Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-03-24
HINSDALE, N. H.
Good News.
Work at the Halle & Frost Will and
Prospects of Good Times for UInsdale.

Work at the Halle & Frost Mill and
Prospects of Good Times for Hinsdnle.
Everybody is rejoicing over the good
news that the Halle & Frost mill, which
has been idle so long is at last to start up
Several of the old employees have already
been set at work, and more will be en-
ployed as fast as possible. 1t is to be
hoped that in the near future Hinsdale
may see something like its former good
times, when everyone could find employ
ment and "hard times were only spoken
of as something to be deplored, but, as far
removed from our busy, thriving town.
A Woman of Sterling characteristics.
Mrs. Katherine Ward Newman, whose
death took place in the neighboring vii
lage of Ashuelot last week, had many
warm friends all through the lower Ash
uelot valley to whom her death comes with
the sense of personal bereavement. She
was of English origin and came to this
country when II years of age. Her faith
er, Thomas Ward, with brother Joshua,
owned and operated the Ashuelot wooden
mills away back in the sos, the former
emigrating to New York after the burning
of the mills early in the COS. Mrs. New
man was the eldest daughter and after
the death of her mother she took her place
and cared for a sister and four brothers
who are all now living and have families,
of their own, and it is not too much to say
that she filled the mothers place with the
utmost fidelity. In 1866 she married
Charles w. Newman, a native of Ballston
Spa n Y, aud the union was a happy
one After the late E c. Thayer of
Keene bought the Ashueot mill property
Mr.. Newman was for many years compe-
tent and valued overseer in one of the de-
partments of the mills, but died suddenly
in the autumn of 1895, since which time
Mrs. Newman has lived at the Ball home
stead in Ashuelot village.
Mrs. Newman had a charming person
aity and an attractive manner that won
all hearts, She was impulsive, sympathet-
ic, generous, self sacrificing and forgetful
of self and always anxious to do for 9TH
ers. Anything like oppression or wrong
she could never tolerate. 1t is related of
her that when as girl she was pupil at
the then famous school for young ladies at
| West Brattleboro in the early part of the
| civil war, when the lines between loyalty
and disloyalty were sharply drawn, a
| Southern young lady in the school was
boycotted, Stunned and almost hooted by
the other pupils on account of her out
spoken sentiments against the North.
| Then it was that Katie Ward became her
champion; she insisted that the Southern
er had the right to free speech and she de-
Tended her so vigorously and so enlisted
the teachers on her side that the persecu-
tion promptly ceased. Mrs. Newman went
around among the sick and afflicted and
her presence was ever welcome, for she
had tact, good judgment and a skilled hand
and the sick room was always brighter and
more CHEEKY because she had visited it.
She was "a years of age and her health and
strength had been gradually failing for two
or three years, but so bright and cheerful
was she, so full of life and ambition that
no one supposed the end was so near.
The funeral took place at her late resi-
dence on Friday of last week. Rev. j. II
Little of Winchester conducted the ser
vices. The floral tributes were many and
beautiful and large gathering of old
friends and neighbors testified to theil
grief and sorrow over the loss of this ex
cellent woman of whom it may be truly
said
| None knew thee but to love thee,
| nj mad thee n -