Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-09-20

! w 0SD Superior, w 49,, W D.uI'IG'ANO4oOA.
The letters show that Davis went
into business with his brother in the
city of West Superior, that he in
vested what money he had at that
time, buying a half interest in his
brothers. store there at cost; that
! later he invested in real estate there;
| that while he would be glad to return
to Barton, as Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson
wished them to, he felt that it was
better, financially, for them to re-
| main there. The last letters written
| by Davis in answer to Mr.. Nelson's
! requests for them to return were to
| the purport that he had invested
nearly all the money that he had there
and that he could not return without
i, financial loss, that the business could
not we'll be run by one man and he
thought that he was sure of success;
he was sorry that they, Mr.. and Mrs.
Nelson, felt so badly about their be-
ing away from home and would be
glad to return to Barton if he could do
as well there. In one of the last let
ters to Mr.. Nelson, Mr.. Davis states
that if he should return to Barton
that he should expect Mr.. Nelson to
furnish the store, fix it up as he would
like it, and let him have the use of
So, 600 to stock it, and that he, Davis,
should not nave to pay rent on the
store.
Mrc Nn1
of Dec. 8th, stating the terms on
which Davis would return, she and
Mr.. Nelson had talk over the letter
and Mr.. Nelson answered it.
Mrs Nelson said that there was
something now in the letter which
was not in it when Mr.. Nelson wrote
it. She said that the. words, eff this
does not suit you I will give you
5000 along as you may need it,"
are not in Mr.. Nelson's handwriting.
Mrs. Nelson usually carried the let
ters to the post Office herself. Mrs.
Nelson examined a letter dated at
West Superior, Dec. 18th, and thinks
this letter an answer to Mr.. Nelson's
letter of the 18th.
Another letter from Mr.. Davis
shows his intention of starting home
the last of January.
On the cross exa mination, Mrs. Mel
son testified to George and Lizzie liv
ing with them, Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson,
after their marriage and after their
return from the west until 1898, when
they went to housekeeping in the
house where they now reside Mrs.
Nelson testified that there was cor
respondence with Davis and wife af-
ter they went west and that nearly all
the letters were preserved. After
they came back from the west they
went to housekeeping in the house
where they now live. She visited
them after they had left her house, by
invitation, either in '94 Or '95, but had
not been there since. Has not spok-
ell to her daughter or to any of her
family since shortly after Mr.. Nelson's
death. Prior to Mr.. Nelson's death
there was an ill-feeling; this did not
exist when they were west. She had
seen every letter written by Mr.. Mel
son to them while they were west and
remembers about the letters being in
terlined. Mr.. Nelson might have |
erased word sometimes but she |
could not tell from memory, but the
words interlined were in his hand |
writing. When asked in regard to |
certain words interlined, some she |
was sure was in Mr.. Nelson's writing
while of others she did not feel GER
tain. She might have been sick in |
the fall Of 1890; testifying later, re-
membered that she was sick at that |
time, being confined to the bed about
two weeks; couldn't say if it was the
first two weeks in Dec. that she was
ill.
In direct testimony she testified
that she had a part of her clothes on
nearly every day and was quite sure
she wrote letters while in bed; was
sure that the words 'sI will let you
have the S6,OOO,' were not in Mr.. Nell
sons letter. She had a present re-
collection of Mr.. Nelson's proposition
TO furnish the store, the proposition
being that Mr.. Nelson was to furnish
them ZOO to use and the rent of the
store
Mr.. Pickle takes the stand. Mr..
Pickle resides in Sweetsburgh, Cana
da; he testified that Sam Nelson came
to his house on his return from the
West in 1895, and said that his father
had loaned Davis $4,000. In the cross
examination he said: I told this to
some of my friends, can't tell when