The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-08-02
NEWBURY

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| After an absence OF forty.five years
Arthur F. Clark of Hyde Park, Mass.
came back TO his home town COM
parative stranger, but not to a strange
| land for the hills which from a back
ground for our village and the broad
and beautiful meadows bordered by
| the Connecticut with Mooselake
| towering in the distance are the same
| as when he left, but to this man OF
many years absence this home coming
was something like the awakening of
| the man whom Washington Irving has
immortalized---in vain he looked for
the companions Of his youth--in vain
he whstled for his dog Snider--there
was no response; the inhabitants had
changed; a new generation was on the
stage, and the beautiful village was
no longer to him home. To be sure
there were one or two grayed men who
after being introduced remembered him
and Andrew Kelley, the town oracle,
whose hair is not gray, on account Of
not having any was momentarially
rendered speeches.. but only for a
moment, when he realized that he was
in the presence Of man who spent his
youth in Newbury. When Arthur r.
was selling books and Bibles down at
the lower end of the town. r. G..
Stocker was in full blast making the
celebrated "Stocker harness while r.
w. Ladd when he was not expounding
the scriptures was pounding tin. Doc
tor e. ". Watkins was the leading
his fame extending far up
and down the Connecticut valley, f.
and H.. r. Reyes & Co. and H. II. Dem
ing were the leading merchants. Tap
pen Stevens was the landlord at the
Spring hotel while Nelson Stevens run
the Newbury house. John Garland was
the village blacksmith and William
Fl. Wallace was the jeweler. Horace B.
Morse was the postmaster and incl
IDENTIFY the town agent, that was years |
before the Volstead act, and buy one
who could write his name and had a
lame back could get the medicine, even
The merchants in those days sold
Doty's celebrated mandrake bitters,
good for man and beast, with direc-
lions to take dose Immediately aft
.r rising before and after each meal
Ind just before going to bed and it
would do you no harm if you took an
occasional swallow between meals
There was a report in those good old
lays OF long ago that certain man
Fho reaching the extreme age of ninty-
line years and eleven months passed
IN leaving behind him 900 empty man.
lrake bitter bottles and we boys
thought at that time If he had bought
,nly one more bottle he would have
cached the century mark, but Alas! it
low looks as if those good old days are
rome for ever. and in the place of the
own agent we notice the White Rib
,oned ladies' gathering dandeliont
tort we learn that they are adopts in
making decorations which will make
Id age appear young, but this is only
lear say, but if it should be true the
act would only 60 to prove that the
hirst Of the former generations re-
mains. Mr.. Clark's call was brief, but
hat long delayed visit which has
rought back to the minds of the few
collections of the Newbury of fifty
ears was most welcome, and as he
ade his old friends adieu it was with
he promise that there would not be '
UGH long intervale between this and |
is next visit.
Tuesday there came into town an
Their Newbury boy whose boyhood |.
avs were spent here in the seventies, :
es. Gardiner s. Butler of Demorest, =
a. Mr. Buffers home was with
peare johnson How many remember
peare Johnsonf) who lived in the
ouse now occupied by Mrs. George
very and the companions of his boy a
BOD were. Horace w. Bailey, Sher- 0
irne Swasey, Thomas G. Reyes, v
harles Buxton and Allen, Olmsted il
lese old friends who Like Ships in d
lie Night" have on he had most G,
vid and pleasant recollections Of and Il
5 "reminiscences of years ago were O
ost interesting. He was the guest of "
istorian Wells, and no doubt these
d friends had the time Of their life
bringing to mind incidents of long :
20.
Mrs. George Avery announces the
arriage of her daughter Lolitah tn =