The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-03-05
WILLIAMSTOWN.


Adna Downs mother is seriously i'll
with pneumonia in East Brookfield.
Mrs. Ella Benedict Griffin, daughter
of Charles r. Benedict and now of
Burlington, is in very poor health.
Mrs. @. W. Benedict, wife of our
railroad engineer, is under the medi-
cal care of DR.. E. B. Watson.
James S. Abbot, now of Washing
ton, D. G., has sufficiently recovered
his health to go out of doors
Frank A. Walker, in recent visit
to the vicinity of Boston, called ON
his nephew, Fred, son of Melvin
Burnham, in the freshman class at
Tufts college, and found him doing
well in every way.
On Monday of last week an Italian
anarchist, from Paterson, N. j., had
long discussion at the town hall with
Julius Montini, the bright young Ital-
ian bookkeeper for Fontana Broth
ers here. AS this discussion was in
Italian, it would be understood only
by Italians, who were quite fully rep
resented on the occasion. Mr.. Mon
TIM took ground against anarchistic
doctrines. The New Jersey man COM
plimented him at the close of the dis
cussion and said he hoped to meet him
in another one, here, few months
later.
The house of John Wilfore has been
quarantined of late on account of scar
let fever
At the "sock'' social last week
Wednesday, the Congregational ladies
cleared over $25.
The son of Carlos J. Kingsbury,
who brings so much boulder granite
here from Washington, not long ago
drew 271 cubic feet of hard wood at
one load to Chelsea, to be manufac-
tured there into bobbins. He had pre-
viously taken a load of 205 cubic feet,
and another of 227 cubic feet.
In the Carlos j. Kingsbury neigh
borhood, the birthday, Feb. %, of
Mrs. Eaton Emery Mrs. John East
mans mother, was pleasantly observ-
ed by her friends. She is ninety years
old, and we'll preserved for her years.
Miss Emma L. Ainsworth, third
daughter Of the late Calvin Ainsworh,
died on the 22nd of February at the
home of her sister, Mrs. J. E. Aims
worth, of Moline, ILL.,. at the age of
II years. Her body, accompanied by
her nephew, William Waterman, was
brought here for burial in the family
lot in our village cemetery where it
was inferred last Thursday afternoon,
after a short funeral service at the old
family residence. While young lady
Miss Ainsworth was q pupil at one
time in ladies seminary in Burling-
ton, and later was at the Mount Hol-
yoke Female Seminary at South Had
lev, Mass. in the days of Miss Mary
Lyons teaching. Until the death of
her parents in the seventies, her life
after her school days was largely
spent here, though varied by protract-
ed visits with family friends in the
west from time to time. In 1878, she
went to Missouri Valley, Iowa, to
make her home with her sister, Mrs.
]. E. Ainsworth, and later to Council
Bluffs, and finally to Moline, Ill.
From the Moline Daily Despatch of
last week Monday we clip the follow
ing from a notice of her death: "She
is survived by two brothers, @. r..
and H. A. Ainsworth and by two sis
tiers, Mrs. j. E. Ainsworth and Mrs.
w. II. Waterman. On them and all
her kindred the influence of her quiet,
forceful life has been great. Miss
Ainsworth had a retiring but strong
personality. In her church and in all
good works, her ready thought, her
Judgment and her generous hand have
been always a support and comfort
to those about her. The Calvin
Ainsworth residence remains the prop
erty of his absent children, and Miss
Ainsworth's visits here have been
kept up, much to the delight of friends
by whom she was greatly beloved
More than forty years ago she became
a faithful member of our Congrega-
tional church, to which she has long
rendered most efficient service, while
our community has shared the bless
ings that such life is sure to scatter
all abroad. For months past Miss
Ainsworth had been in very poor
health and confined to the house and
room largely. There was an organic
disease of the heart, which precluded
all chance of recovery, in spite of the
unstinted care of physicians and
friends. With the bright mind, ready
wit and geniality, added to her high