History of Cheshire and Sullivan counties, New Hampshire, Part 133

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. W. Lewis
Number of Pages: 1200

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The " Sullivan Musical Association " grew out of a large singing-school held in the Con- gregational Church in this town in August and September, 1872, under the direction of Wil- liam P. Dale, of Fitchburg, Mass. It is prob- able that Mr. Dale was here at the suggestion or invitation of Rev. Mr. Scott, then pastor of the Congregational Church. The class was made up of singers from the church choirs in Newport and the adjoining towns. Two or three concerts were given and the exercises otherwise were of great interest, so much so that at the close of the school the friends of musical culture and the lovers of music came together and organized the association above named.

The officers then chosen were Rev. G. R. W. Scott, president; M. R. Emerson, vice-president ; Granville Pollard, treasurer ; Arthur B. Chase, secretary ; Executive Com- mittee,-A. W. Perkins (Claremont), S. S. Bowers (Newport), M. B. Presby (Bradford), Alden Sabin (Lempster), E. D. Comings (Croy- don).

Its officers during the succeeding years have been : 1874-75, M. B. Presby, president ; Rev. H. C. Leavitt, vice-president. 1876-79, Rev. H. C. Leavitt, president ; Francis Boardman, vice-president. 1880-85, E. D. Comings, president ; George E. Dame, vice-president. Granville Pollard and A. B. Chase have con- tinued to fill the offices of treasurer and secre- tary, excepting that Mr. Chase resigned in 1884, and H. P. Coffin was chosen in his stead.

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Executive Committee, 1885: Newport, S. S. Bowers, A. S. Wait, Seth M. Richards, J. W. Parmelee, B. R. Allen, C. S. Partridge, H. P. Coffin ; Croydon, E. D. Comings ; Cornish, E. G. Kenyon ; Acworth, W. S. Woodbury ; Sunapee, Nathan A. Smith ; Newbury, M. W. Cheney ; New London, A. C. Burpee ; Goshen, Mrs. James Trow ; Claremont, C. M. Leet, Miss M. E. Partridge ; Langdon, Martin Bas- com ; Lempster, George E. Perley ; Meriden, Josiah Davis, Converse Cole ; Sutton, John Merrill, Frederick Keezer ; Grantham, Rufus Hall ; Springfield, Jonathan Sanborn, Charles McDaniel ; Washington, George Brockway ; Plainfield, Willie Freeman ; Henniker, A. D. Huntoon ; Lebanon, D. J. Hurlbut, E. H. Thompson ; Bellows Falls, C. L. Barber; Bradford, A. W. Chellis ; Salem, M. B. Presby.

Musical Conductors : 1873, Solon Wilder, of Boston ; 1874-79, L. O. Emerson, of Boston ; 1880, J. P. Cobb, of Boston ; 1881, L. O. Emerson, of Boston ; 1882-84, Carl Zerrahn, of Boston.

Pianists : 1873, Mrs. J. P. Cobb, of Bos- ton ; 1874, Mrs. Martha Dana Shepard, of Boston; 1875, T. P. Rider, of Boston ; 1876 to 1884, Mrs. Martha Dana Shepard, of Bos- ton.

The executive committee have, from year to year, secured artists of distinguished ability in the leading vocal parts and as humorists and readers. The grand chorus of from one hundred and fifty to two hundred voices, comprising singers from church choirs and others gathered for instruction, is a notable feature of the Asso- ciation. The conventions are held annually at the town hall in Newport, and generally oc- cupy the last full week in the month of Au- gust. On account of the destruction of the hall, there was no convention in 1885. The record of the Association for thirteen years, finan- cially and otherwise, has been one of distin- guished success. Its tendency has been to im- prove the musical taste and culture of its

patrons, and it has come to be one of the substantial and well-appreciated institutions of the town. The new town hall is expected to be in order for the convention of 1886.

MASONIC.

