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plimontary Ve^ira;i?;Vhi»r4'.o«.«n'»-'?/Alice E . 8 b a w ot Warren will pay
entertainment " v m & & ^ ^ $ & $ .?> official visit to Mlnnenaba ltcDefcAll Odd Fellows ana-IUbeici'liV.'irS ajt'Lougo, N o . 1 1 , April 3 0 . Bupper
reaueatod to meet a t t - 0';"0;'Fl:'£ai}.
served In the banauot ttau
V.
next Sunday morning:
a t 10£.o'clock
io'^o'doclc Tit 6.30.
morning at
to attend services a t the Congregra-.j Chester W .Doe, superintendent ot
tlonal,church In commemoration ot local schools, was In attendance at f- I
annual spring conference ot I
the 1 1 0 t h anniversary ot Odd F e l -the
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school superintendents or the state
'lowBhlp.
Mrs. Harry M . Jackson ot W o o d - at Plymouth last Saturday
Mr autl Mrs. Irving T Youland
'brldge, N . J., Is In town
taking
charge ot the home ot her daughter] havo remuved Irom Manchester to
an* husband, M r . and Mrs. Fred 1. this village and are occupying an
Thayer, during their absence w i t h | apartment In the Pellotlor block on
the senior class party In Washington. Orange street.
Those not already aware ot the
A ball to be held by Fraternal
Chapter, No. 2 4 , O. E . 6., In t h e t o w n death of a former resident, Mrs.
hall on Friday evening, May 2 4 , Is Marthu Harmon, at the home ot her
an event being looked forward to son, Harry C Harmon, in Portland,
with keen anticipation (or all lovers j Me., last month, will regret to re
of good music and dancing.
ceive the aad news.
Eugeue Class, (or several years a
The many friends ot Dr. and M r s .
I Daniel Ellison of Lowell, Mass., will resident of this town, left here Mon| be grieved to hear of the death o f l " ?
t-rceasburo. N C , his old
their son John, aged eleven years and home, where he has purchased real
estate aud expects to settle
It is
eight months, on A p r i l 1 6 .
Many trlends regret to learn t h a t hoped t h a t ho will return occasion
Maurice Gellnas and family party ally to renew Irlendshlps ot which
were victims of a quite serious auto he has many
accident In Saugus, Mass., last Sun'
It
has been
reported
to the
day, afternoon, when returning from "News" that the cottages ot Norman
Boston.
Mr Gellnas' aunt received Kimball and John Stevens at Mer
a fractured j a w a n d other injuries, rymeetlng Lake have been
broken
as a result of which she is a patient Into during the winter and theft of
PERSONAL
M r . and Mrs. R. B. Currier have I a t the Melrose hospital.
small articles committed
Apparent
entertained recently the latter's sis
considerable
There will b e a M a y party a n d ly the culprits speul
ter, Mrs. Ida Dayklns, and Dr. Henry sale of fancy articles and aprons In time In the premises tor itiey were
Bitter of Springfield, Mass.
the vestry of the Congregational lett In a very
slovenly
condition
Mr. and Mrs. George Marston of church on Wednesday evening, May Owners ore investigating
DEDICATION OF TOWN T T A T . T . AND
Athol, Mass., were In town over the 1, at 8 o'clock, at which time t h e
Clarence L . Ferkius Post, Ameri
GOODWIN PUBLIC LLBBAB.Y
holiday week-end and visited Mrs. rainy and sunny penny boxeB will be can Legion, will hold lis annual con
MAY 10th
Marston's brother and wlte, M r and brought In and opened.
There will cert and b a l l in the town ball audi
Final details of the program tor
Mrs. Fred U. Knox, and Mr. and Mrs, be an entertainment. The ladles are torium on Tuesday evening. May 1 4 ,
W . JR. Stacey.
requested to bring box lunches to be with Ferdinandos orchestra In at the dedication of the new u m n hall
and the tendance.
Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Emerson sold during the evening,
This will be the first auu Irvodwln public library, w i t h a
are spending a week In Manchester | donors are asked to put their names dance date in the new b a l l and with vioit troiu His Kxcelleucy, the Gov
inside ot the boxes.
with their daughter and husband.
ibis drawing card, combined
with ernor, on May l u , were completed
Mrs. Nellie Earle »of Haverhill,
The official spring change ot time the popularity ot the Legion and this twin lull acceptance of plans a t a
JIas3., was a week-end guest of her In the passenger service department tamous orchestra, there should be no epeciui meeting ot ttie committee on
parents, Mr and Mrs. Oscar Dudley.] of the Boston & Maine railroad wi)l question about tbe success ot the general arrangements, held a t tbe
new library rooms Monday evening
Charles Elklns, who
con be In effect Sunday. April 28 and affair
fined to his home several Weeks as j patrons of the local station on the
Oscar A i k e n , son ot Mr and Mrs. itxe general outline of program, as
to K J Aiken of Ibis tuwn, left Mon ouolisbed in tbe NewB of last is
the result ot a broken leg, has been Lakeport branch are requested
able to bo down town In the past note and observe tho following on day tor N e w York, w h e r e h e will sue, was leli practically intact, with
and after that date.
TrainB to Bos take charge of a department of the cue tzcepuou that Fred I 'I riayer,
week.
cuairmuu of both the town hall and
Norman
Hayes
of
Wakefield, ton week days, 6.62 a. m., 3 02 p. m
U. T Grant chain
store
system
Boston to Lakeport, Mr Alkon is a graduate ot Farm library
building
commliieea,
will
Mass., was a week-end guest of his ] Trains from
10 17 a. m., 6 37 p. m. Trains t o lngton high school and the Univer make the presentation at the town
mother, Mrs. Georgia Hayes.
M r and Mrs. Ralph Nedeau ot Boston, Sundays, 6 3 7 p. m. Prom sity of N e w Hampshire, In wblcb ball Instead of Kred W Browne, as
10 22 a. m. Patrons also
By this hatter
Boston were called -here last Friday, Boston,
latter school he completed special lurmerly announced
with other out of town relatives, t o | are requested t o note that beginning training that fits Mm eminently for arrangement, Mr Browne, chairman
attend the funeral of Odule Marcoux. Monday, April 29. all business
in the work ho Is to undertake
H i s of tbe general committee, will act
Mrs. Odule Marcoux Is spending a Massachusetts and some points In success will be watched with much as master of ceremonies for both oc
casions and Mr Thayer will
xnoke
few days at Sprlnvale, Me., with her Maine will go on
daylight—sajrffig Interest by many friends
Tbe only other
sister and husband, Mr and Mrs. time, which Is one hour ahead of
Koad Agent Walter Hammond and both presentations
Fred B e n o l t
standard time, and be governed ac crew of workmen bavo done a very alteration was tbe excusing ot tbe
of tbe
local
Miss Esther Adorns Is spending tier cordingly
commendable piece of work on Or U'uohera and pupils
in
the
vacation with her father in Hamll'
The apprehension and conviction ange and Orovo streets this week. schools from participation
ton, Mass.
In Rochester last Friday night ot a The drain at the toot of Orange duty of escorting tbe governor from
Miss Shirley Roberts at Spring Farmlngton' lad, whose
minority sireet, which was BO badly clogged the library to the town ball, it hav
field, Mass., Is In town visiting her gives
him considerable
immunity as to cause frequent uashouts, has ing been decided that tbe very short
the two points
mother, Mrs. Errol S. Hall, and fam from a publicity
standpoint, no been opened,
thoroughly
cleaned, distance between
ily
doubt will set at rest much ot the bricked up and top-grated
Also the would permit of no attempt a t par
Miss Helen Collins of HyannlB, anxiety felt by business men, and drain along tbe foot of Grove sireet, ade and tbe escort of tbe Governor
will be com
Mass., was a week-end guest at the especially garage keepers In this sec which conducts tbe large volume of and tbe few officials
home of Mr and Mrs. Elmer Knox
tion, whose places of business have water from
tbe Hayes meadow manded to Henry Wilson American
band and a color guard from Clar
Mrs.
Isadoro Wood
entertained been broken and pillaged on repeat brook has been opened and cleaned
over the week-end Miss Evelyn Par ed occasions for several weeks. T h e This work should effect a gTeat Im ence L Perkins I^osl, American Le
Tbe final selection
by the
ker ot Andover, Mass., formerly of young man was captured at a garage provement of drainage In this area. gion
the local high school faculty
In Rochester in the act of pilfering
The civics committee of the Farm ound at the library dedication will
Miss Catherine Ouay has enjoyed the place.
The automobile which lngton Dedication association, wbuse \ oe America, and the final selection
a recent visit from her father
the offender used was searched and duty It is to cooperate \ i l t h the tow ut the town ball. T h e Star Spangled
llanenr
Both will be accompanied
Miss Dorothy Burbank, a teacher found to contain a rather rich har olllclals In securing t b e best pusslbl
twih singing and as no special prepa
In Bennington, Is at borne tor a vest of pillage, and later much of aspect of the town for tbe visit
ration will be required, except for
brief vacation.
the stolen goods collected from local the governor and t b e dedication
Miss Evelyn Jones is at home for garages w a s recovered. Thus, w h a t the town hall and library on May the teachers of tbe respective gTades
and schools to assemble their stu
a vacation from her teaching duties for a time looked to be a successful 10.
respectfully call
attentlou
In Proctor, V t .
career In the night prowling busi property owners and request
that dents In groups and to lead them In
Mrs. Earle Cummlngs has been ness was brought to light before a the clearing up of winter debris b e singing these patriotic numbers. It
vwis decided to ask them to assist In
confined to her home by Illness for a court of Justice.
started as soon a sposslble
Dale
It was voted further to
few days.
which town trucks will call for all ibis way
secure the K H S
orchestra to
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Durgln ot
This is the last
issue ot the rubbish t h a i cannot bo disposed
Portsmouth called In town Sunday 'News" before May first All sub with safety on tbe premises will be furnish music at the town hall dur
ing the public InspecUon
Exercises
to visit relatives
when returning scribers whose date expires on M a y published n e x t week
Health Ofil
first will receive expiration notices
for both dedicatory ceremonies will
from a fishing trip at Merrymeetlng Immediately following this Issue.
cer John H Lelghton also wll
lake.
operate u l i b the committees and be observed in tbe open air, with
weather permitting, and the
pro
Mr
and Mrs. Jesse Slmonds and
JOSEPH
LUND,
Tailor. Alton. town ofllcerB In having tbe town op
gram will open from
the library
son Clifton ot East Rochester were N H. Special attention given to re pear at lis best
steps at 2 p m
A t its conclusion,
Sunday guests of relatives in town
modeling of ladles' suits and coats.
the town hall dedication will take
FOR SALE
Kohler and Camp
The
many frlonds of Clarence W i l l call In Farmlngton once a week.
Telephone Alton 6-31
bell piano In good condition
place
immediately, so that
both
Goodwin sincerely regret to learn
quire at News Office
buildings may be open to public in
that he Is 111 at hlB home In W e s t
ANTIQUES W A N T E D - W h a t have
spection with proper attendants In
Milton.
you to dispose o t ?
Call on, write or
FOR SAL.E
Lot of ben manure
ihargc until 5 3 0 p m
This ar
Mr and Mrs. Leo D. Oilman of phone Isabelle A. Evans, 1 School | Jl 00 per barrel
S VV Hayes, Hlg
rangement has been agreed upon In
St , Fanningion
Everett, Mass., were In town over St., Farmlngton - Tel. 62
order to give ample time for the
the week-end, guests of Mr and Mrs.
public and guests to gain a respite
WANTED
Woman or girl fo
Adjustable curtain
rods, single
B. C. Oilman and Albert 8. Wallace.
laundry
work
Apply
at
the
Centra
aud rest and. of still more import
They returned home Sunday, accom and double, round and flat, big va
House, Farmlngton
riety, 6c, 10c, 15c. 26c pair
ance, tu afford time for the final ar
panled by their son Dalson, w h o
Bellnsky's Bargain Store.
rangement of properties and respent last week wltlh his grandpar
SHETLAND PONIES free to boy
and girls as premiums
Write fo
hearsal for tbe production of Denents.
particulars
Wakefield Extract Tom
man
Thompson's
beloved
rural
pany, Sanbornvllle. N H
drama. The Old Homestead. ' w b l c b
FOR R E N T .
A 3-room, furnished
will be presented for the benefit of
kitchenette, central location, also a
TO LETT
One large room suit
4-room tenement on Church S t A p
able for light housekeeping
Also
Henry Wilson American band, b y a
ply to W J. Vlckers. Electric Shop.
fully equipped barber shop
Inquire local veteran cast, directed by Her
of Mrs Joseph Parshley or at Corner
bert I) Brown
T h i s play will be
Store, Farmlngton
Kemp's Salted Nuts,
the fresh.
staged on an elaborate Bcale a n d Its
Crispy kind, a t Knox Pharmacy
orlgfnal excellence and atmosphere
Leave your orders now for Pink
Try our sanitary window ventila
tor Mother's Day at Roberts' Drug carefully preserved to tradition of
Cloverbloom Batter
60o lb. Store.
tors.
Frank: H. Mooney
America's favorite drama. T h r o u g h
Holland's Boll Butter
60c lb.
FOR S A L E Sixty-acre farm, with
Special values In Ladies
Rayon the courtesy of the Now Hampshire
60o lb. Hose, fine quality, with the favored Pythian Home at W e s t Swanzey, the
buildings; plenty of wood, some t i m - Hation-Wide Butter Bolls
ber, fruit and berries; on Mountain -Coxuitry S a n e r
60o lb. pointed^heels, 50c pair
wonderful status of Venus, the orig
Road, W e s t Milton. Price l o w f o r V e a l Steaks
Perkins' Stores.
inal sacred shrine
around
which
50o
quick cash sale. A . H . Bareantee,
tbe dreams of D e s m a n Thompson
130 Central S t , Farmlngton.
P"
May first may be the date of
40o
of your subscription to the wrought "The Old Homestead." will
I a m b Fores
35o plratlon
"News"
Let this be a reminder to be among tbo settings of the play to
BUILDING MATERIAL. Giles & I a m b Loias
renew your subscription
40c
Langley hare Justroceired two cars w « t i m T M I Roasts
add glamour and mystic charm to
35o lb.
of building material/ consisting of
PIANOS sold, tuned and repaired. Its Bucress. The gueBts of hooor
Idaho pirn; sheathing, pine finish I a m b l e g s
45o lb. Write or telephone.
will be Governor and Mrs. Toboy a n d
spruce flooring, siding and Joist
rolled
no
W . C. Swan, Dover. N. H.
Charles Carter of Osslpee. the im
35o lb.
Orders w i l l be delivered promptly a t
^ ™
personator of
the original "Cy
*hort> notice.
'
T o p Bound Steaks . .
50o Si.
Silent Glow Oil Burners, the Ideal
Prime" In "The Old Homestead
range
heat
for
year
around
cooking
65o
S).
Ned Parker is quoting especially
" 4 ^ f
No ashes to s i f t , no fuel to prepare. Besides the Oovernor and Mrs T o attractive prices for a week's sale.
A r m o u r s Star Bacon
35o lb. Clean, safe, positive service Cash bey. the guest of honor for the p u b
Swifts' Premium Bacon ( . . 26o pkg. price, J66, installed. P W Bragg lic library dedication will be George
-Dr: Hunt's New Corn Cure has the
_,
Strawberries
H Goodwin, the library donor. In
largest sale ot any 10c foot remedy iettac©
UOKcs
Considerable publicity has been
in the world. Removes corns with- Spinach
Bermuda Onions given
83rd
birthday
to various stores In tho state deference to whose
out .pain or soreness. Dr. Scholl'a Jr
o n . . O K „that are
eligible to celebrate a 75th
he dedication ot
two noteworthy
Zino Pads take the pressure off the Bananas
3 I D S . ^oo
anniversary,. T h e Lothrops-Farnham public buildings has been set for F i t sore spot and'Temove the" cause with- Oranges . . . . . . t , . . . . . . . . 26o doz. Co. business, which was established
out—pain,—^soreness- or protracted- —_
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in 1854 at Dover and has spread to day. May 10
treatment For corns, callouses and Maolaren's Imperial Salad Dressing surrounding towns, enjoys this dis
bunions', they have no equal.
Pint bottle Zoo tinction of longevity as woll as a
The new fast color Percales a n d
reputation for reliability and a high
1. B.- Hayes, Footwear for AIL
Welti's Erankforts . . . . 25o lb. grade
W a s h Fabrics at Ned Parker's are"
service that is unsurpassed
W e cordially solicit an opportunl- Tulip Brand Bears and
,
_
attracting early buyers.
Lothrops-Fdrnbam Co.. Inc
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ty to furnish-free estimates, without Tulip Brand Fruit Salad 2 for 26c
Send Mother a
W e are agents for the Famous Spalding Gloves, Bats and Balis
b
Greeting
a
1
W e also carry the 8palding Line of
Card
Golf Clubs in Various Models priced from $2.00 to $15.00
on
Kro-FJite Golf Balls 50c and 75c
Spalding Tennis Rackets and Balls
Mother's Day
Sunday. May 12
For All Kinds of Fishing
Poles, Reels, Nets, Baskets, .Artificial Baits, Etc,
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and
m a k e your
selection
from our
"Quality Line"
Leave Your Orders
For Pinks Now
NEW
•7,
Chocolate Crispettes
Peanut Butter Chips
Raisin Clusters
Peanut Clusters
39c
Fancy California Naval Oranges
16 tor 25c and SOc doz
"Seal Sweet" Juicy Grapefruit
,3 for 25c
Bananas 3 pounds for 25c
,Pitted Dates 1-lb packages 25c
Cocoanuts 10c and 15c each
Fresh Roasted Peanuts in the Shells 15c qt
C . W . WHITEHOUSE
W e have Just been appointed
distributors for the big
3 Speed Queen Washer
Sells for Less Than $100
Ask for«jdemoristration
Full size standard make. Time payments
if desired*
T h e Electric Shop
William J. Vlckers
o n o
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•Dooesn't seem so, * And how we've scat*
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iff *• to-keep the old'friendships 'alive.
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them in ages.
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done my part either. .
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Writing Pads
much at these new
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KarahmaUowHoff . . . . . . . 19c
Iipton's Famous Teas;
1-2 Pound Bed label
43c
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1-* Pound Yellow. Label
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Home-made, Sliced' Tomato-Pioiles
CARD of THANKS
It Is beyond tbe power of words
to express my thanks and apprecia
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tion to -the many sources that h a v e
overwhelmed me with sympathy a n d
assistance during m y illness and c o n
1 1 Orange St.Tel. 91-3,Farmlnston.
< 15 or, j a r 15o
valescence.
I am impressed, m o r e
than ever, with the bond of brother
Fresh
Haddock)
-Halibut.
Cheeks
hood embraced in t h e spirit of f r a
ADKNISTEATBU'S K0TJCE _
To oloie estate. Double house, ternity and I have cause to testify
The subscriber has been duly ap;
Oysters*!
t o m y faith
in
fellowship a n d
pointed by'XMoJudge' of Probate for
stable and about 10,000 feet of land friends. Everything
that I h a v e
the county! of. Strafford, "administra
at
23
Glen
street,
Farmington,
and
ever
been
able
to
g
i
v
e or do In t h e
trix of tie."estate bt Fred A. Horno,(
cause of faith has been more t h a n
late of Farmlngton, In said county, being the residence of the late rewarded during m y illness, and f o r
deceasedi' testate.''
W. H. W.^olomy. For particulars t h e abundance ot k i n d l y thought a n d
All pereong.-Imving claims agwnet
assistance that h a s reached m e , I
said esUte?areifequestei to exhibit
call upon or" address S. S. Parker, wish,
through the columns ot t h e
thorn for adjustment, and all Indebt
Agent
-for
'£icecutor,
at
Farmington,
'News" to make
acknowledgment
t
ed to."m»Ve.p»rmentt
and
pledge
unforgettable g r a t i
Aprllj20>"A.-D.,..l»l*.
X . K...'?.T. V . Pickering; Exeoutor. tude to eachan
end every gburce t h a t
Tor*. C . -Borne," AdmlnUlJralrijc.
Close4.AU Hay Thursday, p u t Daj' contributed.
