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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-12-23

90 school every day and am good lit
tl7 girl. want you 90 bring me ors
bride doll and little coll dresser, and q
little doll buggy and nice little story
book and little rocking chair, my little
sister raider and bring mama q new
dress. And papa . new PAIR Of shoes, q
whole lot Of good things 70 eat.
ETHEL EDGINS.
r No. 9.
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Ashwood Tenn. Dec 10, 1901.

Dear Santa Claus
I am little girl not years old. Will
you please bring me doll and doll
buggy, and set of dishes and a little
safe to put my dishes in; candy, oranges,
apples, NUS, raisins, and wax, and a
little wash tub and board and a negro
doll, and bring little sister some candy
and rubber bali and RATHER and a
china doll. Your little friend
ALLIE BELLE GRIFFIN.
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Columbia Tenn E R s.

am little girl years old. | want
you to bring me doll and doll buggy
crackers and oranges apples raisins
candy. Bring my little sister pearl
doll apples oranges candy.
ELSIE LEE HOLMES.
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Dear Santa taus-Please bling me
tome candy and apples and oranges and
reasons and don't forget Sam Erwin
my little tother.
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Columbia, Tenn. Dec. Is, 1904.
Dear Santa Claus
l am little girl nine year old Please
bring me doll and doll buggy, some
oranges apples and candies, from
KATIE RENFRO
68 West Ninth Street
P. s, Don't forget my little sister
Mabille.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-12-23
Death Of /. n. Williamson.

Isaac Halstead Williamson. for the
past ~ years a resident OF this town.
died suddenly last Friday morning at
a hotel In New York city where he
had been for about five weeks. The
news was received In Brattleboro In
n telegram from the hotel proprietors
to his, son. Benjamin Williamson.
who left for New York Friday after
noon. The funeral was held from
Trinity church In Elizabeth, N. j..
Monday afternoon at o'clock. Mr..
Williamson was n member of one of
the Oldest and most prominent fam
lilies In New Jersey. His grand
father for whom he was named, wac
chancellor and governor ex ofiicio Oh
that state from February, 1917, to
October, 1880, and was president Of
the constitutional convention of 1874,
dying a short time after he had been
chosen TO preside over that body.
His father. Benjamin Williamson.
was vice chancellor of New Jersey
for number OF years and never had
a decision reversed by higher court.
He was also prominent In the reor-
of the Jersey Central
when II was In the hands
Of receiver, and amassed a large
fortune. He died In 1892, and his |
son, VINO nau Deem MS private secre- |
-ary. came to Brattleboro soon after
ward.
During his life here Mr.. William
son had always lived at the Brooks
house. He is survived by a widow
md three children, Benjamin and
Mss Martha Williamson of this town,
md Miss May Williamson, who is a
tudent in Prospect Hill school at
Mr.. Williamson's eldest
laughter, Leila, wife of Il. A. Tyler
vas drowned with her husband in
he Connecticut river July 30. 1896.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-12-23
The Missourians.

For The Missourians, the new play
by Main Grute and Wade Mountfortt
which Mrs. II. G. DeMille has selected
for Theodore Hamilton, and which will
be seen at the auditorium Dec. 30. is
direct from New York and Phiadel-
phia engagements en- route to Montreal
and a massive scenic equipment has
been provided from the studio of
Physioc, the noted scene painter of
New York There are three great
scenes The first act shows the Ben
ton homestead, an old colonial house
surrounded by trees and arbors. The
second act is the public square in
showing the old fash
toned court house. with its i'm
posing clock tower, the country hotel,
known of course as THE Southern"
the local bank and last but not least
Stormy Jordan's "caffey' as the
-ownsfolk call it. "The Road to He'll
Stormy himself has euphoniously
named it, the name, in fact, which he
las caused to be painted over the door.
rhe third act shows the race track
1t the county fair, with the judges
stand, the grand stand and the pad
lock- a fitting setting for the shifting
xcited crowds that fill the scene.
MI of the scenery was painted from
ketches made in historic localities in |
Missouri
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-12-23
Fire at Washington Street School.