On the 12th of June, 1816, a dispensation was granted by William H. Underwood, Grand Master of Masons in New Hampshire, to Ar- nold Ellis and ten others, to form and open a Masonic lodge at Newport, by the name of Corinthian Lodge, No. 28. On the 21st of June following, the first meeting was held, when officers were chosen and the lodge was duly organized. The first regular communi- cation of the lodge was held at Colonel Luther Delano's hall on July 2, A.L. 5816, and the lodge was opened on the first degree of Ma- sonry. A charter was afterwards obtained from the Grand Lodge (November 12, 1816) and the lodge was duly constituted and its officers installed. On the records of this lodge may be found the initiatory step leading to temperance reform in Newport, when, at a regular meeting on the 1st day of September, 1818, it was " Voted, That no ardent spirits shall be hereaf- ter introduced into our lodge during lodge hours."

The Corinthian Lodge was increased by the addition to its membership of many of the leading citizens of Newport and the adjoining towns, and continued to prosper until the time of the Morgan disclosures and abduction, which occurred in Western New York in September, 1826. The lodge continued to hold its monthly meetings with but feeble support until May, 1833, after which the charter was surren- dered.

MOUNT VERNON LODGE .- Mount Vernon Lodge, No. 15, was originally located in the town of Washington. In the year 1848, by authority of the Grand Lodge, it was removed to Newport. Its first meeting here was held on the 10th of July, of that year, Brother Jonas Parker being Worshipful Master, Lewis Un-

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derwood Senior Warden and John Gunnison Junior Warden, all residing in the town of Goshen, and Daniel M. Smith, of Lempster, Secretary. At this communication Brother Harvey Huntoon, of Unity, acted as Senior Deacon; Naylor Starbird, of Newport, as Jun- ior Deacon ; Oliver Lund, of Newport, as Treasurer; and John Carr, of Newport, as Tiler; and Brothers John Silver, Harvey Huntoon, Naylor Starbird, Amos Little, Seth Richards, Oliver Lund and Mason Hatch, all formerly members of the Corinthian Lodge, were, on a vote by ballot, admitted members of Mount Vernon Lodge.

On the removal of the lodge to Newport its meetings were first held in a hall prepared for its reception in the building known as " Matson Block," where it remained until the year 1872, when its increased membership and importance demanded more ample accommodations. In view of this state of things, arrangements were made with Dexter Richards, a member of the lodge, who prepared an elegant hall and ad- joining apartments for the use of the lodge, in the upper story of his building, known as Che- ney Block. On the 13th of November, 1872, this hall was publicly dedicated to the patron saints of the order by the Grand Lodge of the State of New Hampshire.

From the period of its removal from Wash- ington the career of Mount Vernon Lodge has been attended with great prosperity and an ex- tended influence for good as inculcated by the Masonic creed and order. The names of those who have been Worshipful Masters of the lodge since its removal to Newport are as fol- lows :

Jonas Parker, 1848-49; Levi Underwood, 1849-50; Virgil Chase, 1850-51 ; John Puffer, 1851-52; Thomas Sanborn, 1852-53; James Karr, 1853-54; Benjamin M. Gilmore, 1854-55; D. W. Watkins, 1855-56 ; Charles H. Little, 1856-57 ; Charles Emerson, 1857-58; William E. Moore, 1858-60 ; Thomas San- born, 1860-61; Jonas Parker, 1861-62; John Young, Jr., 1862-65; Matthew Harvey, 1865-67; Albert S. Wait, 1867-69; David McLauchlin, 1869-71; Josiah |

Turner, 1871-73 ; Henry M. Ingram, 1873-75; Arthur H. Ingram, 1875-76; John Young, 1876-77; F. A. Rawson, 1877-80; A. W. Rounsevel, 1880-83; Abia- thar Richards, 1884.

Present officers, 1885 : Worshipful Master, Abiathar Richards ; Senior Warden, F. P. Me- serve ; Junior Warden, E. Hatch Carr, Goshen ; Treasurer, F. A. Rawson ; Secretary, William H. Wright.

CHAPTER OF THE TABERNACLE .- On June 19, 1872, a dispensation was granted by Ed- ward Gustine, of Keene, Grand High Priest of the State, to A. S. Wait, of Newport; John Young, of Sunapee ; Albina H. Powers, of Croydon ; and nine other Royal Arch Masons of Webb Chapter, at Claremont, to open a Roy- al Arch Chapter, at Newport, by the name of "Chapter of the Tabernacle," in which the three companions named were designated, re- spectively, High Priest, King and Scribe.

