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Gazette & Courier - Monday, September 20, 1875
Probate court record
Northfield - Wills proved - Hezekiah Mattoon, Northfield, S.W. Dutton, Northfield, ex'r. Account filed - in estate of Joel Fay, N. Inventories filed - in estate of Samuel Alexander, N., $8351; Avery Clapp, Montague, $1869; Sarah M. Hawks, Deerfield, $489. [?] of notice - in estate of Jeremiah Dow, Erving; Alban Hill,Shutesbury. Next Probate Court at Greenfield.
Gazette & Courier - Monday, September 13, 1875
Died
Root, Mrs. Adaline B., age 69, died in Erving Aug. 12; Maynard, Alice Estelle, age 1, only daughter of Myron Maynard and Abbie C. Maynard of Montague, and grand-daughter of L.L. Perry of Erving, died of cholera infantum in Erving on Aug. 29.
Gazette & Courier - Monday, September 13, 1875
Erving
Erving - We learn from good authority that men are here and there purchasing revolvers for their wives to frighten tramps with. One of our citizens has provided his house with one. Strange that women always have to "faint away" after the enemy has been conquered.
Gazette & Courier - Monday, September 13, 1875
Probate Court Record
Probate court Record - Greenfield - Administration granted on estates of George W. Bardwell of Deerfield, Jane F. Bardwell and Cyrus A. Stowell, Adm'rs.; Jeremiah Dow of Erving, Edmund M. Dow of Erving, Adm'r.; Joseph M. Townsend of Coleraine, Sarah Townsend of Coleraine, Adm'r.
Wills proved - Samuel Alexander of Northfield, George P. Alexander of Northfield, Ex'r.; Sarah Cook of Greenfield, John J. Graves and R.W. Cook of Greenfield, Ex'rs.; Ansel C. Delano of Sunderland, Jesse L. Delano and Edward A. Delano of Sunderland, Ex'rs.; Moses Hubbard of Sunderland, Cyrus M. Hubbard of Sunderland, Adm'r. with the will annexed.
Accounts rendered - on estates of William W. Alcott of Bernardston, Clark Ellis of New Salem, Clarissa Battle of Orange, Mary J. Gore of Monroe, Harriet M. Brown of Greenfield, A.M. Kingman of Deerfield, George S. Boyd of Deerfield.
License granted to sell real estate - Of John Arms of Gill, Andrew Welch of Montague, Walter D. Thompson of Troy, Ohio.
Widows' allowance - Made in estates of Rufus S. Phillips of Greenfield, $500; Edward Thayer of Greenfield, $9018.
Affidavits filed - in estate of Charles S. Brown of Greenfield, Baxter Harding of Conway, P. May Buddington of Greenfield, Rufus S. Phillips of Greenfield, Moses Field of Leverett.
Estate of Ephraim Murdock, late of Orange, represented insolvent, H. Woodward and G.A. Whipple, Commissioners.
Commissioners' report filed in estate of John Haskins, late of Shutesbury. Distribution ordered in estate of George S. Boyd, late of Deerfield.
John Quinton of Greenfield adopted infant child of William H. Seley; name changed to John George L. Quinton. Name of Flora M. Reynolds of Shutesbury changed to Flora M. Freeman. Next Probate Court at Northfield next Tues. (tomorrow).
Gazette & Courier - Monday, August 30, 1875
Erving
(Erving) James Cuff, a brakeman on the Fitchburg R.R. was killed at Erving Depot Wed. morning, while making what is called a flying switch. He was killed instantly. Several cars passed over his body, mangling it in a shocking manner, and inquest was held before Noah Rankin Esq. with the following jury...
Gazette & Courier - Monday, August 16, 1875
Erving
Wages have again been cut down in our village shops, and as people keep prophesying unusually hard times for the coming winter, many a courageous man looks sad.
Gazette & Courier - Monday, August 2, 1875
E.M. Dow
E.M. Dow, near the Railroad Depot, Erving, Mass., has opened a choice assortment of pure teas, coffees, spices and family groceries. Also flour of all grades, meal and feed constantly on hand. All of which are respectfully offered to the public at remarkably low rates for cash.
Gazette & Courier - Monday, July 26, 1875
Millers Falls
There is a conundrum going around here, which as yet we have not heard answered. Why do Erving, Northfield and Greenfield have so much better roads than Montague? Road commissioners are not allowed to guess.
Gazette & Courier - Monday, July 19, 1875
Lake Pleasant
Lake Pleasant continues to be the attractive spot for picnics. Tues., 20 parties from Athol, Orange, Wendell and Erving will picnic there; the 22nd, the Hibernians of Holyoke; 28th, Sovereigns of Gardner; 24th, Methodists of Northampton.
