By Muriel Bristol | November 3, 2018
A hundred years ago:
Donations Received for the Year 1918-19. From Individuals. DeMerritt, Mrs. M.A., Milton, N.H., 3 boxes of arbutus in individual bunches for distribution to patients (NE Hospital, September 30, 1919).
Mrs. Musetta A. (Dorr) DeMerritt, was the wife of Berthold I. DeMerritt, who was a foreman in a Milton shoe factory. They resided on Silver Street in 1920.
“So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
References:
New England Hospital. (1919, September 30). Fifty-Seventh Annual Report of the New England Hospital for Women and Children, Its Training School for Nurses, and Dispensary. Retrieved from books.google.com/books?id=txfPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA49
New Hampshire Wildflowers (John D. Cameron). Trailing Arbutus. Retrieved from nhwildflowers.org/trailing-arbutus.php
Milton Observer 