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Ibk T J T T f X IN B .1 Contc iThu i T f ? ? i ? en. 3 V T ^ prese: v \ MUSIC BY OUR FAI f | I S | GARC fi:- V ? WOMEN TOWN OWNERS. Newfields, N. H., Population Mostly Widows and Spinsters. Just four miles North of Exeter, N. H., lies the little town of Newfields, once a prosperous manufacturing center, noted for its water v heater and machine shops, with 500 men on the payrolls. Now it has less than that number of inhabitants, including men, women and children. In those days the town was called South Newmarket. It boasted several - saloons, two hotels, corporation "* boarding houses, a variety of stores and four churches supported by substantial congregations. Today all that may be seen of the hotels is the empty cellars over which * they once stood, for fire long ago removed their frames. Only two stores remain. One of the churches has closed its doors and the other three - struggle along with dwindling congregations. The once crowded boarding houses, the popular barrooms and the livery stables are all gone. The foundries and the machine I shops drop piece by piece, year aftei year, into hopeless ruins. The wharf on the Exeter river, where the coal barges stopped on the way from Portsmouth, has rotted away and the barges pass disdainfully by with cargoes straight into Exeter. The old excursion steamer that once made pleasure trips to Portsmouth has stood in the boathouse for years, until within the last year it was bought and remodeled for a u? rnu - J ~ .i.-n j4.v>? uai gc. j. nc uaiv sini swuus uu iuc river bank, a mournful relic of many happy days of the long ago. When the old industries closed their doors many of the better class of men sold their well built, attractive homes at a loss, and sought other manufacturing centers. Rents dropped, property values dropped, but ? taxes have gone steadily upward, until for the current year the top notch at $26 per house has been reached. Newfields is scarcely known outside of its own State. But it is here that the first white settler in New Hampshire-, Edward Hilton, made his V* r\ l?/\ liAn IR A fo ilxr AAVilie, lie 11CO All tuu laillll^ burying ground on the Hilton farm. It is in this town that the famous Hilton family made history for New Hampshire from the year 1623 until a few years ago, when George E. ^ Hilton, of the eighth generation living upon the old homestead passed away. k k. . 1AI The E AMBERG COUNTY, LOCA1 lining 450 acres, has been sul -a rsdaj 'his sale is being made to wind t will pav vou to take a dav ( ^e want you to attend this sal nee and will assure you a good W?i WlijLi U-iVJii i lious JAZZ BAND. ale will be held on the propert 1-2 CAS] )LINA A. L. HAMER, Newfields today is unique in many ways. It is essentially a woman's town. The houses are mostly owned by women; in fact, some women own several. Both store buildings in the town are owned by women. The Odd Fellows hall is owned by a woman, also the public library building. The bulk of the taxes is therefore necessarily paid by women. Newfields may be called an almost Adamless Eden, for there are more unmarried women in proportion to the population than you may find in a day's travel elsewhere. There are young women, middle aged women, aged women, pretty women, homely women, all varieties of the female type; but there is almost one characteristic dominating them all; they are educated, refined and wonderfully capable women. They are versatile women, these dwellers in Newfields; they can write essays on the higher thoughts of life; they can learn letter perfect page upon page of lodge or grange ritual; they can plant and harvest large crops; they can mow their green lawns and grow beautiful flowers, they can sew and knit tremenduously and cook?well, God bless you! their cooking is par excellence, "the kind that~mother used to make." Many of these women are or have been school teachers: there are also I nurses, dressmakers, milliners, an artist, a journalist, bookeeper and just plain, every day house-keepers or home makers. There are a few unmaried men in Newfields both bachelors and widowers, but the boys and men of the town do not seek their mteas at home. Let a new girl move into town do not seek