A r t h u r It. Jones.
work and decoration. ~We -can save
you money with a guarantee -of satisfactlon. New 1928"line, of wall
paper samples Just in.-Phone or
write, for a call. Leach &, Donahue,
MARKET:
i
Residence
For S a l e
Envelopes
to M a t c h
Plain and Linen Finish
Ruled and Unruled
S p e c i a l Box P a p e r
Linen Finish a t 2 5 c a box
Waterman and Parker Fountain Pens
New Books
of Fiction
DRUG
has/Seen
riends to^frust
«c.\
Pound Paper
Books
ROBERTS
-
%k
Box Papers in All the New Styles and Tints
— „„
7 5 c
Leave Your Orders
For Pinks Now i
m
STORE
*Sj£fA***mm*t%mm4f+
Famous "Maine Maid" Sweets
in Pound Boxes tor 39c
tSociety" Assorted, Chocolates 1-lb Boxes 49c
Chocolate Covered Cherries, Extra Fancy 49c lb
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STATIONERY]!
wi^fs\
We Put the RIGHT KIND of Lubricant
In the RIGHT PLACE
You don't fill your radiator with muddy water, and—
You don't fill your gasoline tank with crude oil.
Why risk the life of your car by having its "vital spots"
lubricated with soapy lubricants which will become rancid
and necessitate large expenditures for repairs.
We use Genuine Alemite Lubricant a solidified oil made
especially for use with the Alemite and Alemite-Zerk Systems.
Alemite Lubricant
Resists tremendous bearing pressures
Is an excellent lubricant at 400 degrees F
Eetains its lubricating values at 30 degrees
below zero.
Will not cake or become rancid.
Let us help you eliminate 80 per cent of your repair bills
by Alemite-ing your car "Every 500 Miles."
symouth's Battery Station
East Grove Street, Farmington
PAN - DANDY DREAD
is rated highly in nutritional
value. For your health's,
sake, say Pan-Dandy
to your grocer
Bergeron Baking Co.
Rochester, N. H.
rtsU oar S p e c i a l .Spring
A
s new and different
now as it was when
introduced
ill the scene. A New Oakland
lerican Six. Making its bow to the
public. And now you see it here . . . there
. . . everywhere you go. Other ears have
appeared in bewildering succession.
But the distinction of the
Vnicrican
continues . . . unaffected. It's as new
and refreshingly different toda> as it was
when introduced. Like a good friend
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HarVlson ous inspection ot the fcullding b y W. Dorlng, H. B . W h i t e , A . R .
t h e b o o k s a c c o r d i n g t o t h e n e w B r o w n , Natick, Mass.;
M r . G e o r g e H . B e r r y , A l b e r t G a r l a n d , F B . Edg.
D e w e y Decimal system.
A s a r e - Strohsahl, W o o d b r l d g e , N . J.; a n d t h e t o w n s p e o p l e ,
e r l y , J. B . S. H a l l , H e r v e y B .
suit, d u r i n g t h e fall o f 1 9 2 2 t h e m a n y valuable c o n t r i b u t i o n s f r o m G o o d w i n , d o n o r o f t h e l i b r a r y . W h i t e ,
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b e r 9 t o N o v e m b e r 3, n i n e C o n c o r d , N H .
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Immediately f o l l o w i n g t h e Are,
custom. Governor Toba s , J D . S m i l e y , H e n r y S. Davis
u n d e r the c a p a b l e d i r e c t i o n o f M r a n d Mrs. F J Hanson g e n e r - f o l l o w e d w i t h a s p l e n d i d a d d r e s s .
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l i b r a r y w a s o p e n e d J o h n W a l d r o n , F r e d I. T h u y
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c i r c u l a t i o n t h e f o l l o w i n g a f - J. G . H a l g h , H e r b e r t D . Browne,
l o g l n g w a s satisfactorily
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presented the L i b r a r y Association
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p r i n t e d therewith,
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t h e .Library
association
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c l a n s of t h e t o w n , m a d e m a n y do- h e l d in the t o w n of Parmlington » 7 5 , p r o c e e d s f r o m
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, 1924. the
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had h a d t h e matter l n discussion y e a r .
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M r P a r k e r m o v e d that
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her c o n t r o l l e d by t h e L i b r a r y associa-"
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lftt'O, t h e y laid t h e i r p l a n s be^ t h a t o f t h e p u b l i c l i b r a r y
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M r A r c h i e W l g g l n r e c e i v e d the
in t h e b u i l d i n g fund as p a r t p a y v e r were officially a c
members o t the organization.
a b o u t | 9 0 0 . M r . J o h n K u r d o f g e n t ' s first prize, the Judges. Mrs.
b u i l d i n g fund
irudglng (from the s i z e o f t h e D o v e r s e n t » c h o c k f o r i l B . M r . h .
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cepted.
a u d i e n c e a t t h e p u b l i c m e e t i n g a t F o g g , a m e m b e r o f t h e firm J t o r
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lie on r e d . o u t s i d e Interest w a s a g a i n t h e l a y i n g o f t h e c o r n e r s t o n e o f
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t h e a s s o c i a t i o n r e c e i v e d a n - August 3, 1 9 2 8 These w e r e c o n ofnumlbers.
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organization,
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,
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m e s t l o d r a m a , " P l a c e r G o l d " , w a s t r e a s u r y o f t h e association
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b r a r y .building. T h i s affair n e t t e d treasurer o f t h e a s s o c i a t i o n , p r e aa follows- Isaac B P e a r l nreslPoverty ball p r o v e d t o be
a u s p i c e s of t h e W o m a n ' s c h i b .
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sented a h i s t o r y of t h e F a r m l n g F r o m this, o v e r J 1 0 0 w a s realized
president;' M M . M a r y B . Parker,
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t h e F a r m i n g - successful,
financially
t h a t anD u r l n g t h e e a r l y m o r n i n g o f ton Publio L i b r a r y , a n d Carl B .
a n d a d d e d t o t h e fund
biographical sketch o f
s e c r e t a r y ; F r a n k P e a r l , treasurer
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C l o u t m a n , M r s . F r a n k BdgerJy,
v e r y comical.
Dance c a r d s were p u r c hfan
s e o f a n y s u i t a b l e b u i l d i n g l o s s o f b o o k s t o t h e L i b r a r y a s - with a ^ l t y b a f i t t l n g t h e o c c a Mri W . P . T h a y e r , M r s . O . W . a l o n e a c t p l a y s w e r e g i v e n t o r m a d e o f p a p e r box c o v e r s a n d a J"
s o c i a t i o n . On I h e e v e n i n g p r e - slon b y M r . G o o d w i n .
the purpose o f raising
money
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s m a l l s t u b ipenoll w a s fastened to
On A p r i l 1 6 . 1 9 1 7 . a n Indoor c e d i n g t h e fire, a benefit t o a i d
Enclosed i n t h e c o r n e r s t o n e i s
T h e s e p r o v e d very s u c c e s s f u l fin
M r * O . N . Eastman, M r s . J. B .
t h e m b y p i n k twine. T h e s u m o t -1™™ « L held u n d e r t h e c a p a b l e t h e F r a n c o n l a N o t c h c a m p a i g n a rustproof c o p p e r b o x w h i c h c o n a n c i a l l y , aa i n aome i n s t a n c e s t h e
Fernald, Mrs. Jonas H , Oolomy,
X I 0 0 was realized from t h i s event. a n d efficient d i r e c t i o n
o f M r s . w a s h e l d a t t h e h o m e o f M r . a n d tains t h e c o m p l e t e v e r b a t i m r e over
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t h e c e e d s . $ 3 6 , w a s v o t e d t h e f o l l o w - dollar. h a W - d o l l a n g a r t e r a n d
on d r a m a t i o e n t e r t a i n m e n t : M r s . to h o l d a n a u c t i o n tor s a l e o f a l l B . B. Hayes, secretary, a n d Ned b T u d l n g ^ f u n d "to"^a 'tota7"of over l n g m o r n i n g b y t h e F r a n c o n l a d i m e ; also t h e n i c k e l a n d « ° P P e r
L. A. S m a l l , Mrs. J a m e s Hayes, t h e p r e v i o u s y e a r ' s
m a g a z i n e s L . Parker, treasurer. A l s o Dr. j e 5 0
N o t c h c o m m i t t e e to t h e L i b r a r y cent, o n e slVver h a l f - d o l l a r o f
1857. o n e silver t h r e e - c e n t p i e c e
M m . O s b o r n e P r i c e , M r e . N e l l i e a n d thla « a n a l b r
^ H . P. W h e a t l e y . director, w h o like
, meeting
ln De a s s o c i a t i o n ,
A s p e c i a l m e e t i n g o f t h e d l r e c - of 1R56, o n e - c e n t p i e c e o f 1 8 5 1
Starr, M I B S WInnlfred Berry, M r s . t h e s e c o n d w e e k l n J a n u a r y ,
Messrs. H a y e s and P a r k e r lhad
b r , 1917, M r E . H T h o m a s .
Mi' G o o d w i n ' s c o n t r i b u t i o n t o t h e
N . F . Roberta, Mra. W . H . W m a g a z i n e s w h i c h w e r e n o t
O o l o m y , R e v . W . L S w e e t , M r s . O s e r v e d f o r b i n d i n g w e r e offered f.
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e i g h t c o n s e c u - tors w a s held i n t h e b a n k r o o m s
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dollars
were
longer as director. A c c o r d i n g l y .
c a l l e d h i m o u t o f t o w n - t a b l l s h l n g a p e r m a n e n t h o m e f o r cent C a n a d i a n p i e c e , a C a n a d i a n
musical entertainment:
M r s . A . a d d e d t o t h e treasury.
_ these three offices w e r e filled a s
f e r e the library
A l l w e r e In f a v o r o f s o u a n d a Chinese c o i n M r s .
O. W a l d r o n , Mrs. I. E . Pearl, M r s .
Isaac E . P e a r l c o n t i n u e d his ser f o l l o w s
H e n r y 8. Davifl. secrec o n t i n u i n g i office.
Henry e r e c t i n g a suitable b u i l d i n g o n Annie Thayer contributed a p h o A u g u s t a C o o k e , M r s . A , F . W a l - v i c e s a s l i b r a r i a n .until S e p t e m - t a r y ; Perclval! H . S a f f o r d , treesa v l s w a s e l e c t e d t o fill t h e v a - t h e l o t r e c e n t l y .purchased V a r l - tograph o f T h e o d o r e R o s e v e l t a n d
d r o n , M r s . H . P . W h i t e , F r a n k b e r ; 1 8 9 2 . w h a n h e r e s i g n e d o n u r e r . J o h n E . S. HaTl, d i r e c t o r
drives f o r dbtalntng m o n e y her uncle. Brigadier G e n e r a l W l n Poarl, S. S . P a r k e r , Dean A l l e n , a c c o u n t o t pressing l a w duties D u r i n g t h e year Just p a s s e d the
A l w a y s u p p e r m o s t ln t h e m i n d s w e r e s u g g e s t e d a n d i t w a s v o t e d field Scott E d g e r l y , t a k e n w i t h
N e w m a n Gary, H . 0. W a l d r o n . a n d M l a s A g n e s E . B e r r y was association h a d r e c e i v e d
$100
d i r e c t o r s a n d officers w a s t h a t a c o m m i t t e e c o m p o s e d o f M r these t w o p r o m i n e n t figures s l t C o m m i t t e e o n s p e c i a l entertain- c h o s e n to fill the v a c a n c y ,
w o r t h o f n e w h o o k s a s a g i f t ifrotn ^
h a v i n g a l i b r a r y b u i l d - E . H . T h o m a s , a n d M r s . F r e d I. t i n g s i d e b y side o n h o r s e b a c k . A
ment:
E . P . Nute, H. T W l l l s o n ,
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state. A l s o M r s . Eastman
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p u r p o s e t h e use o t t h e police
court ro6nv,roperl|y lighted.
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s u g - a c r o s s t h e street from t h e b u r n e d buted t w o c o p i e s o f t h e B i b l e ;
*aoo to the liibrary Association.
putting $260. w h i c h was structure.
several v i e w s o f F a r m i n g t o n w e r e
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h W h t a n d w i s a p l a y entitled M y r a E d g e r l y r e m a r k e d t h a t b u y - a r r i v e - f r o m a l l p a r t s o f t h e t o w n , Roberta,
to a
i n g c i t i z e n s : D r . H . P . W h e a t - brary Association $84. ^
wt>ubd, In h e r w a y . o f t h i n k i n g , a f t e r t h e fire, t h e l i b r a r y w a s F r a n k l i n P a r k e r b r o u g h t
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A t the annual m e e t i n g l n D e -
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' T h e first b o o k s d o n a t e d t o t h e was v o t e d t o m a k e " ^ h e l i b r a r y
l i b r a r y w e r e c o n t r i b u t e d b y M r s . Xreo f o r t h e next year.
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donate b o o k s or gifts.
As e v i d e n c e o t g r o w i n g interest
in t h e n e w library, a large g a t h e r l n g o f cltUenS w a a present at; a
moating on November 28, 1890.
ono w e e k later, T h e f o l l o w i n g
g e n t l e m e n were
J. E \ Safford, E u g e n e P . Nute, w'.
I. S w e e t , t o serve f o r o n e y e a r :
O n i r i c s W Talpey, H . P. W h e a t foTana
8barker to serve t w o
years. T w e l v e y o u n g [people w e r e
appointed to secure all the m e m -
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Jt smells fifce Christmas.
Tt sounds fife* Christmas.
ft tastes like Christmas.
Jt feels like Christmas.
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Christmas ha* everything—hasn't it?
Christmas holds tightly many happy memories, is
loaded with joy and good cheer right now, and pierces
uncertainties of the future with the bright twinkle of
hope.
Christmas lifts yon out of your ordinary self and
pushes you up into being a person far nicer than you
u
have thought you were.
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Christmas opens up friendships more numerous,
more delightful and more heart-warming than you knew
you had.
Christmas appeals to allfiveof your senses. Is there
any sight lovelier than gaily wrapped gifts, multicolored
candles, shiny holly and decorations on a Christmas
tree? Isn't mere contentment in the fragrant smell of fir
balsam in the living room and of spicy odors in die
kitchen? Wouldn't the days seem empty without hear
ing again the universally-loved carols and the laughter
of happy children? Isn't self-control overstrained by the
taste of festive, tempting foods? And don't we respond
to the invigorating touch of the sweet air outdoors and
die welcome warmth of home and family within ?
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f o u r t h s o f t h e total n u m b e r o f G r a n g e t o install l n t h e v e s t i b u l e
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It's Scotry's a m m who'll do the worrying. That fire
la going to coat them a lot m o r a than It should have.
7A«y wen under-Insured!
How about you? How lonf nfto waa It that you set a
value on your house? . . . and what you have In It?
Head this Hartford warning aa published In leading
magazines. Gall on ua today.
Lst ua bring your Insurance Into line with today's In
creased values, so that afirewon't cost you needless w o r r y
and expense!
Farmington Insurance Agency
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Farmington Public Library- A history from its beginning to in 1890 until 1935. This account is from the Farmington News, Page 4, December 12, 1952. Written by Ethel B Nason, longtime librarian. The account covers how the library was formed, who formed it, the first books it held, how it was managed, and how it was designed. Also included are details of incorporation in October of 1891, work of librarians and volunteers, further donations, fundraising over the years, and celebrations and attractions. Additional accounts include the fire that destroyed the Opera House building and the library within. Ending accounts include the fundraising for the new library, donation of the Goodwin library land, and construction of the new library building, and finally the opening of the new library in May of 1929.
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T H E FARMINGTON NEWS.
PART ONE.
VOL.
FARMINGTON,
XXV
FARMINGTON
Winter
Footwear. 1 Giving
N.
H.,
FRIDAY,
DECEMBER
n,
NO. 4I
I903
ILLUSTRA TED.
Old "Snow Beard's
Goods are here.
a brief History of the Town and many Interesting Circumstances Connected.
The Illustrations will include the Principal Places of Manufacturing, Business
Blocks, Churches, Schools, and other views about town.
ALL STYLES
LARGE STOCK,
BEST MAKES,
Employs 275
FARMINGTON
LOWEST. PRICES.
hands.
Capacity
SHOE
10.000 pairs
Callvand make your
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Buyers of Christmas Presents will find
just what, their friends and families will
appreciate.
No matter how particular you are, you
will find a present here that will please
you, and at a price you will be pleased
to pay.
Farmington folks never saw such a fine
selection of Christmas Goods in tneir
village before.
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per week.
If you can be suited! at all you can be
suited right here. Look at the list.
Selections.
FACTORY.
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Boston Office:
Toys and Games for all who play.
118 Lincoln St.
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Books for every turn of mind.
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Perfumery for refined noses..
^Manufacturers of
iTh* Shot Dtaltr,^, * Odd Fdlowi Block,
* i j & t o $ & U r # * ...WOW
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H. A. Pike,
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Men's Medium and
Apollo Chocolates
sweets.
Treas. and Mgr.
Leather Goodsr-^Everything that's
durable in leather.
R. M. Mason,
. Fine Grade Shoes.
for lovers of
Supt.
tsar
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lip
Calendars and (Christmas Cards;
—Great variety. ;.
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Cutlery. Novelfies~Seiecf:edVesj,
penally for Holiday^^rade. ;~; £ - 4
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history scorns to notice So this sketch will bo gleaned for
SKETCH OF FARMINGTON.
the most port from tradition's store of knowledge, for it is the
incidents of life that go to make it worth the living. An old
BY NED L. PARKER.
townsman who shall be nameless but whoso integrity is un
questioned and whose mind, stored with a wealth of reminis
llSf^^iigd^lljohs, Hat!
"Tho spirit of independence and the successful resistance
cences handed down from his grandfather—'twas his only
to unjust taxation which the revolution had fostered and do^IJ^sJvejIjHat Bins and
legacy—says the first white settler to locate on a blazed trail
velppod- was tho primary causo of Farmington's cmstance
that ran from tho Plains (Rochester) to New Durham GOTO
_ .asa toyrnship. Originally this territory, together with tho
was a man whose name was Berry. Mr. Berry built a log
t|prraonfcy^vn of-Milton, was included h\.tho township limits
cabin near tho present residence of the Hon.' E. T. WDlson,
bearing
up
down the
Jf^Jai^JowWpeilea. to aid ui tho support of the "true and sot his traps for fur An Indiananimalshca<|anda tribe that
bonks of tho Cocheco.
chief,
of
0Xtit
Nprwaj-^ Plains. ^piis vas manifestly unfair, for wo
lived in this valley, robbed Berry's traps, and 'tis said that in
^ ^ ^ ^ W i ^ ^ t ^ ^ an3 prca^er from which, bea quarrel
the savago, and that
w^^vti^d^^^^W KltJo benolit^spiritual or social— his bones over some pelts, Berry killedtho cabin stood. Here's
today lie buried near whore
was'derivedT'
another version of the deceased «'Poor Lo," g|ven in a sketch
of Farmington: "After the battle of tovell'8 fond, in which
Chamberlain shot the celebrated Indian chief, Paugus, his
r^sur^lf^^
son, Paugus Jr., 'wished to revengo himself upon Chamber
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lain, who kept a mill at Rochester. One day some of his
friends informed Chamberlain that young Paugus had ap
peared in the village, and they thought he meant some harm.
Chamberlain did not feel afraid, however, but as night Ap
proached he took his rifle which he had token from Paugus
Sr., after ho shot him, and went down under the milL Be
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fore doing so he hung a coat and hat in the open port of the
milL At length he saw Paugus approaching, who, seeing
the coat and hat indistinctly in tho dusk of evening, believed
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it to be Chamberlain, and fired. At the same time Chamber
lainfiredand killed the Indian. The death of Paugus Jr.
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was sure to cause trouble if the savages became aware of the
fact, so Chamberlain, with the aid of a few mill hands, brought
the Indian's body up here and buried it near the site of tho
lyonr c^er-fcr a Svdt or 0 ? e ^ I
F<ostnmn house.
v - ^ * * vc«»t ""!;i.;,iiho h'ne" to flalocfe*
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be a pair of cattle owned by the company, but for some
reason the offer was not accepted. Later in the century, at
the instance of the mill owners of Farmington and Rochester,,
a bill to change tho course of Merrymeeting river was intro
duced in our legislature, but the powerful influence of the
Manchester corporations killed the bill.
Thefirstrecorded warrant issued by the selectmen was
as follows:—
State of New Hampshire,
Strafford «s.
