Snowy Day at the Barr Estate
New Ipswich Historical Society
View of Homestead Inn and Baptist Church
A snowy day on the Barr Estate with a view of the back of the Homestead Inn and the Baptist Church.
News Clippings
NEW IPSWICH - Oct 1935
Oct Mr. and Mrs. Philip Bassett of Country Day school, Chestnut Hill, Brookline, have bought the Goen place between Smithville and Gibson Village. They are spending weekends here.
Miss Patricia Thompson has re turned to San Diego, Calif. by auto with her mother, Mrs. Philip Thompson, and Mrs. Walter Desmond of Shirley, Mass.
Mrs. Waldo Hunter was accompanied by Mrs. Frank Ober, Mrs. Genevieve Hastings, and Miss Ruth Hardy to the Sunday school convention in Milford Thursday. Arthur Smith and Norman Ashley attended the youths' banquet.
Appleton academy and junior high school closed Thursday and Friday to allow the teachers to attend the teachers' convention in Concord.
A visitation to John Everett chapter, No. 60, O. E. S., by the deputies will take place tomorrow. The Congregational society will celebrate its 175th anniversary Sunday. Finnish-speaking people have been invited to attend the morning service at 10.45 o'clock and to sing in that language. Cake and coffee will be served to visitors at noon. A sermon by Stephen Farrar, first pastor of the denomination in town, will be read at 1 p. m. and the setting of old-time days will be reproduced.
James Roger diary entries
16th September 1912
Rain during night; cool north wind. David went to Greenville for grain, brought oatmeal, etc.; also wheelbarrow from blacksmith’s and took horses to blacksmith’s; in afternoon painted barrow. I had lumbago and staid in house all day; wrote to Mrs. White - Roslin. Mr. White died suddenly on 5th aged 65 and old Mrs. Leadbetter on 3rd aged 97. Got letter from Hamish who is very busy in politics.
Wonder how many Finns attended the special anniversary service at the Congo at which they were invited to sing in Finnish. If these were Apostolic Lutherans they probably didn’t have any instrumental accompaniment at their own services. They thus sang at a very slow tempo, guided by a lukkari or cantor, and that might have been intersecting to Congregationalists, who had an organ guiding their singing re tempo and phrasing.
How long would it take to drive to San Diego from New Ipswich in 1935?