Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-03-23
SPRINGFIELD.

account of high water.
| The Universalist society is preparing for
an Easter concert.
Mrs. Frank Zuill returned Monday after a
| six weeks absence in Boston.
| Mr.. and Mrs. F. B. Gilman returned last
week from their trip to Florida.
The Kings Daughters meet this afternoon
with Mrs N. q. Dodge.
The robins and other feathered songsters
are welcome arrivals.
| The farm of the late Fred Fairbanks is to
be sold today at auction together with per-
| sonal property.
Mrs. j. Ryan and little daughter, who have
| been visiting relatives for several weeks at
Concord, N. H., are at home again.
A maple sugar party is to be given at the
Methodist church tomorrow evening by the
ladies' aid society.
The social which was to have been given by
the Y. z. S. G. E. Thursday evening last
was postponed until tomorrow evening.
Frank and Maud Fleming entertained a
pleasant party of young people with whist
Monday evening at their Clinton street home.
George M. Fairbanks has rented the West
| ney farm near Scrabble, which he will carry
on this season.
The Cuban relief committee received 800
in money, beside generous donations OF
clothing and other supplies.
Mrs. George Wiley left Thursday for
| Springfield, Mass, where she will remain a
couple of weeks with her daughter, Mrs F.
| Bartlett.
Caroline McKinstry, widow of Adolphus
Merriam, died in South Framingham, Mass,
March l6, aged u years. Mrs. Merriam will
be remembered by many as resident OF this
place years ago.
The cantata, "The Great Light" was
given by large chorus under the auspices Of
the Y. p. S. G. K. in the Congregational
church Friday evening to a large and de-
| lighted audience.
special town meeting has been called for
March 26 to see if the town will exempt from
taxation for ten years all manufac urIng in
dustries established in town in the next ~
months. This is to encourage shoe manu-
featuring company to locate here.
The electric road between Northampton
and Amherst is meeting with the usual
obstacles attending such enterprises and
should have an inter rested spectator in Spring
field, which eventually achieved success, and
| smilingly contemplates the struggles that
gave US our electrlcs.
Gen. Stark council, No, 30, Jr. 0. U. A. M,
gave its first dance Thursday evening al
&. A. r. hall; large party was in attend
ance; excellent music was provided by Ham.
| mond's orchestra; ice cream and cake we're
served in the djoining rooms of the W. X.
| G. and al unusually good time was enjoyed
| by all present. The organization is to be
congratulated upon the success socially and
| financially, attending this their first dancing
party.
DEATH OF MRS. ANN E PORTER.
The following is from the Newburyport,
| Mass, Herald:
The death of Mrs. Ann Emerson Porter
| home Tuesday morning, February %, after
| an illness OF about three weeks, caused by an
attack of pneumonia, resulting in heart
| failure.
| Mrs. Porter was daughter of the late
| Charles L. and Lydia Clapp Emerson, and
was born in Newburyport October 10, 1916
Inheriting literary taste, she devoted her
| self to educational interests and at an early
period of her life she became connected with
a young ladies' seminary i'll Springfield, Vt.
Her marked success resulted in call to Put,
nam, now GAINESVILLE, O., where as principal
of youngi ladies' seminary she achieved
great celebrity.
Marrying Charles E. Porter, she resumed
her home in Springfield, Vt, where she re-
sided until his death in 1859. Being widowed
| in the prime Of her life, her attention was
called to GAINESVILLE and she took up her
duties for several years. Laying down the
burden of principal, she removed to Brook
lyn, N Y, where she maintained her home
| until 1873, when she returned to her birth
place and resided in Newburyport until her
| death.
Mrs. Porter was a lady of cultured refine
| ment and much precision of manner, good
| lconversationalist, her ideas we're clearly ex-
pressed, clothed in fine language and always
a benefit to the listener. AS writer she was
widely known. Among her publications
"Married for Both Worlds" was one of the
most celebrated and profitable to author and
publisher. Many other volumes were the re-
| suit of her labors, while as a writer of
sketches and poems, her labors always indi-
Gated the brilliancy of her intellect. AS a
student of French and German she became
proficient in those languages and she kept up
her familiarity with the writings of the schol-
ars of those nationalities until the COM
mencement of her last illness.
During her early life in Springfield she
: lived in the house of the pastor of the village
church, Rev. Mr.. Morton, and the intimacy
then formed with the son, Hon. Levi p. Nor.
, ton, has ever been continued and of the most
: cordial nature.
, Mrs. Porter's family ancestry was one OF
much prominence, on her maternal side con
!, nected with the prominent families of North
ampton, Mass. Her father was a merchant
for half century here. Her brother, John
/ Edwards Emerson, was the first pastor of the
t Whitefield Congregational church and Others
T of the family became prominent in the cite:
where they made their homes upon removing
from Newburyport.
One son, Charles E. Porter, is the only i'm
mediate survivor of what was once a large
family circle.
With no more fitting words can this notice
close than the concluding verse of Mrs. Por
. ter's hymn on the occasion of the memoria
service to her former pastor, Rev. DIR Stesrns
: held in the Old South church November, 1859
; ssNow let the wearied body rest,
NJ Upon kind Natures ample breast;
I'll Sin ana death have passed away,
d Thou art with the Lord today"
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