The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-01-15
REV. A. A. ROBERTS
SPEAKS OF EAST
RECOUNTS MANY NTERESTING
DETAILS OF JOURNEY
IN NEW ENGLAND
ATTENDS CONGRESS OF LIBERALS
He Speaks of the Changes in Country
in the Past Thirty-nine
Years.

Years.
In speaking of his trip to the east In
which he visited in all of the New
England states but one, and several of
the others, Rev. A. A. Roberts, dele
gate to to the Fourth International
Congress of Liberal Religious Teachers
Workers, says:
81 left Baraboo via. the &. & n. W..
taking the Trunk line at Chicago
Sept. 10th via Montreal and reached
Boston, Sept. II, two days after start
ing. From there I went to Hartford
and visited friends at Elmwood. Hart
ford is a beautiful city of parks and
residences. Going up the Connecticut
Valley by the electric line [ stopped at
South Hadley Falls opposite Holyoke.
A Dry Town.
"South Hadley Falls is dry town;
but | noticed two drug stores
were doing a thriving business, and
whose owners are fast becoming rich
from the sale of the drink which cheers
but inebriates.
Old Settled Country.
"The country thereabout is as rich
and highly cultivated as it is old SET
tied. There are not many new build
ings or orchards, but there were many
old trees laden with fruit. The corn
tobacco were still green. [ saw many
a nd old buildings decorated with
green ivy vines.
"Holyoke is papermaking city of
10000 inhabitants. When I was there
80 years ago the population numberd
10000.
Trip to Maine.
"I then went to Maine via. Boston
a steamer. Win terport, Sc miles up
the Penobscot, was my destination.
This is a beautiful village situated on
the high banks of the river and was
once thriving shipbuilding port.
international Congress.
81 then returned to Boston to attend
the International Congress of Liberal
Teachers and Workers to which was
delegate. This opened Sunday, Septem-
Der %. Among the many very inter
esting and profitable features of this
meeting was the opportunity to hear
the venerable Julia Ward Howe, au-
thor of the Battle Hymn of the Repub-
lie, DR.. Edward Everett Hale, author
of A Man Without Country, and
other works, now chaplain of the
United States Senate and DR.. Charles
Eliot, President of Harvard. Mrs
Howe and DR.. Hale are both about S6
years of age.
81 then visited relatives in New
Hampshire, the larger number of whom
reside in Manchester where [ made my
headquarters, From there I visited at
Grasmere, Henniker, Hillshorobridge,
Antrim, my mothers birthplace, and
Hancock. 1t was a pleasant surprise
to find steam cars as we'll as electric
cars running among the old hills. The
electric cars particularly stop at every
farmhouse or nearby station if there
are passengers to get on or off.
CoIebrook.
81 went from there to Colebrook, eight
miles from the Canada line. This town
is situated in the valley of the Con-
necticut between two tributary
streams, the Mohawk on the north and
the Amanoosuc on the south. The
main industry there is potato raising.
Between the heavy rains and the
ground freezing too soon about 5000
bushels were estimated as hardly
worth the digging.
"I returned by a route which took
me through the White mountains,
reaching Manchester by the round
about way of Portland, Me-, and Law
renee, Mass.
Monument of Brother.
"One of the most interesting Incl
dents of my whole trip was the cree
tion of monument over the grave of
my soldier brother, A. j. Roberts, at
Grasmere, n. II. This was memori-
al richly deserved, as he was one of the
first to answer President Lincoln IS
first call for 90-day volunteers. He
was three times a volunteer to save the
union.
CATER this [ visited in Boston and
vicinity, and in the valley of the Con-