As we were...

100 YEARS AGO

Thursday, September 04, 2008 3:12 PM

WENDELL - Mrs. A.W. Farnsworth and granddaughter, Helen E. Upson, of Colorado, are visiting the former sister's, Mrs. E.A. Nutting, whom she has not seen for 27 years.

E.L. Kelton has put out a Bryan and Kern flag.

ACWORTH - Misses Ada and Clara Hersey of Boston are the latest arrivals at Miss Baker's.

Sydney F. Davis and her niece, Miss Helen B. Moore, of Groton, Mass., are visiting Mrs. Juliette Davis and Erving C. Davis.

NEWPORT - C.M. Brown tells us that during Tuesday's storm, lightning struck a tall pine at the Lindens, Sunapee, and tore off a strip of bark about 2 inches wide all the way down.

Ernest May is working for the Newport Steam Laundry.

G.A. Fairbanks and family are at their Sunapee cottage.

Henry Cutts was kicked by a horse Monday and received a broken nose.

The old boiler house at the Brampton Mill is being converted into a dye house.

Mrs. Alma C. Wilmarth of Boston is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nichols and her son, Charles A. Wilmarth. William Gowan of the Jameson market has moved into the Emerson block.

75 YEARS AGO

GOSHEN - Nothing in town, for some time, has created more enthusiasm among the young and old than the Fourth Annual South End Children's Circus, which was held in Bartlett's Barn, Elm Street, Friday.

Several people witnessed the afternoon performance, and over 200 people saw the show in the evening, many being turned away for lack of seats.

50 YEARS AGO

CLAREMONT - In a dual swimming meet held at the Claremont outdoor pool Friday, the Newington, Conn., swimming team defeated Queenie Quimby's Natators by a score of 126-108. The Connecticut team, which is making a two-day tour of New Hampshire, garnered 20 first places, 7 seconds and 5 third places. The Newington team is considered one of the better swimming groups in the Hartford area.

(PHOTO) ADVANCEMENT IN SERVICES made possible through donations from the Hospital Aid Society, townspeople and summer residents, were demonstrated at an open house held yesterday afternoon at the Newport Hospital. Staff members and women of the society conducted tours of the institution to point out the use of new equipment and supplies. Of special interest was the tissue laboratory, located here and serving three area hospitals. During the affair, prompt medical attention was given to a summer visitor from Briarcliff, NY who had injured his foot while water skiing.

GOSHEN - Mr. and Mrs. Harold Ults accompanied by daughters Martha and Sandy, who have been camping at Lake Sunapee, were dinner guests of the Harry Wasasiers.

Mrs. Lucy Newton accompanied Zella Eastman to Northfield, Vt. over the weekend where they visited relatives of Miss Eastman. On his way home, they visited Smugglers Notch and the Von Trapp family home.

Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Chartier and Mary and Rusty took a trip over the weekend. Among their stops were Hampton and Salisbury beaches. They stayed with Mr. and Mrs. Jules Lemiex at Long Pond in Dracut, Mass. On the way home they visited Benson's Animal Farm.

NEWPORT - David Delaney and Philip Smet visited Douglas McKenzie in Concord on Monday.

The Robert Bates are entertaining her mother, Mrs. Elsie Whitney, of Lebanon.

25 YEARS AGO

(PHOTO) A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES - Residents of Newport lined up early to see Psycho II and War Games which opened Newport Cinemas One and Two at the Sugar River Plaza Friday night. The new cinema is the first movie house the town has had in more than two years.

SPRINGFIELD - About 40 Jones & Lamson-Textron workers marched in a circle Friday to protest the company's layoff of the last full-time nurse. Assistant personnel manager Gary Ames said Anita Amsden, the full-time registered nurse who works on the day shift, will be laid off on Aug. 26. She is one of the 55 salaried employees that will leave the machine tool manufacturing firm during this month. Ames said she would go for the same season others have been laid off from the plant that once employed more than 1,000 and now employs about 350. "We are trying to cut our budget to save where we can," said Ames. "It surprises me that the union doesn't understand the dilemma we're in."

(PHOTO) TOWLE HIGH CLASS OF 1933: Twenty-four of the 35 living graduates and their guests attended a 50th class reunion Aug. 6 at the Library Arts Center, Newport: Esther Kendall Flint, Verna Bell Haight, Selena Dodge Holt, Emily Condon Brown, Mary Peabody Warren, Hazel Ridh, Grace Nelson Click, Christy Hasevlat, Verna Inez Puffer Cheney, Madlon Pickett Karr, Ruth Fish Gallo, Lillian Diotte Allen, Barbara Purmont, Ida Gintowt Nebrydowski, Louise Rollins Hawkins, Mary Keach Lawrence, Jobette Kublishi Reed, John Smith, Eleanor, Brown Boyer, Raymond Emery, Milton Halainen, Roger Seamans, Richard Parker, B. Norman Dickinson, Howard Pratt, Clifton Fisher, Loren Paul, May Jordan Newell.

LETTER-TO-THE-EDITOR - My wife and I had the pleasure of visiting your beautiful and naturally bountiful area during August the past two years. Nature has certainly been kind to you, and apparently this kindness has been passed on to the populace. We have had occasion to meet many people during the John Cain Classic and not once have we felt anything but comfortable. Jackie and Gordon Bell, who coordinate the tournament, are perhaps the best example of this kindness, and also of your New England spirit: hard workers, hospitable and generous. Ted Streukens, Clearwater, Fla.

10 YEARS AGO

THE GREAT OUTDOORS by Carl Braun (portion thereof) August is off to a strange start: it hasn't rained yet! Water, I mean. There has been a familiar patter on the fishing shack roof from time to time, causing me to wonder why, the first few times, before I remember that the local squirrel population fattens up on the acorns that proliferate on my huge triple oak tree: three major trunks growing from a single stump. It was giant when I was tiny and it continues to survive whatever Ma Nature throws at it, from near-hurricane strength winds to the worst ice storms. Granted, it has received some help from its neighbors. Nearly 40 years ago my father had some cables put in to help the big trunks give each other support, and a few years aback I had the dead branches surgically removed and the big scar (perhaps from a 19th century lightening strike) tarred over. The grand old tree seems to be thriving, providing an annual acorn crop for the squirrels and an occasional batch of polyporus sulphurius, that brilliant yellow-orange fungus that is also called the "lobster mushroom" because of its delicate taste. My mother used to serve it to guests in a newberg casserole, and they always believed it was lobster. Hey, I'm not the first in my family to have a sneaky streak!

EDITORIAL COMMENT (portion thereof) Diplomas will go better with Coke at Fall Mountain Regional High. Actually, students there won't have any choices of canned vending machine delights, because Coco-Cola won the high fructose sugar wars with arch rival Pepsi. It's all part of the ever increasing commercialization of, well, everything. To the point that two soft drink giants would compete to spend at least $18,000 bucks to put their nanes on a scoreboard and their machines in the lobbies of a high school in little Langdon, N.H.

NEWPORT - Citing his upcoming marriage and career plans, Newport School Board member Erik Schneiderhan resigned from the board Thursday night. He said his fiancé is working toward her doctoral thesis and will be traveling overseas while he will be pursuing his master's degree in international affairs at Columbia University.

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