Suncook Valley Business Directory
Suncook Valley » Home
» Business Directory
» NH Classifieds
» NH Obituaries
» Suncook Valley Sun Archives
» Advertise
» Contact

  Suncook Valley.com Serves the Towns of:

Barnstead, Chichester, Epsom, Gilmanton, Northwood, and Pittsfield NH

Submit NH Classifieds, Events, Notices, and Obituaries to [email protected].


Home

Barnstead

Chichester

Epsom

Gilmanton

Northwood

Pittsfield

 

Classifieds

 

Business Directory

 

Advertise

 

Contact

 

Suncook Valley Sun Historical Archive

 

(note: we are NOT affiliated with the Suncook Valley Sun Newspaper.





 

 











 

 

 

Chichester NH News

June 30, 2010

The Suncook Valley Sun News Archive is Maintained by Modern Concepts. We are NOT affliated in any way with the Suncook Valley Sun Newspaper.



 

Lindsay Jones, daughter of Gordon and Marion Jones of Chichester was named to the Cedarville University, Cedarville, OH, Dean’s Honor List for the 2010 Spring Semester. Lindsay is a Junior majoring in Environmental Science.




Happy Birthday to Karen Michael on July 4 and Derek Duford on July 6.




Would you like to participate in the Old Home Day Variety Show on Thursday, August 19th? It will be held at the school this year, with rehearsals at the Grange Hall. Contact Jaan Luikmil at 798-4987 (home) or 545-9087 (cell) for further information.




There are just a few spaces left at Carpenter Park for booths on Old Home Day, August 21. Contact Jaan Luikmil at 798-4987 (home) or 545-9087 (cell) if you would like to reserve one.




The baking contest for Old Home Day this year is double crust apple pie. Contact Carol Frekey-Harkness at 798-5443 for further information.




The theme for this year’s Old Home Day is “Halloween in August.” Again this year there will be cash prizes for floats in the Parade on August 21. Contact Jaan Luikmil at 798-4987 (home) or 545-9087 (cell) for further details.




Hot weather is a good time to take it easy and read. The following titles have been recently added to the adult fiction section of the Chichester Town Library: The Last Child by John Hart, The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova, The Crimson Rooms by Katharine McMahon, An Irish Country Girl by Patrick Taylor, Apple Turnover Murder by Joanne Fluke, I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb, Sweet Little Lies by Lauren Conrad, Die for You by Lisa Unger, Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper, Boot Camp by Todd Strasser, and Deadline by Chris Crutcher.




Invitation to Vacation Bible School for children going into grades 1 thru 6th July 12-16, 2010, from 9:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m.


Located at Epsom Bible Church, 398 Black Hall Road, Epsom, NH.


Call 736-9354 for more info or to sign up or just come and join us!


Bible stories, crafts, games, food and lots of fun!!



 

Chichester Historical Society Annual Picnic
July 12, 6:30 p.m.


Pack the picnic basket, grab a chair and head for Depot Road Bridge, known locally as “Thunder Bridge.” It’s time for the picnic to celebrate this historic site listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Please note the time change to 6:30 p.m., Monday, July 12th. Beverages and dessert will be provided by the Historical Society.


The Society’s new 2011 barn calendar, “The Other Side,” is now available for purchase. The calendar sells for $10.00 and can be seen at the Historical Society Museum, 49 Main Street. The Museum is open from 9 a.m. to noon every Tuesday. Also available are refrigerator magnets featuring Thunder Bridge for $1.00. The magnets are packaged with information on the history of the bridge. The calendars and magnets will be available for purchase from our booth at Old Home Day on August 21st.


Please stop in when driving by the museum to view our garden featuring  plants that would have been found in early New England gardens. A brief background and medicinal history of the plant is provided. The garden is a work in progress and we will be adding to it over time. The stone hitching post from the torn-down Hutchinson property will be placed in the garden at a later date.


