Smithville Baseball Team

New Ipswich Historical Society

Smithville Baseball

Smithville Baseball Team only identified players are Charles Knowlton & Charles Wheeler.

Newspaper Clipping

December 6, 1938 - Hunter Safe after Ordeal in Woods

NEW IPSWICH

Elmer Buzzell, about 35, father of six children, who had been lost in the storm-bound woods on Barrett mountain for 24 hours; turned up at the farm of August Perry in the east side of this town this morning, worn and weak from his ordeal, but otherwise unharmed.

A searching party of 50 townspeople and 50 CCC boys, which had started to track him from Wapack lodge, several miles from the Perry farm, was disbanded when word came of Buzzell's return.

Buzzell went hunting on Temple Mountain yesterday morning, starting his quest at Wapack lodge, and when he failed to return home, Police Chief Edward R. Wheeler organized a search party of 20 men including members of the local Fire Department who hunted in vain last night.

Buzzell showed up at the Perry farm about 9 o'clock, it was reported, tired and hungry, after an all-night tramp through the woods. He was later taken to his home, to recover, but was not expected to suffer any ill effects from the experience.

James Roger diary entries

10th September 1912

Fair and muggy; wind southwest. David teaming rocks from Newton Whitney’s for George Barrett. I chored round in forenoon and went to Mail; then cut some lots in afternoon. Got letter from Hamish.