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BASE B A L I pJWiT FODWT Off E V E a y BEB88IK!?|jfc
play , but please remember that these
were tbe "good old times" of our an. Traveler's Conception «f I t — M y O n l r
"Well,tho Great Aot is finally consaaT •>
CloutmarjS gaiters end the High
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! cestors Still, men divided into two School nine crossed bats for the, third Tth a Hdss*rS tBa u s mEffiMts—Approach t a at a d
mated, and we have that darling little
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flrtil»ac^^'|i^*^terjf^.f ^'Sui- fountain right on tho square in every
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' parties, as were these two old FarmingC l t r toy t h « q o W r o G a t e s . sun bay, onraHteht^^&'^'tvbn't'a, at
I have alluded so many times in ray ton worthies, do to-day as strange acts, time Saturdaj.and the gam* turned out
Never does t h e wanderer come ta a tracted to the peculiar%qppery color of body's way "It's pretty," one says.
sketches to the old church on Meeting- particularly when anything i s being in favor of the latter The lastefs were
compelled to make some changes, but full realization o f t h e sense of t h e above the water, and on inquiring we were Yes, quite pretty and ornamental, and
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 15,1888 Louse hill, that I feel as if I could not agitated for the public good.
the changes strengthened them. They caption until, after a sojourn o f more o r told it was caused by the "sliggings" very much in keeping with numerous
complete the series, which I am soon to
South. Farmmgton, o r the borough
other ornamental structures that we
ttr
O B . B a a s e t t o f A l t o n Is a o a n U i o r U e d l
do, without giving a little history of it, folks, a s my grandfather denominated won the toss and took the field, and at less duration amid scenes and customs resulting from hydraulic mining back in have. It also has a dandy lamp on top
l o r tho P A B S O I I O T U V N E W S ID Alton. A l t o n
not to benofit the elderly people who the early residents there, won the day just three o'clock and five minutes that arc fbreign to the old borne asso the mountains. It stems almost incred that is, likewise, very pretty and desir
a n d vicinity, and b a s J n e u pertainlDg t o s u b s c r i b t l o n a , e t c . can be transacted t h r o o g n him a a w e l l
know its history well, but for the in the great fight over the old meeting White faced the great left-handed ciations, he begins to gather himself to ible, but it said to be a fact neverthe able. Tho water, you know, •will taste
aa at Psnnlogtun
Mr. B a a i c U wlU a l t o
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I t r m a for publtcatlon, a d v e r t i s e m e n t s , e t c
younger portion of the community who, house lot, yet how thev did it I am twirler and tbe game began. White gether preparatory to setting his face less that such has been tbe volume and so much better because of it, and then
ere long, will take their places, and who again unable to tell you, hut tbo great opened with a base hit and stole sec towards borne once more. Then, if amount of debris washed out and down the square will be so nicely lighted. It
ALTON.
ought to know something about the heavy frame was hauled up the steep ond ; Haynes struck out, and White ever, does the fact dawn upon him that from the mountains into the rivers and (the square) is of such immense^'extent
At valleys by tho hydraulic mining process,
dear old meeting house in which O T hill tn tbe day time, and a second time advanced to third on Barker's out. A "There's no place like home."
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that Jt has become an absoTuto'neccssity
Rev Mr Borcbers will supply again
fathers first worshipped. It would be deposited on the lot first chosen Very Card w i u * the next man to bat. He hit timet* the swiftly-moving train seems that where a few years since the Sacra to havo a lamp in the oxact^gcogr^phi- •
next Sabbath, at llio Congregational
very interesting if I could give many s o o n after this tbe church frame was for a base, but w a s out trying to steal literally to drag its weary length serous mento river was navigable for large cal center. Tho one for away;-on. the ,'
Oburcb.
second.
For tbe Iasters, Parwell the boundless waste and groaningly as
"Aunt Juda" Clough, aged 90 years, important historical facts which I shall raised, which called together all the pounded the air three times and sat cend tb^ehorp divides to crawl, seem craft to and above the city of Sacra eastern extremity, near R. "K-'J^earl's,
mento, to-day small boats can with (distant all of 20 feet) is entdrelyvinadebe obliged to omit, simply for the rea townspeople, both men and women, and
died a few days ago at the residence of
down; Connor bit to shoit and was
son that I do not possess them
a great and happy event it .proved to be, thrown out—A. Card to Tibbetts, and ingly, a t a snail's pace down the oppo difficulty ascend the stream, and the quate for tho procession; A blind'man
J iad Oilman »
site slope. And then tho endless waits same may also be said of the San Joa
Two miles below the ancient Dock savo for one o c t u r r e n c i
Come and see those elegant gent's
at some "no-nothing" station , appar quin. To such an alarming extent was couldn't see to get round the'corner un
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y "nick out.
