The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . t time,numbering over two hundred members, andranking among the foremost in the state. Ithas been an acknowledged intellectual stimulusand social help to many, and is a source of prideand gratification to the large body of men andwomen among our best townspeople who are in itsmembership. Central Lodge of I. O. O. F., organized in 1881,with S. K. Paige, Noble Grand, has evidentlybeen unusually successful; and so, as far as oneof the uninitiated has a right to judge, has beenWelcome Rebekah Lodge. The newest of the orde
The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . t time,numbering over two hundred members, andranking among the foremost in the state. Ithas been an acknowledged intellectual stimulusand social help to many, and is a source of prideand gratification to the large body of men andwomen among our best townspeople who are in itsmembership. Central Lodge of I. O. O. F., organized in 1881,with S. K. Paige, Noble Grand, has evidentlybeen unusually successful; and so, as far as oneof the uninitiated has a right to judge, has beenWelcome Rebekah Lodge. The newest of the orders, Knights of theGolden Cross, holds its meetings in the hall in Robertsons block. To do justice to the libraries of Warner—the first of which was incor-porated in 1796—a separate sketch must needs be written. The presentone will only briefly outline the history of the Pillsbury Free Library. Itis a gratifying fact that two of the most generous gifts to this town have 436 / SKETCH OF WARNER. Jti i a I < ?\ gjij r ij Rl tit m »« m in i1 i.: ; III If i ?-. wa :tory. been made by men who had only atemporary residence here ; gratifying,because it certainly sroes far towards it is impossible to eventouch upon many incidentsof interest. Many persons,many events must neces-sarily be left out. But notthe soldiers who fought forus in the War of the Re-bellion. The men of War-ner responded immediately,and with enthusiasm. Nev-er were more loyal patriots-or braver ones. The Ros-ter of New HampshireSoldiers, lately published,gives the names of one hun-dred and twenty-five men,natives of Warner, and thirty-seven,credited to the town, not born of them were in the Eleventh proving that there is something that and Sixteenth regiments, and theircommends itself about the town itself, service was chiefly with the Army ofor about the people, or the way we the Potomac and in the Departmenttreat those who come anions: us. of the Gulf. Walter Harriman wasGeorge A. Pillsbury,
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