To Lieut Ephraim Perkins, appointed collector of taxes
for tho town of Farmington for the year 1799, Greeting. Bv
virtue of sundry acts of the legislature of said state directing
and empowering the selectmen to raifo money for-tho support
of schools and other necessary purposes, and agreeable to a
vote of the town to raifo inoney for tho support, of the gospel,
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Strong,objections were raised against thoTpayment of
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»/EST SIDE MAIN STREET, LOOKING NORTH. and pursuant to a precept from the county treasurer to raife
money for the ufe of the county, you are hereby required in
the name of Sd state to levy and collect of nil perfons men
tioned in the foregoing lift herewith committed you to collect
the several sums set to their names in dollars and cents,
which sums you ore to collect in silver and gold, or orders
drawn on you by the selectmen of Sd Farmington for the
time being, and you aro hereby directed to pay seventy-five
dollarf by the tenth day of September next to the selectmen
of Sd Farmington, and to pay the treasurer of Sd county
fifty dollars and forty-five cents on or before the firft day of
.December next, and the whole of the remainder to the
selectmen by the fifth day of March next. And if any perfon
or perfons shall neglect or refufe after legal notice or warning,
you are to take the same by distraint as the tew directs, and
for your lawful proceedings this shall be your sufficient
warrant
Given under our hands and seals this eighteenth day of
June, 1799.
t^|G!eanln^;'.uaiid4 Repairing^ ; cessful ai^pU/Farmington became a township.^ The popu-4 r i j U n t ' n i n m n * lift'eniEon.
% lation at that time was about one thousand, a goodly number
of whom Hved on the Ten Kod road and at Merrill's Corner.
r. . The new town was namedby<3eneral Richard Furber, who
livod a^vM:errill*8 Corner.'' jHe was a brave soldier in the
Revolution, served as aid de camp at the surrender of General
Burgoynei and retired at'tho close of the war, a general
General Furber died in 1848, aged 95 years, and is btu-IM in
the cemetery at Rochester, whence the remains were removed
from the Furber homestead near Merrill's Corner, some years
since.
Onrfirstmeeting houso, which in those days served as a
iown j&ouspWdlihomM
place ior. all public gatherings^
was built nearihe centre of tho town, about two and a half
miles below tho village Tho elevation on which the church
EAST SIDE MAIN STREET, LOOKING NORTH.
was erected has ever since been known as Meetinghouse bill,
The absence of any large bodies of water near our village
The first church society was formed in 1819, when Rev. undoubtedly robbed it of much early Indian history. The
James Walker of Concord preached alternately in Milton and discovery of arrow heads, spears and rude implements in the
Farmington.
fields and pastures prove beyond doubt that the redskin
traversed this valley on his way to and from the lake. Nature
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did so much for the surrounding towns of Milton, New Dui>
ham, Alton and Strafford in the way of beautiful lakes and
And only Insurance AgChV
ponds that her available supply seems to have been exhausted
in.town will write your
and Farmington, left nearly destitute, had to be content
with the Cocheco river. But the early settlors were a hardy
lot who refuued to be discouraged by the absence of abun
in .the Best and Safest
dance of water power, and with the determination BO charac.
Stock Companies, or will
teristic of early New Englanders, sot about to lay the founda
give you the Mutual divi
tion of a village that has been a credit to their sturdy man
dend paying companies.
Agent for the
hood and unyielding toil. Twice we came very near changing
the course of the water that flows from Merrymeetiug pond
so it wouldflowdown between the bunks of the Cocheco. In
£>\$e &xisur&Ticfc Co.,
their windings in and out from their resj>ecti\o starting
which is tho best in tho
places there is a point, in the town of New Durham, where
country, and also agent for
the Merrymeeting river and the Cocheco aro separated by a
tho best sick and accident
piece of land only about one hundred yards \\ ido. Early in
companies where you pay
M E C H A N I C STREET. L O O K I N G EAST.
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only one dollar a month.
the last v o u . i w . . v . . ^ Cocheco Manufacturing Compauv of
century the
Will give you anything
Dover were lumbering up in that locality, and quirk to see
T h e village, or the Dock as it was formerly called, w
you want in the Insurance
the advantage of having an additional toluiue of water flowsituated in the northeast corner of tho township on land
Line.
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ICHABOD HATES,
EPHRAIM KIMBALL,
DANIEL ROBERTS,
Also during the holidays Jweiwill make' a ^ g i | t ^
with each dollar's worth purchased in our c r o j 5 ^ e 4 y ^ w ^ #
department.
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Selectmen.
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sors, Shears, Spoons, Tpok,
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etc., in our hardware aniv spdran^f^pwKiW«»^
partment.
So much for tho cold, dull facts concerning the
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ing their way,
formerly owned by Mr. Johu Ham.
1 the town.
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mculents con
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took
the
matter under conxideiiition
Izah Horne, grandfather of the present owner of
hue, was in the emplo\ of the corporation and offered
a ditch that should connect the two nvers and
nected with the early days and the trials of tho efirst setuen, ^
nected with the e^rly davs and the tna.s o t t i r s t settlers.
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The choicest selections oPGahdies/I^
Nuts, Oranges, Dates, Figs, Cranberries, A p
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ples, Cheese, Raisins, Jams, Jellies, etc., in our
grocery department
Come to us for your
Christmas
Gifts,
we can suit you whether your purses be lean
or fat. .
CENTRAL STREET. L O O K I N G
EAST.
Collei-tor Perkins t,'uther«>.l in $597 45 during the year
ami this amount jmul the running expeDHes of the
left $i>2 47 on
hand
The
Ki-lei-tinen s
Mr. ,;\ ear \MW $.\ <KI eaeli- $'.MMI in all
I>UHH tamed among other item* these
t o dig ' Mr (ieuu 11: part
town
compensation
E. T. Willson
and
that
Tlie parish account couinteresting entrees
f o r preui hiug,
$54 (Ml
Pai<l
Paid,
Captain j
cliuiige I Furl«er s t.ill in f u l l for the use o f his houte for meeting. $1 C »
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We confine ourselves largely to staple, practical goods, and
in this line our showing is better than ever. A few of the lines
from which very desirable holiday gifts may be selected:
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Hav es from starting in
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SIDE MAIN
STREET. L O O K I N G
SOUTH
L.
mirer o f General Washington. A branch of the Washington
Benevolent Society held its meetings m & room w hich he had
fitted Tip for tho purpose. At one time a party of Democrats
having imbibed rather freely, found this room and seeing the
cabalistic letters W B S on tho chairs, concluded they be
longed to some accursed Federalist society. In their rage
fjjtfrey were proceeding to demolish tho chairs and hurl them
through the windows, when tho "Squire" suddenly appeared
on tho scene and persuaded them to desist by telling them
all could see that W B S stood for Wingato's Best Seats.
A. E. CARTER
FURNITURE DEALER
UPHOLSTERER.
Will supply your wants in
Furniture, Carpets, Cur
tains,
Rugs,
Picture
Frames*, Spring Beds,
.Mattresses, etc
\ W e also do Upholster
ing and Furniture Repair
ing in all branches, at
sfeasons of the year when
we can spare the time.
Right here let us say that
from now until March ist
is the time when it can
best be attended to,
W e have bought and
are
already receiving
some of our Straw Mat• tings tor the spring*trade.
•|5sWe shall be able to
show the largest line of
these popular carpets ever
exhibited in town. "We
shall-"; .make ., prices that
will sell ttiisj, large stock.
?CalI and see if we cannot
snake you. happy.
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Koliertx was among the eurU
ileter
Mr
Martin
LINENS, TOWELS, APRONS, HANDKERCHIEFS,
tiiuiiufiu ture -lioes for
himself, and lie wax shorth followed l>}
WEST
(t M
Herrinj.
manufacturer*
and
J
he
KNIT GOODS, GLOVES, UMBRELLAS AND FLAN
was
succeeded I >\ his hrothers. George E. and H e n n L.
Roberts.
Alonzo N'u to am H i IH brother, Jeremy ( ) ,
partner
Li
formed
a
NELETTE GOODS OF ALL KINDS.
ship about this tmieaiid the* were followed by Luther Wentworth, H
L
B. Edgerly, Israel Hayes, N T. Kimball and John
Pratts. John H . Hurd,
Edwin F Jones, E . C.
C W . Thurston,
George
Ilinnear, John M .
Cloutman. A. E. Putnam, D
A. and
Berry, John
F.
W . Kimball aud others.
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In 1802 L t Ajithony Peavey built a pound for which
the town paid him $20. This old pound is still in very good
condition, and is situated on tho road running from the Lois
Itand farm to tho Ten Rod road.
From the time of its incorporation as a town Farmington progressed rapidly and the growth was a sure, healthy
increase in population and wealth. In 1H20 tho village num
bered fifteen frame dweHmgs, five stores, one mill, a tavern,
and Mr. Elijah Badger was manufacturing shoes. Badger
watt the pioneer shoe manufacturer in this village that was
destined to become the smartest shoe town in New Hamp
shire W o had attained some littlo eminence as a manufactur
ing centre before tho war. That was in the days of biognns,
btifore machinery had boconie perfected and when every
farmer who would might toko "stock" home and make it up.
W e ' a r e all prone to look back over the past and to speak of
the g o o d old^dajB in a tone of regret, and who shall say that
those carefree days before the war, when manufacturers did
n o t worry over "orders," "specials" o r any of the nerve-rack
ing rush orders of today, we
not the ideal days of our
lives? Then ovcry farm within a radius of a dozen miles was
occupied o&d the owners were busy making shoes. All tLe
ready money needed—and more—was thus earned and die
farm was carried on at the same time.
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JONES F A C T O R Y . MAIN
STREET.
We advise early shopping. Commence now, it will be more sat
isfactory than waiting until the last few days before Christmas^
Tljgga manufacturers with hardly an exception were suc
cessful, and they Labored eaily and late to achieve it.
Per
haps no better description of our conditions as a community
can be obtained than the following extract from tho Boston
Journal of June 15, 1R59,
evidently written by some sojourn
er in our village —
Fnnniugtou, N. H., Juno 14, l«*i9
Messrs. Editors
Supposing that a few facte from this
locality would not g o amiss, I am inclined to forward a few
items. This village contains about three thousand inhabi
tants, principally engaged in shoe manufacturing.
There are
nine large establishments for this branch of butuness which
turn out an extraordinary number of brogans m tho course
of a year. There is a!so a lanro sawmill in full operation.
"THE WHITE JTO/?r;
Like most places, however, which employ so much nmlo
help to tho almost utter exclusion of females, the general so
ciety is exceedingly turbulent. Indeed, as a stranger coming (is
into the place on Saturday evening, I thought I had happened
CIS
into a strong community of roughs - one fight of the rough
and tumble order, and a horse race, both almost directly in
EAST SIDE MAIN STREET, L O O K I N G NORTH.
front o f tho hotol, being the first occurrences of note. Sub
But the rebellion changed all this and with the new con
sequent acquaintance, however, with, tho oldor and less mi
dition o f things the farmers were obliged to come into the
gratory inhabitants has shown mo tho existence of a strata of IIS
village if they would continue in the shoe business..
O u r . . . .
manufacturers, with few exceptions, had started on ^
| ^ e t y , ^ not exacUy anstocraUc, still quite creditable to a (US
town of such democratic tendencies as Farmington.
resources, which in most cases consisted of clear heads,
(US
strong bodies, plenty of determination and very littlo cash;
and this change of conditions raised obstacles that men o f
to
less courage would have deemed insurmountable.
Factories
to
must b e erected and filled with costly machinery, and few of
our manufacturers were financially able to do this, but
"where there's a will there's a way," and surely the business
men o f this villago had the wilL
So they set to work and by hook or crook secured tho
necessary backing.
Factories' were erected, unoccupied
houses were converted into shops and filled with machinery,
and in the place of a small country village comprising a few
%
The Glenwood and
Crawford are-still sold at
the old stand,
WHY?
Because they are the
recognized stoves of to
day; therefore they sell
best and give best satis
faction.
TEST
Our prices and you will
surely try our stoves.
W. F, THAYER.
o
stores and dwellings
strung
along
the
main
road,
w
Besides the above we are very strong in Fancy Goods, such
as Baskets, Work Boxes, Collar, Cuff and Handkerchief Boxes,
Comb and Brush Sets, Jewelry, Fancy Calendars, Books and Brica-brac.
1
.
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Ifo other store in town offers the advantages to the average
shopper that the White Store does, with its innumerable stock
and varied articles to select from.
There isn't a shadow of a doubt regarding the qual
ity and style of our goods, nor a question as to our
prices.
Improvements are constantly being made in tho sur
rounding lands; a number of now buildings are in course
of erection, and with a continued run of the present activity
in business, but a few years will o!apse before Farroington
will be ranked as one of tho most thriving and prettiest
villages in New Hampshire.
Christmas
We are headquarters for , HoUdaj|^if^ u^^jojhmg.
Men^s Furnishings, and our lin^i^geSaSli" b l | t ^ # a n ^ 8 | ^ ^ 1
:
Fancy Handkerchiefs, Miiffl^Sf-,
3&0t
extra warm Cloves and, Witteii^
\wear,
_
wool and fur lined; Sweaters, Toques and
amVshanters, Suit Cases, Cripsland
ks; Hats, Caps and Umbrellas^ f u r
Coats, $tc«
n
x
We are agents for A. B. Eirschbaum & Co's^ Guaranteed
Clothing, and have a large stock of Gents' Overcoats.
f
there
sprang up a live, wide-awake hustling shoe town, full of Mfe
and filled with tho busy hum of industry.
Save from the fact that Farmington has ok. ays t een
famous for its good housewives and fair women with mild
dispositions, a second Rip Van Winkle might have climbed
the wooded slopes of rugged old Caverly mountain, and
after a snooze that would have buen but a nap compared to
the original's somnambulistic feat, looked down upon a scene
as changed as tho one that mot the eye of Irvmg's hero. If
the tooting of a dozen whistles had not molested this second
Rip, his bump of curiosity would certainly have been aroused
on waking, by the sight of huge volumes of smoke arising
from a score of tall chimneys.
BOSTON
GROVE S T R E E T .
NUTTER
The place boasts of one hoU<l and that m kept
host Barnard, who is an excellent hotel conductor;
ing turnouts in the way of HIUIHII carnages and
There are
Mr
two churchos hero m
Cilley, and the
he sets a
good
fast
look
hoi sen.
Oood Things to Eat.
nriMuiiHtanre*,
Tho Baptist IUIM for u pn-ai'lier Ht>\
Orthodox
has
l»ev
Mr Tapp-m
both
1
There are fine choirs connected «itli these deij<>iuiimt'i>tis.
one of which I recogui/e»l tho ple.'isimt fuce mid nv\eet
of Mrs. James K I'erimld. former!* Mi** Laum
W e sell a
large
amount
of this flour and it
satisfaction
evory case.
Try
in
time
it.
A t this store you will find
Tht* resolution of bu-iiit •».
pllt ail elld to the
nesa
a first class line of
e\ciil-ioli
ot
U ini'«->.
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l~
GROCERIES
Hilt
pur-
count of
or
New
your
Year
Christmas
delicacies
mand for labor far exceeded tin HiippK
H
England
in
almost '
villages, that w hen i
o f its grow
th seems marvelous «ud
Ult;
I nlike so main settlements through-
|.
eluded
tages.
in
and e\en the whole
the comparison
Such water power
w
,• had
I ' l i i o l i ma_N
n«> great
a.s l ) o \ e r ,
.
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place that has a
better
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DAISY
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when
getting
etc.
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M a i n \ arieties o f T e a s . CofTees
A tull l i n e ot fresh Nuts, Fruits and V e g e t a b l e s
We
can
suit all
All
a l w a ) S on hand
l< . t i l i n g l n . t i u l s i »| C i _ ; trs
the
FANCY
CHINA.
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h a \ e p u n l i . i s c d a l a ' ^ e a s s , ] t n i e n t of fancy thina that is
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Soinerswurth, Milton, ..r
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ln,|,i\ m . ii.n.
properl\ told the Instors
out New KiigliilHi
,
i
hunt the town o v e r ami \<>u will not
(
sure to be a bio
seller.
a n i o n - t h i s lot that will be suitable for Christmas presents
(
mt extant
is extremely interesting
D. E. EPGERLY.
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The st«»ry of our tow ii s riHe in s o different
e v e n respeet from other New
give us a call.
und the de- . „
that
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ceiitn until 1 •»? * t i n i i ii
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HOLSb, (,hNFRAl. STRbhT
Dwelling* were erected. lieu streets laid out
chasing
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till
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front, mid bllsmes* fe. t
iilel i m i i i u f m t u n
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Ime o f i h o l d - groceries than can h e found at this store.
uff.-id* u
wioiiu'lit
,
Fiiniiiii^'lon >lid In i full -hm>
shoe
prices.
mid
ui>tliod-
lal>orern
fair
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l'""mu>
fairh goinl idea of society lis it e . I f t i ' d in «>nr * iiI;i»
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at
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she lias a hoi t of fneinK
This coininuuicfttinii is Hi^ue I
perfect
in
for a long time a resnieut teucliei uin! s i n ^ i r m !>••* n-, v* In re
gives
COMPANY.
l>y tuiue
neat, well-furniHhed tul>U- mid keeps •» number of good
Baptist and Oithodox.
CLOTH INQ
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men are worthy and possess tho >< utidt-m e mid respect uf ul
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wagons
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light delivery to the
heavy lumber wagon.
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each
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just
care.
suiteil
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y o u our newest W A T C H E S .
will J > i _ p l e j s e J
with
th«? s t \ l e > and prices.
RINGS.
DIAH0ND5.
•• l u i v r Himii* v e r y
wl.iili
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SHOE
F A C T O R Y OF" C
Manufacturers of Men's. Boys' and
Shoes.
Youths'
V. A 1 . 0 R I C H
B o \ C-.lt
Capacity 70 J too 800 pairs
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Plates,
Fruit
Dishes, Cracker
Spoons, Pie Servers,
Knives,
Knives-
Baskets,
Jars, Candle
Salad Sets,
Forks,
Berry
and Spoons,
Ladles, Cold Meat Forks, Carving Sets, Fruit Knives.
CUT
JEWELRY.
Vest Chains,
I<orgnetto Chains,
Dickens Chains, Fob Chains, W a t c h
Chains, Emoleni Charms, Bracelets,
Cuff Buttons, Brooches, etc.
I
I
c o s t
GLASS, ETC.
Black, China and G o l d Clocks.
Fino C u t Glass, Richly Decorated
A r t China. Fountain Fens, Chafing
Dishes and Accessories, Gold Pons
and Pearl Holders. H a t , Cloth and
Military Brushes, Silver Novelties.
Manicure Sots, Etc.
LOCKETS, NECK CHAINS,
that was saved from t h e building xvero fourteen or fifteen '
cushions nearest tho d o o r . T h e l o s s is deeply felt by the so! ciety, as tlaoy had a church debt, wo aro told, of $ 9 0 0 0 .
> Forty minutes from the time the alarm was given from tho
church, tho building w a s a h e a p o f c o a l s a n d ashes, t h e rich I
, sounding bell iu pieces of molten metal. The church was
» 7 0 x 4o feet with a vestibule l o feet square. How did the
firo catch in the church? T h o s e w h o were first there say that |
it was from tho sheathing around t h o chimney, into which
sparks fltw. When tho church wus bm'.t, the chimney was
built on tho outside, in the rear, a n d t o make it look nico was
sheathed up and painted. T h e sheathing h a d shrunk and
loft open p'aces. and the Kup|hisition is that the sparks light
ing o n this "firo trap." worked i n t o tho partitions of tho
church, • s t h e tire brol e o u t all at onco. Iu tho rear of the
church, some forty f e e t , w a s t h o residence and stablo of
, Charles H. Dame, w Inch was on fire a number of times and
was damaged considerably C \V. Nute's factory, north of
P L E A S A K T STREET, LOOKING WEST.
the church, was on firo on t h e roof two or three times, also J .
The ••California House" was a long, peculiarly built B. Edgerly's barn and nearly a dozen other buildings caught
'tenement house situated between Sir. Roberts' house and J. firo, but were speedily put out George N. Eaptman's house
E. Penmld's block. This houso was owned by E. L. Wedg caught fire soveral times and a martin houso on tho ell was
wood and now presents a picture of both "fire and flood," the burned.
inside coming outside in smoke and cinders. It was insured
for $1,500; loss $2000. It wa*> only by heroic exertions that
the flames were stayed in this building. Situated as it was,
had it been burned, Ferna'd block, J. F. Cloutrmw's shoe
actory, Wbittfer s and E. R. Wiggiu's stores would have had
a bard show, and profcab'y wou'd havo succumbed to tho
element of destruction. Thofiremenand citizeus know that
the safety of the remainder of the village depended on s t o p
ping tho flame* right bore, and that was where they worked
with n'mosl superhuman efforts.
% A. FerrettL
PLATED.