At the convocation of the Grand Chapter of the State in May, 1873, a charter was granted to this chapter, and on the 19th of the follow- ing February it was duly constituted, and its officers installed. Incumbents as High Priests : A. S. Wait, 1872-76 ; A. W. Rounsevel, 1877 -80; George C. Edes, 1881-82; D. G. Chad- wick, 1882-84 ; Daniel P. Quimby, 1885.

Present officers, 1885 : High Priest, D. P. Quimby ; King, F. A. Rawson ; Scribe, Henry M. Ingram ; Treasurer, Dexter Richards ; Sec- retary, Charles H. Little.

ODD-FELLOWS.

SUGAR RIVER LODGE, I. O. O. F., was instituted May 25, 1874, under the direction of M. T. Tottingham, Grand Master of the State, assisted by S. J. Osgood, D. G. M .; George A. Cummings, Grand Warden ; Joel Taylor, Grand Secretary ; Amos Jones, G. R .; R. M. Blanchi- ard, Grand Marshal; and E. A. Cotting, Grand Conductor.

The original petitioners for the lodge were Obadiah Johnson, W. H. Raymond, S. M. Richards, F. A. Rawson, George F. Livermore, S. C. Coffin, H. C. Tenney, W. S. Kempton,

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L. A. Richardson, A. S. Chase, C. S. Par- tridge, A. W. Clarke, R. W. Tilton, G. H. Dar- ricott, H. P. Griswold, M. W. Burke, M. L. Whittier, C. H. Matthews and Charles H. Watts.

From its institution until August 9, 1880, the lodge occupied a hall in the third story, north end of Richards' Block. Afterwards it removed to elegantly decorated and furnished apartments in the upper story of the town hall, where the lodge first met August 16, 1880. This hall was dedicated October 4, 1880, by Grand Master John H. Albin, assisted by Dep- uty Grand Master Robie, Past Grand Masters George A. Cummings and Joseph B. Smart. These apartments were leased for a term of twenty-five years, and were the home of the lodge until June 21, 1885, when the town hall and most of its contents were destroyed by fire. The loss of the lodge in regalias, fixtures, fur- niture, ete., was estimated at about two thousand five hundred dollars, on which there was an in- surance of fifteen hundred dollars, which was paid over in due time. The lodge then leased for a term of twenty years a spacious hall and other apartments in the south end, third floor of Richards' Bloek, which were appropriately fitted up and dedicated to the uses of the order in December, 1885.

In connection with this lodge the Stony Brook Encampment was instituted March 30, 1880.

" Visit the siek." The number of weeks of siekness reported during the eleven years of the existence of the lodge, and which have been visited as found necessary, is two hundred and fifty-two.

" Relieve the distressed." The amount of cash paid for the relief of members of the lodge is nine hundred and twenty-one dollars. For sojourners in this jurisdiction of members of other lodges, which amount has been refund- ed, $109.25.

" Bury the dead." Three brothers and ten sisters have been buried in accordance with the rules of the order.

" Educate the orphan." No call has been made for this purpose, but the lodge stands ready to fulfill this injunetion whenever it shall be found necessary.

Frank A. Rawson was elected Grand Master of the State in 1881, and in 1882-83, Grand Representative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge, I. O.O.F.

CHAPTER IV.

NEWPORT-( Continued).

EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND THE PRESS.

EDUCATION .- The value of intelligence flow- ing from mental culture was appropriately esti- mated by the founders of New England.

The subject of education received early atten- tion in the town of Newport. Before the fam- ilies of the first settlers had increased to any great extent arrangements were made for school purposes. The first publie building, the Pro- prietors' House, erected in 1772-73, was intend- ed in part as a public school-house. Referring to the earliest public record in regard to schools, we find the following :

" March 8, 1784, Voted, That there shall be four pounds, lawful money, paid out of the town treasury towards the support of a school the ensueing sum- mer-to be paid in grain at the market price."

The next year arrangements were made for two terms of school during the year, as follows : " March 14, 1775, Voted, To pay five pounds', law- ful money, worth of grain to support a school ; one- half is to support a school in the summer, and the other half in the winter. Wheat at five shillings per bushel and Rye at three shillings and nine-pence per bushel."

Josiah Stevens, who came from Killingworth to Alstead in 1767, and to Newport in 1771, then a young man about thirty years of age, was the schoolmaster of that time.