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luitings at Bossed s, < ustom and ready- rose that high elevation of land now at work upon the frame, named Mender
Tibbetts ,and Parker ently as long again as when en route the injury caused by the filling up of less we have that lamp- hoisted-up light
To be ••I.emmy. I think the people called, ,
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made, and fit guaranteed
Nice suits known as Meeting house hill
Marston's out, the scanty meals, inefficient service, the rivers and the sedimentary deposit house fashion on the square.
Another beautiful feature of the affair
from 88 !o 81 J . and we back up all we sure there were loftier hills in Farming him he was the father uf Elder
| ,|.ird strike and the batter g< to first, poor hotels, and in fact a general dis over the once fertile valleys, resulting
got
ton. hut I have thought at various times Mcader), fell from the eaves, receiving
is the ease and facility with which the
say
in my lung life that I did not care to tn serious injuries, and m) grandfather, stole second and came in on a wild position to find fault all round are facts from the annual high water, that the poor, patient ox is to slake his thirst
Mrs Andrew P Oilman, a widow,
throw , Burrows struck out. Roberts, that may be set down to the credit, or
aged 8 0 ysars. took her first ride on the a steeper ascent, particularly when who was present on that momentous the great left fielder of the Iasters, was discredit of the returning* traveler from agricultural interests of the state rose in some of these hot, August days. The
rebellion, some years since, and
young and decked out in my best Sun day, has related that he was taken up
cars. Memorial day, from Alton Bay to
hit and took his base, stole second.went a long journey
Many of these com manded a cessation of this method of fountain will be a little high, and the
Alton, to attend the services of the day rig, with a pair of new shoes on my fur dead, also, that he held a broad-ax . ,"",j"7Hi
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L T '. ' u -TL plaints may be, and my own observa mining, and after a hotly-contested poor fellow will have to reach for all he
feet, though it was the rare exception
day
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thing unless ho is put in :a sling the
Mr and Mr (Jeorge Train, of Hill and not the rule that I walked to church in hi, hand ,n his decent r » I h e l , ^
of a Sunday, since I usually accompanied frame to the ground
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^ that they are tn a greater or less degree further mining by the hydraulic process. same as for Shoeing, and' hoisted up.
side cottage, has received many orders
long time he , fully recovered, and.ubut " i Hayes wore striking out. Cook got imaginative and uncalled for.
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It is said to have been a great blow to As but one under the yoke carl get at
my grandparents on such interesting , .,
, little incident. everything l
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for summer board, and a few guests are
fortius sad,
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The fact of the caae is the traveler is the mining industry in many sections of
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already enjoving the comforts of Hill occasions, who invariably rode tu meet went on gloriously harmon) having,,. third. Tbe next, batter was Henry homeward bound , be is surfeited almost tbe state, and that many otherwise val the water at a time, of course the other,
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i between the two liurlies. Ii Uunlap Fletcher, who was satisfied,. with
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been restored
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. . Henry new to second and, to the bursting point with sight-seeing uable mines are now practically worth, half dead with thirst mayhap, will stand
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patiently (?) by while his mate is hav
As, usual, un such occasions, a dedlca,
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Moses Twombly has launched his steep hill that caused a great d.eal of
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discussion amount? tbe wise old heads fon hymn was lead, the author stand- | came borne on Dixon s two-bagger Bah ! The very mention of tbe word in less until some new method is devised ing all the fun. In fact, you farmer
f
steam yacht, which sets i n tbe water
a drawing-room car of a returning ex whereby tbey may be again operated.
who first thought to erect a house of ing on tho ridge pole uf the building.,
boys, with the sad-eyed ox, will, like
like a duck All who want to make
cursion party as it draws near its ter
It is wonderful indeed to note the
pleasure tnps will find this boat first worship in Karmiagtun. immediately af but poet and poetry are buned in
The school boys went out in one, two, mination is almost enough to lift its extent to which this method was for the Pharisee of old, have to "pass by
ter the incorporation of the town
oblivion two lines only uf the hymn
on the other side" and leave our beau
class.