Bowls, Cream Bowls, Tea Sets,
Sticks, Candelabra, Pie
H
b
AND
Tureens, Syrup Pitchers, Pickle Jars, Cake
f
P r e n k l e n t
r
in
Salad Bowls, Nut
2
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i
8 p ! e n d l t
nii'iitliH
iitUiuitt
STERLING
limpl<>\ed
;
J e
sexiral
ret cat
and Standard Screw
There was a high southwest wiud bloxxing it. t h e t u n c , [ t h e M a z e xxitli a Inn k«-t i>f xxat«-r w h e n t h e cry w a s for h i m
which blow the flames with great rapidity through tn t h e ti> m i n e d o w n , as t h e h o u s e W O N all o n tire b e n e a t h huii T h e
front of the house, and it wan difficult to GET the furniture wind l>Ie\\ a p i l e , o n e tlniiul> W « H frozen n m l h e was m a hard
out and but a small quantity of it was s a v e d . T h e flames p'nee, 1 ut M u v c t - d c d in making his wny lm« k a g a i n
Tlie
communicated to Charles W. Thurston's four-story s h o e f a r - j los» o n t h e c h u r c h ««•< f^"..*
a n d it was insured for $ 1 0 , tory, and soon the handsome bui'ding was invested b y t h e | ( M O T h i n h o u s e w a s u e o r l \ new a n d wan o n e of t h e p r e t t i e s t
fire fiend and beyond the efforts of tho firemen to save. T h i s i h u r c h e s m t h i s part of the s t a t e , costing $*2ti,iiuo. It h a d a
building was formerly J. H. Kurds shoe manufactory, but '
four years ago was built over b y Sir. Thurston and was a i
large, imposing structure. Thefirststory was used I \ M i s s |
A. B. T^Jui*StttO & Co., for millinery a n d faucy goods. In t h e
basement Haiafes & Flanders had a hist' factory. T h e l o s s on
tho hotel pronerty is estimated at not far from $ 2 0 , o o o anil
is insured for between J 1 4 . 0 0 0 and $ 1 5 , 0 0 0 . C \V Thurs
Christmas will soon'
ton's loss on the factory and contents must be between $ 4 0 be here. Now watch |
0 U 0 and $ 6 0 , 0 0 0 ,
partly insured. Miss Thurston's loss on
for the handsome
millinery is a! out $3,500, insured for $ 2 0 0 0 . Haines &
Fancy Boxes that we 3
Flanders hare an insurauce of $ 2 0 0 0 , while their loss is not \
can show. Best IN"
far from $3,500. Theflamesfrom the hotel a.'so communi
town. •
cated to the two-story house owned by J. F. Chesley and j
Fine' Home Made Candy f situated close to tho west sido of the hotel. This house, also
being of wood, burned rapidly. The loss on Mr Chesley's
Also full line fresh
house and stablo will reach nearly $ 4 0 0 0 and is inbtired for
CHOCOLATES I
$2000.
Next to Thurston's shoe factory was tho two-story
and Christmas Can- < •
M A I N STHKET. LOOK INK NORTH.
house and outbuildings of "Undo Natt" Roberts. This
dy, all kinds of Fruit j j
house was built in 1 8 2 3 , and hero "Uncle Natt" has lived | , , ,
0 0 0 pounds, a town clock which cost $ 5 0 0 and
and Nuts, and a large j ;
since it was erected. Theflamessoon lapped it up, and tho
i
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assortment, of Brier
old gentleman told ns. as he stood looking over the ruins, j ^
enrv W Y s o n was a generous benefactor i
,a:iid
Meerschaum
it didn't look much like home. The loss on this property is
^
,
^
'
Pipes.
not far from $ 4 0 0 0 , and it is insured for $ 2 0 0 0 .
1 $1,700.
Tho church w a s carpeted a n d cushioned, a n d oil
a
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llic
SILVERWARE,
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1 2 ^
li«.ii >lit
I'ract it*ally a l l o f o u r lad I t s ' r i n g s
art- n e w MIIICO T h a n k s g i v i n g . T h e r e
nn* m u r e rintzs a n d nexver d e s i g n s
t h a n xvero e v e r s h o w n in t o w n b e fnro.
(tuntlcinen's
Rings,
Half
Riiiiud ItuigR, ( h i l d r e u ' s K i n g s .
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COMPANY
and S.itin
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are worth money to y i ' ,
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Save
and
Watches Are Our Specialty.
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s y s t o m a n d w e will
f..i
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M o idax
Jewelry.
Our stock is unbroken now. W h y not do your shopping early and get the
fir.t choice from our big stock.
A R T I C L E S H E L D FOR X M A S D E L I V E R Y IF Y O U W I S H .
J. F. Safford
& Son,
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Odd Fellows Block,
Farmington, N. H.
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well invested
l3Tmgs good
results.
your ,
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of O. N. Hussey and you
will be,, sure of GOOD
results,
Cdme in-always glad
We don't believe in individual praiso at a firo where all
did the beat thoy cou!d, for if wo did we should certainly
mention Oluries aL Armstrong, who wont down through the
roof of the "California House" and as pipesman drow ued out
that p!ace. Tho fami'ies in this house saved a part o f their
furnituro, but iu a dam iged condition. The first floor front
was occupied by L. L. Finkham, Loots and shoes, on which
there was an insurance of $ 1 0 0 0 .
Opposito the hotel and
Thurston's was the two-story dwelling of Charles H. Hayes,
and the Fuller and Small block. The damage to the Hayes
house was not large, though it was on fire several times and
f .'to shovV goods.
JOHN
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A N D l » o \ KAt T«)HV
this conflagration n hu'f^dozeu
w a t e r , a n d not a Kina'l a m o u n t \>\ m o x i n g
READY FOR
filled
c o v e r l e t a u d carried it to
let a m i
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tilled t h e n r , :tiid f t r i n < r > "li
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of t h e Klin
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There
o n t h i s h o u s e , a n d it w a s a l u c k x
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was not d e s t r o y e d
mg
x v i t h tiu r o o f
House
from
t h e heat
t h e trees.
wiu. intense
T h e large elm trees
saveil this block,
T h e wind
u p o v e r t h e t r e e s a n d tin
fire
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t i o n a l c h u r c h a n d l i i i l i l i i i g s in t h a t
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Fuller A Small s Llotk
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our holiday hints here.
C o m e in and look them. over.
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and toys-a large assortment.
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At W* W. Roberts you will find many
suggestions for holiday presents.
APOLLO'S FAMOUS CANDIES,
HOLIDAY PERFUMES, TOILET SETS,
LEATHER GOODS,
HANDSOME STATIONERY,
x » n s s l u t l o i n <l i n t h e r e a r
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t h e i r b u i ' d i i i g s w i r e n o t s e t m i tire
A largo assortment and at p r i c e s
that suit all parses.
Gents'
Furnishings,
Ladies'
Wrappors, and lots of other arti
cles appropriate for a Curistmxs
present.
A fall line of choice grocories
and moats always on hand.
made
T h e streets were !
H R H\IC s u p p o s e d ,
returned f o r o t l u r
W e are ready ror Christmas l a y
ers.
W h i l e w e do not expect a
rush j n s t now it is a good time to
look over our stock and plan for
the
giving that cornea In t w o
weeks.
Christmas Candy
w,
w i t h g o o d s f r o m t h e s t o r e s a n d h o u s e h o l d effects.
lady carefully wrapped h e r pictures
many articles t o o numerous to
mention in our display that will
m a k e useful and appropriate pres
ents. A pair of F u r Lined Gloves
or Mittens will be sure to p l e a « e ;
wo have a largo lino and all p r i c e * .
Also a
largo lino of
Woulun
Blankets and Comforters, H o r s e
Blankets and everything found in
a general store.
faun i c s
h o m e l e s s , a n d m u c h p r o p e r t y was d e s t r o y e d , b o t h by tiro a n d I
G
ET busy.
Buy your holiday goods n o w
and buy in comfort.
Don't wait until
the last minute.
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Shirts, Sweat ere. Hosiery I i>llar«.
Ties. otc.
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In Our Dry Goods Department
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A good line of Trims, Klanuoln.
Flannolettes, Bed Blanket* am!
Quilts,
Ladies'
and ( litl.truo's
(iolf (Jloves, W r a p p e m ,
I nderwear, and Hosiery for everybody
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January 15, 1904.
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tho IH«. C h r i s t u m effort
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A L L T H E S T O R E S IN T H I S
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Your Holiday
Shopping - -
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W o havo by far the largest ami most complete assortment of
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New and l'p-to-dato H O L I D A Y (JOOI)S of any
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offered tlir d e d i c a t o r *
T h o c h o i r t h e n s a n g uu tiuthotii aud
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Excellent
singing
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praver
Tnppan remained over
the
Sabbath,
Come t j the M ..ne v \ ariors of Mrs. L A bmau
furnished
the great barga.r.s she :s g:ving
in t h e Hats marked d.wn
preaching
morning and assisting at communion
which w«£ one addition to tho church
WATCHES,
in t h e afternoon
by baptism
Silkoteen
ut
to half
price
T r i m m e d cover any difference in the height of the
a specialty of
W e make
mdulged in as to whether or no
aud pro
would
day of lettu.g in the water
FARMINGTON
term
it. W h e n the
the wise ones nodded their heads and
k
leclared that Whitehouse and his
i w r r e w rong this tune for
If you cotno to Rochester to
Solicited.
sure.
Certificates of
Mr. Whitehouse,
however^
filled
with
call in and
of all kinds. Compound
refrac&on work a spec
ialty'.
Savings
Here follows a description of the church
Edwin LeGro.
The new edifice is situated upon the corner of Main and
Pleasant streets, on the ample and pleasant
house occupied.
Farmlngton, N, H.
lot tbo burned
The external appearance of the building is
aeo
u s and
mako our
store
jou
your headquarters
I t id
certainly well worth your time to call in and see
funds
Our Grand Display of
Holiday Goods. - - I
Bank
J. F. Cloutmnn, Pres.
C E N T R A L STREET L O O K I N G EAST.
Shopping,
whether you have any dry goode shopping to do or not.
! the departments of his mill.
Deposit)
FARMING-TON
OPTICAL GOODS
do your Christmas
is always at your disposal and we shall b e glad t o hare
It would not seem incredible that Providence was prov
ing our men of affairs, giving t o the people examples of
energy and perseverance that finds few equals in the annals
of our country. In 1874 the wooden factory occupied by Alonzo Nute was burned, and before the ruins were cold this
man of indomitable will, who never knew the meaning of de
feat, had a force of workmen in the cellar clearing away tho
debris, and even before the fire had ceased to be a subject for
Chas. W . Talpey, Treas^ discussion. And in twenty days from the date of the fire a new
brick factory, 32 x 185 feet, four floors high, was standing on
tho site of the former factory.
issued for s j f e keepi-m of temporary
of your
New Ladies' Parlor
with a
J B. Edgerly Cashier ! water ho found no trouble in getting enough power to ran all
„
Amounts
convince
to d o A L L
you oro cordially invited to make our store your headquarters.
instruments
hided his time, and when the hanks had -become
N H
Amoj W Downing. Vict Pro
yon
dry goods shopping.
arrived, half the village lined the
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J H Barker Prtv
T h e above F A C T S should easily
you that oar store is the place for
run in "the
concern
W e do not soli goods of ques
banks of the canal, ami when the water soaked into tho fresh
k
FARVUNtiTON,
R E L I A B L E dry goods cheaper than any
tionable quality.
ly opened earth instead of flowing swiftly between the banks
DIAMONDS,
sell
in this section of New England.
respective ends of
water
judgo's ditch," as they were pleased to
CLOCKS,
We
to dis
the canal it was a different matter, and much speculation was
Give us a call
price marked
W o employ only strictly honest and reliable salespeople.
T o linn it was an assured fact that water, would run
in bin canal, but to the village folks who were unable
of Pillow
havo but ono selling price, and that's tbo
Wo employ only honest and reliablo business methods.
and see
Everything in mouth
her customers
on y 'our cents a spool
fession of faith.
or anything in the Jew
elry line at lowest prices
that valuable goods can
be sold for.
have strictly and only one price.
on tbo ticket in plain figures.
GLEN STREET SCHOOL HOUSE.
pro-
by the choir, Mrs. J E. Fernald, Mrs. Kimball, M i s s e s M < - the stcre at Cut Pru'es
W e have a fine assortment
Duffeo and Smith and Mesnra Kimball and i'luklutm H e * Tops StanJ Covers Needie Books and Doilies and
Mr
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W o have all goods marked In plain figures.
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this
host ventilated aud most
convouient storo to trade in to bo found
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respoiisne consecration of c h i i n h 1>\ pastor mul ]«••«!]>.«
concern
side of Boston.
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W o havo the largest, best lighted,
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Handkerchief* for everybudj
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Inrgost showing
In town I'er
fumes and Side Ela.«tii«. Arm
Bands, Cuff Buttons, Scarf
Pin-,
Fancy Suspenders and Neckwear
Fino colors in T o q u e s and Tain o'
Shantora in all tbo leading grades,
also a flop line of W a y ' s Muillntn
and Mufllors in fino colors.
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t CHRISTMAS
i ANNOUNCEMENT.
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Come in and deposit a dollar
and get a home savings bank.
Our
L A S T G R A N D C U T P R I C E S A L E for this season fs
now on.
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Send for onr special cut price list.
See "Special Sale" ad on page 3 of regular edition
paper.
of t h i s
3
an example of modern Gothic, so generally used in England
at the present time, though not so elaborate of course.
materials
iiiiiimiiHniim>iuiiiiminim
used ore brick with
"Frear
crowned with an ornate stone cross.
The
CENTRAL HOUSE.
stono" mouldings,
T h e external dimen
sions of the .whole edifice, church,
vestibule
and
E.
vestry,
S. G R A Y ,
THE -
Prop.
which are all on ono floor ore 50 x 110 feot, 14 foot story, ex
clusive of projection of tower and vestry.
Tho internal di
mensions of tba audience room are 48 x 70 and 2CJ feet high. STEAfl HEAT, ELECTRIC BELLS.
finished
LIVERY, BOARD
I t is lighted by nino oval-topped stained gloss win ING AND EXCHANGE STABLE CONNECTED.
dows, the artistic design o f which surpasses anything of its
kind in this section of tho state.
,
'*ax+.
LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE.
Tho mottoes and emblem*
•'
• '
".i4w's«yi5Mg,.
on the windows are: L EL S., Cross and Crown, Anchor and
lily.
T h e largest window is in the east, facing tbo chancel,
semicircular, o f variegated colors and much beauty.
are also four triangular windows in the roof.
HEAT HARKET.
There
"Tho church
Everyone looking for the best meats in the,
market will find at my place m the Barker j
Block a full line every day in the week.
j
contains seventy-two semi-circular slips which will convenient
"B-eftAs;,
ly accommodate 432 persons.
T h e platform is about 2 0
inches above the floor and affords the preacher command of
tho entire auditorium.
If you ore in want of
anything in this line give
me a call I can suit you
both as to style and price.
The singers' scats are on the same
ing ample room for tho transopts and chancel.
In the uuuio
diate rear c i th« pulpit is the organ of beautiful
manufactured by Rider of Boston.
Prompt service and fair prices always.
design,
Back of tho platform is
The vestry, which is 30 x 40, can
bo onlarged by opening the ground glass partitions
!
Then it was that Farmington began to
tance as a manufacturing centre.
factories, and goods made
easily
Orders
feel her impor
poured
hero, because
between
Coal & W o o d
Tho dimensions of the vestibule are 0 x 87, tower 14 x 14,
into our
of the superior
and vestry on trances 8 x 12, which provides three ample and
H. B. Edgerly, J. M. Berry, and a number
of smaller firms
their fullest capacity.
Good
First Prize, $ 1 0 . 0 0 in Cold
Second,
$ 5 . 0 0 in Cold
Third,
$ 2 . 5 0 in Gold
wages
I am prepared to fill all orders In a prompt and satisfactory were paid and the town enjoyed an era of prosperity never
All kinds of coal and wood constantly on hand
Orders before attained.
on tbo south of the vestry is finished with requisite accommo manner
can be left at D E. Edgerly s store or put on the slate at my
This period of good times continued until the financial
dations for social entertainments, having a buffet and a dumb home on Glen street.
panic of 1893 and then we, in common with overy village
waiter from the kitchen and serving room below. The height
convenient spaces for ingress and egress.
Tho ladies' parlor
C . E. H o m e .
of tho tower to tho clock dial is 70 feet and this dial, set in
You will find firstclass Cakes, Pies,
White and Brown
Bread,
and every
Saturday the Farmington famous Baked
Beans
W e carry a large
line of Kennedy's
Celebrated
Goods
at the
CHEAP
throughout the country,
suffered
no way re-
Within a comparatively short space of lime the
WE OFFER THE FOLLOWING SUG
GESTIVE LIST OF SUITABLE GIFTS.
firms of G. A Jones, L Hayes & Sons, A. Nute & Sons and
Cloutnion & Bingham (J. M. Berry
LIGHT
s u p t ) closed up their
Suits,
Overcoats,
Rain Coats,
Smoking Jackets,
Umbrellas,
Dress Suit Cases,
Beautiful Neckwear,
Handsome Mufflers.
Full Dress Protectors.
Gloves of Every Kind.
Fancy Half Hose.
Suspenders. Armbands. Fancy Shirts,
Sweaters.
Underwear,
Cuff Buttons, Scarf Pins.
Handkerchiefs.
Slippers.
Gaiters.
Leggins,
Overshoes.
And All Other Articles too Numerous to
Mention.
business, and they were followed sometime later by the
The Victoria Acetylene Co manufacturers of the safes!,
Wallace, Elliott & Co's. dissolution of partnership.
cheapest and best light known. The purchaser Is entitled to 30
Adversity laid her heavy hand upon our village, and for
days' trial
The company guarantees
1. That the' machine
a time it looked as though(we were doomed to be relegated to
shal be built in a first class manner
That the machine shall
run automatically and without interruptions If the printed directions the rear as a manufacturing centre, and dropped from the
which accompany each machine are followed 3 That the list of hvo growing towns. After the closing of these fac
machine witn a one half foot per hour burner, will produce a 24
tories canio the fire that destroyed Drew's underwear mill,
candle power light
4 That the machine Is permitted by the
ami we were reduced to the Edgerly factory and J. F. Clout
National Board of Fire Underwriters,
r'jr furrier particulars cail
at my store on Mechan.c street and see one o' the maenmes at man A: Co. as the only reliable and steady manufacturing
work
The Central House is lighted by one ol these machines
1
HOME BAKERY.
C.
GEO;-1% RUS5ELL.
E. YORK, AGENT.
W E WILL I
R. STATION. FREIGHT HOUSE A N D ^ ARP
f r e a r s t o n e , is s u r m o u n t e d l>_\ a s t e e p l e
w h i c h h a n g s a fine t o n e d bell
building committee
SELL - =
were
fifty
weighing
Hiram
feet
2 U 7 1
Barker,
h i g h e r , in
Alonzo
energy
with
wl.n h
g
|1
I
£
j
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1
n
I
O m n i b u s t o Every Train.
acceptable presents to any memjS ber of the family
Remember we can save you
money.
J
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•
g
First Class Turnouts Furnished on Short Notice.
T h e b u i l d i n g of t h i s c h u r c h will
perhaps
gixr
the
s i d o r e s i d e n t a b e t t e r idea of t h e s e l f - r e l i a n c e , t h e c n e r e ; \
c o u r a g e of o u r i n h a h i t a u t a t h a n any e>etit
tlmt
the
" f
VJWD'N
history
It wus a t u n d e r t a k i n g
Im*
nmrkeil
mean
u u
mit
mul
pro
p o r t ' o u s had t h e r e b e e n a full t r e a s u r y , but at the t i m e n f
thr
fire t h e s o c i e t y was s t r u g g l i n g t o pay t h e d« bt on tinwhich t h e \
li
erei
t e d oiil\ n \ e
% ears
jir«\inii-i
acity of p u r p o s e , s u c h c o u r a g e a u d euergv
wen
ceed
n*
and
it is t h e s e ipiulltle* in <>ui
i lti/i
tin
IMHIIUI t . -u.
— I )r.ilct
that I n n
nut'li
o f brick, k n o w n HM the \ \ iKmi H " i i - e
t w o i m m e n s e brick factories
I Small & Go. I
ufrw-titriii^r for W a l l a c e
\ ears pre* !•
' formal historv
nit
U•
up t..
while
s
o f t h e Fartiiingtoii
Elliott A ('••.
thiM
tin
Coal, W o o d . Brick. Lime, C e m e n t , Doors,
W i n d o w s , Blinds, S h i n g l e s , C l a p b o a r d s and
all k i n d s of b u i l d i n g materials.