During the Revolutionary period, which af- ter this greatly enlisted the attention and ener-

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gies of the people, no public appropriations ap- pear to have been made for the support of schools, and for the time they were dependent on the private subscriptions of parties inter- ested.

In 1783 and for some years after, Rev. John Remele, the first settled pastor of the Congrega- tional Church, officiated as teacher as well as preacher, and we are sure that he made good and lasting impressions upon the minds of his pupils, of whom the immediate progenitor of the writer was onc. Another, Rev. James Hill Parmelee, refers to him as " a good scholar and teacher, and a man of much wit and humor."

This was School District No. 1. As the years went on, and the population increased, other districts were organized. No. 1 extended from the " plain " to the Unity line. No. 2 covered the territory occupied by the village. No. 3 the region about Kelleyville. No. 4 the East Mountain. No. 5 the neighborhood of Guild Post-Office. No. 6 the vicinity of Northville. These districts were afterwards subdivided and in 1873 there were eighteen school districts in the town of Newport.

In the spring of 1874 the village districts, four in number, in accordance with legislative aets for the establishment of graded schools in the larger towns as might be desirable to pro- mote the efficiency of school-work, voted in their several meetings to unite and form one district.

To this end committees of three were ap- pointed from each district, to confer and settle upon the terms of this union. At a meeting of the people of the several districts, held May 13, 1874, the report of this general committee was considered and unanimously adopted, and Union School District was organized. Richard S. Howe, Edmund Wheeler and George R. Brown were, at the same meeting, chosen a committee to make arrangements in regard to school buildings and rooms, and take other necessary action to put the graded schools in operation.

The ercetion of the new county building, in 1873, had thrown the old town hall and court- house out of use. It was apparent that these premises might be utilized for school purposes without much labor or expense.

A town-meeting was called, at which it was voted unanimously to convey the same to Union District for the term of ninety-nine years, pro- vided they be put in suitable order, kept in good repair and that the district should main- tain therein for a term of not less than twenty weeks each year a grammar school, without ex- pense to the town, the inhabitants of other dis- triets in town having the privilege of sending their scholars to any department of the school by paying a reasonable tuition fee.

By arrangement there were to be four prim- ary departments, which were each to occupy the four school buildings heretofore used by the former districts. The old town hall was par- titioned off and the Intermediate Department was assigned to the north room and the Gram- mar Department to the south room. The see- ond floor of the building, formerly the court- room, was fitted up for the use of the High School.

At first the affairs of the Union District came under the supervision of the superin- tending school committee of the town in com- mon with the outlying districts ; but, having assumed these proportions, it was thought ad- visable, for the sake of more independent action, to place the management of its affairs in the hands of a Board of Education, elected by the. district. Accordingly, at the next session of the Legislature, June, 1877, a special act was passed, authorizing such action, and at the an- nual school-meeting, in 1878, a Board of Edu- cation was elected, consisting of Edmund Wheeler, S. H. Edes, George W. Britton, T. B. Sanborn, A. S. Wait and George E. Dame. After some little practical experience the num- ber of persons comprising the board was found unnecessarily large, and it was reduced to three members, agreeably to the act. The term of

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office being three years, the construction of the board is such that there is one retiring member each year, the vacancy to be filled by the elec- tion of one new member annually.

The names of those who have served on the School Board are as follows :

Richard S. Howe, 1874-75, two years.

Edmund Wheeler, 1874-81, eight years.

George R. Brown, 1874, one year. S. L. Bowers, 1875-77, three years. S. II. Edes, 1876-78, three years.

George W. Britton, 1878-79, two years.

Thomas B. Sanborn, 1878, one year.

A. S. Wait, 1878, one year.

George E. Dame, 1878, one year.

Mrs. L. W. Barlow, 1879, one year.

Miss Georgia E. Wilcox, 1880, one year.

Mrs. Harriet S. Jenks, 1880-82, three years. Joseph W. Parmelee, 1881-85, five years. Dana J. Mooney, 1882-85, four years.

David M. Currier, 1883-85, three years.

The teachers who have had charge of the High-School are as follows :

1874,-George R. Brown, Emily Leavitt (assistant).

1875 .- H. A. Hutchinson, C. E. Blake, George Dodge.

