The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . inBath are the Brick Store, symmet-rical in construction and formerlylighted by large windows, each con-taining sixty-four small squarepanes of glass, and the brick housesat The Upper Village in the Englishstyle of archecture- Two familiesprominent at The Upper Village formany years were the Hutchins andGoodall families. Of the (former,Arthur Hutchins was conspicuous 460 THE GRANITE MONTHLY in ability and character, beloved ofall who knew him, and, when thenews came that he had fallen in theBattle of the Wilderness, a
The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . inBath are the Brick Store, symmet-rical in construction and formerlylighted by large windows, each con-taining sixty-four small squarepanes of glass, and the brick housesat The Upper Village in the Englishstyle of archecture- Two familiesprominent at The Upper Village formany years were the Hutchins andGoodall families. Of the (former,Arthur Hutchins was conspicuous 460 THE GRANITE MONTHLY in ability and character, beloved ofall who knew him, and, when thenews came that he had fallen in theBattle of the Wilderness, a youngman with life all before him, itseemed as if the whole town wentinto mourning. Of the Cioodallfamily, a son Francis Henry, re-ceived the rare Congressional medal in whom all had unbounded confi-dence. Many had placed their en-tire accumulations in his hands, asSavings Banks had not been estab-lished. Thousands of dollars werethus lost directly, and thousands moreindirectly, by diverting trade to othertowns. Another cause of the de-terioration of the town was the de-. Artijur Hutchins of Honor for his bravery in carry-ing under fire from the field of bat-tle at Fredericksburg, to a place ofsafety, a wounded comrade.* Bath has been visited by manyserious floods and fires, but the de-cadence of the town was due ingreat part to the financial failure ofa business man in the village *Mr. GoodaHs career is described inthe Granite Monthly for November,1912. population of the farms. The build-ing of the raihvays made the fertileprairie land of the interior of ourcountry easy of access, and familyafter family left their homes inBath never to return. More thanhalf a century ago, a party was heldin Grinnell. Iowa, to which all thepeople that had once lived in Bathwere invited. Over sixty individ-uals were present. That business in Bath wall ever MONADNOCfC 461 revive is not to be expected. But Mountains, and the hospitality of the beautiful sites for. cottages on the inhabitants, lea
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