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Taste for a Cure Thursday, April 11, 2013

6:30pm - 10:00pm

The Executive Court Banquet Facility 1199 South Mammoth Road, Manchester, NH

Emceed by WZID’s Mike Morin Featuring a unique silent auction & performance by Bedford Youth

Performing Center Jazz Combo

The Seventh Annual

Tickets $60 ($35 tax-deductible) For tickets, visit http://newengland.cff.org/Taste

or call (800) 757-0203

A&E Custom Coffee Roastery bluAqua Restaurant & Bar

Buckley’s Great Steaks Cupcakes 101

Firefly American Bistro & Bar Frederick’s Pastries

Great State Beverage Greenhouse Catering

LaBelle Winery

Orchard Street Chop Shop Piccola Italia Ristorante Purple Wine Company The Peddler’s Daughter The Rustic Leaf Bistro

Wentworth by the Sea The Yard Restaurant

Zorvino Vineyard And more!

Because of risks to people with cystic fibrosis (CF), individuals who have had a confirmed positive sputum culture for Burkholderia cepacia (B. cepacia) complex shall not attend this event Taste for a Cure. This is because B. cepacia can be passed between individuals who have CF through close proximity. B. cepacia infection in a person with CF can cause serious respiratory illness and, in some patients, may lead to death. Despite this policy, there might still be some individuals with B. cepacia in attendance. B. cepacia is not a risk for otherwise healthy individuals. For alternative ways to participate and for information about this

policy, please contact the CF Foundation at (800) FIGHT-CF or visit www.cff.org. Consult your CF care center physician with medical questions.

This is a non-smoking event.

no-new-eng@cff.org

MEN & WOMEN’S AGE GROUPS • FREE KIDS MAD DASHChapanga’s Restaurant

5K Road Race Starts at 7:00 PM • Race Registration Opens at 5:30 PM$20 for Ages 16 & Up • $15 for Ages 15 & Under • Kid’s Mad Dash Free for 12 yrs and Under

Runner's Ticket Price includes All Access Pass to After Music Party

Not a Runner but Want to Come for the Music and Party? No Problem...$10 Non-Runner Entrance Fee for Music Party only.

Live Music from 6:30 to Close Featuring...THE POP FARMERS • THE SLAKAS

Food... Music... Drink... Lots of FUN! Full Cash BarPRIZES, GIVEAWAYS, AWARDS, RAFFLES

A Big Thanks to Our Hosts... And the Town of Milford

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support herself. She is buried as Sarah Eliza Wilson at Meadowview, with two of her three children, near her brothers and parents, Robert Atkinson (1838-1913) & wife Ann (1843-1906), both born in England, who settled here when Eliza and her twin sis, born in Pennsylvania, were toddlers.

CORRECTIONOne of the pitfalls of genealo-

gy research is to put two and two together and get five. Mea culpa. That’s what I did (in my previous column, 26 March, page 4) for Sar-ah E. Farley. I neglected to check the census, which should have been at the top of my fact-check-list. In the

1850 census (which gave no occu-pations for women) she was 25 (!), boarding with new register of deeds Wm Wetherbee (likely at 3 Man-chester Road which he later bought), so the Amherst milliner could not have been the younger person of the same name who became Mrs. Dan-iel F. Runnels of Hollis and Nashua. Perhaps it was purely coincidence

that farmer Enoch Farley of Hollis moved to Amherst around the same time she did. The most likely can-didate for our S.E.F was born 1825 in New Ipswich, N. H., as daughter of a lawyer later of Groton, Mass., who lived out her life (d. 1905) as a spinster in the household of her brother-in-law Kelly, also a lawyer, in Boston and Cohasset. But other

than the same age calibrated to the 1850 census, I have found no proof of connection.SOURCES

Notices and advertisements in the Farmers’ Cabinet newspaper of Amherst were the primary sourc-es for the location and dates of lo-cal millinery establishments. Tax invoices reveal which women ran stores so well-stocked that they had

to pay taxes on their “stock in trade” just as tradesmen such as tanners, harness-makers and cabinet-mak-ers did; tax invoices for Means store show the occupants that were milli-ners. Deeds, censuses, vital records; also Meadowview gravestones (as entered in findagrave.com by Jackie Marshall). History of Town of Lyn-deborough, 1906, for Miss Atklin-son as teacher.

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David M. Means House – 6 Courthouse Road. Mrs. Mary W. Few (1821-1900), newly arrived from England, began her eight-year Amherst millinery career here, in 1852, while the house was briefly owned by Hazen Z. Ellis, who also opened a store of English and dress goods in another room. (She then had her shop and home at 8 Main Street, was widowed 1863, remar-ried ‘64; and leased that shop 1860-’67, first to Miss Sophia E. Phelps (1836-1924; m. 1864), then to Mrs. Nellie S. (Lovejoy) Jaquith (b. 1840; remarried1870).)

