AN EARLY NEWSPAPER The importance and value of news- papers in the study of local history can not well be overrated. They come next in importance to the original records of State and county. In more recent times they have lost somewhat of their value from the coloring given to public questions as

must have been, for it is also noted (p. 23) that "there was paid to Stephen Atkinson, 5th month, 30th day, 1722, £2 for' two wolss." It is of this man, and of the fulling mill which he built, with a few notes concerning others os the same name, gathered srom the old deeds, �records and wills os a long

AN OLD NEWSPAPER Recently there came into my hands a file of The Hive,a weekly newspaper published in this city more than one hundred years ago. It consists of two volumes, the initial number being of the date of June 22 , 1803, and the last number of June 12, 1805. I sup- pose few of our citizens