The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-03-17
NEWBURY.
Friday Morning. Mar. II. 1922.

Mrs Mary Bailey had as guests
last week Mrs Emily Currier of st.
Johnsbury and Miss Florence La
France of Lyndonville.
Mrs George Bailey, who has been
quite i'll with bronchitis, is rapidly
improving.
Mrs Ellsworth Humphrey has re-
turned from Springfield accompanied
by her sister, Mrs Margaret Gould
and little daughter Arlene.
Miss Blanche Mayette and Miss
Mae Scruton attended Conference
of Home Economics Teachers at the
u. ". M. in Burlington last week.
Miss Margaret Chase is home for
a few days. i,
Mr. and Mrs Charles Kennedy and
Mr. and Mrs Paul Hoadley of Mont
pelier were in town Thursday to at
tend the funeral of Mrs Mary >
Wallace.
Theodore Fletcher is the name of
the young man who arrived at the
home of Mr. and Mrs Norman Cobb
last Tuesday, and will eventually
call this worthy couple Dad and
Marin.
Mrs Sinclair of Montpelier is the
guest of her sister Mrs H G Darling.
Mrs George Barnett is spending a
few days in town, and while here is
the guest of Miss Reyes.
Mr. and Mrs Noble Foss return to
their summer home this week.
Mrs Charles Francis Darling is in
town.
Doctor P A Pion, after three
years successful practice in Newbury,
decided to leave us this coming week
and will go to Littleton, N. H.
Historian Wells was in Montpelier
the first of the week looking up data
for the historical sketch of New
bury's LIST Congregational Church.
The floods descended from Mount
Pulaski the other night and swept
through John Goodwin's hen house,
and before John could swap slippers
for rubber boots half dozen fancy
brood fowls had joined their ances--
tors in the happy chicken grounds OF
the great beyond. John now proposes
to cross his breed of fowls with
ducks, and see if he can't raise
something that will swim out when
the waters surprise 'em.
The many friends of Rev f w
Sturtevant were glad to see him in
town last week.
Hale & Son have just received a
lot Of Army hip boots, which they
are selling at $3.50 a pair.
The Newbury Nursing Service will
discontinue it's work on Mar. 25th.
All outstanding accounts are payable
to Mrs Frank Meserve, Treasurer.
The loan closet with many articles
donated for use in sickness will be
maintained at the home Of Miss H E
Keyes.
Mrs. Mary s. Wallace.
The death of Mrs Wallace removes
one who was link between the past
and the present, one of a generation
of whom only a few remain. She
was born Sept. IL, 1886 on the farm
and in the house now owned by Ar
thur Runnells, the youngest and last
of the thirteen children of Abner
and Lucinda (HibbarD Bayley. Her
father was one of the prominent
farmers of Newbury, and the chill
Hren were prominent and active
members of society, wherever they
went.
usual in itself; she took great
pride in her Revolutionary ancestry,
being a granddaughter of Captain
Jacob Bayley and Of Aaron Hubbard,
both of whom were soldiers in the
war of Independence; and great
granddaughter of Gen. Jacob Bayley
and of Major Nathaniel Merrill. OF
the descendants of General Jacob
Bayley there remain but five Of her
generation She attended Newbury
Seminary for several terms and was
later a student of Thetford Academy,
and was a school teacher in Newbury
and elsewhere The family were
connected with the Congregational
Church, to which she was admitted
at the first communion ceremonies
held in the present church building
Nov. 2, 1856 in the pastorate of Rev.
Artemus Dean. While visiting her
sister Mrs Buxton at Morrisiena, N.
]. she met Rev. Charles G Wallace,
a young Presbyterian minister, to
whom she was married at her
fathers house Nov. Is. 1860 by Rev.
HIN Burton. Mr. Wallace was born
in New York City June 8, 1892. His
grandparents on his fathers side be-
ing natives of Fifeshire, Scotland.
He fitted for college at the Cornelius
Institute, whose principal, Rev. j J
Owen D. D. was a noted Greek
scholar of his time, who afterwards
became president of the Free Col
lege of the City of New York.
DIR. Owen spent one or two sum-
mers here in Newbury back in the
SOS and a memorial window in the
Congregational Church is dedic ated
to his memory. Mr. Wallace gradual
ed at the University of the City of
New York in 1853. Rev Lyman Alb
bott D. D., editor of the Outlook.
was a classmate. He entered Union
Theological Seminary, and while
there took charge of mission which
became the First Presbyterian
Church of Upper Morrisiena OF
which he was the first pastor. being
ordained June 3rd, 1856. His later
pastorate was over the First Presby-
terian Church at Perth Amboy, N.