Whitehouse d u n
l
t
ciuml
e r e c t e d a mill in w h u h
s h i n g l e s and
i
-.uel
laplioai'li
proper
nearly
h t
pla< «
HIKIlil'I
a mile
tnwii
maiiiifui t tired
itiul • oinbii ted
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r
JOHN
wi>
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M U H
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tin- )«rt-\
t o look
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ii p e - s n n i s t n
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|.ro-|M(t
r
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tlmt
depi
e->Hi.
-ittle
on
int..
tin
>n
who
the citizous
ut-ratiou,
ion*
up ninI
were
uu lnieil
i i t i / m
tlie t o w n
for
\ en
i 1 <Mill
II.IM
pronptM
ts
o f the
OIII
wlioli
Milage,
l>ri},'lit
t o
:i
Willson block,
Farmington, N. H .
there
llllil
to
m;i\
apjieared
ILL,
.| I .
l.o
luisi
oiiceutrut
I in
e
tad
in o l d
Mutual
('ompuiiies if d e s i r e d
prestige
it
i
Also insurance furnished
relml'le iliMiIeud p a \ i u g
« a s no
tliut ultimately.
.f i . - a l i t \ ,
«i'if
Fire, Life, Accident, Employers Liability, Plate
Glass, Burglary, Bonds for places of trust, and
Boiler Insurance, effected in reliable Companies
at reasonable rates.
mi.I
molt
poorest anil the
seemed
of hope
until
«<•
itn lost
lining
Ml\e!
i..iintr_\
that
npiin
looked the
u I n \
Min-lnm
t o
felt
AMl.NriON
i
promoters
whom
'imsel with, were no
oiii
i
f o r win n
WII.M>N
i i t c r p r n e s hail o n e \>\ o n e p a s s e d nwii)
..f
11—t.>m<
tie—>
WHEELWRIGHT,
1
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coal
Mil-ion^
\ ll K P R E S I D E N T
ptiHseil,
t i m e liml
lirin-i
1I..I.I.
D . OTIS,
BLACKSMITH
< • . >i_i I
m l mh i
tutton
than
VCK O F
in.iii\
•> i - i
w . n
H"ii
Try O t t o C o k e ; it is cheaper
and is g i v i n g good s a t i s f a c t i o n .
h n < "
o f N i w \ . .t k
• >utla^riitn >n
m M e a i l u f a brief ik« t i h u f tin
h a v e b e e n m e n t i o n e d in its
OFFICE.
• >f t i n -
O n t h e site o f t h e old hotel was r r e i t i . l H i n >. U r n
date hosteln
Crawford, Tolles & Co. -
in —
the \ illagr what i t is toila^
w e r e e r e c t e d \>y H o n . J o h n F Cloiitnian, w h o w i i - tin n " i tt
g
F. E. M O O N E Y .
editn-i
had
Stable.
tin effort
.vas a c c o m p l i s h e d
You all the groceries and good
things you will need for ChristM mas at a price that Is sure to
please, if you will call at our
store. W e have a full line of
all kinds, also a nice assortment
of nuts and Christmas Candy.
Many articles can be found
here that will make useful and
.THIS CONTEST
closes Dec. 25
At 9 A. M.
and
J o s i a h B E d g e r l j , a n d to t h e s e t h r e e g e n t l e m e n m m h rredit
is d u e for eare, c a p a c i t y r.ml
i
43 North /Tain Street, Rochester,
Boarding, Hack, Livery and Sale
The
Nutu
V
«r
( O U T F I T T E R S F R O M H E A D T O FOOT.)
I. A. HORNE. Prop.
{HIMIHU
Third Prize,
$2.50 in Gold
LOTHROPS FARNHAM & CO.,
HORNE'S TRANSFER LINE
R
Second Prize,
$5.00 in Gold.
All votes must be presented at' our store
not later than 9 A. M.. December 2 5 .
Come to our store to purchase your Christ
mas presents.
from cause* beyond our
control and for \\ hich our townspeople were in
| sponsible.
First Prize,,
$10.00 in Gold
The three persons getting the mtost votes
will receive the following cash prizes:
Nute & Sous, J. F. Cloutman, G. A. Jones, L Hayes & Son,
were manufacturing to
PRIZES
With every 25c Cash Purchase we
present our customers with a coupon
which entitles them to one vote in
the grand contest.
workmanship and stock used, becomo greatly in demand. A .
that and tho ladies* parlor, has a* seating capacity of 240.
•At Russell's
H M BAKERY
OE
FREE B A P T I S T C H U R C H .
'
J A N E S R. K E L L E V .
tho vestry and ladies* parlor, divided from tho audience room
by a brick wall.
fit
Also Fish, Oysters, Clams and Veg-|
etables.
j
lovel, in tile rear of the pulpit, to tho right and the left, giv
T&TS.
GROCERS.
3:
^ 3 :
trusses.
One of the most attrac
tive displays of up-to-date
irrfllirierycaii.be found at
my parlors in the Hanson
Block.
Hats in all shapes and
colors, with trimmings to
snatch.
s5i Vara,* V v
wo
•3
ROCHESTER, N , H.
The roof is open and is supported by handsomely
Regular office days in Farmington,
EVERY T U E S D A Y .
Other da\s,
upon
r e i eipt of culls lty
evpeuse
mail, telegraph
or t e l e p h o n e at
our
ADDRESS,
CAWFORD, TOLLES & C O . , Somersworth, N. H.
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Farmington News, "Farmington Illustrated," Four Page Article & Photos 1903
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December 11, 1903 article from the Farmington News, titled "Farmington Illustrated." It is a four page article written by Ned L. Parker.
The article includes photos of many Farmington buildings, but does not credit the photographer in the article. They my have been taken by the staff photographer at the Farmington News or provided by local residents.
The article contains a written history, from the 1790's to the early twentieth century. Details are provided about many notable figures in Farmington history, Other important subjects covered are government, business in Farmington, manufacturing, the Town block system, churches, schools, and the Opera House, which contained the town hall and library.
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Farmington News, Ned L. Parker
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Farmington News, Ned L. Parker
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Farmington News
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1790's - early 20th Century
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1903
articles
buildings
business
church
factory
Farmington
Farmington News
history
library
Old Town Hall
Opera House
people
photograph
photos
schools
streets
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Farmington Opera House Color Souvenir Postcard
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A Farmington NH Opera House colorized souvenir postcard. The view is of the front and left and side of the building looking down Main Street at an angle. The three story building with an internal mezzanine or balcony was brick with wooden trim. It featured many double high windows on the front and both sides. It had a simple single story portico with a small roof balustrade. Four chimneys can be seen in the photo. The photo is set sometime in early spring or fall. Mature trees are seen lining Main Street and surrounding buildings can be seen in the background and fences of home across the street in the foreground. Two, small horse drawn carriages can be seen parked in front.
A February 10, 1928 fire effectively burned the Farmington Opera House to the ground. The library and town offices, along with most books, artifacts, and town records, from earlier periods perished in the fire.
This card also has a similar miniature version, which is different from the original focused more on the Opera House set in spring or summer.
Size 3.5" x 5.5"
Miniature Size: 2"x3.5"
FHS-Kyle Leach
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Circa 1906
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W.L Peavey
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W.L Peavey
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Circa 1906
animals
architecture
art
buildings
downtown
drama
library
main street
music
town offices
transportation
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Farmington Opera House Sepia Souvenir Postcard
Description
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A Farmington NH Opera House sepia souvenir postcard. The view is of the front and left side of the building from Main Street. The three story building with an internal mezzanine or balcony was brick with wooden trim. It featured many double high windows on the front and both sides. It had a simple single story portico with a small roof balustrade. Four chimneys can be sen in the photo. The photo is set sometime in winter as snow is on the ground. Trees and surrounding building can be seen in the background. A February 10, 1928 fire effectively burned the Farmington Opera House to the ground. The library and town offices, along with most books, artifacts, and town records, from earlier periods perished in the fire.
Size 3.5" x 5.5"
FHS-Kyle Leach
Date
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Circa 1906
Creator
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Fletcher & Co. Vermont
For Baker & Jones Farmington ,NH
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Fletcher & Co. Vermont
For Baker & Jones Farmington ,NH
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Circa 1906
architecture
arts
buildings
communication
drama
entertainment
library
music
Opera House
photo
photography
postacrd
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Goodwin Library Hand Colored Souvenir Postcard
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A hand colored souvenir postcard Farmington, NH with face featuring The Goodwin Library looking at the building's front, side profile from North Main Street. This two story Neo Classical, brick building is as it was originally built and does not have the back addition that would come later in the twentieth century. The Barker Block extension has not been built, so the north side of the library building does not touch the southern portion of the Barker Block building to the north. The windows in that north side are still in full view in this photo. The Pyhthian Block still stands behind the library building and the side of that building can be seen to the west side, behind library. Divided back postcard.
Size 3.5" x 5.5"
FHS-Kyle Leach
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The Roberts Store
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The Roberts Store
architecture
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Barker Block
buildings
car
Goodwin
Goodwin Library
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library
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postcard
Pythian Block
souvenir
vehicle
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Puddledock Press Article 1986 Man & Woman of the Year John Nolan and Phyllis Kuligowski
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A Puddledock Press article from September of 1986 featuring the Man & Woman of the Year, John Nolan and Phyllis Kuligowski. <br /><br />The text of the article reads: <br /><br /><p><em>The First Annual Puddledock Press Man & Woman of the Year contest was certainly a great success. With the choices, you, the voters, have made, we have two well -deserving public worthies reigning for this</em><br /><em> year. Man of the Year, John Nolan, is well known within the commun-ity for his work with our youngsters. His dedication has given kids innovative programs suited for healthy development, which is vital in the growth into productive and responsible adults. Also, John's work in the community as a whole has shown the system of civic input as one way of concerned residents making a difference in the change or improvement of their town.</em></p>
<p><em>Woman of the Year, Phyllis Kuligowski, is also active in community affairs. After twenty-one years of service to the Goodwin Library , Phyllis is retiring. She has been instrumental in the growth and up-</em><br /><em> dating of our Public Library and has instituted such programs as the Children's Reading Hour and the annual Art Exhibition. Phyllis is currently holding an office in the New Durham and Farmington Histori-</em><br /><em> cal Society along with Deaconess of the Congregational Church in town As a co-worker states, "Phyllis is involved in many organizations,but</em><br /><em> does not advertise her civic commitments," She is dedicated and me-ticulous in every endeavor she may fortake, yet, she prefers to re-main "unsung".</em></p>
<p><em>We The Puddledock Staff, would like to congratulate John and Phyllis and thank YOU, the public, for participating!</em></p>
<br /><br />These photos are stored together. They are from different periods of time. Last pulled together for possible use in September 1986. <br /><br />FHS-Kyle Leach
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Puddledock Press
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Puddledock Press
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1986
art
awards
community
Farmington Historical Society
library
people
public service
Puddledock
recreation
youth
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T H E F A M W G T O N NEWS
F A R M I N G T O N , N . H., FRIDAY,
Vol.-.XLTIII
IN MEilORLAM
William L. Berry
Ri^YON & W O O L
William
Lionel
Borry,
one
of
F a r m l n g t o n ' 8 most
BODB,
HOSIERY
honored
the
farmington
21
years,
and
clerk a t
N a t i o n a l b a n k tor
IE. YOU "NEED.-A'PAIR OR TWO OF
IADIES'/: EATOH -USD WOOL EOSE,
•DO -NOT MISS'THIS, OTJE EEGHJIAE 98o
' U H B OF ALL GOOD COLOES. SPECIAL
and
Mrs. Albert
Main s t r e e t
O t i s on
North
last S a t u r d a y a f t e r n o o n .
T h e e n d f o l l o w e d an
Illness
of
six
Another
occur o n
of
53
night
years,
loss I n
fire,
the
second
F e b r u a r y 10, a f t e r a
and
inflicting
gToss damage,
to
lapse
similar
ravaged
the
the 5 3 r d a n n i v e r s a r y
ton's v e r y worst
ary
r
10.
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of
fire,
Febru
w h e n fire broke o u t In
the o l d Elintt H o u s e
that
occupied
ing a n d left
and
Fer
last
cmplary
g r i m a n d spectral
Main
Mr
74th year.
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in its
only
the
w a l l s of o u r
path
once
s w e p t all In its p a t h to t h e
n a l d bli»ck on the C o r n e r
of
"Also a. good number
spite of w h a t s e e m e d to b o a v e r y b a d
beautiful
cold, M r . B e r r y r e m a i n e d at h i s d e s k
Main
*
%
until the
lic l i b r a r y , w h i c h f o r m a n y y e a r s h a s
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been o n e of the
the
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he w a s f o r c e d to go
building,
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to
ac
of
Mr
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a crisis a n d
his b r o t h e r ,
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arriving
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still a b l e
was
Thursday
of.
afflicted m a n
to r e a l i z e
and
was
appreciate
the c o m f o r t the b r o t h e r w a s a b l e
bring
with
his
ceased
was
bom
presence.
in
D e c e m b e r 3, 1854,
est son o f
Perkins' Stores
Farmington, N. H.
to
on
and
Borry
The
de
Farmington
on
w a s the
William L.
(Colbath)
to
and
He
eld
Callsta
received
his
early e d u c a t i o n in t h e p u b l i c s c h o o l s
of F a r m i n g t o n a n d
New
North Berwick, Me.
from w h i c h
attended
Institute,
he w a s g r a d u a t e d
honors In A p r i l .
ly. be
later
Literary
Hampshire
1875
attended
with
Subsequent
B r y a n t & Stratton
Business c o l l e g e In B o s t o n a n d It
assumed w a s g r a d u a t e d from t h e
partment
education,
accountancy
do
which
while
attending
O n completing
Mr Berry
his
returned
to
F a r m i n g t o n , w h e r e f o r a n u m b e r of
years h e
w a s b o o k k e e p e r for b i s u n
John
cle,
N
Berry, a shoe m a n u f a c
Btreet.
fire a n d
b u i l d i n g on
The F a r m i n g t o n
occupants
of
s w e l l e d t b o loss w h i c h Is e s
$100,000
p a r t i a l l y covered
This
by
insurance,
undoubtedly, w i l l
which,
contribute
to p l a n s f o r rcbuihjtlBg
contlrfgent
upon
town m e e t i n g
lumination
the
which
action
on M a r c h
by t b o
toilets, a n d
ore
of
13.
the
A n Il
In the r e a r of the
ing, o c c u p i e d
from
pub
w a s a co-sufferer from
t i m a t e d [to b e o v e r
was
North
build
kitchen
dense
smoke
and
Issuing
w i n d o w s ' a n d a r o u n d the
roof
was d i s c o v e r e d a b o u t f o u r o'clock
In
the m o r n i n g by F r e d D a v i s , w h o r a n
to p u l l
in an alarm
Frank
Dame,
n l g h t w a t c b m a n at t h o P a u l J
ard
Rich
f a c t o r y , also d i s c o v e r e d the
from Its reflection
in t h e
opened t h e
whistle.
steam
fire
sky
and
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had
g a i n e d s u c h h e a d w a y t h a t the
ing a p p e a r e d to be d o o m e d
build
and
a
were
soon
playing
on
the
burning
s t r u c t u r e a n d w o r e j u s t a b l e to
the
fire
keep
w i t h i n b o u n d s of the
ing, a n d I t w a s most
build
fortunate
that
nearby f r a m e buildings were covered
last n a m e d
for
A.
of
Nute &
Sons
business of
Arm, M r
the a c c o u n t a n t
for
Berry
this
became
Haskell and
Ad
with s u o w
By the t i m e
the
fallen a n d the d a n g e r f r o m the b l a z e / ]
communicating
was
less
ened b y t h e fire lyelng"confined
homo
and
that
and
position
from
city
his
Twenty-one
years a g o his c a p a b l e services
secured a s
clerk a t
tho
were
Farmington
N a t i o n a l b a n k a n d d u r i n g that
time
aside f r o m brief a n n u a l v a c a t i o n s ,
he
elsewhere
in the s t u r d y
bjftck
walls,
spite
falling
teracting
water
tlmbors a n d
Influence o f
of
tho
of
the
It
was
institution
control,
quested
only
the
to s t a n d
did,
case
of
ness a n d keen J u d g m e n t as a
gency
clor t h a t M r B e r r y
trustee o f tho
was
what
Inter
flnan
elected
Farmington
bank In D e c e m b e r , 1 9 1 1 ,
Savings
and
was m a d e a
i
some
In
The
blaze
for
building, so
that
the
cluding that
banK.
Those
offices,
general
friends,
was
of
a man
of
bank
most
Berry s e r v e d
Socially, except
Lodge, I
together
duties
with s p e c i a l
faith
for
upright
tioncd
homo on
opera house was one
of
p u b l i c b u i l d i n g s in thlH
the s t a t e .
The
the
finest
st-cilon
of
It w a s of two-story b r i c k
c o n s t r u c t i o n , w i t h b a s e m i nt a n d b a l
con>
total
I t w a s erected In 1881
cost
clud.-d
of
$ 2 1 , 3 5 5 76
p u r c h a s e of
equipment
which
the
Several
at
lot
tall* of
thousand
improvement
b u i l d i n g committee
Alonzo
In
und
all
dol
lurti s i n c e h a v e b e e n expended
the
a
with
insiulla
other
d*
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w a s composed of
Nute
Cloutman
Library
have b e e n removed
to
the
rooms
J
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in
Woodbine
loses a citizen o f
character
brother
men
cousins
North Main
a t 1 30.
the
Surviving
Funer
street
with
Berry
Tuesday
Rev
W
R
were
the
located
selectmen's
proved
their
contents Intact
the
did
of
loss
of
rear
of
faithfully
preserving
Tho
their
library
housed
were
apparutuH
which
was
of the
In the east e n d
base
ment . w a s b a d l y d a m a g e d
ceived
the
b r u o t of
the
having re
fire,
to roof
end
as
the
any
other
part of
mostly
T h e cause of
fire is
The
unknown
was
occupied
ing
with
the
high
against E x e t e r
Janitor
school
and temporar>
service w i l l be jjlven us soon an pott
smelled s m o k e
thorough
sioit
search
of
H e received b i s
education
could find n o trace of
Headmaster
premises
GRAY
W h e n a very y o u n g
drawn
sibilities
nhoe
Industry
of
Mr
followed
peudmlly
those
always
his Identity
tions of
Shoe
circles
laMt D e c e m b e r
F
Leavltt
enterprise
Cloutman
M a i n street
and
to
he
ecutlves,
tUI
with
moiul
Mr
of
the
Leavltt
bis
plant
took
of
local
Identified
himself
fneud
the
de
progress
In
and
with
Everett S
fire
Mr
Pike
ter he h a d g o n e h o m e
hut his
Investigation
af
the same
sults
who
Mr
met w i t h
Pike a n d
b a d oversight
the
of
system, a r e confident
final
re
heating
started
from
Tills is t h e
that
worst
source
fire
mg
his
Gray
project p l a n
ized an
In
that
has
unpopulated
al
and
was
affiliations
Lodge
A
( hapter
ley
F
R
Mr
Haverhill
His Ma
M
M ,
of
WE
ARE STILL SERVING THE
Perfection
tbe Mystic S h r i n e of
try
< lub
ed at the N e w Furniture Show
and are worthy your inspection.
PUBLIC THE BEST THERE IS
December
23
none.
this locality
IN FOOD AND PLENTY OF IT
GIVE US A TRIAL AND
Forrest
w i t h one
villc
ltt
brother
Ave half b r o t h e r s
t llfton
Ralph and M a r k
a n d a half sister
The
H. W
Pray
will i m m e d i a t e l y r e s t o c k
him
from t h
h<>me M o n d a y a f t e r n o o n
YOUNG OR OLD CAN FEEL
famil>
two
funeral
n cluck
was
Interment
was
loss F a r m i n g -
Cloutman factory
It
is
t h a t the o p e r a I
d. J. CURTIN, Prop.
Phone 8074-4
bouse s h o u l d b a v o b u r n e d on e x a c t l y
with t h e
highest
g r a d e s of
fashion
gives m u c h s a t i s f a c t i o n
friends a n d
It
t o the m a n y
a c q u a i n t a n c e s of D.
N
his s u p e r v i s i o n of t h e s t o c k and
floor
m a n a g e m e n t , and h e a n n o u n c e s
that
this n e w firm Is e x e r t i n g every e f f o r t
to b r i n g t o t h e w i d e c i r c l e of p a t r o n
age that t b o W o n t w o r t h store e n j o y s
a new a n d u n h e a r d o f s t a n d a r d
that
progress o f
the b i g
England
recognize
Sanborn - McDuffee Co.