I beg my readers to remember that having luckily come down to us b) ira- , three order in tbe third, while Connor monitor top in disgust. What tbe tired merly practiced
Coming through the
The Mt Washington made her trial
I added one for the lusters on his bit, s traveler most desires is a sight of home Rockies, we saw a little of tbe devasta tiful fountain in peace It's not intend
ed for such as you, and as you don't
trip for the season Tuesday, and will this, toe first church, was something in ditlun That poet had a nitty brain, ' steal, a passed ball and Parker's muff and home friends, together with a good
tion w h i c h it has caused, together with
commence to make her regular tnps which the people of the whole town was since he said
of Cook's fly, Kelley Roberts and Davis square meal of honest New England miles upon miles of abandoned sluices help pay for it, you arc not supposed to
F o r U i l . t i m b e r l i a * h i v l o<> n > - t
from Centre Harbor t'j Alton Bay on interested, yet it was not built by the
striking out. The fourth inning saw cooking. At l e a s t that was a b o u t tbe or water conduits These water ways handle it.
town itself since I )>e!ie\e a society
I I hat b u e n J r a K f t e * ! MIMIUI m > i n n i s i t o W P M I June 25
The absurdity of the whole affair wns
I the "kids" again blanked and one of acme of our wants as we began to near cross and cris-cross tbe mountainous
1 believe the dimcnsum^ uf t h e first
I). E V heeler has recently secured composed ot the prominent good old
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amply proved the very day on which
residents of Karmington, assisted by church were <10t'>0 feet and two stones the "tackers" got home In the next tbe confines of home once more on our country in every direction They are the fountain was being set, in the pas
Miss Ida Gray as cook, who gave such
I Marston hit one that Fletcher failed tn recent return from the Pacific coast,
universal satisfaction last year, and with CongregaUonalists, erected it, but in in height, with windows in both stories get, xtole second and third and came in and, judging from the remarks of our in the majority of cases simply a huge sage of an ordinary load of logs that
after years tho town uwned an interest Thev were the largest wunltiwa. I re
long, open b o x reaching for miles in ex
Nellie at the head of tbe table waiters,
member, that 1 b a d e . r r seen, and IJ " White's hit. Burrows, () Cord and traveling companions, they w e r e a l l t e n t . These conduits have their h e a d only got by with, as tbe saying u , "a
tbo most fastidious will be pleased with in it, and it may l.ave done so from tlie know 1 used t u - i t in tbe old box-pew j Haynes striking out
squeeze and a grunt." The whole thing
close seconds to the same idea.
Roberts struck
start
So you will observe that there
or source h i g h up in tho mountains and
o u l l n t h e fiflh
the bourny of good things.
The writer commenced the l u n g tbe expense of conducting the water is wrong from the start, and we claim
. Cook made "hlt and
were many minds tl.iuking about it ut c-f my grandfathers and c o u n t the pane* I
Tho tax-collector for 1 8 8 8 , Mr A B
now, as we did when the matter was
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stnke-out act for h&meward journey the nineteenth of from tbis far-away source to the scene first agitated, that the square is .no fit
FlaDders, of West Alton, will be at the one particular period And may 1 di ..f glass in a certain window e v e r y Sungress
Is it not invariably the case day
I recollect that there were six the third time. Haies hit one that April and did not reach home u n t i l of operations at the mines is oftentimes place for it, from tho fact that it is not
postoffice from 11 3 0 a m to 1 3 0 p
as too
Haynes and "Dunlap' May 23d It can hardly be said, how
m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fn whenever a building is tu be erected for teen in the upper tpart and twelve in j Fletcherhot fur to the rescue with a hit ever, >hat I really started for home on very heavy, as one might easily imag large enough for a fountain and leave
ash frame of
came
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the public benefit, whether a town house the lower part
ine who traces its tortuous pathway up room for the usual traffic
days; and after August 1, every Sattir
Every team
w h i c h
brought in the "tackville the above-mentioned day when 1 left t h e mountain Bide The pressure
for a town a court house fur a tuunty ever) vviuduw
tb<
lower stury
day until you have all paid up
that drives to it from the Main street
Dixon struck out again Los Angeles in Southern California, for b e a d under which the water is used
or perchance a count) juil that there is b u t t l n w t ifi llic U | I | M r purt t t b e ' '
side, in either direction, will cover the
The sound of the carpenter's hammer a vast amount of needless opposition house contained It-» light- And how Scure, 8 to 3, in favor of the ahoemak instead of setting my face towards t h e
enormous. Such is the force of tbe Central street crossing, thus forcing pe
is heard i n every direction on the camp agitation and discussion over i t
Too I wish I ruuld d r u * with my pen a pic ers Both sides were blanked in the rising sun, I went northward up the water that a whole mountain Bide is destrians, in wet weather, out into the
gronnrl The large lodging bouse is often are the churches built for Uod ture uf t b e bandsumeuld meeling-huuse sixth, and in the next inning the A B coast 5 0 0 miles to visit tbe cities and
going up, many new cottages are being added to the catalogue \ et as long as just as it appenrcd when I W O K young, C buys scored one and the [asters didn t take in at a hurried glance the beauties fairly torn away by this constant stream mud The only one that can be used
of water directed against it.
