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and gallery added ...... Aug. 25, death of William P. Abbott, aged sixty- nine years ...... September, J. H. Stillman & Co. commenced the manu- facture of misses' and ladies' boots and shoes in the Ashuelot shoe factory on Leverett street ...... September, Manchester & Keene railroad finished ...... Nov. 9, Hope steam mills property sold to Barrett Ripley for $50,000 ...... Nov. 5, there lay dead in Keene four old people, Mr. Ashley Mason, Mr. Carlton Parker, Mr. Louis Howe and Mrs. Louisa Holman, each leaving a partner in life and all of them having celebrated their golden weddings ...... November, Clarke's brick block completed ...... Novem- ber 22, death of Elijah Holbrook, aged seventy-two years, formerly pro- prietor of the Cheshire House ...... December, Burdett chair factory built. ... .. "Liberty Hall" opened in Clarke's block, Dec. 28, by K. L. G. bat- talion.
1881.
Ira W. Russell, mayor ...... Jan. 2, Nelson A. Bartlett killed near the "Gulf bridge," aged twenty-six years ...... Jan. 6, Mrs. Lizzie M. Converse elected librarian of the Keene Public Library ...... Jan. 13, the new city hall opened to the public ...... Beaver mills incorporated ...... Ashuelot shoe factory, Leverett street, totally destroyed by fire on the evening of Feb. 22; $1000 reward offered by the New Hampshire Fire Underwriters' Association for the conviction of the incendiary ...... April, Keene Public Library removed to the north store in the city hall building ...... J. Mason Reed removed his box factory business from Westport to Beaver mills ...... May 29, Gen. James Wilson died, aged eighty-four years ...... June 22, set- tees placed in Central park ...... John J. Allen, Jr., appointed special justice of the police court ...... Buckley H. Stone, a pensioner of the war of 1812. died June 24, aged eighty-four years ...... July, High School Cadets sup- plied with guns ...... July 7, license granted J. W. Peck & Co., to erect telephone poles and wires in the streets and highways of the city ...... Appropriation made for the purchase of an Amoskeag steam fire engine ...... Vulcanized Can Company commenced the manufacture of cans and packages ...... Joseph B. Abbott appointed special police justice ...... A private hospital opened on Water street, by Drs. Twitchell and Bridgman ...... Keene telephone exchange located in Nims' block ...... July 21, severe thunder storm, lightning struck A. B. Skinner's house on Roxbury street and water main in street was torn for a distance of six or eight hun- dred feet ...... Sept. 1, old Lamson tannery buildings removed, nearly 100 years old ...... Aug. 24, Daniel R. Calef, ticket agent and manager of the Western Union Telegraph office, died, aged forty-four years, and Charles H. Cutter appointed manager of the Western Union office ...... Aug. 24, George F. Starkweather died, aged sixty-six years ...... September, new exit for city hall constructed ...... Sept. 5, dark day, impossible to read at noon without a light ...... Cheshire County Telephone Company formed, telephone lines to South Keene and Marlboro completed ...... Passenger and postal cars built by the Cheshire Railroad Company in the Keene shops.
... .Keyes' block (built in 1833) enlarged ...... Nov. 12, John A. Thayer, jeweller, died, aged sixty-three years ...... Charles K. Colony opened the first silo for preserving ensilage constructed hereabouts, Nov. 22, in the
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presence of some thirty farmers ...... Dec. 1, S. S. Wilkinson & Co. removed their harness business to the new factory in rear of Lamson block ...... Mr. C. H. Cutter removed to Lincoln, Neb., and Fred H. Gove took charge of the Western Union Telegraph office ...... Keene Gas Light Company erected new works at a cost of $7,000, changed the method of making gas and reduced the price to $3.00 a thousand feet ...... A large walnut tree cut down near Asa Cole's, having 125 clearly defined rings ...... Dec. 8, death of Dr. Thomas B. Kittredge, at the age of seventy-nine years, one of the founders of St. James' parish ...... Dec. 16, new schoolhouse on Park avenue dedicated by District No. 10, the bell being a present to the district from John Symonds and a strip of additional land the gift of several gentlemen.
1882.
