The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-10-22
WILLIAMSBURG.

WILLIAMSBURG.
In the recent severe cyclone near
Princeton, ILL.,, one of the killed was
Mrs. Eliza Robinson Sherwin, who
was born here in 1918. At the age OF
seventeen years her father moved to
Princeton, H., and two years later
was married to e. X. Sherwin. Sue
was living with her son, Charles Sher-
win, when, on Saturday, October 3,
his house was struck by the tornado,
and completely demolished. Both
Mrs. Sherwin and her daughter-in-
law, Mrs Charles Sherwin, were so
injured that they lived but a short
time. She had long been a member
of a Presbyterian church there and
was highly spoken of. We think her
father was a brother of Mrs. James
Kinsmau, whose family went from
here to Princeton, ILL.,, in 1919.
1t is said that Messrs. Benevides and
Rowell will at once build a meat mar
ket on lot east of j. X. Lyndes
lower livery barn; and that O. M.
Seaver will tins week begin the found
alton of his warehouse Just north of
the depot Altogether we are taking
courage, hoping that our town is taking
something of IA step now, in an out
ward prosperous career. Its legitimate
business is surely that of granite manu-
featuring, situated as it is in it's rela-
ton to the quarry district. 1t is only
a question of time when the railroad
is to be extended to Royalton, and an
other one built to the quarries. Why
should not granite manufacturers now
turn their attention to the main chance
here, and get on to the ground
floor. " We certainly urge them to
come and see. And why should our
village not now be supplied with cleo
trio power for granite sheds, from
the Pioneer electric works near Mont
pelier?
Frank, son of Ophir S. Martin. went
to Massachusetts last week for short
visit with friends of his mother.in-
law.
Miss Eta Mckee, a sister of Miss
Saida. for some years clerk in the
Lynde and Edison store, has just begun
work in George l.. Edson's store.
William u. Pratt last week bought
of @. M. Erskine and son Martin,
some eighteen acres of land lying east
of and adjoining the General E. Bass
place" He wanted an unfailing water
supply for his large pasture adjoining
~ Oh ulIC SOubll.
1t may surprise our townspeople, as
a whole, to be told that after the out
lay in recent years, for school purposes
in the quarry district, two-thlrds of
the pupils heretofore in the intermedi-
ate department, and in the next higher
grade are attending the Catholic
school near Graniteville. What the
falling off in the primary department
is, we failed to find. One of our viii
lage boys and another mile out, are
said to be pupils in the same school,
Mrs. David n Wilson, sister of
William Witherell, and who has more
than once visited here, has gone to
Southern Pines, N G., to live. Her
husband. who had been an employee in
the Waltham, Mass, watch factory,
had suffered so long, and so greatly,
from asthma, that he was compelled
to seek a change of climate, and he
finds great relief in his new home.
Mrs. Wilson writes of the very COR
dial reception given there on her ar.
rival.
H. S. Parker of Boston has been a
recent guest OF his friends, the Misses
Kimbail.
Herbert l.. Platt is in the employ of
j. K. Lynde, in connection with livery
work.
Mrs A. A. Reed and children, Albert
r. Martin, Ed j. Poor, and Harvey
Il. Cheney, were among those who
went on the annual excursion to Bos
ton last week.
Messrs. Edison and Robinson, the
recent purchasers of the General E.
Bass farm, are getting ready to sell
building lots on their meadow In
this prettiest part of our village, as
more than one speak of it, we trust
there may be demand for lots now.
Irving, son of Theodore Wilfore.
who has been in st. Louis, Mo-, in
the last year, is about to go to Florida.
we hear.
a part of our work of late. has been
the looking over of lot of business
papers, letters, ETC., that had accum.
ulated IN the active life of the late
General Ebenezer Bass. One great
reason for interest in MANY of these
Papers lies IN the fact that they grew
out of his official work and are the
records of certain events in the lives
of former citizens, that at the time
must have been the theme of "the
towns talk for season. Perhaps
no other resident of this town has
ever played larger official part in
its affairs than did Mr.. Bass. An
other feature of interest to us has
been the business letters by the lead
ing legal gentlemen, in an earlier
day, in towns about here, as the Reeds
of Montpelier, Kinsman of Barre,
Buck of Northfeld, Levi B. Villas of
Chelsea, and others. And then there
is the natural interest one takes in
Learning facts in the history of any
man largely before the public, even