here to advantage is one similar to thot
built, and scores of others being re there are "many men of many minds," since I know that yuu would be de
The fun began in the eighth, when of Northern California before finully
Although, as we have above re
paired This promises to be one of the just so long will tbe like occur
My objective point marked, there is a law against this in front of the Methodist church at
I was lighted with it It could not compare the young fellows "mauled" Cook for leaving the coast
most lively seasons at Alton Bay for a much amused upon reading in a recent with our modem houses of worship' yet i
runs, obtaining a g&xl lead
Bum and the center from which I radiated method of mining, nevertheless we are Rochester, or in front of the police sta
tion at Dover, both of wbi;b are placed
number of years
Rochester paper of the effurts of the it was very, ni<e and ipiuintly beautiful i > * first to bat and he mode a two- throughout the northern portion of the told that it is stilt carried aa by stealth beside the street and are easily acccssi
Anson Ross, who was carried to the old mother town to build a new town Urandfather used to my that it woo | >>»"«. went to third on Tibbetts's hil state was the famous city by tbe Qolden
insane asylum at Concord, died, after a hall there The trouble seemed to be constructed out of tbe best materials ob ' l came in on a bit by Parker Mars- Gate—San Francisco, or, as it is most and that there are to-day men of means ble for both horses and cattle. If
in Frisco who dare n o t appear openly
few days confinement, and his body was about the location, and it win then 1 tamable, and tbe finest old timber ,
f? '
« °n b»ll». Burrows and commonly designated all along tbe upon the streets for fear of arrest and are to have any, the one that wo had at
brought back to Oilmantun by under thought of the early da\s in Farming pine, with never a tra< e of knot, wus I " f ard struck out
White was the coast, "Frisco." Tbe journey of 5 0 0 imprisonment for the violation of this first is far more preferable, and tin
proper place for it is opposite R. K
taker Evans and buried from the Con ton, and the cases are similar
It was used in the elegant workmanship thai I seventh batter in this inning, and he miles is made via tbe Southern Pacific law. The coppery color of tbe water, Pearl s residence on Main street, < r
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gregational church, the funeral services desired by all early residents uf Farm adurned the edifice
'added tu the fun by a base hit; on route, and lies through an interesting about which we have already spoken, is
near tbe band stand on Central street
being conducted by Rev E. H Bor- ington to have a mccting-house, and I
The worahip|K'ra tould enter the ' hich Marston scored, and the side was and for much of its extent a picturesque no only apparent in the streams flowing As it now is, we may expect a lawsuit
chcrs, and Hinging by D M. Mooney, think it will be conceded by ever) body church through hve il,sirs On. « j s o o ' " " y retired on Huyncss out. ln region, B e v e r a l of the great interior
into Frisco bay, but ln tbe waters of for damages to some one.
