The Vermont Tribune, Ludlow, Friday, August 2, 1889 Weathersfield Center 8/2/1889 The cry of deserted homes has been one which some of Weathersfield's inhabitants have rung the changes upon for years. It will have to be given up now. The listers found but two in the whole town. There are many without buildings, and more with buildings unoccupied; but the land is carried on by someone. If some of these lugubrious gentleman doubts that someone owns these farms just let him undertake to homestead one of the places. How long dies he suppose he would be allowed to work one unmolested? The truth is, the farms are not deserted; they simply lack occupants, while the land is worked the same as it used to be. Help for haying is very scarce. The short help and the abundant crop is a discouraging combination, to say the least. Luke PERKINS died at the town farm, last week, and was buried Wednesday. He has children, but not one followed him to the grave. Miss Lettie WARREN is to teach the school this fall. Miss Emma GOLDSMITH will go back to district No. 5 for the fall term. Mrs. J. W. HILL has gone away from H. P. TOLLES', where she has been doing housework for some time. Lizzie DUKE is at work in a hotel in Charlestown. Transcribed by Ruth Barton -- Ruth Barton mrgjb@sover.net Dummerston, VT