Ira W. Russell, mayor ...... Jan. 8, Rev. J. A. Leach resigned pastorate of Second Congregational church. Had been installed Sept. 16, 1869 ...... Jan. 17, death of Dr. Ira F. Prouty ...... March, City Physician Bridgman vaccinated 550 citizens ...... March 21, death of Peter B. Hayward, at the age of sixty-two years ...... Vulcanized Can Company removed to brick shop on Mechanic street ...... April 7, Henry C. Maxham, a well known Pullman car conductor and son-in-law of Master Mechanic Francis A. Perry, fell from his train and was killed, while nearing Danbury, N. H., aged thirty-five years ...... April, W. A. Barrett and L. P. Alden opened a new brick yard in rear of the Robinson place, on Main street ...... William W. Towne, for twelve years in Knowlton & Stone's hardware store and later of the firm of Towne & Jackson, died April 23, aged thirty-seven years ...... June, Ashuelot mills enlarged and the manufacture of hard wood furniture commenced ...... June 17, old building north of Lamson block torn down to be replaced by a three-story brick building for the use of the Keene Five Cents Savings bank and Messrs. Woodbury & Howard. ...... July 22, three Indian skeletons unearthed at H. M. Darling's on upper Court street and taken in charge by the Keene Natural History Society ...... Aug. 24, Col. George E. Waring presented plan for system of sewers to cost $85,000 and it was adopted ...... The Victor Wringer Com- pany commenced manufacture of wringers on Mechanic street ...... Aug. 21, dwelling house of George M. Gowen on Madison street burned to the ground, his three years old daughter perishing in the flames ...... L. W. Holmes resigned the office of city solicitor, to remove to Washington, D. C., and John T. Abbott was chosen to fill the vacancy ...... Aug. 28, Wesley L. Kirk, aged seventeen years, drowned while bathing in the Ashuelot river ...... Sept. 24, a freshet, highest for fifteen years, submerged Main street near the pottery, Winchester street below the bridge, Surry road, Water, Church, Island, Pearl, Ralston and Emerald streets .. ... Cheshire railroad constructed a coal dump, the platform storing 4,000 tons ...... Sept. 30, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Foster celebrated their golden wedding ...... November, execution issued against the city in the Manches- ter & Keene railroad suit, for $160,588.30; the city issued bonds at 4% to the amount of $160,000 ...... Samuel W. Hale elected governor of New Hampshire ...... Dec. 24, death of Horatio A. Nelson, a Montreal millionaire, said to have been born here in 1816.
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1883.
Horatio Kimball, mayor ...... Jan. 2, the judgment in the Manchester & Keene railroad suit paid, amounting to $162,809.76 ...... Jan. 3, death of Nelson Morse in his seventy-third year ...... Jan. 14, Calista, widow of Hon. Henry Coolidge, died in her ninety-second year ...... March 30, Wood- bury's principal mill and machinery destroyed by fire and work of rebuilding commenced ...... May, connections made with the new Waring sewer ...... Bell placed in tower of Second Congregational church ...... June 4, Dea. John Clark died at the age of eighty-two years ...... Pargetized Can Company and the Vulcanized Can Company formed the Impervious Package Company ...... June 23, John J. Allen, register of deeds, resigned after a twenty years' term of service and Charles C. Buffum was appointed to the office ...... J. S. Taft & Co. put in a new kiln for finishing decorated pottery and placed Wallace L. King, the artist, in charge of this depart- ment ...... Sept. 13, Misses Laura B. and Kate L. Tilden opened a school for young ladies, at their home on West street ...... Aug. 20, Cheshire House block on Roxbury street destroyed by fire ...... Aug. 25, Amoskeag steamer, No. 1, given its first trial on Central square; cost of engine, $3,626.27 ...... Aug. 23, an independent steamer company organized, the members to serve without pay ...... Aug. 18, death of Salmon Wright, formerly for many years steward of the Eagle Hotel, aged seventy-three years ...... Sept. 11, Waring sewer system completed and accepted by the city ...... Oct. 5, death of John E. Colony, aged fifty-two years ...... Cheshire House three-story brick block built ...... Nov. 18, seventy-fifth meridian time adopted and regulators changed to the new standard, about sixteen minutes slower than the previous Boston time ...... Sale of railroad bonds, $162,416; sewerage bonds, $71,617; cost of sewers to date, $80,000. ... Keene Guaranty Savings bank established.