Mrs. O 8 Oilman and Mn, P H who visits Rochester that she needs a the north side uf the building one on | - '
""'I drivers, hut tbey failed to counties of the state and one of its great tbe bay itself and for some little disWheeler of Alton
new town house badly Yet, reall). the Houth side my faiunte, since it led i score The high school scored two in valley sections being traversed. Several tancc outside
While the bay itself
Mrs Geo Tilton and Mrs John Card she hasn t made much progress, if after to my grandfather « pew in the west ' ' '
on singles by A Card, tunnels are passed, une of wbicb, the
will speak at Temperance hall. New 88 years I compare her trouble with corner), a duur on each side of the | Tibbetts and Parker, a passed ball and San Fernando, is nearly 1J miles in has not shoaled to any extent as yet
dotnmcntal to navigation, grave fears
Durham, next Sunday afternoon at 3 p that of Farmmgton in 1800 And now porch which wus in front uf the church, j "
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f be Iasters came in and tried length On the northern side of tbe were entertained that such would have Those unsightly Blotches, Pimples, and
m These ladies are fine speakers and I will hasten and tell )ou alniut the dif and another i l i M i r just beyond the north
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score, but < uuld not
Cook mountain rango of the s a m e name, we become t b e case but for the embargo 8orea by a taltlitul and persistent use ot
everyone should go to hear them
We ficulty which she experienced and porch duur ami which fured tbe east
Ayer's S&rsaparllla, the best and most
the first striker and he went out— come to a more elevated tract, being the pluccd upon hydraulic mining
are glad to learn that the temperance which was all about the meeting huusi- There were suitable wn.sleii steps to I'arkor to Tibbetts
reliable Alterative and Blood-purlner
Davis made a bit. western portion of that great Mojave
Anuther feature that the stranger ub
work is to bo revived under the manage lot. so many years agu
ever discovered. ** I was troubled,
each duur except the mirth '"ic which Hayes and Fletcher struck out and the d e s e r t , the same w e traversed further s e r v e s of San Francisco, while puaalng
ment of Mr Joseph Ayers, president of
(or a long time, with a humor, which
s o u t h on the outward trip by the Santa
The first site selected by the soclcu was never provided with anv ami was | K'me was finished The baiting of A Fe l i n e
across the bay from Oakland by ferry, appeared on my face ln
the reform club. nml many of the earn
It presents here, a s t h e r e , the
fur the first church was on tup uf the to me a sort uf jumping utl or ihiwti • Card \\ bite Couk and Fletcher anil same scene of wildness and desolation. is a peculiarly appearing, dun-colored
est workers
the third base play of C o n n o r
UGLY P I M P L E S
If you want to tuke a pleasant ride hdl now known as Meeting-house hill, p l a c e , ( K t s s i b l ) four feet m d» p t h
But even here is the truth of that old clouu banging over the city Upon in
TJie s c o r e
There were t w o aisles i n the meeting noi'irc al>l<
quiry (which, by the way, he never aad blotches. Ayer's Sartaparilla cured
any uf these pleasant June days, hitch where the church eventually stood and
say, "Nothing is made in vain,' veri
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SUHOOlme. — Obarles H. Smith, l{ortB Craftsfew
up your best turnout and leisurely drive the lot, about 100 feet front by 7.1 feel house, very broad and handsome, and
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fied, for the Yucca palm, which is need repeat after being a
bury, Vt.
days in the city), he is informed that it
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to Stnckbridge's Corner, tbence to New deep, was purchased of Samuel Jones, these led up to the pulpit 1 think n | w i i n e . c
found here i n great abundance, is util
" Until recently," writes Alice E
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is dust, and such indeed it proves to be. Charles, ot Both, Me., "my face bos
Durham depot, and back to Alton by an early settler of Farmmgton, who. in fat couple c o u l d huve p n — e d arm i n H a ; ii , I
ized b y a London newspaper company
llH/ker,
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and the finest, most penetrating and
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the old post-road The round trip is 1 7 7 0 . located near where General Rob arm along the walk without brushing T l b lCcat tnM , I b
been covered with pimples ever since I
in the manufacture f printing paper
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was fifteen years old, I took: four
about ton miles, and bj-tho-way, don't erts now resides. It was satisfactory the pew d i s i r s ,for w e h a d doors—lovely 1 ' n r k e r 2 b
Here, also, is to be seen one of the persistent kind of dust that oue will
bottles of Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and my
forget to call on Krunk Ayers and fam presumably, to every one, being near paneled ones—tu every box pew) Ul aurr sr luuwns \ii r
many of those wonderful feats uf c i v i l seldom meet. Linen will become
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ily und huvo an ice cream that will the centre of the town as near a loca Thoy were securelv fastened by small «» C a n t r l
engineering that are found in this west soiled there with one day's wear as it skin became as fair as coultlbe desired."
It was a buttons, fashluncd after s o m e pretty
make you smile and feel so refreshed, tion as could be selected
ern country, in a group of mountain would here in three or four It gets
Ayer's Sarsaparilla,
Touts,
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and after you have partaken of tbo ex beautiful place—lofty, airy, sightly, and bevelled pattern, and were atiout two
Vrsparsd by Dr. J O. Aver Sc Co., Lowell, Mass.
peaks that form the terminating south into the eyes, nose and ears, and per
l . L o t m i A J T S
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Pricetl, alxbotUs*,fS. Worth05»bottla.
meates one generally, giving you a roost
quisite, cooling dish, Frank will write best of all, the edifice would stand on a inches in length and one i n width, at
western spur of the Sierra Nevada
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you a policy on your life for 82 or 83 hill, where our ancestors thought it tached by screws. V\ e never descended lP/ a row o rl l . 3 1l .b
range. Tbe further advance of tbe iron uncomfortable prickly like feeling. I
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The capacity of Jhe new water works
on 8500, and you will go home with should properly be built. But it after to hasps, as did some of the early K r l l r r r
horse is here most strenuously disputed, was in and out of tbe city several times
Robe a
your family fooling happy and contented, wards appeared that everyone was not churches, since everything ubout the 1:00k,r t p, If
but b y a series of complex and bewild during my stay there, and at no time reservoir on Garrison bill, Dover, will
and when you lie down to rest and satisfied . I think tbey grew to be dis first Farmmgton church was artistic C laayvel ss ,, scs a2V>
ering curves, and finally b y actually on approaching the city did I fail to be about 20,000,000 gallons.
