The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-04-14
NEWBURY.
Friday Morning, April Ia, 1922.


Horace C Bailey has purchased the
real estate long known as the Miss
Goddard place and will move in as
soon as repairs are completed.
Miss Beatrice Gormly, the capable
nurse who has ministered unto Mrs
Helen Worthen and her sister Mrs
Freeman for the past three or four
months, finished her mission last
Thursday and has returned to her
home in Montpelier.
Mrs Sarah Dutton Chadwick has
arrived in town for the summer.
Miss Jessie Flanders. Miss Alice
Dodge and Miss Isabel Hartwell, who
have been spending the last ten days
in town, returned to u. V. M. Tues
dav. Miss Martha Leighton, a senior,
accompanied them.
Miss Miriam Taggart returned to
Smith College, Wednesday, her sister
Miss Elizabeth, accompanying her.
Mrs Welch and family spent the
weekend at the home of Mrs Algier
on Leighton Hill.
Last Thursday afternoon Miss Grace
Wallace, one of Newbury's popular
ladies, was caught out in an April
shower, and before she could gather
her wits enough to raise an umbrella
was literally covered with miscel-
laneous gifts, everyone of them SYM
bolizing matrimony and housekeep-
ing. The shower took place at the
parsonage and there were about 40
of the ladies of the town present 1t
was strictly a woman's affair, not
even the scribe was present; but for
all this we men folks have noticed
one of our number who in the last
six months has grown twenty years
young, and whose step is elastic as
that of a boy, and who wears smile
on his face which indicates he has
pleasant thoughts and anticipates
that the best years of his life are to
come.
Mr. Wilmar Perkins was detained
from church last Sunday morning by
spending most of the morning hour
in doing missionary work in pulling
out stranded automobiles which were
stuck in the mud on the Haverhill
road near the crossing. Wilmar has
many ways of showing the spirit of
the good Samaritan without attach
ing to it $500 gol ram you.
Mrs Nina Leighton is stopping
with Mrs Worthen and Freeman.
The Congregational vestry has been
newly papered and the walls varnish-
ed, also the lighting system has been
greatly improved by having the
light lowered. This was all brought
about by the generosity of Miss
Anna Taisey, a resident, who takes
great interest in her home town..
The lights were changed over by the
Christian Endeavor Society.
Miss Brice, our community nurse,
finished her labors and left US the
first of the week for similar posi-
ton in Montreal We are now with
out nurse or doctor and it be-
hoves us all to keep we'll.
Passion Week will be observed by
services every evening of the week
with the exception of Saturday, in
our churches.
The following essay under the title
of "Newbury" won for the writer,
Miss Patricia Smith, a senior in New
bury High School, the fourth prize
offered by the Hotel Association of
Vermont:
"Have you ever been travelling in a
motor-car on hot summers day and
then suddenly come upon a delight
full shady old town that forms a
peaceful cool retreat from the hot
dusty ways of the surrounding coun-
try? Well, just such town Is New
bury, placed in a beautiful location
in the Connecticut valley, over four
hundred feet above sea level, with
the Green Mountains on one side and
the White Mountains on the other.
ing an arch of foliage above the
wide main street which runs through
the town. Picturesque houses are
situated here and there, and back OF
the town Mount Pulaski rises making
a beautiful background as we'll as
delightful bit of woods with winding
paths mounting to the summit, on
which is a lookout house where fine
views may be obtained.
Newbury is very historic town.
1t is one of the very oldest in the
State. Long ago her beautiful
meadows formed battle fields for the
hostile Indian tribes, and Indian
canoes padded up and down the Con-
necticut river. Even now arrow
heads are often found which are in
teresting momentoes of those STIR
ring times. In the village cemetery
a monument has been erected to old
Indian Joe. a well remembered and
much loved old character, and an
Indian cave forms point of much
interest to explorers.
After the Indians. came the white
man laying the foundations for the
present up to date little town. The
second oldest church in the state was
established here (CongregationaD
and this was the first church to have
a steepls. Now Newbury has a fine
high school, very useful and pleas
ant library, churches of three denom-
nations, nice hall and many other
attractions. The Boston & Maine
Railroad runs through the town so
Newbury is easily accessible. being
quite near the large cities of Boston
and New York, yet far away from
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