The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-01-15

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gregational church last Sunday even
ing which were largely attended Rev.
A. w. Ford preached from the text
Psalms, Xl, 1-3.
An item in the marriage list given
last week in this column read Gertrude
May Buck, the last name was and
should have been Brock.
The last of the series of teachers
meetings for the present term will be
| held in Seminary Hall Saturday a. IN.
at 10 o'clock, Jan. 23d. The exercises
will be: A primary class exercise hi
reading, Miss Annie Guthrie; paper,
Primary Language Work, Miss Mabel
Hunter; paper, Drawing, Miss Jessie
Guthrie; paper, Penmanship, Miss
Susie Sawyer. The public is invited.
Aunt Judith Atwood, who had quite
severe i'll turn last week, probably
occasioned by her advanced years, is
now much improved and in a fair way
to recover.
The annual report of Congrega-
tiOnal church contains the following
interesting data:
OFFICERS FOR 1897.
John l.. Merrill, pastor.
Sidney johnson, George Swasey, deacons.
George Swasey, clerk.
T. G. Keyes, treasurer.
James B. Lawrie, Thomas. G. Reyes, with
pastor and deacons, Standing Committee.
MEMBERSHIP JAN. 1897.
Total, 1913
Resident, lie, Nonresident. 81
Males, 49, Females, 115
ADDITIONS.
p. Arthur NJ. Lang, Laura H. Chamberlin,
P. Anna |. Atkinson, Marion E. Bailey.
l.. Mrs LaYina Renfrew,
Marion G. Matheson.
Mrs. James Wallace.
DISCUSSIONS.
Mrs. Alice f. Dodge, Mrs. N. f. Hutchins
ATTENDANCE.
Sabbath morning, average 118, largest, 145
Sabbath evening, average, 81, largest, 100
Thursday average, 36, largest, 70
CONGREGATION SOCIETY.
+. Fl. Farnham, president; George
Swasey, clerk; r. W. Chamberlin, treasur-
er and collector; James b. Hale, James
B. Lawrie and w. H. Atkinson, pruden-
tial committee: Sidney johnson, auditor.
SUNDAY SCHOOL. ~
Sidney johnson, superintendent; D. NJ.
Bond, assistant superintendent; =" Miss
Carrie Lang secretary; j. b. Hale,
! treasurer; George Slack, librarian + Miss
Florence johnson, assistant librarian.
Total membership, 11S
Average attendance, 66
Money raised by collection, S4S
CONTRIBUTIONS.
Total charities, + $3.50
Amount of Parish expences, 1850
Church, 5. 5. and G. E. expenses, $40
Total, $1S2L25
The annual meeting of the Newbury
Village Burying Ground Association
will be held III the town clerks Office
next Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 10Th at
p. m. 4 large attendance. The work
accomplished by this association is in
deed praisewOrthy. The first meeting
of this association was held Jan. ),
1894 so that it is now in it's infancy.
The annual dues should be promptly
paid, anyone who can pay one dollar a
year for the purpose of keeping their
burying ground in decent condition,
and won't, isn't fit to occupy a decent
burying ground Mr.. James A. John
son has been careful, painstaking
superintendent and has and will faith
fully execute work entrusted to him.
Let us keep in mind that sacred I'M
written obligation between the living
and the dead. Have you paid your
1896 annual dues of one dollar payable
to I. G. Keyes, treasurer.
The kindness of people in general
makes life happy. Some weeks ago the
Newbury correspondent advertised
for box stove, result was a good as
new stove furnished at a reasonable
hfrY,r RI 1,11 1%I e.
stoves offered. Last week III publish
ing the list of marriages in Newbury
since 1882, your correspondent said
What should make the scale in mat
rimonial numbers so fuctuating is past
comprehension, at least past the com
prehensiOn OF the Newbury correspon-
dent" In one brief week we have re-
ceived cOpiOus showers of information
on the fluctuations of the ''matrimO-
NAL scale of numbers" Seven male
men have called on the Newbury cor
respondent offering solutions to the
problem, three others have written.
As the following postal card seems to
voice all the solutions offered, perhaps
none quite so pungently, submit in full
THETFoRD. Vt, January y, '97.
DEAR HORACE are mighty dull
III your COMPREHENSION, the matrimonial
scale tiuctuates upwards to extreme
points on leap years. or the year just in
front, when it seems as though they
could't wait. A person who don't know |
more about matrimOny than you do
ought never to NEEDLE with the subject. |
Yours truly, ----
In the first place we have never |
meddled with matrimony, second, that
won't hold water for we |
have watched the arrival and depart
ure of half a score of leap years and
knOaV ii isn't so.
The following are the percentages of
in the Central school for
the first month of the winter term
Primary, 81 1-3; intermediate, 81;
95; high school, 90.
NEWBURY CENTER.
Joel G. Temple, who has been on
the sick list for the past two weeks is