SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE CHANGED--WATER POWER ON THE PISCATAQUOG RIVER IMPROVED--NEW HIGHWAY LAID TO ABRAM BUSWELL PLACE--VOTERS CHALLENGED BY LAW OF 1888--EXEMPTION OF EXCELSIOR PAPER STOCK COMPANY--BELL PLACED IN TOWN HOUSE--NEW BRIDGE BUILT AT GOFFSTOWN VILLAGE IN 1900--REUNION OF 10TH NEW HAMPSIEIRE REGIMENT--FLAGMAN STATIONED AT MAIN STHEET CROSSING OF THE RAILROAD--LAWSUITS--FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE AMONG NEAT STOCK IN TOWN--TOWN VOTES AGAINST LICENSE FOR THE SALE OF SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS--OLD HOME DAY OBSERVED--IN 1905, TOWN ADOPTS STATE AID--LAW FOR IMPROVEMENT IN HIGHWAYS--TOWN VOTED TO IMPROVE SITE WHERE CENTRAL BLOCK STOOD--LAWSUIT 1910, 1911-1916, SOLDIERS' MONUMENT DEDICATED--1918, SERVICE FLAG PLACED UPON THE TOWN HALL

The election of November 2, 1880, brought to a close a long and time-honored custom of electing a representative annually in the month of March, which had existed for over one hundred years.

The Constitutional Convention which convened in December, 1876, changed from the annual to the biennial sessions of the legislature, and this amendment was ratified by the people at the March election, 1877.

September 7, 1883, the towns of Goffstown, Deering and Weare were authorized to raise money for the purpose of constructing reservoirs to improve water-power therein.

At the annual town meeting in March, 1884, a resolution was adopted that the sum of $2,500 be appropriated to aid in the construction of reservoirs to improve the water-power on the Piscataquog River, provided the town of Wears shall raise an equal sum, and $5,000 be raised by private contributions. The private contributions were repofted paid and the towns of Goffstown and Weare paid the sums voted, and the reservoir was constructed in the town of Deering.

In June the selectmen were petitioned to lay out a highway from a point south of Clement Sawyer, or the Ebenezer Johnson place, to what was formerly known as the Abram Buswell place. For over one hundred years the occupants of this place had gone up and down the hill, but in the development of the industry of summer boarding, Harvey Scribner became the occupant of this once productive farm, and on account of the beautiful scenery it became an attractive resort for city tourists, summmer boarders and others.

The demand for the road as represented to the selectmen caused the layout of this new highway, which was used as a substitute for the old road. The life of the enterprise was short; the business was brought to a sudden termination by the destruction of the buildings by fire in the winter of 1889, and all travel ceased, and the road is practically abandoned.

The legislature of 1885 enacted a stringent law to insure the purity of elections. One section of this act provided that any voter, at any town meeting, may challenge any other voter offering to vote at said meeting, and the moderator could not receive the vote of the person so challenged until that person should subscribe, make and tender to the town clerk an affidavit that he had not directly or indirectly in any way influenced or tried to influence any voter. In ease the person challenged should not make and suhscribe such an affidavit he should be denied the right to vote.

At the election of November 2, 1886, a prominent member of one party was challenged, and this set the ball in motion, and the challenging did not cease until nineteen voters representing all parties and positions in life had been challenged. The whole number, however, whether innocent or guilty, subscribed to the oath and were allowed to vote.

A storm of unusual severity began shortly after midnight Monday, March 12, 1888, and continued through the day, snow falling to the depth of eighteen inches. Traffic upon the raifroad was greatly impeded, and that upon the highway almost wholly. The train leaving Manchester Monday evening at 5.30 o'clock was stalled in the snow between East Weare and North Weare, and two engines were sent to the rescue. Tuesday morning, the 13th, the storm had cleared, but highways were impassable and no railroad trains were running; telegraphic lines were paralyzed.

On Monday eve, the 12th, about a dozen passengers, whose destination was New Boston Village, alighted from the train at Parker's Depot. The road from Parker's to New Boston had been impassable since early in the afternoon, and the stage driver, Mr. Chandler, realized that it was impossible for him to make his trip, and consequently did not attempt it. The entire company spent the night, and a greater portion of the next day, in the depot at Parker's Station. Among the number were several who were expecting to do active political work the next day at New Boston town meeting, prominent among whom were Atty.-Gen. James P. Tuttle of Manchester, Congressman Edward H. Wason of Nashua, Jonathan Marden and Benjamin Dodge of New Boston, all of whom were New Boston voters.

