The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-04-10
WiIliamstown.

DIR, Lester W. Hanson OF Barre, and Mrs.
Clark Stewart OF Berlin. OF the twelve
children of Mrs. Henson's fathers family,
two are living, Mrs. Emily Emery, and Mrs.
Liberty III. Jeffords, both OF our town. Her
married lie was lived in Barre, in st. Law
renee County, New York, and in Williams
town. For long time she has seemed a
feeble woman, and her later life had been
spent largely in the quiet OF her home to
which she had ever been fsithfullydevoted.
In the loss OF such wife, mother and sister,
the family, thus bereft, will have sincere
sympathy. She was buried from her home
on Tuesday afternoon, Rev. Frances A.
Kimball officiating.
Darwin II. Goodrich has been very poorly
OF late, with grip and heart disease I'm
less help comes soon 1t Is feared he may not
live long
The rain OF Sunday together, with very
poor travelling, made the attendance on
Easter services smaller than usual in our
village. Preparations had been made for
them, in the way OF floral decorations, in
two II not all the churches. Rev. d. IL.
Strong took for his text why Seek Ye the
Living Among the Desd7" Rev. Frances A.
| Kimball took for her topic 1.-THE Message OF
| the Risen Christ" Rev. f. K. Curriers'
| Easter text was Because 1 Live, Ye Shall
Live Also"
| Miss Susie M. Benedict returned to Bur-
| lington last Friday, Her fatherwent there
/
here for work for the summer.
| A recent Moline, ILL.,, paper gives an in.
| teresting account OF the new memorial win.
| dows in the remodeled Congregational
church there that was rededicated last Sun
| day, President Barrows Of Oberlin College
| officiating. Among these windows was one
to the memory Of Sarah Andrews Aims
worth, the late wife Of our townsman, Hem
ry A. Ainsworth. 1t Is described as "hav-
| ing the white lily, emblematic OF purity, and
the poppy, of sleep or night, and sugges Is
that the pure sleep in God"
Miss Mary, daughter OF Henry A. Aims
| worth, since her recent visit to Palestine
and Egypt, has spent four weeks in Sicily,
and at last accounts was visiting Athens,
Greece.
Presiding Elder Walter r. Davenport,
who with his family Is visiting sister here,
was 80 ill last week as to require the SER
vices Of DR.. E. B. Watson: He is now bet
| ter and hopes to resume his work, though
he has been greatly fatigued by his labors.
Rev. Charles H. Farnsworth, for the last
three years Methodist minister in Law
renee, Mass, will, with his wife. visit fami-
ly friends here this week and next on their
way to the New Hampshire Methodist con-
ference in Littleton, N. H., beginning next
week Thursday.
Joel A. Bass was in town few days last
week, visiting. He is looking finely.
| 6Idulb6 ObdlbT 1tuEy MAUI Ahb U66u
away from town for a few weeks past.
The Ainsworth Brothers, George A. and
Fred A., have boughtlof Dr. Scion Briggs,
now of Pasadena, Cal. ,sthe place known to
older residents as the Elvira Whitney place,
in our village, and occupied in late years
by j. b. Brockway for stone purposes
Mrs. Adna Downs is i'll with rheumatic
fever and under the care Of DR.. w. j.
Tindall.
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Laselle's meat market for two or three
years past is about to move to Strafford and
engage in farming.
Ophir g. Martin, who was looking so
poorly in health in mid winter, is decidedly
better, having gained materially in flesh.
His trouble was bronchial, II not with the
lungs.
Miss Ellen Folsom, daughter of the late
Enos Folsom and sister OF Mrs. Ophir 8.
Martin, for years past a missionary in In
dis, will soon return to tn this country for
visit.
Herbert Colby, now of Burlington a com
mercial traveller for Boston firm, was in
town last week.
Charles M. Edson was i'll last week.
Marcus A. Smith has been a sufferer from
grip in late weeks.
Mrs. Henry #. Erskine has returned to
her present home in our village.
One Of our worthy and promising young
farmers, Willie p. Briggs, gave us the
pleasure last week OF look through his
fine new barn, one that was OF his own
planning throughout. 1t is devised so that
it would seem the hard work Of the farmer
himself would be reduced to near the mi.
nimum in his barn work. Mr., Briggs home
farm consists of only ffty-hve acres, but it
is little farm well titled else his expen-
siYe barn would be jewel in the wrong
place.
Mrs. Elisha B. Gale has been sick of late
in hospital lie Colorado Syringe, Col
Erysipeas was the cause
Miss M. Holobaugh. trained nurse from
one OF the Middle States and for some time
past in the family OF Lewis M. Seaver. went
TO Boston last week accompanied by Mr.
Seaver's only daughter. She is said tc
have been retained for prominent place in
a new hospital in Boston.
Frank Benedict, of the senior class in
Tufts College, has lately been at home here
j. w. Flint, our former station agent, &c
working in the Central Vermont ticket Of.
fee in Montpelier.
Last Thursday, our former townsman
Warren Jillson, now OF Boston, came here
with the body OF his sister, Miss Elvra Jill
son, for burial in the East Hill cemetery
Miss Jillson died on Monday OF last week
In Manchester, N H., where she has lived
for many years, and was in the SEVENTEEN
year of her age. 1t was her wish to be
buried in the old cemetery near her early
home, where parents and other members Of
her family sleep, To one who has known this
woman thoroughly all her long life, iIweuld
hardly seem that likely too warm praise
could be accorded her by any eulogist. Such
a one will recall her childhood home here
in which there was so much OF sorrow, and
how. ss the oldest child, she went out of il
TO work in factories in Lawrence, Indian
Orchard, Manchester or elsewhere, ear ming
money to buy place in which her parents
could live here, and furnishing, Heaven
only knows how, much more for the comfort
Of the family, one or all, as was needed and
as she was able to do. Energetic, hopeful
sunny, unsefsh, very generous and a most
devoted Christian, and all this with at timel
great physical suffering, she was heroic in
deed. Some years ago cancer attacked al
eye with its usual consequences. The eye
was finally removed, Later she sustain cd
great physical injury in Manchester on {
: defe Give walk, that the city was compelled
! to pay damage for, 30 that altogether thu
later years OF her life we're greatly unfortu
r nate. And yet amid it all she maintained
o most beautiful Christian spirit. Her fu
neral YVES held from q church in Manches