1884.
Horatio Kimball, mayor ...... Jan. 1, Cheshire County Telephone Com- pany passed into the hands of the New England Telephone and Tele- graph Company; A. M. Nims, local manager ...... Feb. 23, Ashuelot mills burned, loss $75,000 ...... March 24, death of John J. Holbrook, aged thirty-nine years ...... April 27, death of Theodore J. French, for seven- teen years a merchant in Keene ...... May, old Cheshire county jail (erected in 1833) torn down; glass factory lot purchased and contract made for building new jail with Foster Brothers for about $25,000 ...... June 9, death of Seloman Edwards, caused by falling from a derrick at the Humphrey machine shop ...... June 16, a large elm tree on the Page place, Washington street, an old landmark for more than a hundred years, cut down ...... June 20, death of John J. Allen, Jr., editor of the Sentinel 1853 -4, aged sixty-six years ...... July 9, the "old town brook" discontinued as a public sewer and 150 property owners ordered to connect with the sewerage system ...... July 18, death of Henry Colony, aged sixty-one years. ...... Aug. 7, Shaw Brothers shoe business and factory to be erected ex- empted from taxation for a term of years; Keene Improvement Company formed; capital stock $15,000; new shoe factory built by Foster
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· Brothers for $12,500, on Dunbar street ...... Sept. 7, death of Charles C. Webster, the oldest member of the Cheshire county bar, aged seventy- four years ...... November, G. H. Tilden & Co. manufactured shoe boxes for use at the new shoe factory; the old Twitchell house used for the pur- pose ...... Dec. 18, death of Dea. Simeon Ballou, aged seventy-three years. ... .Dec. 26, death of Annie J. Brown, aged sixteen years, at Ingalls rail- road crossing on West street.
1885.
Alfred T. Batchelder, mayor ...... Charles H. Hersey first elected city audi- tor ...... Jan. 21, new jail completed, Jonas C. Rice, jailor ...... February, steamer house finished and accepted by the city ...... Feb. 10, death of George Kingsbury, aged sixty-six years ...... City fireproof vault built ...... March 4, death of Dr. Algernon S. Carpenter, aged seventy years ...... March 28, death of John Symonds, aged sixty-eight years, his bequest to the city es- timated at from thirty to forty thousand dollars ...... March 21, the Chesh- ire Tanning Company organized, capital stock $100,000 ...... Nov. 16, dis- trict fire alarm telegraph adopted ...... May 3, death of Councilman Charles R. Nims, aged thirty-three years ...... Keene National bank build- ing raised and rooms fitted up for the telephone exchange ...... May 18, death of Edwin G. Metcalf, aged eighty years ...... June 8, schoolhouse lot on Elliot street purchased for $2,000 and Main street lot sold; $8,000 appropriated for construction of Elliot school building ...... June 14, death of Albert Kingsbury, aged seventy-three years ...... July 15, Cheshire loco- motives all changed to coal burners ...... July 20, Barnum's elephant Al- bert shot by the Keene Light Guard battalion on the banks of the Ash- uelot ...... August, 1,450 feet of 12-inch tile drain pipe laid from the tan- nery district to Ashuelot river at an expense of $1,400 ...... Aug. 22, Main street schoolhouse demolished in widening Appian way; damages paid by the city to Union school district amounting to $1,300 .Ashuelot Railroad Company built an engine house on Main street ...... Sept. 7, death of David Woodward, aged eighty-six years ...... Monadnock Agricul- tural works manufactured disc harrows, and other agricultural imple- ments near the driving park on Main street ...... Oct. 9, Wheeler & Faulkner's law office building on Roxbury street taken down; Cheshire Provident Institution enlarged its brick block on the east side for a larger postoffice ...... Samuel Wadsworth made a circuit-breaking clock to strike the bells upon the new Stevens fire alarm system, the system comprising four miles of wire, five alarm boxes, etc., cost $600; Frank G. Pratt appointed superintendent of fire alarm telegraph ...... Nov. 8, death of Francis E. Newcomb, aged sixty-five years ...... Nov. 12, Keene Horse Thief Detecting Society formed ...... Dec. 17, death of Benjamin D. Hutchins, aged sixty-five years ...... Storm signals displayed by the tele- phone company ...... Dec. 31, death of Councilman Harrison R. Ward, aged forty-nine years, the second member of the city government to die while holding office.