The Washington street primary
school building was damaged by
fire and water to the amount of be-
tween $500 and 5000 Tuesday morn
ing. Several residents of Prospect
hill noticed smoke issuing from the
roof of the building shortly after s
o'clock, and attempt was made to
pull in an alarm from box SO at the
corner of Washington and Central
streets. The box, however, could not
be opened and a telephone message
was sent to the exchange whence an
alarm was sounded by means Of the
new dummy" box. The flames had
gained considerable Roadway before
they were discovered, but the hose
cart which is kept at A. r. Harris's
barn was brought into use and
stream from nearby hydrant was
soon at work. The fire evidently
caught from a defective chimney and
was confined to the upper part of the
rear of the building. Soon after the
alarm the chemical engine arrived
on the scene and a second hydrant
stream was at once brought into
play as well as that from the chem
ical tank. After about As minutes
work the flames We're subdued, al
though not until a hole had been
burned in the roof near the chimney
and the inside of the building badly
soaked with water. The building
was insured for $1,000 through the
agency of C. F. R. JENNIE.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-12-23

Oasis encampment will confer the
Royal Purple degree on four candi-
dates next Thursday evening.
William A. Pitts OF Rutland and
Miss Florence NJ. Akley OF this town
were married wednesday afternoon
by William s. Newton, esq.
The store house OF II. Crosby a.
Co. was broken into last night
Nothing OF value was taken although
the thieves pried open the money
drawer In their search for some
thing worth carrying away
Honor day was observed by the
Vermont society, United States
Daughters OF 1912, Wednesday with
Mrs. William Gerry Slade of New
York city. president OF the national
organization, as guest OF honor. In
the afternoon n delightful luncheon
was served mt the home OF Mrs. ].
q. Ullery. vice president OF the Yer
mont state society, followed by n re-
ception at the home Of Mrs. George
s. Dowley to the members of the So
ciety and the officers Of the Woman's
club, Brattleboro chapter, Daughters
of the American Revolution. Colonial
Danes and Sunshine societies. Mrs. |
Slade. Mrs. Dowley, Mrs. Uilery and |
Mrs. C. +. r. Jenne received the |
guests and music was furnished by |
orchestra. Refreshments |
were served in the dining room which
was decorated with carnations and
blue and gray ribbon, the society's
colors, A public reception In Mrs.
SHADES honor took place In the
Brooks house Wednesday evening,
Mrs. Jenne and Mrs. Ullery assisting
N receiving. The program consisted
IF an address by Col. II. T.. Taylor on
Vermont's Part in the War of 1872
remarks by Dr. II. d. Holton and
Mrs. Slade, two solos by Miss Ger
rude Matthews and a recitation. The
Spirit of 1912, by Miss Martha Ingra-
lam
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-12-23
Mrs. George 3. Sargent.

Mary Ann French. 81, widow of
George Barney Sargent, died Saturday
morning at her home on the Putney
road after an illness of several weeks.
The funeral was held Tuesday after
noon, Rev. II. r. Miles officiating, and
the burial was in Locust Ridge ceme-
terry Mrs. Sargent was daughter of
Stephen and Polly Pierce French of
Dummerston where she was born in
1920. For the past 60 years she had
made her home at the old Sargent
farm. two miles north of this village.
Mrs. Sargent's mother lived to be 102
years old, dying in East Templeton,
Mass, in 1892. Mrs. Sargent leaves
one son, George H. Sargent, and a
Mrs. Ornan Prescott, of
Brattleboro, one sister Miranda w.
of East Templeton, Mass, and
two brothers, Stephen French of Or
ange, Mass, and Edwin French of Or
ange City, Florida. Mrs. Sargent was
A woman of strong character and her
long life has been filled with charita-
BILE deeds and acts of kindness.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-12-23
WEST BRATTLEBoRo.

| Mrs. Clisbee is slowly improving.
L. A. Bond is quite sick with stom-
ach trouble.
Mrs. w. d. Stockwell Is spending
the holidays in Boston.
Mrs Braman went to South Deer
field, Mass, Tuesday to visit her par
ents.
Miss May Chamberlain comes Fri
day to spend the holidays with
friends.
There is to be large party of
down town people at the Melrose for
the Christmas dinner
Roy Fisher is expected home from
the hospital this week. Mabel San
ders does not improve as fast.
Charles Stockwell went to Spring
field, Mass Tuesday called by the
sickness of his sister, Mrs. Bishop.
There will be Christmas concerts at
both churches by the Sunday schools,
and trees for the children Monday
evening.
Miss Ida Fox goes tomorrow to
spend Christmas with her sister, Mrs.
Minard of Chicopee Falls, Mass, re-
turning Tuesday.
The church roll-call and chicken
pie supper at the Congregational
church Friday evening was largely
attended and many who were not able
to be present responded by letter.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-12-23
Mrs. William II. Bond.

