. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress. memory ofmany now living the tops of thestage coaches that run to the factorytowns were often covered with theproduct of her shop. In the largetowns of Manchester and Lowell shewas well known, and when, as washer custom, she halted her van atthe mill door at the hour of noon shewas sure of eager customers and alively trade. She is remembered,while many of greater pretension areforgotten, for her unique individual-ity, her good works and sincere piety,as well as for her unusual skill, andher name has been honored by a
. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress. memory ofmany now living the tops of thestage coaches that run to the factorytowns were often covered with theproduct of her shop. In the largetowns of Manchester and Lowell shewas well known, and when, as washer custom, she halted her van atthe mill door at the hour of noon shewas sure of eager customers and alively trade. She is remembered,while many of greater pretension areforgotten, for her unique individual-ity, her good works and sincere piety,as well as for her unusual skill, andher name has been honored by a me-morial window in the Baptist church,of which she was a devoted the later names that havebrought honor to the town is that ofJohn Conant, a farmer of Jaffrey,whose benefactions to public andreligious institutions aggregratedmore than one hundred thousand dol-lars, seventy thousand of which wasa gift to the Agricultural college ofNew Hampshire. Conant Hall atDartmouth, and the Conant Highschool of Jaffrey were founded uponhis bequests and named in his ; m % < \If-M \FA\ • vH^^r/FF F- &t^ . - . • . Shattuck Farm. FFkd^A. Whe-e shy Ccntocccok gleams. As for the men of the present time,their record is best read in the well-kept farms, the mills and stores, andall those manifestations of enterpriseand thrift that have given Jaffrey agood name among the towns of thestate. A summary of progress afternearly one hundred and fifty years ofhistory, shows a population of ap-proximately eighteen hundred souls,with all the varied elements thatmake up a complete and progres-sive town. There are prosperousfarms, banks, railroad, telegraphand telephone, mills, where up-wards of four hundred hands findconstant employment, stores that arehardly excelled in the smaller cities,a public library, good schools, fivechurches, all well supported, hotelsand boarding houses that furnish ac-commodations for the transient guestas well as for the hundreds of sum-mer visitors wh
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