1886.
Alfred T. Batchelder, mayor ...... Jan. 10, Baptist church debt paid and appropriate services held ...... Feb. 2, Dea. Daniel Darling and wife
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celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage ...... March, board of education prepared check list for use at school district meeting, the voters in Union district numbering about 4,000 names ...... By the will of Susan F. Eastburn the city of Keene was left a bequest of $300, in trust for the poor; Mrs. Eastburn was the youngest daughter of David Sim- mons and a native of Keene; her brother David had also left the city $1,000 in trust for the poor and infirm ...... New Keene Light Guard armory dedicated, the citizens donating $820 ...... March 4, committee appointed to investigate sources of water supply ...... First Congregational society purchased the D. C. Howard place on Marlboro street for a parsonage ...... March 17, death of Lewis Lane, aged seventy-two years. Ashuelot National bank block remodeled and a third story added ...... March 29, first school meeting of new town district held at West Keene schoolhouse ...... Cheshire National bank building remodeled ...... April 1, Cheshire County fair grounds conveyed to the city by George A. Wheelock for a public park ...... April 6, severe gale of wind lasting nearly all day; roofs of two shops at Beaver mills and roof of Nims, Whitney & Co.'s engine house blown off; John Humphrey's barn twisted upon its foundations; large elm blown over ...... Daniel Coffey fell from the Island street bridge and was drowned, April 13 ...... Electric fire alarm striker bought for city hall bell ...... Keene Manufacturing Company com- menced to make skates in the South Keene shops ...... May, North Lincoln street laid out to prevent team work being carried on through the ceme- tery ...... Elliot school building erected ...... Keene Bicycle Club established. ...... June, postoffice opened to the public on Sundays ...... June 3, concrete sidewalks ordered on east side of Court street and on the north side of West street, the first laid by the city ...... June 11, Rural Improvement Society organized ...... Woodward pond, area 108 acres, purchased for an additional water supply; octagon reservoir on Beech hill constructed; more land secured around Woodward pond ...... Concrete walk ordered on the east side of Main street ...... June 17, license granted to the Thompson- Houston Electric Company to put up poles and wires for electric lighting. ...... June 19, Jailer Rice resigned; Charles A. Chapin appointed to fill the vacancy ...... Aug. 14, death of Jonathan Parker, aged seventy-three years.
.Aug. 18, death of City Clerk Samuel Nims, aged forty-eight years. ... .Aug. 19, electric lights of the open arc pattern installed in Tilden & Co.'s, Whitcombs', Mason & Wheeler's, Bullard & Foster's, C. N. Chand- ler & Co.'s, Fisher & Jackson's and the Cheshire House ...... Aug. 28, first electric street light installed on Roxbury street beyond the postoffice. ...... Aug. 30, parochial school opened with about 300 scholars ...... Sep- tember, Miss Mary B. Dinsmoor purchased the belt of wood and timber land adjoining Maple avenue to be preserved for the use of the public. .Sept. 10, Milton Blake assumed the office of city clerk ...... Sept. 13, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cross celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage ...... Oct. 7, George H. Tilden presented a portrait of David Sim- · mons to the city, which was hung in city hall ...... I. J. Dunn erected a chair factory ; the city exempted it from taxation for a term of ten years and the citizens made up a gratuity of $500 to secure the establishing
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of the plant ...... Oct. 26, death of Alvah E. Metcalf, aged seventy-two. ...... St. James' parish purchased the Calef house on Court street for a rectory ...... Nov. 1, Ormond E. Colony assumed the duties of postmaster. ...... Nov. 3, death of David Seward, aged seventy years ...... Nov. 3, Mr. and Mrs. Dauphin W. Wilson celebrated their golden wedding ...... Keene Gas Light Company purchased the Thompson-Houston electric lighting apparatus and furnished street and commercial lights; a new boiler house and building erected at the gas works for an electric light station.
1887.