On account of the severity of the storm the travelling was the worst ever known town-meeting day, and a majority of the voters throughout New Hampshire were unable to attend town meeting, and in many places the town officers could not reach the town house. Town meetings were opened and adjourned until the following Tuesday; in Goffstown, as in many other places, the meeting was adjourned until the 20th.

On the 18th day of May, 1888, a special town meeting was called for the purpose of exempting from taxation, for the term of ten years, the property of the Excelsior Paper Stock Company, incorporated under the laws of New Hampshire, consisting of real and personal and all that it might become possessed of during said term of ten years. The company proposed to locate at the pulp mill, then Goffstown Center, owned by the P. C. Cheney Co., and the exemption was not to effect the manufacturing plant of the P. C. Cheney Co. as it then existed. The proposition of this new enterprise was to invest not less than $50,000.

A resolution was presented and read by Dr. Cbarles F. George in open meeting in favor of the exemption, which was accepted.

At the annual election in March, 1889, the amendments of the Constitution, which the Constitutional Convention held the preceding year enacted, were all approved with one exception, which had reference to Article VI of the B~ of Rights, making the same non-sectarian.

In the spring of 1890, the town voted to appropriate the sum of $350 for a town clock and bell, provided the citizens of the village raise the same amount. And the clock and bell were placed in the tower the same summer.

At the annual election in March, 1900, in anticipation of the construction of the electric railroad crossing the river, Dr. Charles F. Ceorge offered the following resolution:

   "That the selectmen are directed and hereby empowered to remove the present covered bridge over Piscataquog River in Goffstown Village, and to replace the same by a new bridge of sufficient width and strength to accommodate the public travel, and to furnish suitable abutments, and all things necessary for said new bridge. And the selectmen are hereby empowered to make contract for the same. The selectmen are authorized to raise the sum of $5,000, or such a part thereof, as may be necesary in the following manner, viz.: $1,000, by taxation, to be assessed and collected in the year 1900, and the balance by procuring a loan and giving three town notes therefor. One note for one third of said balance payable in one year, one note for one third of said balance payable in two years, and one note for one third of said balance payable in three years."

And the resolution was unanimously adopted.

June 21, 1892, the Sixteenth annual reunion of 10th N. H. Veterans Association was held at Goffstown; the party came from Manchester on the regular passenger train, arriving at Goffstown at eleven o'clock. The train was composed of six passenger cars and one baggage car, all of them filled with old soldiers and friends of the soldiers. A crowd of citizens and several organizations were in waiting at the depot to receive them. Parade of principal streets in the central part of the town was in order; the procession was as follows: Col. Edward C. Shirley, Chief Marshal; Henry B. Fairbanks and Arthur H. Parker, Assistant Marshals; Frank A. Whipple, Drum Major; Stark's Cornet Band, Lewis H. Stark, Leader, twenty men; veterans of 10th N. H. and old soldiers, Gen. M. T. Donohue, Commander, one hundred men; Capt. Charles Stinson Post No. 64, G. A. R., Fred A. Condon, Commander, forty-two men; Samuel A. Simons Camp No. 55, Sons of Veterans, A. R. Brown, Conunander, twenty men; George W. Colby Fire Engine Co. No. 1, Albert Whittemore, foreman, thirty men; D. A. Taggart Fire Engine Co. No. 2, Charles H. Tibbetts, foreman, thirty men; Molly Stark Cannon, in charge of Elbridge Colby of New Boston, with J. H. McLane, driver, and John Root, Frank Farley and H. C. Rogers, gunners' assistants.

Upon the completion of the line of march the procession returned to the town hall, where a reception was tendered the visitors. The exercises in the hall began at noon. Rev. James E. Odlin offered prayer; George W. Colby, Chairman of Board of Selectmen, acted as presiding officer. Mr. Colby announced as first on the program, reading of original poem by E. R. Pearse, Principal of High School. Gen. M. T. Donohue was next called upon for remarks, and made a brief address; after which the meeting was adjourned, the members of the 10th Regiment going to the Knights of Pythias Hall for a business meeting.

The company returned to the town house, where a sumptuous dinner was awaiting them. One thousand people were given a splendid dinner in the lower hall of the town house free of expense. After dinner the company gathered in the upper hall, and first listened to selections by Stark's Cornet Band.