R O C H E S T E R , N. H .
Rochester
business
store u n d e r t b o
Mr
centers
Thoso w h o
the
Wentwortb
their c o n f i d e n c e
of
may
the
of
safely
tho
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choosy about bread thus adding to !i e n ; o \ , M i - and food
value of each meal
at
the
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of
repose
new
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some materials in speckJess. suniit kitch. • Bir < r, • is
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texture and fine white appearance Y>;: » ; ' like t c w n \ it
shoes, keeps and toasts Its digesti!' 'i;\ food v^lue and
health qualities will prove themselves
W e repea' ^sk >our
grocer for
k
lot at N o r t h P a r i s h c e m e t e r y
The
whist p a r t y
Franconla
Notch
In
last
aid
of
campaign
the home of M r a n d
Thayer
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held
Mrs
at
Prod
Thursday evening
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wns
occasions
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Mrs
In
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and tbe reputa
hospitality
Thayer
and
of
devotees
mah
Jong
Seventen
M r and
of
whist
responded
tables
In p l a y i n g t h e
In
rivalry
games
throughout
In
were
progress and a good natured
the
wo*
evening
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satisfied
(teurge
prize
to
booby prices
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and
George
prizes for whist
SPRING SUITINGS
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gentleman s
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Mrs
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son a n d E a r l e T u t t l e
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RUN FACTORIES
PROVIDE EMPLOYMENT
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boobies
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Arthur Hayes and Clarence Clough
first
prize for mah Jong
Rogers
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booby
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Mrs
Ruby
refreshments
were
C
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Barrett
provided
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celpts f r o m the p a r t y
$35
w e r e voted
by
amounting
the
conta N o t c h c o m m i t t e e
Ington P u b l i c
whose I ORB
to
Fran-
to t h o
Library
from the
local
Farm
association
fire
wan
only
partly covered by I n s u r a n c e
Put Your Money to Work!
4- P c. per A n m
nu
Compounded and Credited
EVERY T H R E E M O N T H S
In Our National Savings Dept.
CATHOLIC CHURCH NOTES
to
this
merchandise
of
Why Not Be Particular?
New
administration
in
fact,
h a v e come
reliability
and b u s i n e s s courtesy
firm.
a n d . In
the
You Eat Bread
appeal for s a v i n g the v e r d a n t b e a u t y
store
able- m e r c h a n d l s o i n l a d l e s ' w e a r
In
WHIST PARTY
FOR FRANC0NIA NOTCH FUND
la r e m o t e .
mer
Company
held
AT HOME HERE.
they
the
Leav
Mrs Lena Page
HUI v i v t s
F
to
E
Colby Or-
SATISFY YOURSELF
Wont-
Is second
1893
who
Leavltt
the
will In e v e r y w a y k e e p s t e p w i t h
CASH or TERMS
tbe Peu
MacCallum
manifested
In
all of
Boston
I O O F
Ou
of skill
chant
\ al
Haverhill
he m a r r i e d C a t h e r i n e J
their s u c c e s s
as a
1000 TIMES A YEAR
Pentucket
Merrimack
also A l l e p p o T e m p l e . O r
that h a s c h a r a c t e r i z e d
w h o s e reputation
degree
( ommandery Knights Templar
numbers
worth,
w ere
32nd
tucket ( luh and the H a v e r h i l l C o u o
with
short,
Leavltt
His fratern
a
and A
H u w r h t i l Lodge
guaranteed
to Mr
this
Included S a g g a h e w
A
L o d g e of
der
Cheney t o l e a r n t h a t h o w i l l c o n t i n u e
These are the new suites select
of
connections
He
same s p i r i t of p r o g r e s s i v e e n t e r p r i s e
R E E D SUITES
DINING SUITES
B E D R O O M SUITES
O V E R S T U F F E D SUITES
material
Mamin a n d an O d d F e l l o w
and D e r r y ,
In
In
a trust in w h i c h he
social
uumerous
bridge
aro w o r t h y successors
close
tbe
tract
took a v e r i t a b l e p r i d e
tlon of the
In o t h e r q u a r t e r s .
Rochester, N. H.
a m e m b e r of the b o a r d of dlrec
sonic
Identified
that t h e y w i l l b r i n g t o Rochester
Lothrops-Farnham Co., Inc.
v i l l a g e into a r e s i d e n t i a l s e c t i o n now
having
ton h a s s u f f e r e d since t h p d e s t r u c t i o n
F
Save the Green Stamps and Get 'S & H'
Premiums FREE.
they were per
of t h o
fire
FOR PAYING CASH
vestment a n d p r o m o t i o n of t b e b u i l d
L o a n association
selectmen,
(he
I
THESE STAMPS ARE YOUR DISCOUNT
pride and a
Interest
velopment
ONE WITH 10 CENTS TWO WITH 20 CENTS
10 WITH $1 00
new
Farmington
much
PURCHASE.
products,
s i n c e t b e re
to
of t b e f a m o u s N o t c h
la
of
ablli
several
whole-hearted
tho c o m m e r c e of N o w b u r y p o r t . M a s s .
J
much
perefct
ion f o o t w e a r p e r f e c t i o n
years, h a v e
MODERN FURNITURE
business
have reached the a c m e of fash
Patten, b r o t h e r s w h o . I n a f e w s h o r t
It
health*!)
he a d m l n l s t ^ e d ^ t b e - f l T I a n
a long time
and
on
he w a s c h a r a c
delegated
management
"S & H" GREEN DISCOtnfr STAMPS FREE WITH EVERY
occupied
factory
a t t e n t i v e to his
though
and
Farm-
the p r o d u c t i o n d e t a i l s to t r a i n e d ex.
city
their c a p a c i t y for b i g business
trans
I M i l ill
forced his r e t i r e m e n t
tenstically
'The E a t s
Y o u r Needs F o X
Now and For Next Winter! *
Four years ago
Mr
w h e r e be has since
South
5
QAVF MMJPV By Buying
OH I t , I V I U n L I
of
high - principled
masterful man
block o n M a i n s t r e e t
prominently
trade,
Manufacturers
grained,
ami
tbe John
Where You Get
This Tremendous Stock Must Be Sold TVpw!
his Influence w a s t h a t of a
mgton
Nox-AII DINER
W e Must Sacrifice?
Massa-
the Bhoe a n d l e a t h e r
Haverhill
one of t b e most e n j o y a b l e
L . and J
had
with organiza
of
firm consists of W
lnde-
have
A s w e l l as b e i n g a m a n u f a c
manufacturing
MAINTAINS A S U I T E OF
THREE OFFICES WT^CH CON
TAIN MODERN ANL VJTECT!VE INSTRUMENTS FOE EX
AMINATION OF THE EYES.
A COMFORTABLE VISION IS
AN IMPORTANT A S S E T IT
INCREASES EFFICIENCY AND
EARNING POWER.
The Old Weather Man Fooled Us.
Cold Weather Arrived Too Late.
was
though
in c o m m o n In the w a y o f af
(airs
1 "3 and I
days
In b u s i n e s s
they
d e p a r t m e n t store l o c a t e d In the S n o w
The
busi
flourish
by bis brother a n d
the t w o e n g a g e d
At
pos
Leavltt
ncse I n t e r e s t s of t h e L . R . W o n t w o r t h
that
was
Its
w l ' h tbe
afterward,
shortly
much
be
by
for I n d u l g i n g In b i g
ness a n d affiliated
ing
man
to M a s s a c h u s e t t s
ferred his business o r g a n i z a t i o n
OPTOMETRIST
and
OPTICIAN
Rochester, N. H
a
at
even r e t u r n e d to the o p e r a house
a s t r a n g e coincidence
in
In
the p u b l i c schools o f his n a t i v e state
that city
F. 5.
(Rubber Footwear Excepted
In
18G6.
straight
even
and m a d e
the
of c o m m e r c e the H . W
bust
born
24.
iiAHociatlou a n d b a n k i n g
I n t e r v a l s o f one-half h o u r a p a r t , b u t
of the J
Pray & C o . .
was
November
the son o f C B r y a n t a n d M a r y L e a v
ltt
ihr
basketball
E l m e r Pike a n d
Banister
tbc
house
previous
trict of t h e N o r t h C o u n t r y , h a s t h o
li
ptjlvil e g e o f w e l c o m i n g to Its c i r c l e
big
opera
fectly c a r e d for a n d in A l c o n d i t i o n '
dts-
Me.
(tiusetis
been ••taken
F o l l o w i n g the g a m e ,
So tho p o s s i b i l i t y
which h a s p u r c h a s e d t h e
the
from
smoke a n d w a t e r
patronising
Fairfield,
e v e r y q u a r t e r of
He
vage has
and s w e p t
T h e lobby e s c a p e d w i t h less
than
b u i l d i n g a n d suffered
R o c h e s t e r a n d its
almost
continent
reputa
footwear
tors of tbe F a r m i n g t o n B u i l d i n g a n d
damage
ROCHESTER'S N E W MERCHANT
the
Leavltt
salvaged
very l i t t l e of which
The h e a t i n g
wore
Berry
has touched
B
was
Lodge.
S.
George
k n o w n as G r a y a v e n u e
destructible
Woodbine
Fred
of
contents,
Its m o r o
blaze s t a r t e d In that
In g r a t e f u l a c k n o w l e d g m e n t
for
the t h o u g h t f u l k i n d n e s s of n e i g h b o r s
and f r i e n d s d u r i n g t h e illness of m y
brother, a n d for t h e t e s t i m o n i e s of
love a n d c o m f o r t i n g expressions o f
s y m p a t h y that h a v e reached m e i n
this h o u r o f a f f l i c t i o n , I wish to In
elude in m y h e a r t f e l t t h a n k s t h e of
ficers
and
members
of W o o d b i n e
Lodge. I O O F . a s s o c i a t e officials
of tho F a r m i n g t o n S a v i n g s a n d N a
tlonal b a n k s a n d
all
others
who
have m a n i f e s t e d I n t e r e s t In a n y w a y
I also w i s h to t h a n k a l l w h o c o n t r l b
uted t h o b e a u t i f u l
flowers
In
evi
dence a t t h o f u n e r a l a n d those w h o
furnished c a r s for c o n v e y a n c e .
N e w H a m p s h i r e and the
tlon
field
Massachusetts
turer of much I m p o r t a n c e to
that p a r t of the b u i l d i n g from c e l l a r
CARD of THANKS
his chosen
in
tained a m u c h h e a v i e r loss by r e a s o n
from
cemetory
Leavltt
of
Tho b e a r e r s w e r e
taken to F a r m i n g t o n
and
both
several
Mr
R o b e r t s b l o c k w h e r e some of t h e sal
sus
H a m l i n o f the C o n g r e g a t i o n a l c h u r c h
Remains
success I n
Industry,
lines
both
room,
trust,
of
in
officiating
|
course
All Winter Overcoats, Suits,
Trousers, Underwear, Headwear, Hosiery and Footwear
him
inherited
projected
men,
h a v e taken on
able p a p e r s a n d r o c o r d s of the t o w n ,
which
al w a s h e l d from t h e a n c e s t r a l
Rochester, N. H.
due
from a f a m i l y that
I ndoubtedly
total
deceased
reserve
a n d several
oftornoon
Farmington, N. H.
In
ambition
which
s t o e l v a u l t c o n t a i n i n g tbo v a l u
safe,
the
relatives Includo t h e
wore r e n d e r e d a l m o s t a
The
aB w e l l a s the t o w n
O O F . l o s e s one of its o l d
the c o m m u n i t y
most
BELINSKY'S
adjusted
for r e b u i l d i n g
undertaken
Inspired by a n
ty
hall
intimacy
est a n d m o s t valuable* m e m b e r s , a n d
BARGAIN
STORE
be
been
has
shock o f g r i e f to a l l w h o k n e w
the
the s e l e c t m e n s room a n d the l i b r a r y
clork, M r
Special Notice to our customers who have bought the popular
medallion design dishes: W e have secured the odd pieces to
complete sets—platters, nappies, sugar bowls, pitchers, etc.
Be sure not to miss the weekly bargain offerings at
will
fire
and plans
recog
nized p r o m i n e n c e , the e n d b r o u g h t a
achieved
for
It
contents
was
Inti
>i-ars he had been a f i g u r e of
Con
Insurance
emer
of
the
Although
condition
as w e l l as In c o u n t r y
floor
first
home,
Slaw
wide Bhoe circles, w h e r e f o r o v e r 40
p r o m i n e n t shoe
stemmed
of the t o w n
but
afternoon
of
was
forepart
manu
bis
Haverhill
Leavltt's critical
hotel
re
not c o l l a p s e ,
fully
18x28 inch Pillows, guaranteed new feathers, heavy
ticking, nice and soft, just what you need for
comfort . . .
..
. 89o eaoh
the
was
by, which
unlooked
d o w n s t a i r s In the
fire
was
of
"With h i s
Comforters, new," heavy cotton, deep tack, good
selection of patterns, very few left, now $2.75 and up
w e s t of
a f t e r t h o a n n u a l t o w n meeting
cold
member
|^he
Ladies' Full-fashioned Hose, "Pointex," pure silk,
98o pair
Men's Sweaters, V-Neok, Button Sweater Jaokets,
with two pookets
$1.39
Boys' Sheep Lined Coats, high-grade, formerly $5.50,
Reduced to $3 75
week
old
residence
church
recent
thin
a
the s e m i - a n n u a l e x a m i n i n g b o a r d
Specials!!
( hesley
The
premises
Rochester
by r e a s o n of a s o u n d f o c o value, f a i r
THIS W E E K
F
building
the
collapsed,
with n o d a m a g e to o u t s i d e
In v i e w of the fact t h a t
patrons
FOOTWEAR FOR ALL
occu
a dwelling
v
coun
heat and
under
serious-minded Bcrvant
only
the
T h e brick c h i m n e y
was at b i s desk, a r a t i o n a l , c o n s i s t e n t
J. B . H A Y E S
Thurston
alsf w a s destroyed a n d the o l d
Bmall p o r t i o n of <vhich caved I n , d e
and
Watch our windows for first spring showing
of ladles', growing: girls' Fashion Footwear
four-stor>
b y N a t t R o b e r t s und t h e
gregational
with
c o m m u t i n g daily t o
Men's, Boys', Youths' Duck Pacs
2 . 6 9 , 2 . 9 8 3.50
the
Roch
for n i n o y e a r s r e t a i n e d tbc
3.98
w
California
J
th
ester a p p a r a t u s a r r i v e d the roof h a d
aras, w h o l e s a l e g r o c e r s of Dovor, a n d
Women's Goodrich Zippers a n d
Monopul Arctics 3 . 4 9 a n d 3.98
Men's 4 Buckle, All Rubber Arctics
3.98
owned
of
and
thero w a s n o w i n d a n d that r o o f s of
Upon s u s p e n s i o n
Children's and Misses' 4 Buckle Arctics
1.95 and 2.19
pled b y (
hotel,
and
bose
same c a p a c i t y
1 . 4 9 , 2 . 4 9 , 3.98
Kelley G r o c e r y
T h e loss o n C e n t r a l s t r e e t
ter f o r h e l p .
of
street,
Friday
Bboe
at
ti.ate f r i e n d s
J
J a n x a B . Fernuld, John F
lines
Main
leavltt
E
t e l e p h o n e call w a s p u t In to R o c h e s
Seven
succumbed
village
H
the
tlon of n e w h e a t i n g a n d
blaze
In t h i s
George
knov.ii to his f a m i l y a n d m o s t
the w o r k of d e c o r a t i o n
the
June,
C e n t r a l HI reels, n o w occupied by
Even a t
t h i s time
illness
manu
and
p a r a t u s w a s on the s c e n e a b o u t 4 16
turor, a n d s u b s e q u e n t l y served In t h o
A Few Items to Illustrate
Men's 4 Buckle, H e a v y Red Sole
pursued
that I n s t i t u t i o n .
Sale Prices on Special
Lots of Footwear
Continued
Ladles' 4- Buckle Arctics
of
course, h e
is
town
painful
from his
enterprise
last
facturer.
053
its
and
him
notable N e w E n g l a n d
the s i t e of the p r e s e n t W i l s o n H o u s e ,
In
long
facturing
opera h o u s e early l a s t F r i d a y m o r n
Hfo
a
restricted
since
days a n d c o n c l u d e d a - u s o f u l [ f t n d ex.
79c Pair
•-i
After
that
Farming-
that of
No 1
GEORGE B. LEAVITT
FA&MHJGT0N MAKUFACTUEEE
SUCCUMBS AFTER LONG ILLNESS
Farmington Opera House
Burns. Loss Over $100,000
suc
to p n e u m o n i a at the home of
cumbed
Mr
native
F E B R U A R Y 1 7 , 1928
J. P, Hurd
The Men's Shop
R e g u l a r o r d e r of
day
morning church
services
service
Sun
at
ten
o'clock
S u n d a y school at 2 p
t'onfesfllons
nt
7 o clock
each
month
every
Saturday
also first
at
7 p
m
m
night
Sunday
of
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A Farmington News article covering the February 10, 1928 fire that effectively burned the Farmington Opera House to the ground. The library and town offices, along with most books, artifacts, and town records, perished in the fire. Farmington News Page 1, February 17th 1928.
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architecture
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building
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Farmington NH
fire
firefighters
library
Opera House
records
Town Hall
Town of Farmington NH
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�John Martin Luther Babcock (1822-1894), Autobiography,
w r i t t e n 1893, p r i n t e d posthumously, 1894
1822
1825
1843
1849
1852
1854
/1856
^1857
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1860
Bom i n Andover, Maine
Removes with family t o Boston, MA. Seme s c h o o l i n g
and independent study. Works a t v a r i o u s j o b s ,
i n c l u d i n g p r i n t i n g and as o f f i c e boy t o a lawyer.
Has access t o a l i b r a r y , p r a c t i c e s oratory.
Marries Martha Day Ayer of Plaistow, NH.
Journeyman p r i n t e r . Attempted newspaper f a i l s .
Wife d i e s , 1846. Health g i v e s way, s u f f e r s from
melancholia.
Marries Miriam C. Tewksbury of Wilmot, NH and moves
to Wilmot. J o i n s Free W i l l B a p t i s t Church. Gives
f i r s t sermon, 1850, and begins leading prayer
meetings and o c c a s i o n a l s e r v i c e s .
L i c e n s e d and preaches two y e a r s i n N. Wilmot
Ordained i n Wilmot. C a l l e d t o S t r a f f o r d , VT.
C a l l e d t o Farmington, NH Free W i l l B a p t i s t Church
Z^^pointed " b u i l d i n g agent" of a new meeting house,
"with f u l l power t o r a i s e t h e necessary funds,
and t o proceed t o b u i l d the house with a l l
p o s s i b l e d i s p a t c h " . B u i l d i n g dedicated, October.
S u f f e r i n g mental exhaustion, Babcock r e s i g n s a t
Farmington. Preaches a t Effingham, NH and W. Buxton
ME over the next two y e a r s .
Autobiography ends.
Post-1860 Babcock s e r v e s U n i t a r i a n churches i n L a n c a s t e r ,
NH and Groton, MA. E d i t s a reform newspaper.
The New Age (1875-1877).
L e c t u r e s and w r i t e s i n
support of temperance, workers' r i g h t s , women's
s u f f r a g e and wcxnen's r i g h t s . R e c r u i t e d as a p o l i t i c a l
speaker f o r l i b e r a l candidates. Writes novel. The
Dawning, 1885.
1894
Dies i n h o t e l f i r e i n Boston. Buried w i t h second
wife and daughter i n N. Wilmot, NH.
���AUTOBIOGRAPHY
OF
olm Martin Luther Babcoc
TOGETHER WITH A
Discourse delivered at the Funeral, and
Addresses
given at the Memorial Service. .
Published for the F a m i l y .
1894.
�CHAPTER
IV.
MINISTRY.
The
1 '.
" r e v i v a l " in w h i c h I was " c o n v e r t e d " was a sort of
union affair, as it is termed ; that is. F r e e w i l l Baptists, T r i n i t a r i a n
Congregationalists
and Methodists were engaged in it.
I t was
intimated to me that I should be w a r m l y welcomed to churchmembership in either of these sects.
w i l l Baptists, on two grounds.
I elected to j o i n the F r e e -
F i r s t , this denomination had at an
early day in the abolition movement taken an anti-slavery position,
and borne testimony against " t h e sum of all v i l l a i n i e s . "
Such was
\s voice as a denomination, though a large portion of its churchmembers i n New H a m p s h i r e at least, stilj^ remained firm i n their
pro-slavery prejudices.
