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1879-1880
Richard A. Frye
1929
Lyman Warner
1881-1885
Howard E. Short
1930-1933
T. O. Rice
1885-1888
George B. Owen
1934-1935
The following list is believed to contain the names of all the regularly settled ministers who have served the Baptist church, together with their periods of service.
* Temporary supply.
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Christopher Miner
1798-1808
Henry M. Heywood
1882-1884
Jonathan Sheldon
1807
Robert Bennett
1884-1885
Silas Root
1817-1835
A. S. Brown
1888-1889
Richard Griffing
1835-1836
George N. Preston
1890-1896
John Higby
1837-1841
B. F. Hurlburt
1896-1901
Richard Griffin
1841-1842
C. E. Tedford
1901-1903
Luther Stone 1843
Harry E. Safford
1904-1906
George D. Felton
1844-1865
A. R. McDougal
1907-1909
Alexander McLearn
1865-1869
Hermann G. Patt
1909-1914
Edward Humphrey
1870-1871
T. C. Brewster
1915-1919
S. C. Chandler
1872-1874
Hermann G. Patt
1928-1937
D. A. Dearborn
1874-1881
The following is thought to be a complete list of the ministers who served the Methodist Episcopal Church at the Corners, together with their periods of service :
L. White
1880-1881
John C. Evans 1901-1904
Elwin Hitchcock
1881-1884
Wilbur F. Hale
1904-1906
A. O. Abbott
1884-1885
Edgar A. Brownell 1906-1908
Jerome Wood
1885-1888
Walter H. Upham 1909-1910
W. P. Arbuckle
1889-1890
D. P. Pelley
1910-1911
Francis J. Hale 1890-1893
Alpheus E. Tuttle 1911-1913
James Sutherland
1893-1898
Walter C. Prewett
1913-1916
J. Alphonso Day
1898-1900
Edward Jobbins 1916-1917
Cecil R. Sherman
1900-1901
George Richards 1917-1918
The following ministers have served the Federated Church of Granville since its establishment in July, 1937, together with their term of service.
Asa W. Mellinger, October 1, 1937 to July 1, 1940
John H. Hatt, October 1, 1940 to October 1, 1943
Martin L. Grissom, December 1, 1943 to January 1, 1946
Richard W. Bennett, July 1, 1946 to August 1, 1948
Norris E. Woodbury, October 1, 1948 to September 27, 1953
List of Tavern Keepers having regular Innholders' licenses
1755 Phineas Pratt
Dan Robinson Thomas Hamilton
1756 Phineas Pratt
Timothy Robinson
1761
same as 1760
1757 same as 1756
1762
same as 1760
1758 Phineas Pratt 1763
Dan Robinson
1759 Phineas Pratt
1764 George Pynchon
Dan Robinson
Ephraim Munson
1760 Phineas Pratt
1765 George Pynchon
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Ephraim Munson Samuel Coe
David Fowler
Jesse Munson
same as 1765
Thomas Lloyd
1766 1767 same as 1765
1786 Nathaniel Bates John Wright Thomas Lloyd
Samuel Coe
1787
Nathaniel Bates
1769
same as 1768
1788 Nathaniel Bates
1770
same as 1768
Gideon Hull
1771
same as 1768
1789
Nathaniel Bates
1772 George Pynchon
Gideon Hull
Samuel Coe
Thomas Lloyd Abel Tillotson
Job Stiles
1790
Nathaniel Bates
1773
same as 1772
Thomas Burbank
1774
record not found
Gideon Hull
1775
record not found
Abel Tillotson
1776
no licenses issued to any one in Granville
1791
Jacob Baldwin
1777 no licenses issued to any one in Granville
1792
Jacob Baldwin
1778
Oliver Phelps
Thomas Burbank
1779 Enoch Coe
Nathaniel Rogers
1780 Enoch Coe
Samuel Dodd Wilcox
Jesse Munson
1793
Jacob Baldwin
Ebenezer Smith
John Phelps
1781 Enoch Coe
Eber Spelman
Lebbeus Ball
Samuel Dodd Wilcox
Westol Scovil
Nathaniel Rogers
1782 Nathaniel Bates
1794
Lebbeus Ball
Jacob Baldwin Oliver Dickinson David Robinson
Westol Scovil
Eber Spelman
1783 Nathaniel Bates Lebbeus Ball
Samuel Dodd Wilcox
Westol Scovil
1795
Jesse Munson
Jacob Baldwin Thomas Burbank Oliver Dickinson David Robinson Elisha Stow
