News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-04-26
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Occasional frog concerts are in order.
Mrs. Luther Putnam is suffering from
a severe attack of tOnsilitis.
Miss Hattie Griswold, of the Center,
visited friends here last Friday.
Mrs. j. G. and Miss G. L. Parker left
for Tallapoosa, Ca, Monday morning.
F. E. Goodwin and sister, Miss Cora,
visited friends in Underhill last Saturday
and Sunday.
Henry Mcclellan, of Hampshire Cor
ners. who has been in falling health for
several years past, is now very i'll.
Miss Hattie Mcclure enters upon her
| duties as teacher of the Fletcher Center
school soon, the term beginning the first
Monday in May.
| The teachers, Messrs. Sinclair and
Merriam, arrived Saturday evening. AL
most every one seems to expect an un-
usually good term of school.
Miss Sarah Phillips is visiting sister
| in Highgate, having taken a vacation for
an indefinite period, hoping by means of
the needed rest to recruit her health.
In accordance with the unanimous de-
sire of all interested. conference has
again returned the pastor of the Metho-
dist church, Rev. j. E. Bowen, who en-
tered Sunday on the third ministerial
year of his labor here; it also being the
| second year of his present term, which
| commenced in April, 1887.
The residence of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
j. Cutting was the scene of a quiet we'd
ding Thursday, the 10Th, at 8 o'clock a.
m. Rev. Edwin Wheelock was the Off
| eating clergyman, uniting in marriage
Mr.. E. j. Gates and Miss Addie A. Cut
| ting. Mr.. and Mrs. Gates lett for Port
| land Immediately after the ceremony, in
| tending also to spend several days in
Boston. Congratulations and best wish
es for their future happiness are yet in
| order.
| The death of Miss Mary Hubbell re-
moves another from that fast falling gen.
Grafton, the children of the pioneers.
| She was one of the Oldest residents of
| this town, being about 90 years of age.
Her father Bildad Hubbell was one of
early settlers coming here from Ben
nington, but his native place was Long
Island, n. Y. En- the early days the fam
lily assisted greatly in sustaining the SER
vices of the church. Several being ex-
cellent singers they helped grandly in
the old Congregational choir. This was
during the age of the society when every
Sabbath found each family often fully,
always fairly, represented among the
worshipers, notwithstanding the dis
lance, state of the roads, the unfinished
condition of the ''meeting-house,' and
Tho th0nsan6 and one aliscosla forts
which we know little or nothing. On the
last Fast Day grey haired men lamented
the indifferent attendance on public wor-
ship, contrasting this day with former
times, when from all parts of this and
adjoining towns, the people gathered for a
solemn Acknowledgement of the mercieS
of God and invoking anew the Divine ia
vor of the Almighty Ruler. Surely the
dead past rises, Samuel like, to condemn
the living present. Having paused a
moment for the retrospect we hasten to
say that the name of Elnathan Hubbell
is found on the list authorities differ) of
those rescuing Remember Baker from the
clutches of Monroe-the incident is en-
bodied in Thompson Green Mountain
Boys" also somewhat later than 1761,
when the Spatfords, Montagues, Fassetts
and others emigrated to Bennington,
came the Hubbells, Walbridges and Fays.
Eventually all these families came to
Cambridge. In 177S Elnathan Hubbell
was chairman of the Committee of Safe
ty in Bennington. The name in the ear
ly records was spelled Hubble" In
the centre of our village cemetery, in the
oldest portion of the yard, may be found
a tablet erected to the memory of a child,
David F. Hubbell, who died August p,
1913. The farm known later as the ''Oel
Curtis place." was formerly the Hubbell
homestead. Although unable at present
to trace the connection clearly, we sup
pose the family in Cambridge, if not the
descendants of the Bennington Hubbells,
were at least quite closely allied.