Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-04-27
CHARLESTOWN.

Mrs. Williams, VINO mas been poorly
nearly all winter, is improving.
Miss Eliza Weber, who has been away
a portion of the winter, is home again.
Charles Finlay has returned to town
after a visit among his Acworth friends.
Mrs. Will futile is said to be improv-
ing, for which her many friends are
thankful.
The stores all through the village have
a fine display of the various kinds of
fruit, the market included.
Mrs. Fuller of this place, has sold her
farm, situated on the road to North
Charlestown, leading to Claremont, to
Mr.. Whitmore.
The status of the school matters is be-
ing discussed and the friends of education
are all of them we'll aware that we must
"look seven ways for Sunday"
The long expected, good msple-sugar
season seems to have been as disappoint-
ing, as the government fairs, but 40 one
will blame Grover for it, however.
The Eagle hotel under the new man
agemept is undergoing repairs and Com
stock and his force of painters are en-
gagged to do the work of renovation in
their line.
Miss Reed of the grammar school visit
at the sale of the old home, known as
Maple Grove farm, necessitated by the
recent death of her father.
Some of the people who pass the sum-
mer months in Old No. 4, are already
here, and will enjoy the wonderful trans
formation of the gray wintry outlook, to
its accustomed beauty of foliage and
verdur.
Rev. E. S. Ufford, the anthor of the
famous song used by the evangelists,
"Throw out the Life Line" gave an in
teresting and instructive exhibition of
London scenes, and with the use of ster-
eOpticons presented views taken by him
self on his trip from this country as a
delegate to the Worlds Sunday school
convention in 1889. The trip takes the
spectator to the wonderful and historic
buildings, the homes of the crowned
heads of Europe and to that costly pile,
Westminster Abbey, the Crystal Palace,
London Bridge, Surgeons Tabernacle.
and in fact everything of note that a
sight-seer would visit came to US, sitting
quietly in the pews of the Congrega-
tional church. The waits of London
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ones, the orphans in their comfortable
asylums, the face of one dying at the
hospitabIe home where the Sister of
Mercy cares for the sick, are made very
real. The lecture given by Mr.. Ufford
was wonderfully graphic and withal re-
fined and to the point. Not the least in
teresting was the singing of several
touchingly beautiful songs, and among
them '.Throw out the Life Line,' OF
which Mr.. Ufford composed the music
as well. He gave whistling solo, repre-
senting the notes of the mocking-bird of
the south, which alone was worth the
price of admission. 1t was an entertain
ment of rare enjoyment and historic and
artistic interest, and deserves wide
patronage. Mr.. Ufford is resident of
bingham, Mass.
Granville Miller died Thursday even
ing, April 20, after protracted illness
of much severity. Mr.. Miller was born
in Goshen, May Z, 1929, and was there
fore 60 years, II months, ID days old.
He was the son of Aaron and Melissa
Miller, late of Lempster, and was mar
ried in Lempster in 1856 to Jane M.
Wheeler of Newport. He leaves a widow
and one son, Charles Fred Miller, born
in Lempster. Soon after the close of
the war Mr.. Miller removed to Charles
town, where he has since lived. He was
for some 16 years proprietor of the stage
routes between Lempster and ClaremOnt
and Lempster and Charlestown, via Ac-
worth. 10 those days the old boot and
shoe shop in Acworth was in flourish
ing condition and "Lynn," the little
shoemakers' hamlet out on Acworth hills
was quite as busy as the Lynn of the old
Bay state and the tanneries in Lempster
and Goshen were then in operation and
Mr.. Miller handled large amount of
express in addition to carrying the U. 5.
mail and plumbers of passengers, there
being no railway at Claremont or New
port. Everybody knew Gran and
everybody was his friend; always cour-
teous, obliging and accurate he was liked
by all, and next to his family was the
affection for his equine friends. Mr..
Miller never overtasked his horses. Ii
travel was brisk or express abundant an
extra team and often an extra driver was
procured that he might save the four
footed friends, who shared his daily toll.
On alternate days, through heat and
cold, in rain or shine was the mail-car-
rier at his post and starting on Sc sched-
ule time" faithful ever and remembered
ness. The funeral occurred April D.
Rev. Frederick officiating in the az
sence of Rev. Thomas d. Howard.
Two sisters of Mr.. Miller were present,
Mrs. Grain of Burlington, VT, and Mrs.
Fifield of Providence, r l., also two
sisters of Mrs. Miller, one from Rutland.
Vt, and one from Newport. Music was
furnished by the Unitarian choir. The
bearers were Messrs. Bradford, Slough
ton, Butterfield and Cooley. The re-
mains were placed in the tomb to await
conveyance to the family burial lot at
the cemetery in East Lempster, where
rest the father and mother, and daughter
early lost. In the year 1860 the writer
was stricken with typhoid fever while
employed in Claremont, and the physi-
clan In attendance recon mended removal
to the home of the patient, some 20 or
D miles distant, as that type of fever in
some instances was singularly fatal. Mr..