1876 .- Cynthia F. Payne. 1876-77 .- Herbert J. Barton.

1878 .- Frank S. Hotaling.

1879-84 .- Hartstein W. Page, Mattie M. Chellis (assistant).

1884-85 .- Stephen A. Snow, Mattie M. Chellis (as- sistant).

1885-86 .- Charles O. Thurston, A.B., Carrie M. Deming (assistant).

The graduates are as follows :

1877 .- Fred. Allen, Frank Hanson, Isaac Stone.

1878 .- Georgie Barnard, Addie Blood, Ella Foote, Lois Hurd, Emma Howe, Lillian Wells, Mary Wiley, John McCrillis, Frank Chellis, Fred. Nettleton.

1879 .- Sadie Cutting, Etta Fletcher, Lillian Fletcher, May Howard, Alice Howe, Lillian Kemp- ton, Emma Nourse, Ralph Howard.

1880 .- Kate Chellis, Nellie Clough, Zilpha Cut- ting, May Parker, Carrie Watts, Homer Graves, Charles Emerson, George Lewis, R. Wilkins.

1881 .- Florence Barton, Nellie Chase, Loxa Ellis, Emma Gilmore, Margaret Gilmore, Grace Nourse, Grace Royce, Fred. Aiken, Fred. Carr, George A. Fairbanks, Henry Fletcher, Benjamin Pliny Holbrook, Robert Jenks, Charles Royce, William Walker.

1882 .- Alice Carr, Spedie A. Clough, Abbie R. Cut- ting, Cora B. Dodge, May E. Emmons, Leslie C. Hun- tress, Mary E. Reardon, Elmer H. Cutts, Charles V. Frenel, John Herrick, Herman A. Kibbey, Charles Nutting, Philip Robinson, John C. Silsby.

1883 .- Frances W. Cutting, Rosa Bell Dodge, Julia Ann Herrick, Charles Edward Holbrook, Mary Leslie Jenks, Frank Eugene Warren.

1884 .- John P. Reardon, Ora L. Walker.

1885 .- William Fletcher, Joseph Chapin Kimball, Ralph Stevens Pollard, Fred. Truman Pollard, Frank Amasa Robinson, Charles Herbert Towle, Mary Beck, Stella May Britton, Viola Almira Cutting, Hattie Burt Haskell, Edith Abbie Mooney, Lizzie Viola Woodbury.

Total, 79-boys, 38; girls, 41.

In addition to the ordinary advantages for edu- cation afforded by the public schools, the people of Newport have sometime enjoyed oppor- tunities for a more advanced culture. Going back to the year 1819, we find an organization known as the Newport Academy.

This institution was anthorized by an act of the Legislature, June 24, 1810. Its incorpor- ators were of the leading citizens of the town.

It was for many years under the supervision of a board of trustees, consisting of James Breek, Joseph Farnsworth, James D. Wolcott, John B. McGregor, Alexander Boyd and Hub- bard Newton. It had no permanent fund as a basis of support, but was dependent upon the tuition fees of the scholars, the trustees guaran- teeing the preceptor the sum of four hundred dollars per annum.

The home of this institution was a two-story building, in white paint, occupying a lot on the south side of the present Elm Street, near the east end of the bridge across the South Branch. The lower floor was occupied by the school in District No. 2, and the upper story as the academy. The building was long known as the " White School-house," and was afterward

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moved to the present site of the Congregational parsonage and used for a vestry and school- honse, and ultimately destroyed by fire No- vember 2, 1843.

Thus perished the old White School-house, a noted structure in its day, towards which the recollection of many now living will turn with interest and pleasure.

After the year 1834 the Newport Academy occupied the court-house, and sometimes the lower story of the Baptist meeting-house, which was fitted up for school purposes in 1841. From 1819 till 1873, when the High School in Union District took the place of the academy, there were thirty-five different instructors or preceptors of the academy.

The names of the preceptors of the Newport Academy are as follows :

1819 .- William Shedd. 1820 .-- Christopher Marsh. 1821-23 .- William Clark, A.B. 1825 .- Amasa Edes, Harriet Cook.

1826 .- Josiah Peabody.

1827 .- William Heath.

1828 .- William Claggett.

1829 .- A. G. Hoyt, Miss S. Trask.

1829 .- Kendrick Metcalf.