1784 Nathaniel Bates David Fowler
Jonathan Strickland
Abner Rose Jesse Munson Thomas Lloyd
Samuel Dodd Wilcox
Nathaniel Rogers
1785 Nathaniel Bates
1796
Jacob Baldwin
Joel Bancroft
Thomas Burbank
Gideon Hull
Jesse Munson
Jonathan Strickland
Enoch Bancroft
1768 George Pynchon Edmund Barlo
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Thomas Burbank Oliver Dickinson David Robinson
1804
Samuel Dodd Wilcox John Barnes Thomas Barnes Moses Parsons Seth Phelps Thaddeus Squire Samuel Dodd Wilcox
1797 Jacob Baldwin Thomas Burbank Oliver Dickinson Elisha Stow
1805
Jonathan Strickland Samuel Dodd Wilcox
Isaac Hardin Moses Parsons Seth Phelps Thaddeus Squire Samuel Dodd Wilcox
1798 Lucy Baldwin
1806
Enoch Drake Isaac Hardin
Thomas Burbank Oliver Dickinson Seth Phelps Jonathan Strickland Samuel Dodd Wilcox
Moses Parsons Seth Phelps
Lucy Baldwin Linus Bates Oliver Dickinson Seth Phelps
1807
Isaac Hardin Moses Parsons Thaddeus Squire Samuel Dodd Wilcox
Jonathan Strickland
1808
Moses Parsons Thaddeus Squire
Oliver Dickinson
1809
Moses Parsons
Seth Phelps
1810
Timothy Brockway Margaret Scott John Lloyd
Samuel Dodd Wilcox
1801
Oliver Dickinson
1811 Timothy Brockway Thaddeus Squire Elihu Stow
Seth Phelps
1812
Timothy Brockway Thaddeus Squire
Samuel Dodd Wilcox
1813
none of record
1802
no licenses issued to any one in Granville
1814
Thaddeus Squire Eli Winchell
1803
Linus Bates
1815
Thaddeus Squire
Oliver Dickinson
1816 Nathan Curtiss
Moses Parsons
1817 Nathan Curtiss
Seth Phelps
Thaddeus Squire
Jesse Spelman
Thaddeus Squire
1818 Nancy Curtiss Thaddeus Squire
1799
Samuel Dodd Wilcox
1800
Linus Bates
Isaac Hardin Daniel Gillet Thaddeus Squire
David Robinson
Jesse Spelman
Newton Hayes
Moses Parsons
David Robinson
Samuel Dodd Wilcox
Thaddeus Squire
Jonathan Strickland
Samuel Dodd Wilcox
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Elihu Stow
Charles Phelps
1819
same as 1818
1820 same as 1818
1827 William B. Cooley Levi Curtiss Charles Phelps 1828 same as 1827
1821 Nancy Curtiss
William Henry
Elihu Stow
1829 Charles Phelps John Phelps Henry Squires
Elihu Stow
1830
William B. Cooley Charles Phelps Henry Squires
1824 Levi Curtiss Israel M. Parsons
Lyman Root
1825 Levi Curtiss
1831 Levi S. Parsons Charles Phelps Joel Root
Israel M. Parsons Charles Phelps
Elijah Seymour
William H. Squires
1826 Levi Curtiss
After 1831 licenses sometimes contained some information as to the location of the licensed premises.
1832
Barlow Clark, at the Corners 1843
same as 1842
Charles Phelps, in the East Parish
1845
Timothy M. Cooley, 2nd
Elijah Seymour, in the East Parish
1847
Levi Brown, in the East Parish Daniel D. Taylor
William H. Squire, in the Middle Parish 1848
Alpha Rockwell, in the Middle Parish
1833 none of record
1834
Charles Phelps
1849
Levi Brown, in East Gran- ville
1835
Charles Phelps
Augustin Holcomb, at the Corners David Merwin
William H. Squire
1836 none of record
1850
same as 1849
1837 Frank Baker
1851
Levi Brown
1838
Charles Phelps
1852
same as 1851
Elijah Seymour
1853
same as 1851
1839 Charles Phelps
1854
none of record
1840 Charles Phelps Abial H. Pease
1856
none of record
Elijah Seymour
1857
Levi Brown
1841 none of record
1858
same as 1857
1842 Francis Clark
1859
same as 1857
Timothy M. Cooley, 2nd
1860
Samuel S. Marks, at the Old Tavern Stand, West Gran-
Charles Phelps
1844
same as 1842
1846 none of record
Elijah Seymour
Elijah Seymour
1855
none of record
1822 Levi Curtiss Nancy Curtiss
1823 same as 1822
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ville. (This was the Hotel, 1861 Horace H. Parsons, at the Old Tavern Stand.
