The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-09-02
NEWBURY.
Friday Morning, Sept. 2, 1921.


As the result of a fall, Mrs John
Perkins was seriously injured and is
nov confined to the house.
Mrs Harry Hinman and Marshall
are this week on an automobile trip
with Boston as their destination.
Mrs Zettie Gunnison, sister of
Mrs Richard Currier, was in town
the last of the week.
Mr. and Mrs F P Wells are enter
tanning Miss Laura B Chamberlin of
Cambridge, Mass, who was for eigh-
teen years a missionary in Turkey.
On Sunday last Miss Agnes Whitelaw
of Ryegate and her aunt Mrs Wright
of Pasadena, Calf. called. Miss
Chamberlin and Mrs Wright were
schoolmates at Peacham Academy in
their girlhood and had not met
before for sixty-two years. As
neither of them knew that the other
was in this part of the country,
their meeting was most unexpected
as we'll as most cordial.
Mr. Howard Olmsted, a son of the
late A A Olmsted of this town, and
now a resident of Washington, d. c.,
where he is in Government employ,
was calling on friends here the first
of the week. For the last fourteen
months Mr. Olmsted has been at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and arrived
in this country on the U. S. Trans
port Henderson last week, feeling
thankful that he was once more in
Gods country, and to get little
nearer Heaven he Immediately took
train for Newbury. He expects to
return to Washington next week and
go from there to Tampa, Florida,
where he expects to remain through
the winter months.
Mr. Addison Lupine and his wife
motored up from Portland and were
in town the first of the week. Mr.
Lupine is one of the firm of Byron
Greenough & Co., a hat and cap
concern of Portland.
Last Friday night the Nellie Gills
were here and they gave US an ex-
ceptionally strong play Smiling
Thru" They had the usual appre-
ciative audience who could fully
comprehend the amount of intense
work of the players in bringing out
this production. In the midst of one
of the acts the electic lights went
off, leaving the hall in Egyptian
darkness, but Mr. Henry was equal
for the emergency, and fully realiz-
ing the eminent danger in which
the men were in suggested that they
Immediately divide the house, men
on one side, ladies on the other. just
before the stampede commenced the
clear and beautiful voice of Danish
singer was heard filling the hall
with an unusal melody and as the
LIGHT came on it was discovered that
not a man had moved Gf moved at
all he was a trifle nearer his female
companion). 1t was the Dane, Madam
Camille Elkhart of the metropolitan
Opera of New York City who had
saved the day, soothed the savage
instincts in the female breast and
Gained the fears of men. We feel
safe in making this statement-if
this gifted singer will be present at
the next Nellie Gill entertainment
and will favor us with one solo Chad |
wick Hall will be filled to the very |
doors. We thank Madam Camille
Elkhart. You have the Keys of the
city (Newbury). Use them often,
please.
1t is written-"That time is pass
ing rapidly, when it is not time
but you and l who are going on"
These words were the thought OF
the writer of this brief sketch as
he stood beside the open casket and
looked upon the face of an acquaint-
ance and friend of his youth, Fred
Ezra Clark, who passed away in Ben
ton, n. H. last week and whose re-
mains were brought to Newbury to
the home of Mr. John Goodwin, where
the last rites of the church Of which
he was a member were conducted on
p. m. by the Rev. Henry
Ives, and from thence his body was
taken to the Oxbow Cemetery and
laid at rest with his kindred.
Fred Ezra Clark was the eighth
child of Moses and Anna Kincaid
Clark and was born in this town
November Sth, 1912. His boyhood
lays were spent in our village and
At the early age of nineteen years he
heard and responded to the call Of
Abraham Lincoln and marched away
With other Newbury boys to the
south land with the indomitable pur-
pose IIldl Oui dIlOiA oAAOdAo ~ -
served and that this republic should
not perish from the face Of the
earth. Of those starting with him
few are left. He recently named
them and gave their ages. So many
are gone that long associations with
them incline the remainder to seek
them, and make those left behind
less reluctant to follow those gone
before, even into the chambers of
death, and thus it was with Ezra
Clark, he was ready when the sum-
mons came.
Mr. Clark married June 14th, 1865,
Sarah f Page. Three children were
the result of this union, Fred ID,
Charles E and Mabel, whose death
in infancy, while Fred
passed on a few years ago. Mrs
Clark died July goth, 1894 and on
May %, 1895 Mr. Clark married Mrs
Eva Moore, who survives him.
WEST NEWBURY.