their mates at come her "steady," but the glris who were born there and grew up with the boys must look beyond their native town for mates. Bachelors occupy attractive houses of many rooms, living alone in singlebliss and selfishness. Spinsters and widows live in great, roomy colonial houses, all alone in the lonely spaciousness of ten or twelve rooms. And these women, who for the most part own their own fine homes and have money enough to keep that comfortably all their lives, shrug their shoulders as they read the divorce columns and say, "I should worry!" With their large woodpiles, their well stocked preserve and fruit cellars, their flocks of hens laying truly | golden eggs at 60 and 70 cents JCT ten T. Ric ?ED 9 MILES FROM BAMI bdivided into small farms, ar _ _ / /, Ocl AT IO:3 . up the Rice Estate, and the j )ff and attend this sale. Spec e and buv some of this land, I / 7 [ time. Come and hear our tw FR IWAY ABSOLUTELY FRE ;v. Deeds delivered and mone TEE H, BALANCE IN 1, 2 ANE i amfy Manager. 1 dozen, their productive gardens, their fine old homes with nary a mortgage on them, they are not Worrying about matrimony. Women with limousines, a winter home on Commonwealth Avenue, a beach cottage, a palatial home in Newfields; women with mortgages on many farms occupied by men, women with city and town bonds; and as, for Liberty and Victory bonds, the town of Newfields went way over the top every time. Traveling through Nebraska and Wyoming, one sees from the car windows great bulletin boards reading: Wanted: Housekeepers for the ranches. Highest wages paid. Best of references furnished. The ranchers are hungering for a woman's voice, and they are not ashamed to proclaim it in a manner that all who pass by may read. Perhaps some of the New England women are just as lonely and 1 i 1 n ieei me neea or a strong arm to keep I things up around the place, but it is not for women to cry their secrets from the housetops. 300 CASES OF INFLUENZA. Reported Past Week From Fourteen States. Washington, Sept. 27.?More than 300 cases of influenza were reported i by fourteen States* but the diesase; has not reached the proportions of an j epidemic in any State. The service 1 announced today that the cases reported generally were of mild type. States reporting and the numbers in each follow: Alabama 20, Arkansas 14, Califor- | nia 51, Florida 22, Georgia 23, Kan-1 sas 31, Kentucky 3, Louisiana 5, Mas-: sachusetts 42, Montana 4, New Jer-! sey 20, New York 31, Washington 8. j "The fact that the cases are of a } mild type would seem to be a hopeful | sign" said Surgeon General Blue. 1 "However, it is too early to make a ; forecast with any degree of certain-, ty." me wisest tning to ao is tor every i person to avoid contact with those j affected, to keep out of crowds and | crowded places, to he on the lookout i for the first symptoms and when these ; appear to go directly and summon a ! physician. "City and State authorities should : by no means take it for granted that j influenza will not return. Every san-j itary precaution should be rigidly en-j forced until the danger has entirely J passed." i ION e Estate 1 l ERG, 3 MILES FROM OL^ id each farm is well located or tober O A. M. >roperty must be sold regardle iial invitation is extended to L >ut if you are not interested ro auctioneers work together, HE IE $25.00 IN GOLD DUR ' y collected during the sale, or ?MS l 3 YEARS AT 8 PER CENI AUCTI colu; Fountain pen ink, in all size bottles, at Herald Book Store. Young Housewives nV,?ni.- rvfp fM,,. i:vmpoc! A DV ujll uii ;uui not ui x i ARTICLES for your new home the following, which we can supply you at a less cost than you could obtain them elsewhere: Washing machine. Sewing machine. Fireless Cooker. Aluminum, Queens & Granite Ware i Silverware, Cut Glass & Cutlery, and many other indispensable things for a MODERN, UP-TO-DATE HOME. G. R. SIMMONS GOOD THINGS TO EAT City Market Hutto & Bellinger, Props. BAMBERG, S. 0. SALE! Lands i t lR, 2 MILES FROM GOVAN. ? n n m ^ l Koaa, will be sola at auction. 9th, 1919J I T 1 ss of price. iHasy terms will be giv adies to attend. ?? in buying, we will appreciate your and hear our famous Jazz Band. 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