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Forty-two years ago a child was born at Hillsboro, Ohio. Fifteen years ago that child, grown to manhood, became editor of the Hillsboro Dispatch. Two years ago last June 11 he was appointed United States Prohibition Commissioner by President Harding. He is Roy Asa Haynes. During the last two years he has, in his own words, " devoted every ounce" of his energy to his official task. Daily he was importuned to make addresses or write articles on his work. Finally he came to believe that the public and the prohibition cause could best be served by writing a "simple...
Just such a pertinent dissertation, or series of dissertations, is Mr. Lyons' "Moby Lane". The book is a compilation of very short stories by an avowedly humorous, and occasionally incisive, author Not unlike Dorothy Canfield's "Hillsboro People", it is to us more fascinating than that charming collection of stories, partly, no doubt, by reason of its dealing with life in a less familiar stamping ground than New England...
...funeral of Reuben W. Lovering took place at his home in Hillsboro Bridge, New Hampshire. A delegation of about twenty-five men went up to Hillsboro' to attend the services. The services were held in the Nethodist church. and a quartette from the glee club, consisting of Messrs. McCagg, Eliot, Thorndike and Easton, sang instead of the regular choir. The following class-mates acted as pall bearers : Coolidge, Fletcher, Keep, A. Hamlin, F. Hamlin, F. W. Holmes, W. S. Barnes and Carl Bean. Among the floral tributes were several of great beauty. The class of '84 sent a large wreath...
Reuben Whipple Lovering, the only child of Reuben and Martha Lovering, was born at Hillsboro' Bridge, New Hampshire, Dec. 9, 1862. While he was still a small boy, his father died; and the education of the son devolved upon the mother, who in spite of numerous difficulties, devoted herself to the task with the zeal and energy a boy of such rare promise deserved. Having completed the course in the Hillsboro' High School, he went for two terms to Tilton Academy. In Sept., 1877, he entered the junior class in Phillips Exeter Academy ; and, though not yet sixteen years...
...horse belonged to my uncle, and I was spending part of my vacation on his farm back in Hillsboro' County. Chief among the members of the household was an old spinster aunt. Keen, precise, and often despondent, she used to be a terror to my youthful mind. In her gloomy moods she said little, but expressed her feelings by occasional sniffs, which I found very trying. In her more cheerful moments she would unexpectedly spring all sorts of Bible questions upon me, and snort triumphantly when I failed to answer them. In the evening she would sing in a cracked...