at that time the first build- ing east of the store.)
The records from here on are exceedingly fragmentary.
1868 Sparrow Crosby, at Union 1878 to 1912 Columbus Wilcox, at Hotel, Granville Hill the Hotel, Granville village Goodrich E. Moore, at Phelps 1917 to 1919 Mrs. John M. Ste- Hotel, Granville Corners venson, at Oriole Inn, Gran-
Horace H. Parsons, at the Old Stand, West Granville
ville Center. (Accommoda- tions in summer only.)
In addition to the foregoing, old residents recall that others kept taverns in Granville, whether with or without licenses does not appear. Among those remembered are :
Augusta Hayes Dwight Merriam William Wallace
List of those having retail licenses (Liquor not to be drunk on the premises )
1778 Thomas L. Lloyd
1779 none of record
1780 Thomas L. Lloyd
Daniel Penfield
Robert Spelman
Abel Tillotson
1787 Oliver Phelps
John Wright
1788
Thomas Burbank
1781 Nathaniel Bates
Oliver Phelps
Thomas Hull
1789 none of record
1782 Thomas Hull
1790
Enoch Bancroft
Thomas L. Lloyd
1791 Enoch Bancroft Seth Phelps Bela Scovil
Thomas L. Lloyd
1792
Phelps and Penfield (probably Oliver Phelps and Daniel Penfield ) Israel Parsons
John Phelps Seth Phelps Abel Tillotson
1784
Oliver Phelps
Phineas Pickett and Phineas Squire James Coe
1785
Israel Parsons
Oliver Phelps
1794 Thomas Burbank Ichabod Clark Seth Phelps
Phineas Pickett
1795
Seth Phelps
David Robinson
1796 same as 1795
1793 Thomas Burbank Ichabod Clark Seth Phelps David Robinson
1783 Thomas Hull
1786 Amos Hall Oliver Phelps David Robinson
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1797 Edmund Barlow, Jr. William Hatch Seth Phelps
Reuben Hills Joseph Parsons Joel Root
1798
none of record
1818 same as 1817
1799 none of record
1800 Thaddeus Squire
1819 Reuben Hills Joseph Parsons Joel Root
1801 Israel Parsons
Joel Root Thaddeus Squire Francis Stebbins
1820
Noah Cooley Joseph Parsons Joel Root William Terry
1802
none of record
1803 none of record
1804 Daniel M. Cooley
1821 Noah Cooley Joel Root William Terry
Daniel Gillet Joel Root
1805 William Cooley, Jr. Daniel M. Cooley Daniel Gillet
Joel Root
1806 Jonathan Barlow William Cooley, Jr. Daniel Gillet
1822 Noah Cooley William B. Cooley Joseph Parsons Joel Root 1823 same as 1822 1824 Noah Cooley William B. Cooley Joel Root Lyman Root William Seymour Jesse B. Spelman
