The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1900-01-19
WELLS RIVER.

bury college.
Will Gage and wife of Sherbrooke,
spent Sunday at D. r. Allison's.
G. J. Hosford, butter maker at the
creamery, attended the Dairymen's
Association at Brattleboro and was
awarded second premium on creamery
butter. receiving SO from the Associa-
ton, 81 from Nelson & Hall butter test
manufacturers, So from Wells, Rich
ardson & Co. for using their butter
color, tieing on gold watch offered by
the Worcester Salt Co. and the Mirror
and Farmer for one year.
Carl Morse and wife of Jersey City
are at d. r. Allison's.
The annual meeting of the National
Bank of Newbury and the Wells River
ing rooms last Tuesday. The old
reelected. T. Deming was elected
president of the National Bank and
John Bailey president of the Savings
Bank
James B. Hale of Newbury was in
our village Monday.
Nelson Bailey went to Lancaster,
Monday, 10 attend a meeting Of the
bankers of northern Vermont and
New Hampshire.
E. Baldwin is finishing off a tene-
ment on the ground floor of his block.
CD. Hosfords mother of Nashua,
n. H., visited him last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. M. Whitelaw gave a
reception Wednesday evening in hon
or of their son Harry and bride.
DR., J. E. Prescott. eye specialist is
at Hale's Tavern for few days
Mrs. II. H. Lee entertained the la
dies whist club Monday evening.
Mrs. S. T. Durant is seriously i'll at
the home of her daughter in Manches-
ter.
c, F. Bracy left Monday for Florida
to spend the winter.
Martin Markham started Tuesday for
Mexico.
Newton Field and wife are visiting
friends in Hanover.
Col Preston Post and Woman's Re
lief Corps held a JOINT installation
Tuesday evening at the church vestry.
At the annual meeting of Pulaski
Lodge, No So, F. and A. NJ, the fol
lowing officers were chosen for the en-
suing year: Harmon Z. Baldwin, w.
M; James A. George, S. W; Raymond
Z. Smith, J. W.; Samuel Hutchins,
TT; w. H. Buck, Secy.; j. Arthur
Moore, S. D.; Charles Oakley, J. D.;
James G.. Learned, 5. S; Edward F.
Flood j. S.; E. George Parker, chap
lain: Frank w. George. Marshal: Thos.
Callahan, tyler.
Evangelist meetings conducted bysMr.
Ralph Gillian are to be held here and at
WoodSville the first two weeks in Febru-
airy. Meetings will be held in the Woods
vile Methodist church the first week and
in the Congregational church here the
second week. Mr.. Gillian will be assisted
by o. w. CTowell as singer The charac-
ter of their work is well known as they
have worked in many of our adjoining
towns. A cordial invitation is extend
ed to everybody of all denominations to
attend these meetings. Our pastor Rev.
George ii. Credeford, preached very in
teresting sermon last Sunday from the
text Lord revive tlty work among us
pointing out the needs of a revival in the
hearts of men, defining the character of
a true revival and exhorted all to over
come any prejudice they might have
against a true revival 1t can be truly
said of the Wells River Congregational
church that has experienced a financial
revival during the past few weeks, now
let us prepare for spiritual revival when
Mr.. Gillian comes. About six years ago
the church was repaired and remodeled
at an expense of nearly four thousand
dollars. The Ladies' Aid Society assum-
ed eighteen hundred dollars of the debt,
which they have just wiped out. They
held an entertainment last Friday even
Ir1rT az n aalf uyaA 4 In nj
dition to this they received gift of fifty
dollars from Mrs. Lucinda Baldwin, also
a gift from Martha J. Tenney of Haver-
hill. Mass, of ten dollars. The men have
raised in the past few weeks about five
hundred dollars, and with gift of one
hundred dollars from Miss Martha j.
Tenney, have wiped out their debt.