General Donohue presided over the afternoon exercises, and after brief opening remarks introduced as the first speaker, Judge Samuel Upton, who gladly welcomed the visitors to town; he was followed by Capt. Thomas A. Harris of Portsmouth, who spoke for several minutes about the war and the old times. The audience joined in singing the "Star Spangled Banner," led by a choir under the leadership of E. R. Pearse. George P. Hadley was called upon to give some renimiscences of the men who went to the front with this gallant command; he spoke of the battles joined in by the regimnent and eulogized some of those who lost their lives. Hon. D. Arthur Taggart was greeted with a round of applause when introduced. He said it gave him most genuine pleasure to join with his fellow townsmen in welcoming to Goffstown the men who fought so well on southern battlefields, and suffered in the prison pens of the Rebellion. He eulogized the men who made up the gallant regiment, a portion of which we see here to-day. Colonel Cochran of Nashua was next called upon, and told about his residence in Goffstown before the war, and that he enlisted from this town. He read the list of those who had been "mustered out" in the past year. He also called the attention to a mound of roses presented by Mrs. William C. Richardson of Manchester in memory of her brother, the late Capt. David Alvin Worthley of the 10th N. H. Vols. Rev. James E. Odlin was the next speaker and closed by pronouncing the benediction.

After the close of the exercises the procession was re-formed and marched to the Common for a dress parade, which was held in front of the residence of D. Arthur Taggart. After the review Rev. Mr. Grover of Nashua pronounced the benediction, and the exercises of the day were closed.

Many of the residences and places of business were handsomely decorated for the occasion. The day was delightful, the arrangements were perfect, and the citizens felt that the town did herself proud in the entertainment of the old veterans. The oldest veteran present was Isaac B. Holt, a Goffstown soldier. Hand-some silk association badges, printed in gilt on blue ribbon, were provided the members, and bore the following inscription: "Tenth N. H. Vols. Mustered in September 20, 1862. Fredericksburg, Suffolk, Hill's Point, Walthal, Swift's Creek, Kingsland, Drury's Bluff, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Fort Harrison, Fair Oaks, Richmond. Mustered out June 21, 1865."

The following poem was written for the occasion by Moses Gage Shirley:

The following resolution was passed by the Tenth New Hampshire Veteran Association at Goffstown, June 21, 1892:" Resolved, That the warmest thanks of the members of our Association are due and are hereby extended to the citizens of Goffstown for the grand, cordial and hospitable welcome tendered us today."

At the annual election in 1893, the public, realizing the danger of the grade crossing near the depot in the village, "voted that the Rallroad Company be required to erect and maintain a gate across the highway at said railroad for the purpose of preventing accidents and endangering human life." The following summer a public hearing was held before the railroad commissioners. Many prominent citizens who had witnessed hair-breadth escapes, as well as some who had experienced the same, appeared in behalf of the gate. The railroad commissioners finally ordered that a flagman be stationed there, upon the arrival of the trains, in place of the gate, which has since been the custom.

Upon the construction of the new county buildings at Grasmere, it became necessary to change the old Mast Road, which had been travelled from a time preceding the incorporation; and the layout of the road as now travelled was constructed in September, 1894, the county doing a large portion of the work.

In 1893 the town began a suit against one George Small of Nashua to recoup expense incurred in the support of his father, John Small, under the statutes of New Hampshire. The son, George, was of an extremely boastful nature, and for some years preceding had claimed to be possessed of quite a portion of this world's goods, but upon trial his wealth falled to materialize, his wife owned what little property was in sight, and the town lost the case.

At the annual election in the spring of 1895 it was "voted that all officers be instructed to make out an itemized and full report of their accounts, the same to be printed in the next annual report." Also "voted that the valuation of every tax payer, both resident and non-resident, be printed in the next annual report."

In the spring of 1899, Mrs. Florice Partridge and a lady friend, while riding upon the Mast Road a short distance west of Sawyer's crossing, lost control of a spirited horse, and the same leaving the road upon the northerly side, in a frightened manner, ran down through the pasture, across the brook and came into the other road near the old No. 6 or No. 16 schoolhouse. She employed eminent counsel, claiming the horse took fright at a toy wagon which a child was drawing. The selectmen settled the bill by the payment of $1,000.

In the month of February, 1903, the neat stock of Goffstown and neighboring towns was severely afflicted with a complaint called the "Foot and Mouth Disease." The prevalence of the disease became alarming; government agents and veterinaries examined, condemned and killed several herds in town, and finally the disease was stamped out after the slaughter and burial of many cattle and fumigation of the premises.

