Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 29, 1920, Page 2

[ H ] e Fiv;e Minute Chats on Our Presidents By JAMES MORGAN (Copyright, 1930, by J-quo Morgan.) JOHN ADAMS AND ABBY 1736—Oct. 19, John Adams born, Braintree, Mass. 1765—Graduated at Harvard. 1764—Married. 1774.77—In Congress. . 1778-85—0n Mission to France. 1785-88—Minister to England. A SOHOOLGIRL complained that American history was so “littered wp with Adamses” that she couldn’t tell one from the other. Yet this most Qistinguished family in our national ®ography lived in America one hun- dred and fifty years before it broke into fame. When the engagement was an- pounced of John Adams of Braintree, Mass, to the daughter of FParson Smith of the adjoining town of Wey- mouth, people were shocked that Abby should marry so beneath her station. " Was she not a Quincy and a Norton? And John, the son of a small farmer, was put down to fourteenth place among his twenty-four classmates, when Harvard catalogues were made up according to social rank. After that he taught school in Worcester to geot enough money -to study law, and the strictest of the Puritans looked on lawyers as ungodly. + Father-in-Law Smith was game, and tradition says that he preached down ~at b P Abigail Adams. his gossiping parishioners from this well-chosen text: “John came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and ye say he hath a devil!” Although she never went to school, | this parson’s daughter was by long odds the cleverest in the entire line of our president’s wives, her published letters forming a delightfully human document in our too often unhuman history. When John joined the fathers of the republic in the great work of setting up the most masculine govern- ment the world ever saw, this mother of the republic had to stay home to rock the cradle, cook and patch for four little Adamses and to tend the farm. Milking and churning, knitting and darning, teaching and praying, toiling and saving, she supported the family, inspired her husband in his progress to the presidency, and reared i PERSSY I E. COMING EVENTS i e ot | B i October 12.—Discovery of America, 1492, Nov. 2.—Presidential election day. Nov. 11.—Armistice day. Nov. 25—Thanksgiving day. AEKKERXEKEKKEK KKK KKK * SHEVLIN * 3% o % b % % % o 2% %k 4 Mr. and Mrid Dell Amadon ac- companied their son Harvey to Be- midji Saturday to consult a physi- cian. Harvey will remain this week at that place under the care of Dr. iGarlock. Miss Vérna Berfield was a Bemidji shopper between trains on Saturday. The Ladies’ Aid of the Congrega- tional church will meet at the Mor- ris- Pitt home on Wednesday, October 6th. “All are cordially invited to at- ‘tend. Dorothy and Gordon Noyes spent Saturday at Bemidji between trains shopping. Mrs. John Nelson of Grand Forks, N. D., visited with friends and rela- tives at Shevlin on Saturday. ‘Mr. Olson of Becida arrived here Saturday for a brief visit at the home of hig daughter, Mrs. Guy Miller. On his return on Tuesday he was ac- companied by his wife, who has been visiting her daughter for the last two weeks. Bert Greenslit, accompanied by his a son to follow in the father's foot- {son, Orville, of Bemidji, motored to steps. To Abigail Adams alone be- longs the glory of having been the wife of one president and the mother of another. In the war, it fell to Adams to do picket duty in Europe. Congress sent him to France with a thoughtful warn- ing to put in the bottom of his dis- patch bag plenty of lead or stone or other weighty substdnce to sink his papers. For his own neck no protec- tlon was proposed in event of the ! British capturing a signer of the rebel manifesto of July 4, 1776, Neverthe- less, he took with him on the perilous trip his ten-year-old son, John Quincy. On the next voyage, he carried not only John Quincy, but also his second son, and they were shipwrecked off the coast of Spain. After five long, anxlous years of sep- aration from husband and children, the mother herself sailed to Europe, and the ploneer American woman to ap- pear at the Court of St. James was ! . Ablgail, the farmerette of Braintree. Her presentation costume, according to her own description, was white lite- string “covered with white crepe, fes- tooned with Iflac -ribbon and mock- point lace, over a hoop of enormous extent, and with a narrow train three yards long; also ruffle cuffs, treble lace ruffles and dress cap, with long lace lappets and two white plumes.” “You will be Stared at a great deal,” the Duke of Dorset kindly warned the Adamses. On the contrary, every back in the court circle was turned upon ! the Yankee rebels and Queen Charlotte received Abigail with “contempt and scorn.” A man can defend himself always, as Abigall's husband did right man- fully when it fell to him to be the first independent American to stand before the throne of England. George III venturing to infer from his supposed dislike of France, a preference for PEngland, his one-time subject frankly corrected the king: “T must avow to your majesty that I have no attach—; ment but to my own country.” Shevlin Thursday to attend to their farming interests here. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Larson return- ed Saturday morning from Duluth, where they spent the week attending to business matters. Those who attended the dance at Bagley Saturday evening were Har- old Searles, Carl Rauk, Mabel Rauk, Edna Hanson, Ruby Peterson, Lil- lian Skarohlid, Cy Holten, John Des- jardines and Alf Rain. Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Rauk accomp- anied by their daughter, Mrs. August Marsh and son Carl, motored to Bag- ley Saturday .to attend the Clearwa- ter County fair. B % Morris and Walter Pitt motored to Bagley on Business Wednesday. Chester Berfield came home from Ebro, Saturday, where he has been working on the schodl house which Ben Bredeson is building near “the Dallischall farm in Falk township. E. R. Sletten, secretary of the Bag- ley Mercantile Co., spent several hours here last Wednesday on busi- ness. A. L. Kaiser of Bagley and Hardin Anderson of Clearbrook were busi- ness callers here on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Scott of Dud- ley township- visited at the F. A. Noyes home Sunday. Harold Searles, who is teaching near Mallard, spent the week-end visiting at the Dell Amadon home. Mr. and .irs. Eckstrom of Bemidiji spent Sunday visiting ‘at the home of Mr. Eckstrom’s sister, Mrs. O. E. Peterson. The Holton family have moved in- to the residence formerly occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Gordon. The Gordon’s will live in the apartment above the Charles McDonald resi- dence. L. A. Larson, manager of the Shevlin Mercantile Co., will live in the residence formerly cccupied by the ‘Holtens. Clifford and Mahlun Degerness of Bagley attended the movies at the Rex theatre Sunday evening. G. Lee of Bagley was a busi- ness caller here Monday afternoon. Oliver Barness and Milton Berquist - e /// 1/ /. who -worked at Bagley during the county fair are again working at the Shevlin Mercantile Co. Alberi Gordon and Hugo Pawek at- tended ihe fair at Bagley Friday. Mrs. T. E. Rider, who accompani- ed her son, Manning to Delafield, Wis., where he will attend St. John's Military academy, returned hrome this week. Migs Cora Johnson and Carl Wen- neberg of Clearorook, visited friends here Sunday evening. Miss Johnson is teaching in one of the rural schools near this place. Work on the Great Nortltern depot THE PORSTLAND OREGONIAN. 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