Editor's comment—the old and New.
It is with pleasure that we present to our readers our leading article.
We had intended to make this issue essentially a Wellington number.
The author,
Mr. Barker, was there resident, and at its writing an interested member of our Historical Society.
In 1918 he read it at our meeting and profusely illustrated it with lantern slides.
We also had the privilege of being at its repetition at the Wellington club house.
And now, after his passing on, we are thus preserving his interesting work.
We commend its careful reading, and also the
Bradbury Ancestry in Vol.
IX, Nos. 3 and 4, by
Miss Eliza M. Gill, which especially mentions the ‘old house’ (now standing), the Blanchard-Bradbury-Wellington house, the oldest house in
Medford of which we have authentic history.
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Our views are the result of the work of photographer
Thode, procured to illustrate
Miss Gill's paper of 1906.
We regret that our present makeup forbids the presentation of a more detailed account of
Bethany church (Methodist Episcopal), organized forty years ago, and of the
Protestant Episcopal Sunday school and mission work in other years.
We hope later to do so, respecting the old.
As to the new, the closing article and view of St. James' church (
Roman Catholic) just completed and opened for
Christmas worship, is certainly interesting, timely and up-to-date, and is prepared and procured especially for the Register.