Asa Smith, mayor ...... March 20, death of Clark N. Chandler, aged forty years ...... Dunn & Salisbury's chair factory and Elliot school build- ing completed ...... Roaring brook water shut off and repairs made; it took thirty-eight minutes for water to come from the upper reservoir to the Beech hill reservoir, a distance of 15,000 feet ...... June 18, death of Farnum F. Lane, aged seventy-one years ...... July 8, death of Dea. Isaac Rand, aged seventy-six years ...... July 9, death of Marvin T. Tottingham, aged sixty-two years ...... July 27, Samuel A. Gerould celebrated his ninety-fourth anniversary; he was six years old at the death of Washington and had seen the administration of every president of the United States, the first railroad, steamboat, cotton gin, spinning jenney, telegraph, telephone and electric light ...... August, a large elm tree near the Episcopal church pol- larded to save its life, the top being dead ...... New street numbers attached to buildings by Engineer Wadsworth at an expense of about $400 ...... Aug. 29, death of Joseph H. Wellington, aged sixty-one years ...... Storm water sewer from the Square through Roxbury street to Beaver brook constructed at an expense of $2,830 ...... Col. Cyrus Frost, aged ninety years, passed away, the last survivor of those who were present at the establishment of Social Friends Lodge, in 1825, by Gen. James Wilson.
... .Sept. 20, death of Lanmon Nims, aged seventy-six years ...... Sept. 21, death of Samuel Allen Gerould, aged ninety-four years ...... Sept. 24, death of George W. Ball, aged sixty-seven years ...... Sept. 29, death of Francis French, aged sixty-nine years ...... Oct. 7, fifty citizens presented to the city an oil portrait of the late Dr. Amos Twitchell to be hung in the city hall. ... .Dec. 10, death of Allen Giffin, aged eighty-five years.
1888.
Asa Smith, mayor ...... Jan. 1, postal delivery introduced, with three postal carriers, covering a distance of twenty-five miles per day each, having twenty-seven hundred names of persons receiving mail; more than one-half of the postoffice boxes given up by the public; total pieces handled during the month, 36,142 ...... Jan. 9, death of Cyrus Piper, at Northampton, Mass ...... Jan. 20, death of Barrett Ripley, aged sixty years. ...... Jan. 11, Mount Huggins Hotel destroyed by fire ...... Feb. 2, Rev. Ed- ward A. Renouf presented $500 as a fireman's relief fund to the city ...... Feb. 11, death of Hon. Edward Farrar, clerk of court, aged sixty-five years ...... Keene Board of Trade organized; Alfred T. Batchelder first
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president ...... Fireman's Relief Association formed, John A. Batchelder, presi- dent ...... Feb. 28, Lewis W. Holmes appointed clerk of court ...... March 2, United Order of Pilgrim Fathers established in Keene; James S. Taft, governor of Monadnock Colony, No. 107 ...... March 4, death of James B. Elliot, aged seventy-three years ...... March 4, Lewis W. Holmes ap- pointed justice of the police court ...... Monday, March 12, great blizzard lasting three days; drifts from twelve to fifteen feet high ...... March 27, Cheshire Grange, No. 131, organized; Solomon F. Merrill, master ...... Over 47,000 pieces of matter handled by the city letter carriers during the month ...... April 27, new creamery opened by Curtis G. Britton on his farm. .May 21, all hotels closed by the proprietors on account of an attempt to rigidly enforce the liquor laws; accommodations for 150 guests arranged at private houses by the Keene Temperance Union; over 200 transients fed at the restaurants on May 22 ...... June 1, Daniel H. Sawyer, superin- tendent of water works and sewers, resigned and Paul F. Babbidge elected to fill the vacancy ...... June 7, City park set aside for public use, George A. Wheelock elected first park commissioner ...... August, Charles H. Doug- lass of Suffield, Conn., elected principal of high school ...... Aug. 10, death of John A. Draper, aged eighty-four years ...... Aug. 11, Samuel Bergeron, a brakeman on the Cheshire railroad, killed near the woodshed on Railroad street, being run over by the tender of an engine ...... County commissioners built a pond in the jail lot and connected the same with the city water main ...... Aug. 13, hotels reopened ...... Aug. 22, two handsome chairs manufactured by L. J. Colony shipped to the White House, for Mrs. Grover Cleveland ...... Nov. 3, death of George Tilden, aged eighty-six years ...... Cheshire railroad trains equipped with steam heating apparatus. ...... Nov. 6, Abel Blake cast his eighteenth ballot for president, having cast his first vote for James Monroe, in 1847 ...... Cash registers introduced in the stores ...... Charles M. Norwood established his box business at the Beaver mills .Ellis Brothers erected a model commercial greenhouse at their Winchester street farm ...... Dec. 1, death of Edward R. Gilmore, aged sixty-eight years ...... New harness manufactory completed for Wilkinson & McGregor, on the Lamson estate.