Upon the 12th day of May, 1903, a special town meeting was called to act upon the following article: Shall license for the sale of liquor be granted in the town of Goffstown under the provisions of an act to regulate the traffic in intoxicating liquors, passed at the January session of the General Court of 1903. The whole number of votes cast was 268, and the number voting for license, 99; against, 169. The vote of November 6, 1906, on this question was for license, 148; against, 227. The vote of 1908, for license, 166; against, 255.

At the annual election in March, 1904, an article was inserted in the warrant as follows: "To see what action the town will take relative to observanee of 'Old Home Day,' and how much money the town will raise to carry out the details of the same"; and the town "voted to observe the same, and appropriated $100 towards the expenses incident to such a celebration." The day was appropriately celebrated on Thursday, September 1, 1904, and many absent sons and daughters and former residents returned to once more visit the scenes of their childhood and old acquaintances and friends.

A brief account of the exercises, including copy of the invitation, mailed to 1,100 addresses, account of the decorations, program, poem written by Moses Gage Shirley for the occasion, names of the speakers and those sending letters regretting their inability to be present are here inserted; this is all that space will allow, but that a full account of the exercises might be preserved, the same was published in pamphlet form and distributed among the citizens.

INVITATION

GOFFSTOWN, N. H., July, 1904.

   DEAR FRIEND:--In behalf of the town of Goffstown, through its "Old Home Week Association," we cordially invite her absent sons and daughters, whether by birth or adoption, to come back once more and mingle in the festivities incident to "Old Home Day" on Thursday, September 1, 1904.
   Exercises befitting the occasion will be observed, while on Sunday forenoon services on the "Old Home" theme will be conducted in the churches.
   Let all return to this reunion and review the scenes and incidents of earlier years, so pleasant and truly profitable to recall.
   Kindly advise us at your early convenience as to your good pleasure.
Very truly yours,

GEORGE P. HADLEY, President. WM. H. STINSON, Secretary.

COMMITTEES

   The churches and societies at the village all united in giving free use of their halls and dining outfit and furnishings for serving of the dinner. The clergymen heartily co-operated in preliminary observance of "Old Home Day" by holding appropriate services at all the churches on the Sunday previous, that drew large congregations.
   The executive board were given full authority in arranging a program for the hall exercises and other matters of incidental importance. The Uncanoonuc Male Quartette of Goffstown and the Schumann Quartette of Manchester were engaged to furnish the vocal music and generously donated their services.
   Solicitors for food in the respective districts were named, while subscriptions to meet the expenses were generously made by the citizens.
   Moses Gage Shirley was invited to prepare a poem, and to Mrs. Isaac J. Paige an invitation to write the "Chronicles" was extended, and both accepted.
   The response made in food and cash contributions was generous and liberal, so characteristic of our people.
   "Old Home Day" dawned clear and charming and the people were early astir to the music of steam whistles and public bells. Decorations, extensive and attractive in design and in marked profusion, adorned the public and private buildings and many residences, while flags floated from numerous staffs and poles. The town hall had been tastily adorned by the town, while the lower hall, where dinner to the special guests was served, had been transformed into a bower of beauty with flags, bunting, streamers and flowers. Never had Goffstown witnessed a more festive scene. The martial music of the Goffstown Cornet Band, the fast arriving crowds of people by electric car and private team, the cordial handclasp with words of hearty greeting as friends long parted met once more, made an impressive picture, not soon to be forgotten. The dinner was replete in all details and served in the various halls, under well-regulated plans, at which some 1,300 sat down.
   Late in the afternoon the gathering clouds gave warning of rain and a mist began to fall, but, fortunately, the exercises in the hall and the field sports were over, and the closing concert by the band was given in the Congregational Chapel, while, with good-byes said and fervent wishes spoken for health and happiness to parting friend and guest, this hallowed day came to a truly fitting close.

THE PROGRAM

"OLD HOME DAY" PROGRAM, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1904, GOFFSTOWN, N. H.

Order of Exercises

POEM

WRITTEN FOR THE OBSERVANCES AT GOFFSTOWN, N. H., SEPTEMBER 1, 1904, BY
MOSES GAGE SHIRLEY

Names of speakers: Rev. Irad Taggart, Judge David Cross, Hon. David A. Taggart, Esq., all of Manchester; Rev. Samuel L. Gerould, Hollis, N. H.; Prof. W. H. Polnd, a Brown University, Providence, R. I.; David Taggart Dickerson, Esq., Cambridge, Mass.; Prof. Frank C. Moore, Goffstown, N. H., and Rev. J. H. Nichols, Derry, N. H. In response to the invitations sent out, letters were received from many former residents, a portion of which were read by the Secretary, Col. William H. Stinson.

