The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-10-27
EAST cORNTH.

Among those who took advantage OF
the cheap excursion rates were Mrs.Jonn
Miles, Mrs. o. ?, Dickey, Mrs G. 5; Pres
colt Miss NJ 4. Stearns, Mrs. Il. /. Hol-
land, Mr.. and Mrs. G. M. Hayward, Mrs.
E. P. Sawyer and daughter Evelyn.
Wallace Grant, former resident OF
this place now of the Standard scale
Works, Rome, Ca, was in town last week
visiting his sister, Mrs. W. Chapman
Mrs. G. Page visited in Lebanon, N.
H.. over Sunday
Mrs Ruth Bagley died in East Corinth
Oct %, aged SO years and months
Funeral services were held at the mouse
Tuesday. Burial at Corinth, Rev. Il. W.
Hatch officiating.
Charles H. Knight died at his home IN
Rayenswood, ILL.,. Oct. IA, 1899, aged 40
years. Wife and four sons survive him.
Miss Hattie Thompson is spending
few weeks in Boston.
The regular preaching services OF the
ITniversalist church will be held Sunday
at the usual hours, 1.3O and 7;3O p. m.
cordial invitation is extended to ALL
The Uniyersalist Young Peoples Chris
tian Union will hold its weekly devotion
aI.meeting at Daniel Rowland's Saturday
evening at 7.30 p. m.
The following clipping from the Lowell
Weekly Journal of Oct. &, may be OF IN
terest to the readers OF the OPINION I'D
this town aud adjoining ones when 1t is
remembered that Mrs. Eliza Quimby,
widow of the late Daniel F.. Quimby.
came to this town to reside about nfty
wears ago, to that part known as he
Burrough," then large and prosperous
neighbOrhood with school OF from torCy,
to sixty pupils. After time they moved
to Washington where they resided until
his death about fourteen years ago. she
has since lived with her aged sister In
Merrimack, n. H. She has daughter,
Mrs. Joseph Taplin, residing, in town.
Mrs. Phebe Hunt at one time llVed Win
her sisters family in Washington more
or less for seventeen years, where she
made friends and acqualntances among
the neighbors who now often enquire for
her. Having descended from pure Scotch
ancestry che Clydes from Clyde river in
Scetland) these elderly people Withstand
the storms of so many winters WIN d
wonderful yigor. bacn Oh Ihe XII nays
son and a daughter living. Mrs. HUNT
often expresses a wish to come to YER
mont to visit heir neice and namesake,
Mrs. Taplin. She says only one nun,
dred miles! and in the cars too! could
stand that
"a FAMILY REUNIoN.-Ihe octogen-
arian, the nonogenarian and the centena-
rian. These constituted very pleasant
family commemoration in Pelham, n. H.,
on September Goth at the residence OF
Mr.. John CLYDE, that being Mr. Clyde's
cd anniversary, Mrs Eliza Qulmby's
SD occurring October D, and Mrs PheOe
Hunt, both of Merrimack, will be 100 on
the third of January, 1904 brother ana
two sisters. A united commemorat1on
was pleasant thought and for many
reasons desirable that it be held in early
fall inste ad of January. There were
many particulars in which the occasion
was remarkable and interesting. one
was. three members of a family OF such
advanced age another, the remarkable
preservation of each, Mr.. Clyde excepting
impaired vision, would pass for man
of sixty or seventy. He is a man of ex-
cellent judgement and well informed:
He remembers the past and is abreast OF
the present in knowledge and interest.
Mrs. Hunt, the centenarian, is easy in
conversation, reads daily, plies the
knitting needles and does variety OF
useful work that was amusement TO Ia
dies in former times. Her nephew,
George CLYDE, went to Merrimack for her
with a carriage: the distance OF twenty
miles caused her no apparent fatigue
She arose early the next morning and eX-
claimed that she never felt better in her
life. Mrs. Quimby, the octogenarlan;
was for many years a. .succesSIul scnool
teacher before her coming to ermont).
The wears in their coming and going so
MANY times have touched her very gent
Nv and left a rich autumnal beauty. one
cannot contemplate this brother and SIS
tiers in their eXtraoI dinaly age, with
their yipOr of body and soul, their famll-
jarity with this wondrous nineteenth
century, their interest in this day, the
most wonderful in human history, with
out exclaiming How beautiful is the In
dian summer of life, and breathe prayer
May it come to me-"