take possession of the Cutter. At the time all able-bodied men in Jonesport were enrolled and each one was required to equip himself to a certain extent. There were 40 to 50 of these "Minute men" in the place. Not relishing the idea of seeing the American Cutter stolen in that way, they assembled, so that the woods in proximity to the Cove was full of them. Just as the barges crew were in the act of making ready to move the Cutter, the Minute men fired on the British marines. One man was killed and two wounded of the barges crew and one of the wounded shortly died. The result was that the Commander of the Hare released the Cutter by the Minute men giving up the barge which they had captured, and the Hare at once set sail for Halifax. It is said and generally conceded that Andrew McDonald fired the shot that killed the marine. The body was buried on Old House Point. His name was Carlow. A prisoner that somehow seemed to be left, one of the Hare's crew, was taken to Machias by Nehemiah Sawyer and delivered to the authorities there. The Cutter would have been lost, but for the bravery of the Jonesport Minute men. Capt Elliot is remembered as a stout, fleshy man, weighing about 300. He married Martha, the oldest child of Morris O'Brien. After Daniel's death Martha married Ladwick Holway of Machias. The Norton Family Seth Norton, with his wife Amy, came from Martha's Vineyard (his wife's maiden name was Norton and a cousin) and two or three small children, first of the name to settle in Addison, on the east side about one mile above the bridge, on the same farm where W M Norton now lives. Daniel Look, his wife and two or three children, came same time from the same place both in 1768 or '69. Seth Norton's children were Elihu, Abram, Seth, Elisha, Amy, Hepsibah, Betsey. Elihu married _______ Beale; children-- Phineas, Jeremiah, Abraham, Joseph, Lincoln, Amy, Fannie, Sarah. Abram married ________ ________; children-- Lot, Butler, Abraham, Moses, Richmond, Phebe, Mariam. Seth married _______ Patten; children-- Hannah, Patten, Enoch, Lydia, Barney, Fannie, Lewis, Amy, Horatio, Nancy. Elisha married _______ Wass; children-- Hiram, Otis. Amy married Wm Merritt, a soldier of the Revolution; their children were Abram, Seth and William; Abram and Seth not married killed at sea by lightning; William married Eliza Chandler. Hepsibah married Nath'l Ramsdall; children--Seth, Jesse, Justice, Freedom. Betsey married Lemuel Hinckley; children-- James, Amos, Elias, Azuba, Hadassah, Eliza, Leoniece, Celinda. Amy, daughter of Elihu married John Noyes of Jonesboro. MARRIED In East Machias, by Hon J C Talbot: June 26, David Berry and Miss Deborah I Ackly; July 2, Otis R Parsons and Mrs Felicia Babb; same date D Webster Berry and Miss Annie I Hanscom; July 8, Capt Fitz William Ackley and Miss Lucy A Jameson, all of E M. In Cutler, by Isaac Wilder Esq, June 29, Aurelius Davis and Miss Carrie A Cates; July 6, Edward H Davis and miss Alice P Thurlow, all of Cutler. In Addison, June 11, by A K McKenzie. Esq., Levi S Kelly and Miss Evelin F Gailac, both of Jonesport. In Eastport, July 3, by Rev George W Kelly, Clarence P Stinson, of Vinalhaven and Miss Lizzie W Watt of Calais. In Lubec, June 17, by Rev B P Reed, Stewart McFadden and Miss Mianie M Kelly, both of Trescott; June 25, Otis L Goodwin and Miss Fannie B Mugford, both of Lubec. DIED In East Machias, July 7, Lincoln A Hinckley, aged about 20 years. (Ellsworth American please copy) In Steuben, May 31, Mrs Lucy Guptil, wife of Henry Guptil, aged 25 years, 10 months and 24 days. In Eastport, July 3rd, Freeman Varney, aged 74 years and 2 months. Died in Cutler, June 13, Willis H Davis, son of Artemas U and Maggie Davis, aged 4 years 3 months; also Warren B Davis, June 23, aged 3 years 3 days. "Death may the bands of life unlose, But can't dissolve my love; Millions of infant souls compose The family above. Methinks I see a thousand charms Spread o'er thy lovely face. While infants in thy tender arms Receive the smiling grace. 'I take these little lambs' said he, And lay them in my breast; Protection they shall find in me, In me be ever blest." In Charlotte, June 16, Louisa M, wife of Amos A Gardner, aged 53 years, 4 months. These seems a shadow on the day, Her smile no longer cheers; A dimness on the stars of night, Like eyes that look through tears. Alone unto our Father's will One thought hath reconciled; That he whose love exceedeth ours Hath taken home his child. Fold her, O Father! in thine arms, And let her henceforth be A messenger of love between Our human hearts and thee. Still let her mild rebuking stand Between us and the wrong, And her dear memory serve to make Our faith in Goodness strong. -- Kenneth A. Dill ctyankee@bigfoot.com ctyankee@home.com http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/7229 (c) 1997 by Kenneth A. Dill please send corrections to: e-mail ctyankee@bigfoot.com or snail mail: Kenneth A. 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