At the March election in 1905, the town "voted to adopt the law passed February 24, 1905, entitled an act to provide for state aid, and for the expenditure of other public moneys in the permanent improvement of main highways throughout the state." The money was expended upon the old Mast Road, and each year thereafter a portion of the road was surfaced until 1915, when the entire distance from Manchester to New Boston line had been resurfaced and hardened, and classed as state highway, including that portion in the village between Monument Square and the railroad crossing, which was thoroughly macadarnized with crushed stone in the summer of 1909.

At the March election in 1907, the town "voted to raise the sum of $500 for the improvement of the lot of land left vacant from the destruction of Central Block by fire. This money was expended for the beautification and adornment of the lot where the soldiers' monument now stands. The money voted by the town was used for the completion of the object, $500 having previously been ralsed for the purpose by voluntary subscription.

On Tuesday, November 12, 1909, the license vote in the town of Goffstown was 98 in favor, and 350 against license.

In 1910 Otis E. Whipple, then road agent in the town of Goffstown, cleared the highway leading from Shirley Station to Shirley Hill of standing wood and timber which was injurious to the highway. The abutter, James Arthur Richards, claimed damage for the cutting of his wood and timber standing within the limits of the highway; the case was tried at Nashua, involving quite an outlay to both plaintiff and defendant, but the town prevailed.

The General Court of New Hampshire in 1915 enacted a statute relating to trust funds held by towns and cities, empowering towns to elect a heard of trustees for that purpose. They should have the custody of all trust funds and should invest the same as prescribed by the act, should furnish bonds to the town, and their accounts should annually be audited. The first board of trustees elected were Charles G. Barnard, Frank W. Kendall and Frank A. Parker.

At the session of the legislature in 1915, the old and oft-repeated subject of the division of the town was again brought forward, and a bill was introduced to disannex that part of Goffstown bounded on the south by Bedford line, north by the Piscataquog River, east by Manchester and west by the Capt. Hiram Tirrell Road and the Daniel Plumer Road to the Mast Road, and the direction of the last named road prolonged to Piscataquog River. The bill received little support from the town of Goffstown, and less from the city of Manchester, and consequently did not come to a vote in the House.

March 9, 1915, "Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $100 to enlarge the banquet room in the town hall at Grasmere; $200 for town history; $500 for cemeteries and $400 for the Public Library."

During the summer of 1915 the matter of a soldiers' monument, erected in memory of the soldiers of Goffstown, received considerable attention. The subject, after being discussed in various ways by members of the Grand Army and citizens, was finally laid before Mr. Henry W. Parker.

Mr. Parker with his accustomed generosity, feeling that the soldiers of Goffstown were entitled to especial recognition, and that a soldiers' monument would be a fine addition to the Square, decided to erect a monument which should be an attraction and an honor to the town, and soon made known to the members of the Grand Army and the selectmen his decision. The next February, when the warrant was posted for the annual town meeting, the following article was inserted in said warrant: "8. To see if the town will vote to place the monument given by Henry W. Parker, in memory of Goffstown's departed soldiers of all wars, upon the lot on the north side of the hotel, and raise such a sum of money as may be necessary to defray the cost of dedication."

At the annual town meeting holden on the 14th day of March, the following vote was passed unanimously: "Voted, that the town place the monument given by Henry W. Parker, in memory of Goffstown's departed soldiers of all wars, upon the lot on the north side of the hotel." Also "Voted to raise the sum of three hundred dollars ($300) to defray the cost of the dedication of said monument and such further sum as may be necessary."

The selectmen and three representatives of Capt. Charles Stinson Post, G. A. R., constituted a committee to carry into effect the vote of the town, and make all necessary arrangements for the dedication. The General Committee was George L. Eaton, Lucian W. Bartlett, Carl B. Pattee, Selectmen of Goffstown; Byron D. Brown, Luther G. Dearborn, Fred A. Condon, Capt. Charles Stinson Post, G. A. R.

The Program of the Dedication of the Soldiers' Monument at Goffstown, held June 17, 1916:

PROGRAM

Reception of invited guests by Capt. Charles Stinson Post, G. A. R., in A. M.

