August 27, 2025 Educational Meeting. The fall meeting of the teachers and directors of the Caledonia South Central Supervision Union is to be held at Harvey’s Pond, at West Barnet, on Thursday, September 3rd, from 10:00 A.M to 4:00 P.M. All are welcome. The towns are, Barnet, Danville, Greensboro, Peacham,[Read More…]
Weeks Gone By
Cabot School Districts No. 5, No. 6, Merritt and Read Schools
CABOT – The school in Cabot’s District No. 5 was located on the road to South Walden, about three miles from Cabot Village. Over the years, the school was referred to by whatever family either lived nearby or had several youngsters going there. However, why it was referred to as[Read More…]
Fresh Air Children Arrive on Special Train
HARDWICk – No more perfect weather could have been ordered on the morning of the arrival of the arrival of the one hundred and a half of Fresh Air Children from the crowded tenements of New York, the great metropolis of this country, than that of last Friday morning. The[Read More…]
Weeks Gone By
Local Lumps, July 30, 1025 Miss Helen Jackson is employed in East Burke. Albert Cox has been in Bangor, Me., this week. Miss Isadel Clark is camping at Caspian Lake for a time. Mrs. Benjamin Watt of St. Johnsbury is a guest at Fred Taylor’s. Junior Clark of Hyde Park[Read More…]
The Hardwick Gazette, July 23, 1925
HARDWICK − Local Lumps: During the electrical storm which hit this place about 4:30 last Thursday afternoon, lightning struck the chimney on N. J. Coburn’s house on Wolcott Street and badly damaged it. This was about all the damage that was done in this village, although in the nearby towns[Read More…]
Weeks Gone By
Local Lumps Thursday, July 16, 1925 HARDWICK – With the painting of the new bridge, a very pretty battleship gray color, and the new cement sidewalks, on each side, at each end of the bridge, Hardwick may well boast of as nice a bridge as can be found in any[Read More…]
The Hardwick Gazette, July 9, 1925
The Fourth in Hardwick Jupiter Pluvius was the only celebrator of the glorious Fourth of July in Hardwick, and he was in the limelight throughout the day, intermittently, to be sure, but, nevertheless, always on the job to spoil the day’s activities, planned by the Hardwick Camp, No. 7519, M.[Read More…]
HARDWICK CAMP, M. W. A. TO CELEBRATE FOURTH
From the Hardwick Gazette, July 2, 1925 Home Town Celebration With a Good Baseball Game and Sports At Prospect Park in Afternoon. A great many towns have their plans practically perfected for the observance of the glorious Fourth of July, with interesting programs of various kinds and forms, but none[Read More…]
Local Lumps, April 23, 1925
HARDWICK – A telephone has been installed in Wade Benjamin’s home on Cherry Street this week. Work of repairing the suspension footbridge across the river near the Roy and Fulford saw-mill, was begun this morning. Workmen have been busy the past week, repairing the broken cement wall at the rear[Read More…]
West Hill Schools Originated in 1820’s
CABOT — Enoch Hoyt was the first to settle on West Hill. His property, amounting to 320 acres, later became the Orson Kimball farm. According to John M. Fisher in his history of Cabot written for Abby Maria Hemenway’s Gazetteer, Hoyt came from Epsom, N.H., and arrived by way of[Read More…]
The Hardwick Gazette, April 2, 1925
Local Lumps State’s Attorney Shepard’s office last Monday morning took on the aspect of a regular juvenile court, when about 20 boys ranging in ages from seven or eight, to fifteen, were summoned to that place upon request of Mr. Shepard. The reason for this assembly was due to the[Read More…]
Local Lumps, Hardwick, March 26, 1925
Fishing in the vicinity of lower Wolcott Street has been in evidence the past week or ten days – not for members of the finny tribe, but for the lumber which was washed away from the sawmill in the recent flood. Men from the mill have salvaged a goodly amount[Read More…]