Capt. Gilbert Small House – 15 Middle Street. Miss Lelia J. Small (1849-1885), daughter of the shoemaker and firefighting company officer, first offered dress- and cloak-making, machine stitching and pinking done to order, as well as a stock of laces and ribbons and plumes for bonnets, in 1872 in a room of the family home. From Oct. 1873 through Oct. 1877, she occupied a stand-alone shop, renovated and remodeled for her, at corner of BPR and Foundry Street, opposite Fay’s (101 BPR). She had no competitor in town, but quit in anticipation of her March 1878 wedding with widower Charles W. Dodge, 35, a store clerk who had grown up at 4 Main Street; her life was cut short by consumption.

Rachel Batchelder-Timothy Jones Jr. House – 10 Cross Street. Miss Sarah K. Macer (c. 1845-1898), born in England as daughter of a wheelwright, claiming she had several years’ experience in London (but coming from Connecticut where her brother settled), offered dress-making & millinery from room in residence of Dudley Carlton in 1870-’71, After a stint in Bos-ton, she moved to a shop Milford April 1872, but in Oct. 1873 at Boston, Sarah, 28, was married to 43-year-old farmer Gilman R. Mansur (Jr.) of Wilton. She died at age 52 in Wilton of consumption, leaving 2 sons and a widower who would die at the County Farm aged 78.

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Women’s Association members Carol Lyon and Jane Hunt preparing for the Rummage Sale at the Congregational Church of Amherst on April 12 and 13.

Spring Rummage SaleAMHERST – Spring Rummage

Sale sponsored by the Woman’s Association of the Congregational Church of Amherst, UCC

Friday, April 12, 5:00 to 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, April 13, 9:00 a.m. to noon

The church is located at 11 Church Street, Amherst. Use the side entrance.

This well-organized sale will fea-ture clothing, jewelry, toys, games,

puzzles, books, linens, small household items and home deco-rations at very reasonable prices. On Saturday morning, all remain-ing items will be available at $5.00 a bag!

Questions? Contact the church office at 673-3231 or go to ccam-herst.org.

paid for a day’s work, you should deliver a day’s work.”

Marge was feted at a retirement luncheon reception at Town Hall. Joining Marge to celebrate were town elected officials, department heads, employees from many de-partments and well-wishers.

She is looking forward to her earned retirement but she will not be idle. She has a bucket list of things to do. But first she will travel to Italy in October. Best wishes and thank you to Marge.

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ed with the elementary students. The police department proposed to Principal St. Amand the simple procedure of daily check-ins at the Clark-Wilkins Elementary School, with uniformed officers visiting at random times each day during school hours.

Principal St. Amand and Lieu-tenant Anthony Ciampoli, com-mander of the uniformed division of the police department, hosted a staff meeting at the Clark School on March 13th, which was attended by roughly 30 or more elementary school staff members. Chief Reams said, “Support for the idea was

overwhelming as school staff rec-ognized the value of this approach. They were eager to provide their as-sistance and cooperation.”

“The meeting highlighted how fortunate the community is to have concerned and involved school leaders as Gerry St. Amand, Jan-et Davis, Meg Trainor, and the rest of their dedicated Clark - Wilkins staff,” continued Chief Reams.

In addition to performing school walkthroughs, officers will also be sitting down periodically with younger students and reading a book to the class. Book readings are already underway at both schools. Amherst Resident is a Technical

Director on Movie “The Croods”LOS ANGELES, CA – Christian

Barrett, a 2008 graduate of Souhe-gan High School, recently had the first movie he worked on released by Dreamworks Annimation.

Christian is a technical director at Dreamworks Annimation and was one of the technical directors on the recent Dreamworks movie, The Croods.

After graduation from Souhegan, Christian attended Purdue Univer-sity where he majored in computer graphics technology receiving his bachelor of science degree in 2012. While at Purdue, Christian worked in the graphics research center and was selected for membership in

the epsilon phi tau honors society. Christian’s senior project at Purdue involved developing a low cost com-puter graphics and vision system used to help special needs children with their physical therapy. Both the educational experience and the experience of working on anima-tion for the First Robotics Team at Souhegan were key in providing a strong foundation for Christian’s success.

Christian is currently working on additional movies at Dreamworks and currently resides in the met-ro LA area where he occasionally misses the change of seasons.

Town News

Christian Barrett, SHS 2008, is part of the team at Dreamworks in L.A.

Marge Drobat was honored for her 37 years of service to Amherst.