The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-29
OLD WAYS IN VOGUE
IN YE OLDEN DAYS
lsprir-feId Republican,

Diving into the old records of North
ampton we find much revealing the
customs and habits. of olden times. No
fire was found in the meeting house"
I in olden times, and foot stoves were
carried to church, as We're taflow can
dies to the evening meetings. In 1897
the important vital question at a legal
town meeting was, Shall Men and
( Their Wives Be Seated Together in
Pews?" ano the vote was an emphatic
NO"
In 1744, about the beginning of jon
athan Edwards trouble in the parish
it was voted not Ito pay the charge Of
bringing his daughter from Brook
field. In 1913 this appears on the town
records; Taking into consideration
the difficulty Mr.. Edwards hath fabored
under this year ana some time past
with respect to his firewoOd. the town
voted that those persons who have not
this year brought him load of wood
might have liberty between this time
and next Tuesday night to bring ach
one his load of wood" If there was NOT
a sufficiency of wood by that time, the
town then voted, the selCctmen shall
see that the deficiency should be met at
the cost of the town.
Later, in 1888, we find in the warrant
. for town meeting this entry: ITO prO-
I.
/ Hams; to choose committee 10 seat
the meeting house" A most serious
business u decide who should take pre-
ference in the broad aiSles. The mig
ger pew, we'll remembered by the
writer, caused no trouble to said officer.
as that was readily accepted BY the
! "colored brethren" like cows in the
| stable, who went dutifuHy TO thei,
separate stalls
Not only the living had special rules
governing their conduct but the rules
| about the dead We're quaint, as by this
report of a committee, May Il. 1880. to
! whom had been referred the conduct of
funerals, as follows:
w ereaS, 1t is the opinion Of this
| town that funerals ought to be con
Quoted with great decency and deco
/ rum in order to impress on rising and
risen generation the Importance of the
awful SOlemnity and to render tba
house of mourning better than the
house of feasting. Be it, therefore. rec
commended to all the inhabitants of This
! TOWN. TO observe the following rerula-
tons at funerals:
I That the relatives of the deceas-
ed follow next the corpse, two and
two.
-. If the deceased was a male nar-
son the males are to follow next the
mourners, two and two. and the wo-
| men after them, two and two. but If
the deceased was "A woman. then the
women are TO follow next the mourners
and the men after them
Those on horseback are to follow
IN after the foot folks, horses two and
| TWO, and the carriages are to follow
in the rear of the procession. And II
IS requested that no person walk or
roe on either side the procession from
the house to the grave
Ten Of the prominent men of the city
We're appointed and requested TO at
lenu at funerals and to regulate the
procession thus recommended until the
same shall become habituaI to the peo-
pie. In 1145 the question was raised in
the annual town meeting IF the town
would be at the expense of colorina the
meeting house, and it passed in the
hegattVe! Not till 1749 were the forts
ana fortihcations of the town demol-
ished and the timber and boards sold
Tor the benefit of the town. Laws were
passed relative to the schooling of bows
ana ana the amount of wood they should
prlng TO the SchoolhOuse: girls were Of
no account in those days.