I did not, it is true, k n o w this at the time ;
but i presume if I had I should have chosen that sect all the
same, because it was the only religious body (besides the Q u a k e r s )
that h a d at that day the decency to protest against putting women
on the auction-block.
Second;
though I then k n e w very little
about theology, I did know that there was such a thing as C a l v i n ism ; and i.n the fervor of my newborn zeal I loathed the monstrous dogma that God had doomed a " c e r t a i n but indefinite numb e r " of tlje human race (so says the creed) to an eternal h e l l , —
and made, too, that characteristic and godlike decree before the
"foundation
of the w o r l d . "
Now
the
F r e e w i l l Baptists
were
A r m i n i a n in their theology,— had rejected the " p r e d e s t i n a t i o n "
and " e l e c t i o n "
free."
nonsense, and proclaimed that " s a l v a t i o n was
I was therefore inclined to this sect by the force of my
natural tastes and impulses.
For some months after this my thoughts puzzled and struggled
over the personal problem whether I should continue to cultivate
^
the soil ( a noble and honest occupation in itself), or whether I
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•
should attempt to do something else.
I had not yet recovered
from the shock of my first defeat, and still sorely distrusted my
own
abilities.
A t the same
time I had an intense yearning for
some form of intellectual life, and feared that my brain would
i ,
stagnate, as it evidently had i n the case of most of my neighbors,
^
in the simple but wearing toils of a farmer's existence.
I n this state of doubt and perplexity, it happened, the next
\
summer, that an opening was accidentally offered to me, and, with
not more than an hour's notice, I jnounted the pulpit, and gave my
first sermon,—an entirely extemporaneous effort, without any'previous preparation whatever.
D f c o u r s e l went through, and talked
the usual length of time without stumbling.
did not settle my doubts.
But the performance
I still could not bring myself to believe
that I was made for a preacher.
I n this state of uncertainty I passed' several months of the
succeeding winter in Boston.
I set types in Mr. B u t t s ' office for
the family subsistence, and used my evenings to renew some former
associations, and to reawaken, if I could, my mental energies.
'
,rCi '
I returned to Wilmot in early spring, to meet the sorrow of laying away in the grave the dear form of the lovely babe, the first
that was born to me in my second marriage,—little M a r y L o u i s a ,
aged fifteen months.
H e r mother sleeps beside her now.
O n the question that h a d been
engaging
my thoughts
for
months, my mind not many weeks after this came to a decision.
I
could not settle down to a farmer's life ; what, then, should I do ?
I had a definite purpose,—I was bent on making myself of some
use to the world.
What c a l l i n g or occnpation could offer
opportunities than that of the Ministry ?
H e r e was a
better
profession
that, by its very nature, could have no connection with selfishness
or pride.
I t could take no counsel of policy or expediency.
I t is
devoted to the noblest objects, a n d must be controlled and guided
by the highest moral considerations.
I t could listen to nothing but
the voice of absolute T r u t h , — c a r e for nothing but the eternal R i g h t
A person of moderate abilities might do some service to his race
in such a work as this.
T h e die was c a s t , — I would be a minister.
�T h e next question w a s , — M u s t I prepare myself by a course of
study i n some theological school ?
H o w did I learn to set types ?
I learned without a master,—by m y own unaided practice.
way to learn to set types is, clearly, to set types.
to learn to preach is—to preach.
The
T h e n the way
Of course, if there were techni-
cal or scientific secrets to be learned, it would be necessary to go
where they were revealed or taught.
But how m u c h science must
a man be master of before he could learn to say what he thinks.
I am now twenty-eight years of a g e , — I will waste no time i n the
schools.
I w i l l make the needs, the prejudices, the passions of
my fellow-men my school; if I cannot learn how to preach in such
a school, I could not from a professor of d i v i n i t y .
So I began.
I gave sermons here a n d there, for awhile, as I had opportunity,—sometimes holding forth in a schoolhouse, and sometimes
taking the place of a minister who was i l l .
The
F r e e w i l l Baptist churches were
arranged in groups of
neighboring bodies, periiaps twenty churches i n a group.
These
associations were called Quarterly Meetings, and met in religious
convocation four times a year.'
A t one of these, in J a n u a r y ,
I was formally licensed to preach the gospel.
years I preached i n Wilmot.
1852,
F o r the next two
T h i s period of my life is rather bar-
ren of interest or incident.
I^
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I '5 S'^
T h e r e was one episode that I w i l l recount, because it will tend
to show how I had my eyes opened to the_actual state of religious
character and quality in the people among whom my lot was now
cast, and how some of the fond illusions with w h i c h I set out were
too suddenly dissolved.
E a r l y in the spring I wished to purchase a cow.
I had no
s k i l l in judging of an animal's qualities by external examination,
an art i n which some old farmers are exceedingly expert.
So I
went to one of my deacons, a man who, for t h a t locality, dealt
largely in cattle, and stated my want.
fidence in his Christian integrity.
A t this time I had full con-
I had indeed heard some hints
that he was not trustworthy in his business transactions; but he
was so loud in his professions, a n d so zealous i n prayer-meeting.
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that in my simplicity I h a d dismissed these innuendoes as u n worthy of belief.
So when he told me that he had just the cow I
wanted, that he would sell me below her value, I fully believed
him.
I t is true it was some slight shock to my confidence when
he went on to expatiate on the very excellent qualities of his c o w ;
but, putting the matter on the very lowest ground, I reflected that no
m a n would, for the sake of a few dollars, gravely damage his reputation among his neighbors by a dishonest transaction.
I paid
h i m his price, which was as high as a first-class animal would
command.
A s it turned out, it was the meanest and most nearly
worthless of any domestic a n i m a l ever reared.
But I said noth-
i n g ; I only thought that I might profit by the lesson in the future.
Some others, who could not help knowing the facts, made
talk about it, much to the deacon's discredit.
some
But I took my
punishment l i k e a little m a n .
I t did, however, have the effect of convincing me that the education of this people in the principles of Christian morality had
been sadly neglected, and impressed me with the necessity and
importance of giving these C h r i s t i a n s more " p r a c t i c a l " sermons.
A n d i n this way my attention was turned to this line of instruction.
M a n y months afterwards, when I had seen more evidences of
the moral obtuseness of this people, I remember that I prepared
my.self with a " strong " sermon on the urgency of the requirement
that C h r i s t i a n s should be truthful and honest in their dally lives,
if they would not bring dishonor on the gospel they
professed.
Now I most solemnly affirm that in this sermon I did not have
the deacon in my m i n d .
grievance
I was not disposed to put a personal
into a discourse; a n d , besides, some more recent cir-
cumstances had driven the thought of the deacon's cheat out of
my mind.
I could not help noticing, however, that the deacon was
very uneasy during the service ; and, as soon as it was over, one of
his sons went out of the c h u r c h , and said, in the hearing of many,
" T h e r e ! he said everything he could say without saying ' c o w '
right out."
T h i s revealed to me how much this family had suffered
i n their feelings about the " c o w trade," and it was
encouraging
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to know that t h e j were not insensible to the_lash.
T h e r e is some
hope of a man's moral renovation as long as a good degree of
sensibility remains.
I had got tlie best end of the " trade " after a l l .
I n the course of two years I had made some advancement i n
the art of preaching, and now felt some confidence I might j u s t l y '
attempt to be useful in a larger field.
I n J a n u a r y , 1S54, I was at a session of the Quarterly Meeting,
held at Wilmot, formally o r d a i n e d to the work of the ministr}', and
now became a full-fledged clergyman.
I
soon
received
a " c a l l " to Strafford, V e r m o n t , and, after
preaching there for one Sunday, I accepted the invitation, and removed to that town with m y family.
H e r e I passed two pleasant
years ; but nothing occurred worthy of special r e c o r d .
slavery sentiment was m u c h more vigorous
V e r m o n t than it was in N e w H a m p s h i r e .
T h e anti-
and wide-spread i n
I n my church or audi-
ence there was none of that besotted prejudice i n favor of slavery
that I h a d found i n W i l m o t ; and there was no necessity for those
anti-sla\ery sermons that h a d been a source of irritation to some
of my hearers in my first m i n i s t r y .
I n the elections of the autumn
of that year the victory for anti-slavery
was practically won i n
Vermont.
I t was here that I sought to prepare myself for future usefulness by m a k i n g an experiment.
M y parish was extended
a large t e r r i t o r y ; and, according to the custom of those
I
appointed
meetings,
on
the evening
of
week-days,
for
over
days,
the
benefit of the aged or infirm i n the outlying districts, who could
not come four or five m i l e s to c h u r c h very often
on
Sunday.
H i t h e r t o I had not been able to preach without considerable preparation. * But, to be fitted for emergencies, I wanted to be
to preach off-hand.
able
So I adopted the plan of going out to these
evening meetings, and g i v i n g a " p r e a c h " without the slightest
preparation.
I wanted to get the ability and habit of " thinking
on my feet."
I f I have ever had any facility in purely extempo-
raneous speaking, it is due to such efforts as these, more than to
any natural gift.
I n my original power of speech I was not fluent.
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T h e r e is, indeed, such a tiling as extemporaneous speech, the main
part
of
which has
been
thoroughly thought out
beforehand.
W h a t I desired was to be able to think as I went along.
Besides the fact that I was one year in StrafTord elected to
have charge of the public schools, there is nothing in particular to
set down i n my life there.
T h e r e was no " leligious revi\l " in
the town while I remained there.
M y next ministry was in the town of Farmington, in New
H a m p s h i r e , where I removed i n the summer of 1856.
A village
had been built up here by a thriving shoe industry, and a small
F r e e w i l l Baptist church h a d been organized.
I not only had a
" c a l l " to go there, but had been urged by the brethren who managed affairs at the headquarters of the denomination in Dover to
accept it.
T h e substance of this advice was, that the village was
growing, and, by the hard work of an earnest and able man a
flourishing church might be built up there.
T h e first point was to get a church built there, for the F r e e w i l l
Baptists had no fit place of worship.
A n old and decayed meeting-
house, built in the old times before a village was thought of, was
all that the church had to meet in ; and as this gloomy house was
three-fourths of a mile away from the village it was impossible to
gather an audience within its w a l l s on Sunday,—ah audience large
enough to give any hope of the future.
One of our leading m.inisters had been my immediate
ecessor.
pred-
H e had devoted his ministr}'of two years to the special
object of building a new meeting-house in the village ; and had
given up the work in despair.
I
went there under these conditions,
i soon saw that for
some months at least a new meeting-house was not to be thought
of, much less openly advocated.
I n fact some members of the
church " e n c o u r a g e d " me from the first by saying that the F r e e will doctrine had no chance i n that community, and a new house
of worship could never be built there.
I thought I would consic;;r
the matter for myself, and said nothing.
B u t what forced the postponement of any meeting-house enter-
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prise was the fact that the entire community was terribly stirred
up and excited over politics.
mont cainpaign of
W e were in the midst of the F r e -
1856.
I have witnessed and passed through fifteen presidential elections, and the campaign of 1856 surpasses any of them, or all of
them, for its purely moral effectiveness
and grandeur.
T h e cam-
paign of 1840 was fully as glowing in its e.xcitement; but it was
a merely thoughtless craze, a n d nobody kne.v what the hullabalo
was all about.
'* W i l l go for O l d T i p , therefore,
Without a why or wherefore "
was a quite accurate description of the spirit of that
canvass.
T h e election of 1S60, when L i n c o l n was elected, was very quiet
and inanimate indeed, for the contest had been practically decided
four years earlier, and it was seen to be a foregone conclusion
from the beginning of the canvass.
B u t i n 1856
the political conditions were entirely unlike any
which di.^iinguished a campaign before or since,—at least in my
remembrance.
T h e anti-slavery sentiment that had been
slowly gaining in
force and volume as a political movement since 1840 now appeared
in the field with a strength a n d vigor that threatened or promised
to sweep the country.
T h e outrages which the
border
ruffians,"
the tools of the slave power, were infliciing on the free settlers of
K a n s a s , and the horrible atrocities of midnight raids on the homes
of peaceable emigrants, borne on every Western breeze, aroused
the pity and indignation of the N o r t h .
W h e n these emigrants at
length arose to oppose the invader, and John Brown's war-cry at
Ossawatomie was heard throughout the land, the excitement blazed
with intensity of heat.
B u t the impulse which set the multitudes
in polidcal array was a purely moral impulse.
No question of dol-
lars and cents entered into the conflict; no man's pocket was appealed to.
I t was only the claims of R i g h t against Wrong, of
Freedom against Slavery.
I t was into the whirl of such a political tempest that I was cast
j p the sumiiier of 1856 in F a r m i n g t o n ,
Of course the people h a d
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no ear for the abstract dogmas of religion.
E v e r y t h i n g was inter-
preted with reference to the political situation.
I f the preacher
happened casually to say that no man should be the " s l a v e of his
passions," the phrase was caught up and discussed as to its bearing
on the affairs of " b l e e d i n g K a n s a s . "
I n my constitutional cau-
tion I delayed m a k i n g a public avowal of my convictions till I
could gain some insight into the state of the public mind, and the
nature of the prevailing sentiment.
and how to strike.
I wanted to know just where
I never felt more deeply impre. .,ed with the
importance of m a k i n g a right use of my abilities and my opportunities.
So I preached
as if unconscious
c a l m l y the general doctrines of religion,
of the storm raging around me.
I contented
myself with the increase i n the number of my small audience,
from Sunday to S u n d a y , — a n increase which usually marks a new
preacher's advent, and w h i c h it depends on his own abilities to
hold.
So matters went on for weeks.
A t the beginning of October I felt I must no longer delay.
was time I should fire a shot.
effect.
It
M y preaching was having no visible
I could not content myself to be
" Dropping buckets into empty wells,
A n d growing old in drawing nothing u p . "
But I had been treasuring up such a volume of " wrath against
the day of w r a t h " that I w a s impelled to say more than I then
thought I could properly say as a part of a religious service.
So
one Sunday I quietly gave notice that on the following T h u r s d a y
evening I would state my views on the political situation.
I went down to the old meeting-house on that evening in a
mental state the very calmness of which surprised me.
I
found
about twice the number of my usual audience, but the general
aspect was very quiet.
1 besran by stating the general grounds on
which c h a f e l slavery was shown to be a monstrous wrong, and the
giant sin of permitting it to e x i s t anywhere, as well as the absurd
disgrace
of continuing the iniquitous s3-stem in a land formally
dedicated, as ours was, to liberty.
A l l this I might properly have
declared in a sermon on Sunday.
B u t then I went on to apply thq
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principles I had laid down to the existing position of political parties.
T h e Democratic party, w h i c h had for forty years stood as the
abject tool of the S l a v e power, h a d in the present campaign taken a
position in defence of s l a v e r y .
I t was true they had attempted to
mask their batteries ; but in spite of a l l attempted disguises, the
fact was evident that the success of that party would be regarded,
South and North, as a triumph of slavery, and a blow at the hope
of freedom.
I n the conflict then raging in K a n s a s , the Democrats
were manifestly a i d i n g the effort to fasten the evil of slavery on
those virgin prairies, and i f the election went in their favor that
infamous
effort might possibly succeed.
T h e R e p u b l i c a n party,
with its watchwords of " F r e e S o i l , F r e e M e n , and F r e m o n t , " were
in political array against slavery, and their triumph would at least
check its extension.
T h e i r platform, I said, it is true, does not
come up to my ideal.
T h e y said, " N o extension of s l a v e r y ; "
but my platform w a s , " N o
slavery a n y w h e r e . "
However, as the
party that was l o o k i n g towards liberty, and proposed to strike at
least a partial blow for freedom, it was immeasurably to be preferred to the other party.
A n d I said it was inconceivable to me
how a faithful C h r i s t i a n could support a party that had raised the
black flag of slavery.
I spoke one hour a n d thirty minutes, and the meeting closed
quietly.
I went home that night with the impression that my effort
had not caused the sensation, or produced the effect, that I anticipated.
IJut I s a n k to sleep with the comfortable
consciousness
that I had done what was right, and the consequences might take
care of themselves.
five gentlemen came to my house.
They
were prominent citizens as w e l l as leading R e p u b l i c a n s .
T h e next forenoon
They
came to say that they had j u s t le.irned that I had given a masterly
lecture the previous evening ; that they were sorry they h a d not
heard it, but the fact was they had not k n o w n it was to be given.
( T h e fact was, I suspect, that my denomination was so small and
so despised in that c o m m u - i t y that it was not recognized as an
appreciable forcp.
T h e y d j d not see that any gopd pould come
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out of the " N a z a r e t h " of a F r e e w i l l church ; and so my notice
had been treated as of no account.)
Now, from what had been
told of the lecture, the whole village was anxious to hear i t ; and
would I do them the favor to repeat it, on any evening I might
name, at the large hall in the village which was used as the R e p u b l i can headquarters.
I told them, politely, that I could not do that,
because I had spoken as a minister and not as a politician ; and,
speaking i n my own c h u r c h I was free to say just what I thought;
that if I should speak under Republican auspices I might say some
things they would not indorse,-and I did not wish that the party
should be
responsible
for
my utterances.
T h e committee
tempted to controvert both of my positions ; they argued
persuaded
at some length ; but I did not yield.
atand
I told them,
finally, that if they desired it I would repeat my speech, on any
evening they might choose, in my own church.
After demurring
to the place, on the ground that it was a pity to take the people a
mile away from their homes when a much better place could be had
at their ov/n doors, they finally thanked me for my willingness to
repeat it anywhere, and an evening of the next week was fixed
upon.
T h e next morning posters were up everywhere, announcing
the meeting.
Now I began to see that my first meeting had not fallen fiat.
A new b r a n d was thrown into the political flame, and the excitement seethed with added fury.
What were we coming to if minis-
ters must go into politics like t h a t !
religion woul4 be destroyed.
W h y , the very foundations of
I n such an excitement passions seize
men of w h i c h they are afterwards ashamed.
So violent may men
become under such conditions that there were even hints of personal violence to myself,— though this I did not hear of till afterwards.
B u t it was supposed that there was so much danger, that
a large number of Republicans went early to the church, and surrounded the pulpit, to protect me from assault.
I went to the meeting as calmly as I went to the first, without
anticipating what I saw.
I have never known a church or h a l l to
be more densely packed.
E v e r y inch of sitting or standing room
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was fully occupied, and the c r o w d surged up the pulpit stairs, so it
was with some inconvenience that I gained my place.
Besides
this, every window was open, and crowds were standing at t h e m ,
and there were hundreds who could not get so near.
I began my speech, and went through with the general line of
remark that I h a d tised on the first e v e n i n g ; then I prepared to
close.
W h e n t h i s w a s perceived, the cry went up a l l over the
house, " G o on ! go on ! "
I was now thoroughly warmed up.
All
the pent-up thought that }:ad been gathering force for weeks was
now let loose, a n d facts and illustrations found utterance as fast as
I
could speak t h e m .
A n d I w a s not permitted to stop till I h a d
talked for more than three hours.
T h o s e who never m a k e speeches do not know how much help
the extemporaneous
orator receives from the enthusiasm of an
aroused and largely sympathetic audience.
evening as if some
I t seemed to be that
invisible power were near me,
thoughts and i n s p i r i n g me with irresistible force.
experiences on other occasions afterwards.
suggesting
I had similar
I do not believe that
such an afflatus is caused by any occult or spiritual influence.
It
is simply the effect of that sympathy, that magnetism (for want of
another name), w i t h w h i c h one m i n d acts or reacts on another, and
i s only a revelation of that " t o u c h of N a t u r e " that " m a k e s the
whole world k i n . "
Such is the account of my first political speech.
• I t is amusing after all these years to think of the ferment into
which that village w a s t h r o w n by this speech.
I t was the one
topic of discussion in the shops and the stores.
I t is one of the
superstitions that a clergyman is to be treated at least with outward respect.
I t had always previously been accorded to me.
B u t for a few days even this seemed to be forgotten.
M e n in their
rage did not hesitate to say to me, " A s soon as election is over,
you w i l l be d r i v e n from this t o w n . "
sponded.
" W h y not b e f o r e ? "
I re-
O f course I was not indifferent to this sort of t a l k .
About half of m y usual audience on Sunday were D e m o c r a t s .
B u t , through a l l the nervous s t r a i n and excited feeling to which I
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was subjected, I was at peace with myself; and quite happy in a l l
the turmoil, i n the consciousness that I was not an entirely useless
stick in the world.