Gazette & Courier - Monday, July 12, 1875
Probate Court Record
Greenfield, July 6, 1875. Administration granted - on estate of Dexter Drake, late of Buckland, Almon Howes of Ashfield, Adm’r.; Anna Fisk, Shelburne, Daniel Fisk of Shelburne Adm’r.; Laura E. gleason,Charlemont, Elza R. Gleason, Adm’r.; Eli T. Greene, Shelburne, Mary E. Greene and Rawson S. Streeter of Shelburne, Adm’rs.; Walter Guilford, Conway, D.T. Vining, Adm’r. with will annexed; Mary Glazier, Leverett, Loana Huse of Leverett, Adm’r.; Sarah H. Putnam, Greenfield, W.C. Bryant, Adm’r.; Mary P. Rugg, Montague, Joseph Humphrey of Keene, N.H., Adm’r.; Samuel R. Smith, Coleraine, Joseph B. Clark of Coleraine, Adm’r.; Maria Scott of Whately, Adm’r.; Charles Smith, Deerfield, Dwight Smith, Adm’r.
Wills proved - of Esther Dickinson, late of Deerfield, Virgil M. Howard of Athol, Ex’r.; Angeline S. Farnsworth, Charlemont, Jonas K. Patch of Shelburne, Ex’r.; Charles J. Sherwood, Leverett, Adaline L. Sherwood and Charles B. Sherwood of Leverett, Ex’r.
Guardians appointed - Lydia E. Damon of Ashfield over her own minor children of Ashfield; O.F. Hale of Gill over Achsah Hayden of Gill; Frederick G. Howes of Ashfield over his own minor children.
Accounts rendered - on estates of Alice L. Aldrich of Conway; Perry Bryant’s heirs of New Salem; Ebenezer Morton of Deerfield; Elizabeth Meyers of Shelburne; Andrew Wissman of Shelburne; John N. Sweet of Shelburne; E.E. Robinson of Sunderland, Ex’rs. private account.
License granted to sell real estate - of Jason Phinney of Orange. Widows’ allowance - Made in estates of Moses M. Huse, Leverett, $108; Baron Stow, Conway, $400.
Inventories filed - In estates of Harriet M. Brown, Greenfield, $1983; Dr. David Bradford, Montague, $3231; Laurana B. Bradford, Montague, $11,219; Lucius H. Graves, Charlemont, $213; Polly C. Howes, Ashfield, $3436; Charles Pelton, Shelburne, $2702; Calvin T. Swan, Northfield, $2003; Charles J. Sherwood, Leverett, $3427; Amasa Taylor, New Salem, $4060; Caroline Williams, Deerfield, $5864.
Affidavits filed - in estates of Dr. David Bradford, Montague; Laurania [i.e. Laurana B. Bradford], Montague; Mary E. Griffin, Orange; Lyman Rice, Charlemont; Calvin T. Swan, Northfield; Amasa Taylor, New Salem.
Estate of E.E. Robinson, late of Sunderland, rendered insolvent - L. Merriam, G.D. Williams, L.W. Fairchild, commissioners.
Levi N. Chamberlin of Orange adopted Mary Moore - name changed to Bertha Augusta Chamberlin. Noah Rankin of Erving was removed as Administrator of the estate of Susan Gould, late of Erving. Commissioner’s report in estate of Stephen Shepardson filed June 11th. Next Probate Court at Greenfield on the first Tues. of August.
Gazette & Courier - Monday, July 12, 1875
A righteous rebuke
The following paragraph in the Turners Falls Reporter, in its just defense of one of our honored and respected citizens, will be readily endorsed by every respectable man in the community:
"If the Greenfield times man did get pretty badly stuck when he purchased that paper, it doesn't show a manly spirit to abuse men of whom he knows nothing, simply to vent his rage. He came to Greenfield a perfect stranger, and when the first opportunity offered, he attacked the Gazette for being so successful a rival. Then he blundered into abusing people, and making misstatements generally, till one half of one week's paper was taken up with apologies for the inaccuracies of the preceding week.
And one of his last indiscretions is the most unpardonable. He took delight in copying an article from an exchange, which contained a low slur on the character of Hon. W.B. Washburn, speaking of him as the pail-maker of Erving. Mr. Washburn is the pail-maker of Erving, but he is also a gentleman, and was an honest and faithful servant of the people in all offices, high and low, to which he was elected, and retired from the United States Senate with a name unspotted.
Now that Mr. Washburn has retired from public life, the Times nor any other paper has a right to speak otherwise of him than as a gentleman, and if that sheet desires to prolong its painful existence, it will take our advice and not say anything against a man till it knows whereof it affirms. Let it take a lesson from its past management. The course it now pursues has made bankrupts of half a dozen men".
The beauties of nature have been resurrected all about us. Too bad that their life must be of short duration. When we hear of tomato plants living, blossoming and bearing fruit for 3 years in succession, having no frosts to prevent it, we wonder not that California is overflowing with emigrants.
- Wed, Feb 10, 2010
