The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-11-22
SONS OF VERMONT.
HENRI TITUS.

w. morning, aged 51 years. lie
llrday oa n,V Of Aionzo and Mary Titus,
the S students of Wilmington, and
long Long, Of Judge Edward, Leander
F9 Mi,lia n, Titus. During his earlier
W. WITH Titus was proprietor of the
MI ,i,oton and Bennington stage line
In,l,lbssssouently clerk in the general
su ~ e NJ. Russell q Co., going to
e,, Ji about 20 years ago where nc
on: ~ u large and popular variety
]. Nv W ot l44l Fulton avenue. Al,
lsaS i IN impaired health he presided
ag His h business until a short time
M Ia married Miss Jennie Crosby,
q st, a,' Of Milo r. Crosby, for several
sn .sa.srrer of the Wilmington say.
h .,ob and she survives, faithful
V worthy husband. The funeral
,t1tended from his Kerkimer street
a''' last Monday evening at 8
III, Rev. Merton Crosby late pas
" fS St, paul's Universalist church
SS,nriin n Mass, officiating in
' pbosen words of tribute, consola-
snd hone, and a male choir sang.
au ware many floral gifts. Among
large company OF neighbIors ana
ro omS present were these Vermont
lives five and attached friends: Arnold
I,s and wife, C. E. Stearns and wife,
Nary d ]. Heating, Henry Crosby,
,,or and Arthur Lincoln, II. 5.
E Ii H. W. Stearns and wife, Mr..
lq Ne Kirkham, Miss Julia E.
+lstt, Mrs. Harriet S. Fox, Mrs:
~ r Winchester, Mrs. Edward
Iris. Miss Emma Fox. The BODY
placed in receiving vault at
{enwood -
ortb Adams is to be launched on
new ,'n career as city with Albert G.
|,ghton, a son of Stamford, for her
mayor At least he has consented
|he solicitation of committee OF
zpns TO take the nomination and
y is no doubt that both Republi-
and Democrats will endorse the
sination, and the election be practi-
unanimous. And it is fit that it
nd be So for Mr.. Houghton is not
North Adams foremost citizen
Titled with her leading industrial,
merclal and social interests. but
has been a leader in the movement
Nrm the new city, and anxious that
should have as near a model char
as could be drawn, engaged the ser
Is Of Seth Low, Nathan Matthews,
and william E. Russell in prepar-
itand he is now to guide the prac-
experiment. Mr.. Houghton is
Ejdent and principal owner in the
odd print works, which he has
ught into prosperity. He holds
IN offices of trust, serving as trus-
Of Williams college, state director
he Fitchburg railroad, president OF
North Adams savings bank and
Rctor in the Berkshire life insurance
panv and the Boston Il Albany
road. He is an ardent Democrat,
believes in North Adams, and will
te her interests in non partisan
he Springfield Republican in COM
biting OIL the matter says:
il the good fortune of North Adams to pos
group of influential citizens whosepublic
is conspicuous, and of these men Mr
ghtOn ID the modest leader. He is not only
Eat captain of industry, and so conspicuOusly
|ful on the material side, but he Is the advo.
and friend of the forces and institutions that
for better citizenship and good govern;
The men of small place, If they stand
ther at all, work with greater unity and
than the influential men of larger CITY,
too often divide and dissipate their infu-
The uplifting which has come to N0rtn
ms Of recent years has been most marked,
for this progress in all directions credit 10
10 the score of good citizens who have act
nth serious purpose to bring 1t about. We
ine that all these men are ready to allow
ualfed credit To Mr. Houghton for the I'm
The has given to North Adams. Surely. no
munlty ever had a more loyal citizen than
loughton has been.
Was L. X. DOdd Verm0nter!
man named |. X. Dodd died at
almshouse in Erie, Pa, the other
after an illness which extended
period of five months. The sick
refused to give the names of any
lis relatives or where he came from
took the precautlon to destroy all
ers on his person before he entered
almshouse hospital. Dodd came to
two years ago and was salesman
Stark Brothers for a time. The
horities at the almshouse are of the
rOn that the mysterious stranger
be from Vermont.
oman Missionaries own Vermont.
ernOnt is we'll represented in the
Of women missionaries sent out by
board of missions. Among those
the state are Mrs. Flora p. Bowen
Innenburgh, stationed in Turkey !;
Sarah A, Closson, Thetford,
Fkey; Mrs Ardella Griswold
sht, Eden, Turkey; Miss Martha
Gleason, Barnet, Turkey: Miss
an !. Graves, Waterbury, Turkey J;
Abble W. Kent, Pittsford, Japan
es Margaret and Mary Leitch,
gate, Ceylon; Miss Ellen M.
e Neatherstield, Turkey; Mrs.
Y b. Harris Smyth, Windham,
AVermOnt Author.
OS that Henry Mills Alden's new
! on Death" is attracting so much
unon In the literary world it will be
n! sls to our readers to know that
Alden, who is also the editor of
npefs Magazine" is a native-born
nonter. He was born in Mount
~, IN this state, Nov. II, 1896. In
MI Alden was graduated from
+adlls college and in 1860, from the
glcai seminary at Andover. At
une he had already contributed
t %Ilcles to the Atlantic Monthly"
|. iSe Eleusinian Mysteries" and
4 saviors of Greece and had
' .s materials for series of arti-
ssstpectlng the development of the
ns su religion IL connection with
r Suc philosophy, art and history.
~ me winter Of 1S60-61 these ar
s;o IeI Il prepared at his home in
s'A rails, N. Y, during a sojourn
l., IeTge,ssltated by the illness of his
g. lney were offered to the "At-
Nj '..Inthiy," but, not being pub
h mere formed the basis of a
p,,; MI lectures on 1.-THE Structure of
ISM which were delivered at
la 'ei ~ institute in the winter of
hal ihese Lectures have never ap-