1833 .- David Crosby (died in Nashua, 1881).

1835 .- Ursula Kelley.

1839 .- M. L. Eastman. 1840 .- Susan Woodward.

1841 .- Miss Colby (daughter of Governor Colby).

1842 .- Sarah O. Dickey.

1845 .- Abner S. Warner. 1848 .- William M. Guilford.

1848 .- J. C. Crooker. 1850 .- Charles Chapin. 1851 .- C. F. Remick.

1852 .- L. W. Barton, Lizzie F. Jewett (assistant). 1853 .- Mary B. Fitz.

1853 .- M. Bradford Boardman.

1855 .- John Paul. 1857 .- R. M. Gunnison.

1858 .- H. F. Hyde, Miss A. C. Baker, assistant.

1859 .- George P. Brooks, Miss F. A. Corbin (as- sistant).

1862 .- Eugene Lewis, A. F. Gleason (assistant).

1862 .- Sarah G. G. Gregg.

1863 .- A. H. Kimball.

1865 .- Mary Dwinell Chellis. 1866 .- Alfred F. Howard.

1870 .- George R. Brown, Miss Leavitt (assistant). 1873 .- Susan C. Eastman.

LITERATURE .- A careful estimate will show that of natives of Newport and others localized in the town since its first settlement, more than one hundred have been graduated from colle- giate institutions to engage in professional life and business affairs. Of some we have been able to give brief biographical sketches. To follow them all in their various departures we would be led to all parts of our own country, to other continents and the islands of the ocean, whither they have gone as soldiers, sailors, travelers and merchants, or as missionaries and educators.

In these latter regards we would find the Moores in Burmah ; Miss Jane Eliza Chapin in China; the Rowells and Chapins in the Hawaüan kingdom ; and Miss M. Lizzie Cum- mings, a daughter of Rev. Henry Cummings, a former pastor of the Congregational Church, to her duties as a teacher in the Huguenot Semi- nary at Wellington, Cape Colony, South Africa.

Others have a record in the literature of the country, and of the earliest of these was Rev. Carlos Wilcox, born in Newport, October 23, 1794, a graduate from Middlebury College, Vermont, a Congregational minister at Hart- ford, and afterward at Danbury, Conn., where he died in 1827. He published a book of ser- mons and was the author of many poems of much merit.

Sarah Josepha (Bnel) Hale, who died in Philadelphia, April 30, 1879, and who had been for more than fifty years the approved editor of Godey's Lady's Book, was a native of Newport, where she was born October 24, 1788. She married, October 13, 1813, David Hale, an attorney-at-law, by whose early decease, in 1822, she was left in widowhood with limited resources and five children (the oldest not over

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seven years of age) for maintenance and proper education.

Her father, Gordon Buel, was not in circum- stances to afford her any assistance. The gravity of her situation and future would have been appalling to one of less courage and ability. Up to this time her literary ventures had not been outside the columns of the village paper, in which she occasionally appeared over the signa- ture of Cornelia, and it is not probable that she indulged in any higher aspirations as a litter- ateur. The outlook was in another direction.

By the advice and aid of her best friends, she was induced to make arrangements with Miss Thyrza Hale, a sister of her deceased husband, for the prosecution of a business which seemed to promise more immediate and certain results. An advertisement in the New Hampshire Spec- tator of May 18, 1825, is authority as well as an interesting reminiscence in relation to this mat- ter. It states as follows :

" New Fancy Goods and Millinery. Mrs, and Miss Hale Have just received from Boston and New York a supply of the most Fashionable Spring and Sum- mer Goods which they offer for Sale as cheap as can be purchased at any other store in this vicinity. Brown cambricks, Figured Gauze, Silk & Mourning Bonnets, Caps and Head-dresses of the latest and most approved patterns kept constantly on hand. Miss Hale and a young Lady with her who is well acquainted with Mil- linary and Mantua-making will give constant atten- tion and cheerful attendance on all Ladies who please to favor them with their patronage. Feathers, Rags and Tow eloth received in payment for goods."

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History of Cheshire and Sullivan counties, New Hampshire, Part 133

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) Publication date: 1886 Publisher: Philadelphia : J. W. Lewis Number of Pages: 1200

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. W. Lewis
Number of Pages: 1200