The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-25
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to his old home in Few Brunswick.
Mrs. j K Lynde is taking lessons in voice
culture of Prof. A j. Phillips of Montpelier.
Rev. p 7. Women held extra meetings
some evenings last week W tn his parish in
Brook6eld
A temperau ce drama for the benefit OF the
band will be given next Monday and Tuesday
evenings at the Town hall.
Frank Winchester Merrill died of consump-
ton on Monday and will be buried to-day.
He was some twenty-five yea of age.
Richard j. Jenkins returned to his granite
work here last week. after a prolonged stay
at his home in Montreal, caused by grip.
Leo blanchard, since his arrival here with
his wife from White River Junction, has been
sick with grip, On Monday he was able to be
out of town for the day.
MIR. and Mrs. Preston Cross returned last
week from their bridal trip to New Brunswick
and will set up housekeeping in the Edison
Brothers block.
Erastus Church was taken on Tuesday to the
State Hospital for the Insane at Waterbury.
He has been suffering from mental derange
ment for some time.
Our fourth entertainment in the winters
course will be this vening The speaker is
Charles II. Frazer and his subject The
worlds morrow, or dream OF destiny.
The Christian Endeavor Birthday soc able
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an attractive program. Everybody. 70 cor
daily invited. and free tickets are to be had at
| Lyndes store by anyone who will call for
| them.
J. Fred Austin was last week visited by his
sister Mary and her husband, John Meteor
ago from St. George, New Brunswick. Mr.
Mccormick finds work at his trade OF granite
cutting in West Berlin.
Some of our citizens will recall young man,
| Davis, by name, who lived for several years
here, in the family of ID. b. Royce. He is
now a resident of Oregon. In late letter he
writes Mr.. Royce that Vermont offers him
more attractions yet than does Oregon.
Mrs Clarissa L., widow of the late Arnold S.
| Evans of Mortified, recently died at the home
! of her son. in-law, A. j. ram OF this place.
| Two sons, residents of Montpelier, and
daughter survive her. She was in her seventy
eighth year. She was buried ill Gouldsville.
Frank Lavine. an employee at Nixon d
| Marr's granite shed, who had previously lost
one eye in his work, received a severe blow on
the other one day last week from flying
granite chip. Richard j. jenkins, who was
working quite little distance away, was also
struck on the eye with another OF these chips.
Not Ranslow, as the papers are giving it,
but Rensaleer Clark is the name OF our ex-
citizen who lately died in Hornellsville n. y.
Only one of this well-known family of bright
children born here in e early part of the
century, yet lives He is Judge Francis Clark
of Waukegan Ill. Recent report from his
home is of his poor health, requiring surgery.
Williamstown is making due effort to keep
up with the procession in the matter of the
grip. But whatever the harvest for doctors,
druggists and the town liquor agency, we are
glad to record that sections and undertakers do
not seem TO be reaping much, if anything,
from the epidemic. To undertake to give the
names of all who suffer from attacks of this
distemper, would make our item to be sug-
gestve of town check list
Lyman A. Work died oil Tuesday after
noon of last week, aged seventy.seven wears,
and was buried from his home on Friday al
ternoon, Rev. p. P. Womer officiating. A
the late Elias Work, well-known mechanic
here in tn first half of the century. While
comparatively young man, his father and
mother died, and the care of tie Younger
children devoived on himself. Most manfully
he met the responsibility: Later he married
Miss Mary A.. daughter of the late Jacob JEFF
fords, Jr., and five daughters were born to
them. Some thirty-four years ago Mrs. Work
died suddenly of dphtheria, and again the
care of motherless small children was thrown
upon h'in' ana Win great tathery .aYe he ac-
eepted the new charge and bore 1t as such
man bears things These five daughters have
grown to womanhood here and are esteemed
residents of this place. And we can say, per-
sonally that we have never known more
beautiful devotion on the part of family of
children to father than these daughters have
shown to their father. His own unceasing
love for them came out in a most touching
way in his last sickness, when in his delirium
he would feel he was away from home and
was so DESTROYS to get back lest he cause them
anxious suffering by his absence. Mr.. Work
was a wheelwrig by trade and up to his last
sickness kept up his work, and too often be-
yond his strength. Space fails us to speak of
all his kind genial, neighborly ways, or worth
more to this brief sketch it would be pictures
of little children riding with him, or visiting
with him in his work shop, having general
good time with tools or anything else they
wanted to lay hands on. 1t was on one of our
last visits to his shop that we saw happy boy
of perhaps four or five summers, thus engaged.
with all the three score ten and more years of
difference in their ages bridged over by the
love of Mr. Works great heart.
The latest word of George Lynde Answorth
and his gold hunting expedition is the follow
ing. written by one of the PARTY who pushed on
to Fort Yukon as the entire party thought of
doing, probably, when heard from under date
OF July 10. Lawson, who with Ainsworth de-
cided not to go on from Fort MCPHERSON, is a
Dane who has had a great deal of experience
as sailor, and it is felt that tn made wise
decision Fort Mcpherson is north of the
NAio.ic cIcIe' ere Is the letter:
Fort Yukon, Alaska, Oct 8, 1898.
,od l arrived here three days ago, having come
800 miles down the Porcupine. l wrote Won
from MCPHERSON saying we were going over
McDougall's pass by the way of Red River
and expected to be at Fort Yukon h. .
first. The Canadian gova"~- - sept.
Rat river has or' ..ment states that
and 80" ..,s "A miles Of swift current
-. 40 rapids. We found 10 miles of swift
water and 3s2 rapids and it took us six weeks
to do what we were told we could do in six
days Ainsworth and Paul Lawson gave out
when about five miles up the river and went
back. Pottinger and myself went through.
1t was an awful trip. | saw men lose as much
as fifty pounds in weight. | came through all
right We were in ice cold water from $3.50
A. M. to 8 P. NJ. every day for six weeks, and
when we reached the summit of Bull lake
there wasn't pair of shoes that managed to
stand it. We struck the Porcupine river, and
W re caught in a big storm just after leaving
the summit of the mountains. We made the
run of the Bull and Porcupine rivers in
twenty-four days and arrived here ON Sept.
80. We did not have doll II between us, and
as we had bought our stuff in Canada we were
| held ND for duty. We succeeded in getting