So mark your calendar NOW for the annual picnic at Thunder Bridge, Monday, July 12th, at 6:30 p.m. Hope to see you there.

 


 

Congratulations to the Chichester Minor Girls Softball Team for

taking first place in the Suncook Valley Baseball Tournament.

 

Congratulations to the Chichester Minor Boys 1 Baseball Team for

taking first place in the Suncook Valley Baseball Tournament

 


 

Amy Eldridge Troy Of Chichester Massage Is 2010 Humanitarian Award Recipient


The NH Chapter of The American Massage Therapy Association has chosen Amy Eldridge Troy as our 2010 Humanitarian Award Recipient. For the last 13 years Amy has been noted to give of herself tirelessly. Over the past several years she has been involved with many AMTA volunteer events including National Massage Therapy Awareness Week, Legislative Day, The NH Nurses Association, The American Family Physicians Conference, and was featured in NH at the Extreme Home Makeover Event. Through her business, Chichester Massage & Bodywork Center, she supports many local organizations by offering food drives, donating services, and helping with fundraising. Chichester Massage also participates in local races and events to raise awareness for charities like The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, The American Cancer Society, and The Payson Center for Cancer Care.  Amy is always looking for ways to give back to the community. She believes that we prosper by giving to others. Her work ethic and attitude benefit us all. Congratulations to Amy Eldridge Troy!

 
The American Massage Therapy Association represents more than 57,000 massage therapists throughout 51 Chapters in the US and in over 25 countries. AMTA works to establish massage therapy as integral to the maintenance of good health and strongly encourages public service.  For more information visit www.amtamassage.org

 


 

Out of Your Attic Thrift Shop News
Submitted By Carol Hendee


We have been receiving some super donations -summer clothes, shoes, etc. We have some interesting items - what can you use a suitcase for besides travel? How about a great storage container for Christmas items, crafts, etc. We have several to choose from. We also have older quilt and knitting magazines. There are some great chef aprons for the barbeque, 2 Mr. Coffees, and doggie steps and a large dog blanket.


Two items that are frequently requested and we are in need of are child car booster seats and baby swings.


Thank you for your donations. Stop by Tues., Wed. or Thurs., 8-4 or Sat., 10-4. We’re on Rte 28, Blueberry Plaza, Chichester.

 


 

Surprise 75th Birthday


Jewel Emerson Murphy was guest of honor on June 20th at a surprise 75th Birthday celebration held at the home of her sister, Esther Emerson Riel, Pleasant Street in Chichester.


The party was given by her children, Dick Miller and Ethel Sebastion.


Over sixty people attended and among them, in addition to her children, were her sisters, Esther, Cliftine Murphy, Verna Conway, and Laura Stevens; nearly all her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, as well as many other relatives and friends.

 


 

Chichester Historical Society
Vanished Town Officials - Part III
By Walter Sanborn


For the first 200 years the only fuel for heating and cooking was wood. Many farmers had woodlots on their farm and cut their own firewood. Not everyone lived on a farm and they had to buy wood from someone else.


Not everyone who sold firewood was honest like people are today and were sometimes short on their measurements to their customers. In any event the General Court found it advisable back as far as 1791 to pass An Act to prevent fraud in cordwood exposed for sale. This act defined the measurement for a cord of wood as four feet wide, four feet high and eight feet in length closely packed.  It also required each town where cordwood as sold to elect a “Corder of Wood.”  His job was to measure all cordwood bought into town for sale and to certify to its measure.


Wood was not only the primary source of fuel in the early nineteenth century but was also the principal material for building.


Here again was an opportunity for fraud and need for standardization for the measurement of lumber.  Many towns had their own sawmills where there was a convenient source of waterpower of which Chichester had several sawmills.  In 1785 the General Court passed an act regulating the sale of shingles, clapboards, hoops and staves and required the town to elect a Measurer of Boards, (later Surveyor of Lumber) and Culler of Staves. The act goes into detail as to the kind and quality of lumber to be used, and the finished dimensions of boards, shingles, clapboards and items such as hogshead staves, barrel staves and hogshead hoops and shooks from which wooden boxes were made. For example all clapboards shall be five eights of an inch on the back or thickest point, five inches wide and four feet six inches long and they shall be straight and well shaved.