But, the battle once begun, I had to keep it up for the few
weeks that intervened before election.
mons flamed with abolition.
E v e r y Sunday my
ser-
A very prominent and able Demo-
crat was brought to F a r m i n g t o n to speak, who made a direct attack on me as a " black-coated v i l l a i n . "
H e referred to the efforts
of the Democratic party early i n the century to establish religious
' toleration i n New H a m p s h i r e , and claimed that the F r e e w i l l Baptists were therefore under great obligations to that party, and that
it was ingratitude i n them to t u r n against their best friends.
I
h a d to reply to him ; and among other things, call to m i n d the
fact that the F r e e w i l l B a p t i s t Book Establishment at D o v e r h a d
been year after year denied an act of incorporation by the Democratic legislature of New H a m p s h i r e because the " M o r n i n g S t a r , "
the denominational
organ, was
an " abolition sheet."
People
thought his own guns were turned upon him.
One incident w i l l show the bitterness of feeling that now possessed the more violent partisans.
One evening I had an appoint-
ment to preach in a neighboring town.
ride out of the village i n the afternoon.
Of course I was seen to
O n my return the next
morning, I was met at the entrance of the village by a friend who
told me that a report was b u z z i n g about the shops that I had refused to shelter an escaping s l a v e , — w i t h the comment that it was
now to be seen what all my abolition zeal amounted to.
(This
was my friend's report, not his own opinion.)
I hurried home.
I t turned out that rather late the evening be-
fore my wife was called to the door by a knock, and saw a colored
man standing there, who a s k e d if he could be kept for the night,
as he was r u n n i n g away from slavery.
She was alone in the
hoi'.se, with three little children, and another expected very soon,
and did not think she ought to have a stranger, black or white,
stay a l l night.
So she directed him to the house of a brother i n
the c h u r c h , near by, who was a good anti-slavery m a n , — a n d the
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succeed by any form of indirection or deceit.
I t is true that this
provision proved lo be the salvation of that society.
makes the matter no better.
P.ut this
A dishonest man, clothed with such
exclusive authority, might have swamped the church by saddling
it with a heavy debt for a costly building, or ruined it by embezzling the funds.
T h e end does not justify the means.]
W h e n the articles were adopted, the first question was on the
choice of a business or building agent.
intention of t a k i n g that position.
ing, nor experience in details.
Now I had no thought or
I had no knowledge of build-
Besides the dpubt I had as to my
ability in business would have driven the thought away if it had
occurred
to me.
T h e r e were
two or three carpenters in the
society, and I supposed that the choice would naturally have fallen
on one of them.
B u t to my surprise they a l l declined the honor.
T h e t r i "h was, they had none of them much if any faith that the
enterprise would succeed, and they did not w i s h to be identified
with failure.
I n this state of the case, they began to declare, one
after
another, that I was the only man lo be chosen the building agent.
A l l that h a d so far been done had been done by me, and there
was no one else so w e l l qualified to carry it through.
W e l l , after
a long talk, I saw clearly that if I did not take up the burden the
whole thing must fail, and I consented.
I t brought upon me the
most wearing, irritating, and thankless labor of my life.
I
at once went to w o r k with all the pushing energy I could
command.
O n e of the members had a saw-mill and lumber.
In
getting his subscription he had offered to supply all the timber for
the frame ; a n d , with the understanding that he should do this, he
had put against his name a sum sufficient, as he thought, to cover
the estimated cost.
up.
After securing the.^ite^ I went to hurry h i m
I t was still winter, an unfit time lo begin building operations.
But I got h i m to promise that the timber for the frame should be
on the ground at a c c : tain time.
Some of the members advised me to let the whole job by contract,
I took counsel of my instincts.
I told thein that a coo-
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tractor would probably either make or lose money ; I did not w a n t
any man to lose a cent of money by us, and we could not aiTord
to Jet one grow rich out of us,—so I should build by the day.
I happily selected the right k i n d of a man to put i n the stone
foundation
and underpinning.
H e did his work well, and at a
reasonable cost.
I took one of the carpenters with me, and went away ten miles
to another saw-mill, and bought a pile of pine boards, some of it
clear and some knotty, that I hoped would be enough of such material as we would need.
I
made a bargain for a large quantity of nails, of sizes, at a
uniform price of $3.75 a hundred pounds; a price then very low,'
but since then the cost of this material has been much reduced.
M e a n t i m e , and before spring opened, I was unremitting in m y
efforts to fill up my subscription.
I had already e.\hausted a l l
chance of r a i s i n g money among my church-members and their
f r i e n d s ; and I must now try what could be done among outsiders.
H e r e my success exceeded my expectations.
ness to help me than I had counted upon.
I found more readiT w o things aided me.
Some men had an ambition to see the village built u p ; and they
contributed in the belief that a new-church would add materially
to the appearance of the village, as well as to the value of their
property.
" M a k e to yourselves friends of the mammon of un-
righteousness."
sonal nature.
T h e second cat'se of success was of a more perS o n x of the villagers had already begun to look
upon the projected meeting-house, as not so much the work of a
church society, as my own individual enterprise.
I
I t appeared that
had secured the sympathy of the Republicans, in the previous
campaign, 10 such an extent that they were disposed to help me in
the w o r k to which I was so warmly devoted.
A s my well-wishers
they urged others to come to my assistance when they had not the
means
to contribute themselves.
A n active canvass was, to my
surprise, spontaneously going on in my favor.
cans I received valuable contributions.
So from R e p u b l i -
I even, then, ventured to
3sk Democrats for subscriptions ; and here, if I did not meet with
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much success, I received no angry rebuff.
O n e leading and wealthy
D e m o c r a t did, indeed, give me a small subscription ; and surprised
me, as he did so, by saying, " I have told our folks that I had more
respect for you than I had for our minister ; for i n the campaign
you hit us as hard as you c o u l d , and tried lo plaster it o v e r . "
I am inclined here to pause, to note a reflection :
I t is safer
as well as in other ways better to do what you think is right, than
to be guided by the suggestions
of expediency.
Some of my
brethren, who professed to be opposed to slavery themselves, said
to me i n the heat of the battle that I was ruining a l l chances of
building a meeting-house by exasperating the pro-slavery people,
a n d advised that I should at once tone myself down.
T h i s advice
h a d no other effect than to make me more outspoken.
A t the
same time, young as I was, I was not sure that I w a s not putting
it out of m y own power ever to achieve the ultimate purpose I h a d
at h e a r t ; but I d i d not permit this fear to cause me to waver i n
my obedience to my convictions.
B u t as it turned out, my course
was, with one side, a great help to the meeting-house p r o j e c t ; and,
with the other, it secured a good measure of personal respect.
T h e t i m b e r for the frame of the house was delivered on the
ground promptly according to promise.
T h e brother, a carpenter,
who had prepared the schedule of the timber, came to me one
morning, and startled me by saying that he had hastily looked over
the timber, and thought that it was not lit to put into a frame.
I
went with him to the spot, and he pointed out to me some large
sticks, designed for heavy beams, that were " wany-edged "
and
otherwise u n f i t ; and he said the only thing to do was to condemn
the whole lot, make the man who furnished it take it b a c k , and get
a new frame at a good mill.
A n d this was said i n apparent un-
consciousness that such a procedure might ruin the whole enterprise, by involving me in a quarrel with the brother who had furnished the timber as his contribution ; by causing great delay and
greatly i n c r e a s e d c o s t ; and by the nameless injury of paralyzing
the faith of a l l who were interested i n the work.
A n d this was
the man I was at one time ignorant enough to believe would make
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a good building agent;
and who was by this time sorry that he had
not taken the post when it was offered to him.
W h a t an escape
for us that he did not foresee that the project would go forward.
Of course such senseless talk did not affect me for a moment.
But I engaged h i m , at wages, to take the schedule and overhaul
the t i m b e r ; to check off every defective stick, so that I might
know if any of it would answer the purpose, and report as soon
as possible.
A b o u t two hours after dinner be came to say that if six new
sticks for beams were procured, those s l i c k s whose places they
would take might be used i n place of some shorter ones in the
schedule, and a good frame might be made.
his report.
I was overjoyed at
I at once drove to the mill, ten miles away, where I
h a d bought the pile of pine boards, and laid down a memorandum
of the six beams I wanted, and asked if they could be sawed and
delivered in Farmington before the next Saturday.
could be done, and it was done.
I was told it
A n d $60 were added oiitright to
the cost of the building.
I had an idea, when I began the work, that it would be wise
for each depaitment to get if I could some man specially adapted
to the work to be done.
A carpenter may be a very good work-
man in finishing a building, who would be almost worthless in
framing it.
I was again exceedingly lucky in hunting up tlie man
who was one of the greatest geniuses in the way of framing a
building ever known.
H e lived twelve miles distant, on his own
farm. T i e did nothing i n the trade except framing; and was i n
great request for this w o r k .
I drove to his house, and was happily
able to engage him, at wages which would now seem
low.
I t was agreed that he should begin the next
fabulously
Monday,—the
very next Monday after the day on which I h a d been sagely advised to condemn the timber.
I n how many ways should I have
been involved in difficulties if I had followed that advice !
T h e framing was begun at the appointed time, rapidly pushed
to completion.
T h e entire men force of the village, almost, came
to the r a i s i n g ; and it was pronounced the best frame ever put up
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in town.
'
T h e master framer h a d not made
a single m i s t a k e ;
every measurement had been accurate, and every ten.-int fitted the
right mortise.
I must add that he had framed it without plans.
I was determined to avoid, if I could, the expense of an architect.
I gave to this superior man a l l the dimensions I had decided upon,
and described to h i m the general character of the structure as I
had designed i t ; _ w i t h this scanty data he went on and put up the
substantial skeleton.
H e finished his work, and took with him my
respect and admiration when he left.
I h a d a carpenter already engaged to superintend the work of
boarding and
delay.
finishing,
a n d the construction proceeded without
I gave my own time entirely to the building.
I was at^ a l l
times about it, except when away procijring m a t e r i a l .
h a n d to everything I could do.
I put my
I " s p l i t " nearly a l l the boards
used into their necessary dimensions.
I did this w o r k , in advance
of its being called for, on all the boards required for pew construction.
A s soon as any outside finish h a d been completed, I applied
a coat of " p r i m i n g , " — t h i s being a more economical method than
keeping z painter on hand for that purpose, as he could be employed only a few hours in a day.
W h e n the shingles were to be put on, 1 was lucky again in
finding the man specially fitted for such work.
with great rapidity.
H e did it well, and
I have since seen three regular carpenters lay
a less number of shingles i n a day than were faithfully put on in
the same length of time by that one m a n .
I never w o r k e d harder, except at a period later in life, than I
did that summer.
I gave my whole time and thought during the
week to the building.
W h e n Saturday night came, after 1 had paid
off the w o r k m e n , and written up my accounts,
it was
twelve o'clock ; and I sank to slumber a thoroughly
man.
usually
exhausted
I arose on Sunday m o r n i n g entirely listless and inert, with
no preparation whatever for preaching.
A t the appointed hour I
went, with tired step, nearly a mile to the old shell where we then
h e l d our meetings, and mumbled over some form of words, in the
place of preaching, and let it go at t h a t
I t must have been from
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habit or from sympathy that people came to my meeting that
summer.
F o r , as I now remember it, a more lifeless and dis-
j o i n t e d style of talk was never sounded from the pulpit.
T h e fact
was that I had set my heart on the completion of that meetinghouse ; my whole soul was bound up in it,—and 1 could think of
nothing else.
I am now inclined to think that in a l l that time the
thought that the purpose of the gospel was to save souls never occurred to me, only, finish the church, if the heavens fall !
E a r l y i n September, of that eventful year, the panic of
struck the country, and " d r i e d up realms to deserts."
weeks tfie meeting-house would have been
finished;
seemed that my enterprise would be paralyzed.
1857
I n a few
but now it
F o r the conven-
ience of the subscribers, I had been collecting their subscriptions
in i n s t a l l m e n t s ; but, in the conditions brought on by the panic,
m a n y could not pay me a farthing.
But I would not despair.
I
went to the churches of l i k e faith in neighboring towns, a n d beg:
ged for the Farmington meeting-house.
I raised money out of
town, i n small sums, on my personal credit.
I pressed through a l l
difficulties, and saw the end at length.
T h e edifice was dedicated early in October,— all paid for, but
I was without a penny.
A t the final casting up of the items of
cost, the sum total amounted to $2.50 less than the estimated cost,
$3,000.
I have no disposition to boast of this achievement.
I
had trouble enough and annoyance enough as I labored i n it to
take the conceit all out of me.
But it is worth putting down that
a church edifice was built, by one entirely inexperienced i n such
a n undertaking, and built by days' work, within the am.ount it was
estimated to cost.
I t is proper to say, that among the people of the tow;., more,
perhaps, than by the few members of the church and society for
whom it was built, it was recognized as a work to be placed to my
personal credit.
I could hardly go out on the street without meet-
ing a man who would say, " W e l l , E l d e r , you've done what no other
man c o u l d . "
T h i s was repeated till I was tired of hearing i t .
Of
course I appreciated the kindness of feeling w h i c h prompted
the
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expression ; but I l^new it was overdrawn.
A n } ' man, with the
same devotion to the object, and the same determination in prosecuting it, could have accomplished as much.
I easily accounted for the l u k e w a r m n e s s of gratitude
my own " peculiar " people, and it did not disappoint me.
among
E a r l y in
the progress of the work, serious disafEection began to manifest itself.
Some, when they saw that success was probable, felt mortified
that they did not ha\
charge of the work.
A n d when they at-
tempted to interfere w i t h my methods, they were disgusted to find
that the articles adopted by the society ga^e me full authority.
In
this respect, as already indicated, I do not hold myself entirely
blameless.
B u t they had only themselves to thank that one of
themselves was not chosen b u i l d i n g agent.
I certainly used all
my powers of persuasion to get some member of the society to
accept the trust.
B u t I do not care to discuss the details of any disagreements
that arose.
I t would only be dabbling in the baser caprices of
h u m a n nature.
T h i r t y - s i x years have
passed
since t h e n ; and
whatever feelings might then have disturbed me have long since
subsided and disappeared.
serious debate with myself.
I w i l l only add that one night I had a
T h e r e had been developments
that
day which convinced me that those for whose benefit I was undert a k i n g a work of great
hardship would be constantly throwing
obstacles in my w a y ; that wliere I h a d aright to expect
co-opera-
tion I should find only opposition ; that I bitterly felt that I had
better drop the whole thing, and quietly go away.
I walked the
floor far into the night while wrestling with this question.
I
A t last
thought that the work I proposed to do might be a benefit to a
future generation of Christians, however those then on the stnge
might see fit to act.
inspire me now.
fate.
I do not think that such hopefulness would
But then it proved decisive, a n d I accepted
my
I imagine that the real truth was, that where it was " b r a v e
to combat " I could not " l e a r n to
fly."
I must not omit to say that three or four of the church-members
were faithful to me throughout, and gave me manful help.
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A s was to be expected, when we began our incetin£S in the
new building the audience largely increased.
tion to sermonizing.
ov.n
conceptioHS.
I now gave atten-
But I soon found I could not come u p to my
No complaint
on this score was heard
for
months ; but I was painfully conscious of my own shortcomings.
T h e fact was, that after the terrible s t r a i n that had taxed my nervous energy for six months, there came the inevitable reaction, and
my powers v.ould not rally.
I suppose my personal manner during
the week revealed my mental condition ; for an old and retired
p h y s i c i a n , meeting me one day, told me I was not looking well,
and advised me to take opium as a tonic.
that.
Of course I did not do
B u t I had considerable of " that tired f e e l i n g " all through
the. winter.
I am scarcely conscious of more mental
feebleness
now in m y old age than I was at that time.
T h e next spring I exchanged pulpits with another minister, and
at his request, who was then seeking another settlement.
H e was
a man not of any special depth of thought, but he had a polished
and charming manner, and made
an immense impression.
Then
those who h a d been nursing their disafTection towards me since
the agitated times of the building, broke out into a loud outcry that
he was the man whom the L o r d designed to fill that pulpit.
I pre-
sume that if I had made a fight, with the moral support of the
public of that village, I could have beaten them.
But though I
would confront any opposition in defence of my convictions, I had
no taste for a personal contest, and abandoned the field.
I revisited Farmington three years ago, and found the church
apparently prosperous, and the c h u r c h edifice much enlarged.
I
estimated that they had spent in improvements three times as much
as the original cost.
So, for good or evil, my work did not fail.
I n v i t e d to speak in the c hurc h, I said such things as to liov.'
men should try to live, whether C h r i s t i a n s or not, that the minister
was shocked, and had to attempt a reply.
Personally, I was cor-
dially and k i n d l y received, and enjoyed my visit.
�CHAPTER
V.
MINISTRY—CONTINUED.
W h e n I closed my work at F a r m i n g t o n , in the spring of
I was offered
a pulpit at Effingham, N e w H a m p s h i r e .
1858,
I t was a
small and secluded place, and the meeting was supported jointly
by orthodox and F r e e w i l l people.
I chose to accept this place be-
cause of m y jaded m_ental condition, and the work would be light.
I could preach there easily, and at the same time have some chance
to rest, and some hope to recuperate.
of my ministry there.
T h e r e is nothing to be said
T h e people were easily satisfied ; and, more
wonderful still, there was no fighting between the two sects who
were joined in one meeting.
I preached one sermon there w h i c h was so much admired that
it was put in print,—the first of my sermons to have the honor of
being embalmed in type.
people heard him gladly."
poor production.
I t had for a text, " A n d the common
I look it over now, and find it a very
I f I should make a sermon now it would not be
at all like that.
T h e r e was one trifling circumstance that occurred at Effingham, that had some slight bearing on the question that had already
begun to trouble me, " D o e s preaching do any good ? "
I would
give a sermon that people would praise, but I could not perceive
that it had any effect on life or character.
I t did not seem that it
was expected to quicken k i n d l i e r feeling or awaken nobler purpose.
I f it only incieased the audience and built up the church,
that was enough.
One afternoon I called on a family in the parish.
" the lady of the house " at home.
I found only-
I had been there but a few
minutes when she s a i d , —
" plder, I knew who y o u were hitting last S u n d a y . "
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Now I did not dream that I was hitting any one in particular.
But I asked,—
" W h o was I hitting ? "
" I don't know how you found it out," she rejoined.
" But you
described exactly the quarrel that M r s . Jones and me have been
carrying o n . "
( N o w Jones was not the other woman's name ; but I have been
careful to give no names in these recollections.)
" I assure you, m a d a m , " I s a i d , " that I never heard the slightest hint of any misunderstanding between you and M r s . Jones.
But now that you have mentioned it, you may tell me about it, if
you w i s h . "
T h e n she gave me the details, which I have forgotten.
She
said it h a d long been a trouble on her m.ind, and she wished the
could " make u p . "
Now it had seemed to me that the other woman was the most
placable and gentle of the two, a n d I thought it worth while to try
and end the feud.
So I gave her some " instructions " as to her
duty in the matter, and a d v i s e d her to make the first advances
towards an understanding.
T h e next afternoon I took occasion to call upon Mrs. Jones.
I
made some general observations on the happiness of a com-
munity where the people l i v e d i n sympathy and at peace with each
other ; and then went on to say that as there seemed to be a general state of good feeling in the neighborhood at the time, it would
be delightful, if any were at variance, they should take advantage
of the opportunity to compose
their differences.
Upon which
she s a i d , —
" I guess you have been told that M r s . Brown (name fictitious)
and I do not speak to each other."
I said I was not ignorant of i t ; but I thought the matter could
easily be arranged, and felt sure that if M r s . Brown came to talk
it over, she ( M r s . J o n e s ) would meet her more than half way.
" I
have always been r e a d y to do that," she rejoined, with a
pleasant smile.
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Photocopied autobiographical information for Reverend John Luther Babcock. Rev. Babcock was with the Free Will Baptist Church in Farmington from 1856-1858. Tasked with the being the building agent for the new meeting house in 1857. The new building was dedicated in October of that year.
Known for writing and speaking as an abolitionist, supporting women's suffrage, and supporting workers rights and women's rights. Biographical information is also present after 1860 in the packet.
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Son of James Babcock and Hannah Rice
Husband of Meriam C. Tewksbury and Martha D. Ayer
Father of Mary Eva Babcock; Mary Louisa Babcock; Milton Howard Babcock; Lilla Ann Babcock; Alice Maria Babcock and 2 others
Brother of Hannah Elizabeth Babcock; Sarah Ann Babcock; William Gilbert Babcock; James Sidney Babcock; Ellen Emerson Babcock and 2 others
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