7.30 P. M.
Reception to Capt. Charles Stinson Post, G. A. R., and invited guests by citizens of town

The monument, which is the workmanship of Messrs. Palmer & Garmon of Manchester, was placed in position the last of May, and was completed before dedication. Although the dedicatory exercises were not scheduled to begin until afternoon, at an early hour in the forenoon the village was thronged with people, many of them former townspeople.

A brief reception to the invited guests was held by Capt. Charles Stinson Post, G. A. R., at the library in the forenoon, where Grand Army men from various sections of the state were entertained. At noon, dinner was served the invited guests and the Grand Army Posts of this town and Manchester, under the supervision of Charles Stinson Corps, W. R. C., with Mrs. Aura M. Tennant chairman.

At 1.30 o'clock the procession formed in front of the town hall, headed by the Hopkinton Band, Robert M. Gordon of Goffstown, Chief Marshal, Capt. Charles Stinson Post as escort, and marched to Carr's Corner on the southerly side of the river, and then returned to Monument Square. The monument was presented to the town of Goffstown by the donor, Henry W. Parker, and accepted by George L. Eaton, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen. The dedicatory ceremony was performed by the officers of the Department of the Grand Army Republic of New Hampshire.

A bronze tablet on the front bears the inscription:

IN MEMORY

OF THE MEN OF

GOFFSTOWN

WHO SERVED AS

SOLDIERS AND SAILORS

IN ALL

AMERICAN WARS

Erected in Honor of Capt. Charles Stinson
By His Grandson, Henry W. Parker
1916

After the dedicatory exercises were concluded,the procession reformed and marched to the town hall, where the concluding exercises were holden. A full account of the exercises was published in pamphlet form.

At the annual meeting held March 13,1917, the town "voted to return a vote of thanks to Henry W. Parker for his generous gift of a soldiers' monument"; also "voted that the town raise $100 to light the dials for the town clock."

The following resolution was submitted by Robert M. Gordon, Representatives, which was unanimously adopted:

The citizens of Goffstown, in town meeting assembled, affirm their loyal adherence to the principles of vigorous freedom, fundamental to the freedom of the United States.

They declare their approval of the course of the President of the United States in all his efforts to protect the lives and property of their fellow citizens against piratical attack upon the sea.

They urge upon him and upon all representatives of the people the speedy prosecution of every measure calculated to strengthen the entire nation, to guard its own rights and the rights of humanity against unwarranted aggression; and in carrying out of such measures for the common defense they pledge to the chief executive and to Congress their unqualified support.

Voted that a copy of the foregoing resolutions be forwarded to the governor of the state.

May 29, 1917, a special election was held to choose a member of Congress to fill out the unexpired congressional term of Cyrus A. Sulloway, lately deceased; Sherman A. Burroughs had 293 votes, and Patrick H. Sullivan had 178 votes.

At the March election, 1918, it was "voted to extend a vote of thanks to Charles G. Barnard for the gift of the playground recently donated by him, and that tbe same be called the also "voted that the same be under the full charge of the selectmen, who shall expend such sum of money as may be necessary for the improvement of the same." The town also "voted to place on the town hall a service flag to be dedicated to the brave men of Goffstown who are fighting to uphold the principles for which our fathers fought, and to appropriate $25 for the dedication."

At eleven o'clock in the forenoon, town business was suspended and letters were read by the moderator from Gov. Henry W. Keyes and John B. Jameson on food control, and patriotic addresses were made by Benjamin F. Greer on liberty loans, and by Rev. E. B. Young, Rev. James C. Simpson and Ralph C. Marden upon national affairs appertaining to the war, and Edward C. Morse offered the following resolution, which was adopted:

   WHEREAS, We are acquainted by the way of the public press with adverse criticisms and investigations by certain people in and out of Congress of the work, intentions and plans of the United States with reference to the prosecution of the war, which has had a tendency to disturb confidence in our leaders and to give to the enemy very important military secrets and great comfort and aid,
   Resolved, That we have unbounded confidence in President Wilson, Secretaries Baker and Daniels, and promise them our greatest loyalty, and ask that our representatives and senators do their utmost to cooperate with them to bring this war for the safety of democracy to a successful end.
   Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be sent to President Wilson, Secretaries Baker and Daniels, Senators Gallinger and Hollis, and Representatives Burroughs and Wason.

At the November election in 1918, the whole numbers of names borne upon the check list was 707; said to be the largest number of names ever upon a voting list in town.

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