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1889.
Herbert B. Viall, mayor ...... Jan. 2, the New Hampshire Sentinel, hav- ing, from the day of its first issue in 1799, maintained the most promi- nent of its original features, changed from the folio to the quarto form. ...... Jan. 19, Faulkner & Colony Manufacturing Company, organized in 1815, incorporated; capital stock $100,000 ...... Feb. 27, first overhead cash system in the city installed in W. P. Chamberlain's store ...... March 20, Ancient Order of United Workmen established in Keene; George G. Dort, past master workman ...... March 11, death of Lieutenant Henry E. Hubbard, aged fifty-three ...... March 26, $15,000 fire at Beaver mills ...... New jet pump put in at the mouth of Butler court main sewer ...... April 1, Hon. John T. Abbott appointed minister to the republic of Colombia. ...... April 18, George A. Wheelock presented two lots of land, one of twelve acres, to be called the Children's Wood, adjoining City park on
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Beech hill, and one of seventeen acres adjoining Wheelock park, to the city of Keene, to be forever kept as forest tracts and a part of said parks ...... April 28, Rev. W. H. Eaton, D. D., resigned a pastoral engage- ment of seventeen years ...... April 30, centennial of the inauguration of Washington celebrated at St. James' Episcopal and the Second Congrega- tional churches ...... May 8, Greenlawn cemetery conveyed to the city ...... May 15, Engineer Wadsworth engaged to survey the principal streets with a view to establishing the grade for the roadway of each street ...... June 15, a new daily paper, called the Daily Tribune, Webster P. Huntington, editor and proprietor, made its appearance ...... June 20, West Keene cemetery enlarged ...... July 12, death of Jehiel Wilson, aged eighty-nine years, the inventor of pail turning ...... First granite pavement laid on Roxbury street ...... July 15, Frank E. Joy commissioned postmaster at South Keene ...... Aug. 5, death of Ephraim Foster, aged eighty-six years.
.Rev. Charles B. Elder called to the pastorate of the Unitarian church ... and Rev. Samuel A. Severance to the pastorate of the Baptist church ...... Aug. 7, reunion of the Sixth New Hampshire Volunteers ...... Aug. 9, death of Horace Hamblet, aged seventy-two years ...... Epworth League formed . at the Methodist Episcopal church ...... Keene Improvement Society com- menced extensive grading and planting on the borders of Main street ...... Aug. 21, twenty-fifth anniversary of the first service held in St. James' Episcopal church ...... September, South Keene postoffice established ..... Sept. 25, John Shaw, 2d, sold the shoe manufacturing business to C. B. Lancaster & Co ...... Oct. 3, death of Eugene S. Ellis, aged seventy-nine years ...... Oct. 6, Rev. C. B. Elder began his pastorate at the Unitarian church ...... Oct. 15, Bethany Mission opened by Mr. F. L. Sprague ...... Patent granted to John A. Wright upon his invention for heating water for cattle to drink in cold weather ...... Fifty cases of diphtheria reported in October, forty-two of which were in houses not connected with the Waring system of sewers, and of which twelve were fatal ...... Nov. 18, Unitarian Club organized, George B. Twitchell, M. D., first president ...... Triumph Wringer Company built a shop on Myrtle street ...... Clipper Machine Works organized; capital stock $20,000 ...... Curtis G. Britton opened a new creamery on Eastern avenue ...... Twenty-seven cases of diphtheria reported in November, three of which were fatal ...... Dec. 9, frogs peeping in the meadows ...... Dec. 13, thirty-second anniversary of the Ladies' Home Circle of the First Congregational church celebrated.
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