It was the job of the Surveyor of Lumber and Culler of Staves to view applicable lumber and see that the law was rigorously enforced. In 1794 Lieut. John Hilyard, John Morrill and Capt John Langmaid were elected Surveyors of Lumber in Chichester and John Moulton Culler of Staves.


Early containers of liquids and dry grains and fruits and vegetables were made of wood such as scoops, measurers, kegs, barrels and boxes. Apples, potatoes and other fruits and vegetables were stored and sold in wooden barrels and boxes.


Cider, vinegar and other liquids were stored and sold in heavier barrels with each end sealed and only a hole to fill the barrel and a bung to fill the hole after filling.


The Culler of Staves was to see that these containers were properly built.


These containers had to meet a required measurement of standard size. This required another town official called a “Sealer of Measure”. 


Although Chichester had a “Sealer of Measure” there was no name recorded.  Today this job is taken over by the State of New Hampshire and is regulated by the Department of Weights and Measures.


My next article will be about re-establishing some of these vanished town officials in the future.

 


Obituaries


 

George L. Blackman


Chichester - The Rev. George L. Blackman, 90, died Wednesday, June 23, 2010.


George was rector of the Church of Our Savior in Brookline, Mass., for 30 years. After he retired in 1987 and moved to the family homestead in Chichester, he continued to preach, take services and occasionally serve as interim at churches in New Hampshire Episcopal Diocese. He was known for his compassionate, pastoral counseling and his eloquent, extemporaneous sermons. For many years, he was also active in the Concord Victorian Society’s Gilbert and Sullivan productions, as both director and actor.


The eldest son of Floyd and Helen Blackman, George grew up in Brookline, Mass., and loved his summers spent in Chichester. He graduated from Harvard in 1941 and then served as a lieutenant on a sub chaser in the Pacific in World War II. His war experiences led him to choose ministry in the Episcopal Church. He graduated from the Episcopal Theological School in 1948 and received his Ph.D. in church history from Emmanuel College, Cambridge (U.K.) in 1953. It was while studying in England that he met and married Maeve Hardie from Glasgow, Scotland. They were married in 1952. Over the next four years, he taught history at EDS and at Emmanuel College, where he became one of the few Americans to be elected a fellow of the college. In 1957, he answered a call to the Church of Our Saviour. He was also a lecturer and author. Faith And Freedom, his history of U.S. theological education, was published in 1957. He was a president of the English Speaking Union, an elected Brookline Town Meeting member and chairman of Commissions on Aging and Human Relations. He helped organize and lead the Diocese of Massachusetts contingent that participated in the famous Civil Rights March from Selma in 1965. His spiritual vision, deep compassion, and his sense of humor and infectious laugh will always be cherished by all who knew him.


In all things, he was partnered and supported by Maeve, his loving wife.


In addition to her, he is survived by his brother, Arthur; four sons, Harry, Tony, Hamish and Ian; and seven grandchildren.


Memorial services will be held July 10 at noon at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Center Street, Concord, and at the Church of Our Saviour sometime later in the summer.


Memorial donations may be made to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Center Street, Concord 03301; or to the Church of Our Saviour, 23 Monmouth St., Brookline, Mass. 02446; or to The Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, 322 Eighth Ave., 7th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10001.


Bennett Funeral Home, Concord, is in charge of arrangements.


Messages of condolence may be offered online at bennettfuneral.com.

 


 


 

 











 
 

SiteMap | Home | Advertise | NH Classifieds | About

 

Copyright © 2007-2019 Modern Concepts Website Design NH. All Rights Reserved.

 

NH Campgrounds | NH Events

We are NOT affliated in any way with the Suncook Valley Sun Newspaper