Word: township
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fine town-meeting weather. The roads were passable. Spring was on its way. The good citizens of New Hampshire met, as they have every spring for 150 years or more, to elect the township officers, approve or amend the budgets, define the general policy of 224 towns for the coming year. It was the purest and the oldest manifestation of democracy...
Gold fever ran its highest temperatures in Ontario's remote Midlothian township. There Prospector Felix Roche found a seam of gold-rich green rock at least 425 feet wide. The site is reached by portaging through a chain of lakes. Just seven days later, the 36 square miles of Midlothian township were staked solid...
Elmer left the mill, went beekeeping in Enniskillen Township, saved and saved. By 1919 Ethel felt that he had saved enough. But now Elmer hung back. He had got religion, felt that marriage to the unconverted Ethel would not be blessed in heaven. Still they kept company...
Antlered Kingdom. In Rockaway Township, N.J., Dewey Pott thought he saw a deer skating, roped it, found that it had grown six-inch rockers on its hoofs...
...community interests earned him the vice-presidency of the Haverford Township Public School Board. He was a member of the National Committee on the Cooperation in Secondary School Standards for five years. He was a member of the Red Cross in the Last War. He holds trustee positions in both Bryn Mawr and Haverford College...