The Vermont Tribune, Ludlow, Friday, July 19, 1889 Sherburne 7/19/1889 Jonathan TOWNSHEND and a girl and boy, while hoeing corn, recently, discovered a big bear that ppeared to be feeding. they immediately notified a neighbor who started in pursuit with a dog and gun, on sight of which the old fellow left for the woods; so they failed to capture it. Mr. TOWNSHEND, who is some acquainted with the critters, says it was as big as a two-year-old steer, and must weigh 300 or 400 pounds. Mrs. Emily WILLARD showed me a small ever-blooming pink-root, about a year old, which had 75 blossoms thereon. She thought if it did well another year it would be worth publishing. A woman at the north part of town, so report says, made people think she had swallowed paris green. The doctors went post haste and used their pumps lively, but as the case flashed in the pan, the doctors talked to her with tears in their eyes. Pico pond is not lonesome, this season. Many carry tents and camp out a few days. Plenty of woods, some hunting and fishing, and the air is good when it don't rain. The view of Killington peak pays some, as the Irishman said. Some catch a few trout, and some not any. Uncle Charles WILLARD, in going through his grass, discovered some he thought rather tall, and pulled up a handful of herdgrass, one stalk of which measured five feet two inches; the head 9 1/2 inches long. Most of the sick folks are better, except Mr. MILLER. Mrs. BATES, ALLARD, and J. P. TURNER, are comfortable. E. S. COLTON's hired man broke and jammed his fingers in a hay tedder, the other day, and had to go home--probably for a month. The attendance increases at our meetings, which is a sign that we like the minister. If the ministers could save souls, the doctors save lives, the lawyers get all their suits, the editors all their dues, how much different the times would be! Transcribed by Ruth Barton -- Ruth Barton mrgjb@sover.net Dummerston, VT