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pleasant droams there will be nothing satisfied with tbe proposed church lot, and elegant I have said the aisles led F l e t c h e r 2 b •
crossing its own line—forming the cele note this pall-like cloud hanging over it
and as I have before said, tho hill fur up to tbe pulpit, and what a glorious D i x o n , r f
The meed of merit for
to disturb your slumbers
brated "loop"—a pathway was made.
The wind here, tbe same as in the sonal comeliness Is duo topromoting per
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for the famous Yosemite Valley, about leled in our eastern cities, from the foot Indispensable toilet articles.
Next week tbo NEWS will contain an Chestnut bills people, with others re ing, fancifully beaded, projected a little M a r s t o o 1.1. t ' m p l r e , P o l l H a w k e s ,
siding above the village looked upon the over the top, and in this elevated place
60 miles distant. Aa the writer's that it is so fine and light. In my next
article of special interest to every resi
Rochester people have petitioned the
effort required to toil up the steep bill tbe preacbor stood
One bad to look
ticket did not include tbe valley, we I will attempt some description of this
dent ol New Durham.
C H A N G E I If MANAQESlKNT.
missed the "Big Trees" and other at famous city, together with some side postmaster-general for a postal route be
Miles Soruton, an old resident of as too great, and that tbe early settlers up to see him, for it was very high. 1
Mr and Mrs. William Welch, after tendant beauties. But we have n o dis
tween Rochester and Northwood Nar
Farmington, who bos has been living at of the borough', or southern purt of the think I never saw a higher pulpit in
trips to the historic cities of San Jose
his son-in-law's, Joseph Y Berry, for town, would be possessing an advantage my life. The interior of it could only an experience of twenty-four years in position for fault-finding, as we have (Hosay^, 8anta Cruz and California's rows.
some more than a year, has gone to over them. But dear me did uot tbey be reached by going up six steps, when keeping boarders and running a hotel, seen enough, seemingly for a life-time.
ancient capital—Monterey.
GEO
Be wise to-day. T>> madness to neg
Strafford to make bis home with his son, ["have nothing but bills to travel over one came to a broad stair, then two have leased the Central House to a Arm
J u s t after leaving Mojave, w e were
lect a cough or cold, however slight.
there ' Qen Furber, prominent in town more steps, which made a turn, and of capable young business meb of this treated t o the first, last and only thun- A S O L D I E B B ' BIOrTUMENT AT P O B T A . Consumption may follow, and though
George.
" brought him iuto a room (almost, it village, who, while not personally tak der shower of the trip. It was a mag.
HODTB.
Dn. WISTAB'S BALSAM of W I L D CnKRm
Sarah E. Stanton a maiden lady, affairs of ancient days, knew very
has frequently cured this much-dreaded
aired 61 years, 2 months and 1? days, they did, and the old general, after was),•where there was a broad scat ar ing an active part in the management of nificcnt spectacle to watcb from the car
A soldiers' and sailors' monument is disease. It almost invariably cares tbe
w a s found dead Sunday evening, June wards one of tbe building committee, ranged something like a bay window the hotel, will at the same time shape window the dense, block clouds aa they
primary diseases of tho throat, lungs and
ledge. Indeed, the pulptt and oval- its course and endeavor, by true cour rolled down from the surrounding to be dedicated in Portsmouth on thb chest- where other remedies fall.
10, by- Asa Hall and his wife who is si so expressed himself
topped window placed back of it as tesy and an excellent* casino, combined mountains and advanced rapidly across Fourth, to which all G . A. R. posts in
sister of tbe deceasod. Mr. Hall at
The timber for the building of tbe
Tbe soldiers monument, to be erected
onco notified the town authorities, and church was purchased and deposited on nearly resembled a modern bay window with the comforts of home life, to make the immense plain w e were traversing. the department have been invited.