1807 Daniel M. Cooley William Cooley, Jr.
1808 none of record
1809 none of record
1825
1810 Job Avery
Samuel Blair
Noah Cooley William B. Cooley Joel Root William Seymour Jesse B. Spelman
Amos M. Collins Joseph Ecolls
Eli Hall
1826 Noah Cooley William B. Cooley Joel Root
1811
none of record
1827
same as 1826
1812 Reuben Hills Joseph Parsons Joel Root
1828
1813 none of record
1814 Noah Cooley Reuben Hills Joel Root 1829
Noah Cooley William B. Cooley Joel Root Lyman Root Elijah Seymour
1815 Noah Cooley Joel Root
1816 same as 1815
1817 Noah Cooley
J. Cooley Noah Cooley John Phelps Joel Root Seymour Root
Isaac Hardin
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Henry Squire
1830
Noah Cooley
Timothy M. Cooley, 2nd
Joel and Lyman Root Elijah Seymour Henry Squire
Elijah Seymour, at store in East Parish same as 1834
1831
Timothy M. Cooley, 2nd 1835
1832
Timothy M. Cooley, 2nd, at 1836
store in East Parish 1837
Vincent Holcomb, at his office none of record
Elijah Seymour, at store in East Parish
1838
Lyman Root, at store in East Parish
1839
Levi H. Parsons, at store in Middle Parish
1840
William H. Squire, at store in Middle Parish
Joel Root, at his store Elijah Seymour, at his store Timothy M. Cooley, 2nd, at store of Cooley & Gibbons Timothy M. Cooley, 2nd, at store of Cooley & Gibbons Elijah Seymour, at store in East Parish
1833 none of record
No record of retail liquor licenses is found after 1840, until 1881.
1881 Columbus Wilcox, at the Ho- 1883 none of record
tel in Granville Corners 1884 Columbus Wilcox, at Hotel in Granville
1882 Henry Soule, in West Gran-
ville
1885
same as 1884
Columbus Wilcox, at the Ho- tel in Granville Corners
1834 Timothy M. Cooley, 2nd, at store in East Parish Joel Root, at his shop in East Parish
There has been no license for the sale of intoxicating liquor in the Town of Granville since 1885.
Addendum
The Story of a Village Library By LAVINIA ROSE WILSON
Introduction
I T IS very difficult for people of today, when wages are high and money is plentiful, actually to realize the financial situation of nearly sixty years ago when the Granville Library Club was organ- ized. In those days, for a small group of women to set themselves to raise enough money to build and equip a library was an almost unheard-of undertaking. It was a task far harder than it would now be to raise five times the same amount.
To commemorate the work of these courageous women, this short paper, most of which was written in 1906, with a few additions to include some of the later work of the Club, is now presented as an Addendum to the History of Granville.
LAVINIA ROSE WILSON
Granville, November 15, 1953
The Story of a Village Library
W E ARE all more or less familiar with present-day workings of the Granville Library, but not so much so with the struggles to get it started-and they were indeed very real struggles. It is of these struggles that this paper tells.
Nowadays we are apt to take the Library for granted, much as we do our schools; but in my girlhood, it was quite different. Then the nearest approach to a public library was the very limited collec- tion of books in the Sunday Schools; in fact, one of the attractions of Sunday School was that you could get a book to take home and read during the week.
So imagine yourself, if you will, to be looking at the pink and green map of New England in your old school geography. On the boundary line between the Nutmeg State and the Old Bay State, just west of the Connecticut River, you will see the pink of Massa- chusetts jutting down into the green of Connecticut. The little Massachusetts town which occupies the section just northwest of this jog is Granville.
Like a good many New England towns in the hill districts, the scanty population is scattered over an area of about forty square miles with three small villages as centers, Granville, Granville Cen- ter and West Granville, each one once having its own schoolhouse, store, post office and church, and a farming population living along the outlying country roads. The two western villages are distinctly farming communities, but Granville proper, formerly called the Corners, with not over 300 souls all told, is a manufacturing com- munity although now nearly twenty miles from the nearest railroad center.
As one might expect, there are some families who, though perhaps not rich in the modern sense of the word, are really well-to-do; but life for the most means daily work. Naturally, too, there are some who enter deeply into the problems of the day and the intellectual treasures of past and present ; but they, too, belong to the few, and there is no literary club, even so-called. The boys and girls, as they
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grow up, either go away to school and then into business or profes- sional life elsewhere; or, without completing the excellent school course furnished by the town, enter the factories, work on the farm, or do odd jobs here and there. And in the latter case, they are very apt to drift.
