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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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."
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