Arrangements have been made with at Tilton will be of granite, 13 feet high
Dana P. Jones and Ebon E. Berry, the church lot, when tho opposition as one could devise, stretching the Im the Central House the ideal hotel of the The most weird a n d fantastic forms of
agination a little. I should have said traveling public. The losers are Dr. lightning were being constantly vomited all the railroads in the state for trans and surmounted by a statue.
selectmen, met Mr. Hall and wife and members to tho location called a meet
J P. Tibbetts, undertaker, of Farming- ing of tbo society and. everybody inter thajptbese six steps leading up to tbe Albert Garland, Dr. W. P. Blake and forth, accompanied by incessant volleys portation at the rate of 1J cent* a mile,
F O Tebbetts, and their lease of (he of thunder t h a t w e n t rolling and rever each passenger, when a post goes as an
For chronlo catiitrfi,*5Jnduccd by s
ton the next morning at the residence ested, probably, at which they decided pulpit were placed at tbe left side.
organization. 'It is not understood that scrofulous' taint, Ayer's -Sarsaparilla Is
premises runs for four year*. The new
of tbe deceased, and after learning all it to be best that the now meeting
Over tbe sacred desk hung tbe sound {-proprietors will each attend to tho busi berating down t h e valley in a manner a hike reduction will be made tii a single the true remedy. It stops "catarrh dis
they could from tho appearance of the house should stand at the foot of the ing board, fastened by an iron rod to a
truly majeatio and inspiring. At first,
charges, removes tho slckerjlng'odor, and
body and statements of the neighbors, hill, but in what a curious way they great beam above It was a curious ness in which they are now respectively such w a s t h e course o f t h e storm that i t person. Considering the low rate of never falls to thoroughly eradicate every
they were satisfied that she died on ot brought this about I am unable to say old piece of cburcb architecture, resem engaged in. Dr. Garland as a dentist, ran along (to u s e a nautical phrase) fare, the occasion and the day, there' trace of the disease from thelilood, "Sold
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about June 4. and, as there was no sus Unfortunately there is but little re bling somewhat a Tam-O-Shanter cap, Dr. Blake to healing the sick and man somewhat upon o u r quarter, g i v i n g u s seems to be no good reason why a largo by all dealers in medicine.picion of any foul play in relation to corded, and I think we shall have to and was always suspended over the pul ufacturing Sanitibe, and F . O. Tebbetts a chance t o v i e w from the open c a r number of posts should not attend.
round D e a d . •
Commanders of posts that vote to at
her death, deemed any further inquest guess. Another lot was purchased at pit to prevent the soutod of the preach to giving the people ."fits" at his cloth windows i t s wonderful a n d varying
An unknown man who bos. apparently
unnecessary, and Town Clerk Bicker the foot of the bill, quite near the rail er's voice from ascending It was made ing house, but they will put an experi beauties without t h e discomforts o f a tend are directed to instruct and drill for several days been sufTerlngvery much
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gave permit to Mr. Tibbetts to remove road track, and the two cburcb lots of wood. You see, in old times, enced hotel clerk and 3 > .first-class cook wetting, but soon a curve in tbe rail their posts in the special form'of salute from a corn went Into the drug; store and
in the hotel, and prepare to spars no
given on page 31 of the Service book.
procured a box "of "C^acbrnj?'; -which,
end bury the body Miss Stanton has were within plain sight of each other
scarcely any of the New Hampshire expense or pats*, to please its pa w a y r a n us suddenly a n d directly i n t o
afterooce using, stopped*airtlio pain,
not been very well for some little time,
its outer e d g e , w h e n there w a s hustling
The second church site was an acre churches were ceiled overhead, for plas trons.
Of Mr. and Mrs. Welch we and quick dosing of windows a n d d o o r s .
M B . EDITOR:—I see by the Roches and in three days the offender was found
and several of tbo ueighbors have been and one fourth in size, and it was tbe ter was not used at all. The deacons'
dead. F . H. Wadlelgh, proprietor, Al
to ber bouse, last week, but did not design of the party opposed to the first seat, large enough for (wo persons to sit think it can truly be said that they re So strong w a s t h e accompanying w i n d ter Leader that:
ton, If. H.
