The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1893-12-22
Adjoining Towns.
NeWbury.

NOW
The South Newbury Sunday School viii
have Christmas tree with some exercise:
by the children Saturday evening Dec. 23d
at the school house, commencing at sever
O'Clock.
The selectmen have fled their report or
valuation of school property in the town
school district. The total appraisal being
S10,13000. Of this sum the Newbury vii
lage property was valued at S600000 Sc
far as the Selectmen could find there was a
surplus of money in the several districts
amounting to S6S3.42. Twelve of these
districts furnished this surplus, five of the
number hold their surplus sub ect to future
legislation, seven districts declared divl-
dend and Scooped the surplus, two of the
smallest districts had the largest surplus,
viz: No. 2. Sl07 81 and they have it depos-
tied in the Wells River Savings Bank, No.
16, $10S.73 and they scooped it back into
their pockets. For the year 1892 district
No. Is had grand list Of S275.9l and raised
a tax of IL cents on the dollar equal to 1913.
IL. Hence this $10S.73 must have been
largely derived from the division of school
money which is the result of the 10 cent tax
known as the estate school tax" which was
no more raised by taxpayers i'll district No.
16 than in any other district. We fail to
see the equality or honesty of one school
district saving its surplus while its neigh
Dor greedily devours the same dish derived
from the same source. The Selectmen re-
port the total indebtedness of the town
school district $847. 81 OF this sum 1928. 70 is
a debt against district No. 4, $123.23 against
district No. IL and $100,85 owing other
towns on account of fractional districts. So
that the town school district of Newbury is
the richer by the new school law just
$40, 1870 less the debt of $847 Sc.
John Reid, Esq, comes to the front with
an Aurora of the Valley No. II, Oct. IA,
184S, and presents the same to your CORE
spondent 1t appears that this paper was
published twice each month"; so that No. II
would represent the S4th week of it's exist
ence. Mr.. Reid has the entire set of this
wear in we'll preserved condition. This
particular paper is celebr ated from the fact
that although it was printed in Newbury
it does not contain a single Newbury item
or advertisement, nor an advertisement of
any kind. 1t contains the following mar
riage notices of parties well known to many
of the OPINION readers of to-day: ''ln
Barnet Sept. Il. by Rev. Mr.. Go0dwillie,
Mr.. Matthew II. Gray of Ryegate and Miss
Parnel A. Harvey Of Barnet. In Ryegate
Sept 2Sth by Rev. S. p. Williams Mr., Ben
iamn Wheeler of this town and Miss Esther
Sly of Ryegate." We shall be pleased to
receive copies of the Aurora" printed
previous to 1870 or any old books, pamphlets
or papers of local interest.
Every department of the village school is
now in excellent working condition and the
parents will do well to call in and see the
kind of work being done. IL is taot a good
plan to wait until the last day OF school be.
fore you make your call, the best way to
discover how matters are going on is to run
in unaWareS.
Cows, horses, sheep, hay, etc, are adVer-
tiSed at the aSsigneeS sale at the Edwards
farm heXt Thursday at 2.3O o clock p. IN.
Mrs. e. S. Childs is not recovering from
her illness as speedily as her friends would
be pleased to note.
Report has it that the "Riverside'' cream
cry farm has passed, or is about to pass in
TO other hands, it may not be uninteresting
to know bit of the history of this farm.
1t was first decided by Gen. Jacob Bayey to
Col. Remembrance Chamberlain, Novem-
Der 20, 1772, and that Col Remembrance
conveyed it to his son Col Moody Cham
berlin by will dated Oct 10, 1872, Col.
Moody conveyed to his son, Ezra b. Cham
berlin by will recorded Sept. s, 1868, Z. b.
and wife conveyed to his brother, johnson
Chamberlin, by deed dated January H.,
1867, johnson Chamberlain to his son
Charles by deed dated July 81, 1873.
Charles and wife to II. ID. Haseltine by
deed dated Nov. 30, 1873, H. d. Haseltine
to Samuel W. bale by deed dated May IS,
1850, Samuel w. to his son w. 5. Hale by
deed dated Oct. 90 1885, w. S. Hale by
quit claim deed to John r. Abbott dated
May 10, 1886, and John T. by quit claim
deed of same date to Emma w. Hale, wife
OF w. 5. Hale. In making an examination
of the land records for the purpose of
making an abstract of the title to the above
lands the town clerk found that Col. Moody
Chamberln and mis- sons Johnson and Ezra
b. were very large dealers in real estate
and that their transactions aggregated
many thousands of dollars. In addition to
which Col. Moody was a large owner of
real estate in New Hampshire.
Ryegate had in the year 1892 grand list
of S6,662, Bradford had S9,9l5, Newbury
had Is, liz and Ryegate and Bradford have
their snow rollers for winter roads. it
comes mighty near being cause for shame
that we must wallOw through these deep
SHOWS.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. II, Deming of Montpe-
lier have cards out for Wednesday. Dec.
q, it being the fiftieth wedding anniver-
sary. Mr., and Mrs. Deming have host of
friends in this town who send congratula-
tons and rejoice with them In their well
rounded years.
There will be Christmas festivals at the
village, South Newbury school house and
Town House.
Edison Doe is a handy all round man
there is nothing he can't do between being a
first class Santa Clause and making a steam
engine. He has been working at the Moore
mansion on the not water heating apparatus
A. w. Silsby has just returned from a
business trip down in the state of Maine.
Evangelist Whittier has moved on to
Ryegate., Union prayer meetings have
been held since his departure.
Don't forget the Assignee's auction sale
at the Edwards farm next Thursday at ~. 30
o'clock, John ID. McAllister auctioneer.
Miss Murphey, who recently left here to
accept position as assistant PRINCIPAL i'm
an institution in Salt Lake City, was pleas
ed to find that the principal of the school is
no less than McNiece of Topsham who
attended Newbury Seminary in the sixties.
We hope that between the principal and
his assistant the readers of the 0PISToy
will hear something interesting. through its
columns, from that country of many wives.