Such, then, were conditions in 1896 when the wife of one of our leading business men, a woman of the noblest ideals, saw primarily the needs of the boys and girls; and out of her efforts to help them grew our Library, one of the most beautiful and best equipped in any town of comparable size. Coming from one of our great cities where church, Young Men's Christian Association, and other organizations do so much to provide social life distinctly for young people and to afford them a common meeting-place which shall be not only thoroughly desirable, but open to them at any time, Mrs. Ralph B. Cooley realized the lack of exactly that element and thought she might help Granville most in that particular way. The Town, in compliance with the Library Act of 1890, had appropri- ated a small amount of money and had then received one hundred dollars' worth of books from the State. All these were placed in the chapels in Granville and Granville Center, in charge of the ministers or some interested person and were accessible to the public one afternoon a week. Accommodations were lamentably insufficient and neither books nor people could be properly cared for.
So, on February 11, 1896, Mrs. Cooley invited to her home twelve women and laid before them her hopes. The Granville Library Club, with Mrs. Cooley as its President, was immediately organized and its purpose distinctly stated: "To erect a library building containing a library and reading-room and also a room provided with suitable attractions and amusements for both young men and young women." The original members were :
Mrs. Ralph B. Cooley, President Miss Nellie C. Noble, Vice-President
Miss Cora A. Noble, Secretary and Treasurer Mrs. Orville R. Noble
Mrs. Silas B. Root Mrs. Cittie Huddleston
Mrs. Mary Gill Mrs. Emma Barlow
Mrs. Milo E. Seymour
Mrs. E. N. Henry
Mrs. Nell Gibbons
Mrs. Alice Carpenter Miss Clara E. Wilcox
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Of these thirteen charter members, only two are now living, Mrs. Cittie Huddleston and Miss Clara Wilcox. Some years ago when Mrs. Huddleston moved away from Granville, she resigned from the Club though still showing her interest in it. So now the only remaining member of the Club who was one of the original members is Miss Clara E. Wilcox.
Next came the all-important question of finance, not "How should it be done ?", but "How could it be done ?". The personnel of the Club then came to the front. The members had been chosen not because of their financial or literary qualifications, though these were well represented, but for their personal qualities. Some were women of independent means; some earned their own living by working in the factory; there were some whose husbands had an average daily wage, one whose husband received only one dollar a day; and one who had absolutely no pin-money to call her own. Clearly, then, it was not a question of writing checks for the desired amount. The money must be earned, and to this very fact is due in great measure the wholesome interest which the Club aroused. Each member pledged ten dollars a year which she should earn, and more if pos- sible. In addition to this individual effort, they were to work as a Club. Now recall, please, the situation, population and environment of the town. Consider, too, that with the exception of two generous gifts, practically all the money was raised in the one small village of Granville, that the Club was started only in 1896, that in Novem- ber, 1901, the building was completed at a total cost of more than $13,000-and you will have some idea of the zeal and self-denial with which those few women worked.
To get a true picture of conditions then, we should remember that a pound of cheese cost only 16¢; a quart of the best milk, 5¢; an excellent and substantial three course dinner in one of Westfield's best restaurants, only 25¢. This dinner consisted of a large plate of soup-not a few spoonfuls in a cup-, a very generous serving of roast beef or pork with potatoes and two other vegetables, plenty of bread and butter, a large piece of pie, and coffee or tea. Twenty- five cents ! Think of it ! Then for fifty cents, you could have a really deluxe dinner in one of Springfield's best hotels. So when these
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women pledged themselves to earn ten dollars a year, apiece, it really was something.
Immediately after the adjournment of its first meeting, the Club resolved itself into individual committees of ways and means, and many an hour was spent in careful thought, for one of the first principles was that for whatever was done, only the current com- mercial value should be asked; that every article sold should be not simply attractive, but useful and fully worth its price. In short, that buyers were always to receive their money's worth and that no one should feel that, since it was for a good cause, one was expected to pay double price for what was not wanted.
The record of the first two or three years shows the common sense ideas which the members had, as well as the business insight which saw what could be most advantageously turned into dollars and cents. One woman who lived upon a farm where arbutus ran riot gathered and sent to a neighboring city enough to bring her six of the necessary ten dollars. Later in the year, she herself picked and sold the fruit from some of their cherry trees; and during winter evenings she knitted many a pair of mittens. This was Mrs. Alice Carpenter.
Growing along some of the tiny brooks were quantities of sweet flag. One member hired a boy to gather the roots for her at intervals during the summer. After being cleaned, sliced and sugared, they were sold in five-cent packets. This proved not only very attractive, but very profitable. It was Clara Wilcox who did this. She also knitted bed socks and mittens.
