The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1894-05-11
Adjoining Towns.
NeWbury.

CAMP IlNEIONs NEAR HALL = UNI IN
NEWBURY.
The Newbury correspondent has gone
into summer quarters and the Newbury
column in the OPINION for the time being
will be open to any person of good moral
character who can write plain enough to
pass the painful ordeal of the downstairs
department of The OPINION office. Send
in your items to the editor, and if an item
is never heard from again don't be alarmed,
or fly in a passion, it is silent yet fOrciable
way the editor has of communicating to
his correspondents the fact that he and not
the correspondent is running the paper;
ten or fifteen years as local itemlZer will
remove the raw edge from this sort of dis
appointment, and you won't mind it much
Don't forget to sign your name to your
items, not that the editor or the reading
public care to know the author but because
it will come handy for the regular CORE
SpoDdent in proving an alibi IN a suit for
SANDER, Meanwhile the Newbury CORE
SpOndent will be in exile. so to speak, away
from the Glamour of Newbury village, at
Camp Pineton burning brush, digging stones
and stumpS, fishing for horn poutS, eating
cold victuals, breathing pine ozone, building
up his wasted energies on anti-fat. listening
to the merry MARBLE of the boot owl and the
impressive bass of the bull frog. We call
this place Camp PinetOn because our liter
airy friends thought the name SO very I'M
classical. The camp is about the size of a
sugar house. little longer than it is broad.
The camp has door and a window, we
we had the window put in so that summer
tourists and relic hunters, book agents and
subscritiOn papers can inspect the internal
arrangements of the camp from the outside
thereby saving themselves much valuable
time. SchoolmarmS are welcomed. We
had the camp WhitewaShed red so as not to
attract attention and appear gaudy. Halls
pond is fav0rlte resort of picnic and boat
ing parties, also unmarried young men like
IOOnUe
cool shades and clear springs of circus lem
Onade and other soft drinks, and they sell
dom lounge alone. Picnic parties about to
depart feeling that the proud spirit of
Camp Pineton would be crushed by the do
nation of any cold vctuals presented to the |
boss in person can leave the same on a
stump n0rth-westerly from tile camp. We
cstnpipy clever boy whose principal chore |
Is to reconnOItre picnic parties from knot |
hole in the gable end of the camp near the
reach pole, and when the picnicers have re-
tired to proper distance the boy will |
descend and scoop in the booty. Small |
favOrs thankfully received.
Mr.. Levi Whitman has several good boats |
to let, and bait your horses at reasonable |
rates. Camp PinetOn was located here be- |
cause its only about half hours drive to
the house OF the Newbury correspondents |
sister whose ginger bread, pumpkin pies |
and root bear, beats the Ferris wheel. Our |
water comes from clear, cold spring in |
the back room.
We trust that this modest informal pre-
sentation of Camp PlnetOn will be accept
able, no amendments will be made. We |
shall from time to time write articles call
ed Camp Pineton Articles, they may be |
similar or dissimilar to the foregoing.
ARTICLE No. 1.
Not few who remember Joseph E.
King will read the following with
interest:
COLLEGIATE INsTIsUTE.
FORT EDWARD, n. Y, May l, '94
Mr.. HORACE w. BAILEY,
ny Dear ST:-l have been reading your
sketch of Newbury and Newbury Semi
nary in the Vermont Conference paper
issued as souvenir of their semi-centen-
NAL. l thank you for so clear a statement
OF facts. am living over again my New
bury days, they were delightful. L regret
not to have been present at the Conference
semi-centennial aud shake hands with you,
and all who remember me kindly.
Very truly,
Jos. E. KING.
Joseph E. King came to the front as
principal of Newbury Seminary forty
six years ago, and was at the head of
the Institution from 184S to 1858 being
the most prosperous years of the
school. The largest yearly attendance
being in 1852, 53S; the largest term be-
ing the fall term of 1850, 1924. DR..
King is now in his 34th year at Fort
Edward, n. Y, at the head of one of
the most popular and fourishing
schools in this country. OF the old
school faculty Joseph E. King, or "Joe
King" as he is Familiarity called, is
most frequently mentioned by New
bury people showing that he was a
man of strong individuality and char
acter leaving an impress on this COM
munity after lapse of nearly half a
century.
Our article on Methodism and New
bury Seminary brought us a congratu- !
latory letter from Rev. E. G.. Bass who
preached in Newbury in 1S64.5 and ,
who was student at Newbury Sem
mary in the spring and summer of 1856 {
going from the Seminary to college. !
Mr.. Bass writes from Newport, r. l.,
and his letter is full of reminiscent ,
facts, one of which is as follows:
"Thirty-nine years ago in June / there {
received an eXhOrter's license given by JnO. {
g. Dow, and the next Sabbath went out to
West Newbury and tried to preach. If l l
had tried only to eXhOrt L might have got
along. never ventured to use that text :
again for 20 years. How much student
Leighton Hill, at town house, South New
bury, West NeWbury, and in adjacent [
places in New Hampshire" I
Your correspondent remembers the
pastorate of Rev. E. G. Bass in New !
bury at a time when politics were !
much in vogue and Mr.. Bass was that I
ardent and pronounced in his political
views that the democratic brethren !
were sometimes hit in a tender spot. :
Let us hear from others. Please send
N your old Seminary catalogues and