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E. F. Cloutman has given the town no
see her and could get no answer from to erect a parsonage with the church. comfortably together, was directly be tire from the business with the best t h a t a t times i t very perceptibly retarded
sue them
her since June 4. But as she was very Now comes the queerest transaction of neath the pulpit and in front of it. The wishes of hosts of friends, both in the the speed of t h e train. To o n e w h o tice that he shall due him." for $125.00
which be claims Is
eccentric, the; supposed that she hod all. I have said the timber was deposi deacons faced the audience, and as they village and on the road?
could divest himself o f t h e natural tim
I am not going to enter into any con
rathor not see them and so did not open ted on tho site first decided upon, and were always worthy men, they could
As. soon as the boiler and parapher i d i t y incident to s u c h occasions, t h e troversy at the present time in regard
her bouse or make her appearance, and, everything was being pushed forward as well bear the scrutiny of tbe people.
nalia lor heating the house by steam.] scene w a s i n d e e d magnificent, a n d I to this matter any further than to ex
knowing her eccentricity, they did not rapidly as possible; the framing of the
is completed, which will bo within a may truly s a y that I n e v e r before h a d plain it.
Then there were the galleries, where
mistrust anything was wrong.
church had been completed and the day the singers always sat. They extended few weeks, Mr. and Mrs. Welch pro a n y such conception o f tho magnitude ' I presented a certain account to S. S.
set for raising the frame, when lot in across one end and two sides of the pose to pass a few months, visiting a n d awfalness o f a heavy thunder Amazeen against the town for services,
Tho opening Of the concert season the darkness of night preceding raising meeting-house. The pulpit Tjccupied friends and relatives' throughout the shower. It cannot b e adequately de amounting to 8125.25, whereby the
by the band, Tuesday evening, front tho day the frame and tome timber was the fourth. We used to reach the gal- state. Here's good lack to toe old and scribed. One most s e e i t i n order t o town received sqyhe 9500 to' 8600, cov
appreciate i t * full powers. The San ering some five * years. I was toTd by
band stand, was a very enjoyable affair quietly drawn, "by parties to its un Iaries by ascending a flight of stairs in better to the new proprietors.
Joaquin (Waquine) Valley, i n w h i c h Mr. Amazeen that he was in favor of
and attracted quite an audience. Tho known, to the lot located at the base o the poich or vestibule, which graced the
T O T VtBSX T O PAT.
the shower occurred, is some 250 miles paying tho bill, but did -not' want to on
selections were very good .and their ren- tho bill< It -was a complete surprise to front, as I have said, and there was a
i n length,'and apparently as l e v e l a s a
' detfng excellent, considering the limited nearly everybody, and that the act queer little window in this porch, sort
The honor of paying thefirst,poll tax .floor. It i s a - v e r y fertile section, a n d bis own responsibility, and', as. 1 under
stand, it was referred to 1*. G . Tebbetts,
practice that the boys have had. W e caused much excitement in Famington of dormer in style, I think It was, and in'town this year belongs to Horace P.
would suggest, however, that a police it is needless to say, and a good deal of lighted tho entrance to the church and Fall, and W. 0. Roberts pays the first a n immense quantity o f grain is raised who refused to pay unless be was
here.
obliged to do so. I told Mr, Amazeen
man be on hand at future concerts and jossip. It seems hardly possible that galleries. The floor of the galleries was property tax in' fill. John F. Cloutput a stop to the disagreeable tato or t could be so, yet truth stands out to elevated a little toward the walls of the roan, Jr., has the honor of paying the The approach t o t h e city hy t h e it the question of legality of the claim
"time" us rendered by tho small boy. day in this bid history as\strango as fic church, and the space was very wide' smallest tax—10 cents. The_ collector Golden Gates i s along the shores o f came up I vrould sne it, and it would
It Is^tho height oi' Impertinence a t best, tion, and perhaps mora so.
up there. Ah, me] what a charmingly says the poll tax p&yers_are responding Su'tsan b a y , j u s t below t h e delta of t h e release all parties by letting tbe court
and 'no boy with 'common, regard for
Sacramento a n d San Joaquin rivers; a n d decide the matter. I have done so,
It was a droll state of •• religious zeal, designed old church that was, but it has generously.
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. sooofrriannera Should .be guilty').of ?such building a house', in which -to .worship passed away, like nearly all the old
soon after t h e straits of Carquinez and' and given the proper notice for trial at'
/R'tjung.j If>isJannoying .not -only • to God, and -wrangling about it and almost worshippers.
OLD BXSTDEXT.
The high school' nine are to be uni San Pablo hay,' n n d thence into- San the next term of court.
" thi ipsctatoT8,'but also* to (he players. fighting over it like naughty chQdrbn at
E. F. C t O D T M J L W ,
Francisco bay,-, where one con l o o k I
formed.
(1% be Continued.)
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"The First Church" a Farmington News article about the first church and meetinghouse on Meetinghouse Hill from , Page2, June 15, 1888.
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