The Club President, Mrs. Ralph B. Cooley, who had a garden noted for its delicious strawberries, sold those which were not wanted for home use and always found an eager market. Then, a little later, being a shrewd business woman, she exchanged a thor- oughly good but cast-off overcoat of her husband's for the year's yield of a neighbor's crab-apple tree. These crab apples she had picked and sent to a dealer in New York, so commanding the best price, and realized a little over thirteen dollars from that venture alone.
Two other Club members, Mrs. Ann Noble and Mrs. Nell Gib- bons, joined forces and on every Saturday afternoon during the
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summer sold ice-cream. This proved to be especially attractive since there was at that time no place in town where it could be bought, and many an order was taken for the Sunday-dinner supply. They also made lemonade for the Saturday ball games and so earned the gratitude, as well as nickels, of a thirsty public.
Mrs. Cittie Huddleston made pop corn balls for Saturday sale and so delighted the hearts of the small boys. She also made hulled corn-an old-time dish which we now seldom see.
Mrs. Silas Root, near whose home was a small unused field, had this land plowed and sowed to turnips. A good yield resulted and much more than the required amount was easily earned. Being an excellent cook, she also made and sold doughnuts.
Miss Nellie Noble, who had a gift for painting, took orders for calendars and the like at Christmas time, and so solved her problem. Her sister, Miss Cora Noble, laundered fine lace curtains and sold specially prepared jellies.
Mrs. Emma Barlow earned her ten dollars by doing housework for a neighbor.
Mrs. Hattie Oysler, who joined the Club not long after it was started, made and sold carpenter's aprons, something which at that time happened to be specially needed. Then on one day each week, for a certain length of time, she sold clam chowder to the men from the factory-not an easy way of earning her share, but a very practical one.
Mrs. Emma Holcomb, another woman not a charter member, made her money by doing her own washing and ironing and, most significant of all, by "going without things." In that lies the key to the whole situation. It meant self-denial in the sense that one gave up present personal wishes for future general good.
Then, to speak briefly of the work of the Club as a whole: in November, 1896, a fair was held, the first in twenty-five years, if you can credit such a seemingly impossible statement. This brought in nearly $500.00. The chief interest in this fair centered around a beautifully dressed French doll given by the Club President. A great many tickets had been sold allowing purchasers to guess its name, the doll to go, of course, to the one guessing correctly. The name proved to be Celia ; and through a fortunate chain of circumstances,
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the doll was immediately given back to the Club to be sold again that evening. She was put up at auction, sold and again returned for selling, and so for the third time brought a good price. All told, she netted the Club just $112.00. The name "Celia" was chosen because that was the name of Mr. Ralph Cooley's mother.
Following this came a package sale, an auction, a birthday social, and a strawberry festival; but these were soon discontinued and all efforts concentrated upon the November fair which came to be an annual event looked forward to with great interest. Not only do townspeople go, but there is a good representation from nearby towns. Westfield merchants, who draw considerable trade from the Granville people, have remembered us very kindly, some by a barrel of flour or the like, or a money equivalent. At the fair, there is always a fancy work booth where one can buy really beautiful em- broideries and other hand-work. However, most of the attention is given to distinctly useful articles and many a thrifty housewife plans to get there her yearly supply of aprons for they are of various styles, home-made, of the best materials, and at a price only a little more than the actual cost of the gingham or lawn. The same thing is done in the line of handkerchiefs and, while there are some not home- made, most are dainty hem-stitched affairs with a touch of lace or embroidery at about the cost of bare materials. A candy table and fish-pond for the children and a flower table for the grown-ups also help to please, as well as a very generous booth where one can buy vegetables, fruits, home-made jellies, pickles and relishes, or even fowls. In connection with the fair, a very unusual chicken-pie supper is always served at a moderate price and there are few who do not take advantage of it. Because the fair and supper are distinctly practical, they are always well attended and ordinarily net about $500.00.
At the end of their third year, the Club had banked nearly $3,000.00. Then Mr. Milton B. Whitney of Westfield, a native of Granville, offered to give $5,000.00 for a Library if the Town would give a like amount, the entire sum to go only into the building and its furnishings. After this offer had been made, the Club decided to raise as much money as possible among the citizens by subscrip- tion, and in this way secured $1,800.00 in amounts varying from fifty
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