Essex Locals |Nov 18

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115 Years Ago – 1907

One day last week Edwin H. Burnham and two sons were down river herringing and after work Edwin picked up a bottle and held it out saying to his son Ralph, there is a good shot.  Ralph picked up a stone and fired it, missed the bottle but struck his father over the eye, cutting quite a gash and knocking him down.  Dr. Simpson took several stitches in the wound to close it.

90 Years Ago – 1932

A group of members of the local Grange motored to Newton, N.H. where they spent a pleasant evening with Eclipse Grange in that town.

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