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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 12., The first Medford Journal. (search)
to the Best Methodists. Mr. Usher's wit seems to have been lost on the Journal man, as he alludes to Mr. Bess several times, and reports Mr. Usher as saying, they have a good organ at one end and soon will have another at the other. Mr. Usher probably put the Best organ in the pulpit end. Samuel Blanchard officiated as auctioneer at the close of the levee. Next came an account, one and a quarter columns, of a meeting in relation to the proposed Medford Horse Railroad. This was on January 2, 1857. One of the three routes proposed was down Ship street. J. O. Curtis was Chairman, J. M. Usher, Secretary. At this meeting Mr. Usher took opportunity to introduce the editor and to bespeak popular favor toward the coming paper. Perhaps he did so because it was a highly respectable meeting of the citizens, at least the Journal said so. The words were used by other writers of the time. The historian of a near city alluded to the present highly respectable Baptist Church. A brief rev