. Leading business men of Spencer, Brookfield and vicinity;. and nature havecombined to produce many lovely effects. Wickaboag Pond, so rich in historiclegends, so striking and beautiful a feature of the landscape, attracts many Summertourists, and as most of these are cultivated and agreeable people, they receive a warmwelcome from those residing here. Boating, fishing, driving, rambling about thewoods and fields, and many other diversions, make the time pass so quickly and 32 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE BROOKFIELDS. pleasantly that the fame of West Brookfield as a first-class Summer resoit is r
. Leading business men of Spencer, Brookfield and vicinity;. and nature havecombined to produce many lovely effects. Wickaboag Pond, so rich in historiclegends, so striking and beautiful a feature of the landscape, attracts many Summertourists, and as most of these are cultivated and agreeable people, they receive a warmwelcome from those residing here. Boating, fishing, driving, rambling about thewoods and fields, and many other diversions, make the time pass so quickly and 32 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE BROOKFIELDS. pleasantly that the fame of West Brookfield as a first-class Summer resoit is rapidlyextending, and the excellent hotels in the vicinity are always well patronized, manyprivate families also accommodating boarders. Being located on the main line ofthe Boston and Albany Railroad, communication with all the neighboring cities and towns is frequent and cheap. Each of theBrookfields has some special advantages ofits own, and it is but natural that the resi-dents of each town should think there isno place like home, but a mutual inter-de-. West Brookfield in 1889. pendence exists between the communities ; they all help one another, all believe inone another and have an abiding faith in the future of the entire section, whichstimulates them to persistent industry in developing the resources of the country, andaugurs well for the realization of their fondest hopes. Faith, industry, foresightand pluck— these are the qualities which compel success, and these are the qualitieswhich above all others have given the Brookfields their present prominent positionamong the leading towns of the old Bay State. LEADING BUSINESS MEN NORTH BROOKFIBLD. E. & A. H. Bateheller & Co., Boots and jShoes. Manufactory at North Brookfield,Mass., Office lOG Summer Street, Boston.—It is ijust about seventy- years since the enterprise now conducted by Messrs. E. «S; A. H. Batchel- jler & Co. was inaugurated, and this undertakinghas exercised so powerful an effect upon thedevelopment o
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