The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1896-02-07
FairIeo.

MISS Oduciu, our former SCnOOl
teacher, was at church last Sabbath
The social at the church last Friday
evening was quite well attended.
There is a paper being circulated
soliciting shares of $40 to build q Town,
Ha |, there has been about two hun{
dred taken and but little territory ha{
been canvassed and it is very evide(
that we are to have Town Hall. Ii
us all be interested in this public ente
prise and let the generation that
coming on to the stage of life haFi
something that the older ones hay'
been deprived of.
II. p. Warren has sold seven sleigh
and has sever al more that he will 81
out very cheap.
Last Thursday evening about tweg
members eff Mount Cube Lodge visi
the Masonic Lodge at Haverhill to
ness the comforting of the Third Il
gree. About one hundred were pro
ent, coming from the lodges at b,
ford, Wells River, Warren and WI
worth. Dist officers Eastman
Lewis were present and highly c,
plimented the work. w. M. wa
and the other officers did thems,
much credit in comforting the deg
1t is seldom done better outside
Grand Lodge. A fine banquet
served at Hotel Merrill. The mem.l
of Mt. Cube Lodge who were pro
wish to return their sincere thanks
the very kind and brotherly way
they were entertained. Such gat
ings are very beneficial to the u
har 70 r ID
become better acquainted and it 81
to others that in unity we dwell,
that the Order is to elevate and M
man better.
The correspondent who has hac.
show up the little town of Fairlee I'D
the past fifteen years, Feb. II, at whid
time he became a resident, wishes to
thank the many who have so generous
ly contributed news for him, and also
wishes to be pardvned for leavingy
many items out for not being knownT
He would esteem it favor if readers
of the OPINION would send in items of
interest and of history, not simply for
the benefit of our own towns people
but for many that have lived here in
times past but have now moved to re-
mote parts of the state. 1t almost
seems some weeks that it was impos.
sible to think of enough to be CT in.
terest to anyone and while the cores
pondent was rejecting on the past and
recording the departure of one of our
landmarks in deaths cold chamber, his
mind takes him back to his coming to
town, and noting the changes of heads
of families from the north part of the
town to the south Mr.. and Mrs.
Childs, Mr.. McLane, Mr.. Chapman,
Mrs. Rice, Mrs. Reid, Mr.. and Mrs.
Adams, Mr.. Newton, Mr.. Kemp, Mrs.
George, Mrs. Doyle, Mr.. and Mrs. a.
ker, Mr.. Porter, Mr.. and Mrs N.
Paine, Mr.. Davis, MIR. Hutton, Betsey
Morrison, Mr.. d. C. Abbott,
Mr.. Celley, Mr.. Melendy, and
and Mr.. Stratton have passed away
and there are still living twenty heads
of families with their wis uho ere "
the same places they were fifteen years
ago on the river road.
1t is with sadness we report the death
of Mrs. A. G Newcomb which occur
red last Monday. The week previous
she was taken violently ill with what
in few days developed into pneumo-
MIA. Her son and wife and two sis
tiers came Friday to help make her as
Mrs. Newcomb was the fifth daughter
of the very worthy family of nine chill
dren of Newbury by the name Of
Jonas Tucker She married Albert
Newcomb and moved to Orfordville
where they lived about twenty years
and then removed to Fairlee. Her age
was rs years. Mrs. Newcomb has
been member of the Congregational
church at Orfordville about thirty-fvc
years. AS kind mother, wife, neigh
Dor and teacher of Sunday school she
was never excelled, worthy, honest and
a christian woman and the whole COM
munity will mourn her loss. Rev. Mr.
Mcintyre officiated and her remains
were laid away in the village cemetery.
Mr.. Newcomb will 60 to Dedham to
live with his son Lester.
Mrs. r. A. Morris is very sick and |
is not expected to live.
One of H. Z. Warren's teams LOST
black Jap robe between the store a b
Gen. Gilmore's, the finder will be 81
ably rewarded by returning it.
Quite number from this place,
tended the dedication exercises at
fordville last Tuesday afternoon
evening.
During recent casual conversation,
Prof. q. Ii. Rlc ardsOn formerly PrIIS
of the Green Mountain Summary w
bury. VT, and now studying for the dt
of Doctor of Philosophy In NATURALIST
in Dartmouth college, several eXcee
ly interesting and scie titic statements
made concerning the origin and struc
of the rocks in this vicinity. The
cliffs, two of which are
Fairlee and the third IN Newbury hav
close resemblance to each ca
and doubtless belong to the Archean agel
They are protogene gneiss formed from theN
lava of three extinct volcanoes whnset
craters were at the highest joint of each
cliff The band of slate lying to the west of
the cliffs may have been made from the
ashes of the same volcanoes. The change
in the rock is perpendicular to the cooling
surface and the eastern side of the cliffs
ing exposed directly TO the sun and prote
ed from the west wind the melting snoR
and rains filling the assures in the rO
and by the expansion o. the water in fra
ing many fragments are broken of ami
hurled to the base of the cliffs. These
broken boulders have BEEN in part remOE
by the glacial Connecticut when it y
hundreds of feet above the present level ~