Lavinah Seymour Hubbard. rs, wife
of William II. Bond, died at her home
in the Bond building last Friday
evening after an Illness of a little
over three days with cerebro- spinal
meningitis. The news came as a Sc
we're shock TO Mr.. and Mrs. Bonds
numerous friends only a very few of
them knowing of her illness. She
complained of feeling badly Tuesday
evening and grew worse so rapidly
that on Wednesday a trained nurse
was secured. The following day she
became unconscious and never rail-
lied, the end coming about 80 Fri
day evening.
Mrs Bond was born at the Hunt
farm. daughter Of Chelsea and Ellen
Hunt Hubbard, but most of her life
had been spent in Sioux Falls, S. D.,
where her father was prominent In
business affairs. She came east early
in 1900, her mother dying in March
of that year anu nSf father the fol-
lowing May. In June, 1900. she was
married to William II. Bond and had
since made her home in this town.
She is survived by a husband. one
brother, Hunt Hubbard, whose home
is in Minnesota, and three grand
parents, Col. and Mrs. John Hunt and
Mrs. F. F. II. Stevens, all of this
town.
home of Mr. and Mrs. II. Z. Bond
on Linden street Monday afternoon
at o'clock, Rev. f. T. Mathison and
Rev. f. Q. S. Osgood officiating. The
bearers were: w. e. Hubbard, III. p.
Webster. w. f. Root and c. G. May
nard. The body was placed in the
at Morningside. During |
her life in this town Mrs. Bonds |
strong character and cheerful dispo- |
sition had made her many friends. |
She was young woman of refine
nent, education and much personal
harm.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-12-23
JAMAICA.

William II. Joslin drove file
through his right hand Monday af-
ternoon.
II. A Mclean was in Brattleboro
Monday and Tuesday setting a saw
mill for Holden & Martin.
Everybody should remember the
Christmas tree and cantata at the
Opera hall Saturday evening.
Sheriff Mcclure has been in town
again this week to continue the auc-
ton of the goods of the late F. Z.
Smith.
f. A. Ballard is filling David Eddy's
ice house. The ice is 16 inches thick
and of fair quality. ]. Lyman is do
ing the hauling.
Ray Harrington, who sawed two of
his fingers a few weeks ago, went to
the hospital at Brattleboro last week
and had them taken off. He is now
doing we'll
All regret to hear of the resigna-
tion of Rev. A. E. Hartwell at the
Congregational church, to take effect
Jan. l. Mr.. and Mrs. Hartwell expect
to leave for Illinois in about two
weeks. The best wishes of the COM
munity go with them.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-12-23
Charles M. Colburn.

Charles NJ. Colburn, So, died sud-
denly at his home in Montpelier
Monday afternoon after smoking a
cigar and sending for a barber to
shave him. His death was due to
neuralgia of the heart Mr.. Colburn
was in the drug business in Brattle-
boro about 20 years ago. owning the
store now occupied by f. H. Holden
and selling out to George A. Briggs.
He travelled for about 20 years in the
interest of Wells, Richardson & Co,
and was well known to the drug
trade in this state. Mr.. Colburn had
been in the insurance business of re-
cent years and had an Office in Brat
tleboro for short time last year At
the time of his death he was a MEM
Der of the firm of Colburn & Hassel-
tine
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-12-23
CHESTERFIELD.

George Spaulding has returned
from a months visit with his son
Henry, at Hinsdale.
Crows have spoken out in meet
ing occasionally for a week or more.
Who can predict the coming weather
A robin has been in company with
neighbours hens for several days. 1t
is not know whether he was left be-
hind the south going company by
accident or prefers a winter in New
England to that of a southern lati-
tude.
The cantata, Christmas at Grand
pas. will be presented at the Metho-
dist church Saturday evening, Dec.
"a. and elaborate preparations are
under way. All are invited. 1t prom
Uses to be one of the finest things of
the kind ever seen here.
The entertainment given at the
town hail Friday evening by Mr.. and
Mrs. C. L. Williams was a very pleas
ant affair. Songs, with organ and
French horn. and the music of the
piano dulcimer. with spicy readings,
were all greatly appreciated by those
present. We hope to see Mr.. and
Mrs. Williams again. The ladies
served a good supper before and af-
ter the entertainment
w. X. Ware represented the town
at the state conference of health at
Concord last week. He was greatly in
terested and believes the work impor-
tant to the welfare of the state. The
state laboratory, where samples of
canned goods. etc, are analysed is
an important feature of the work.
DR.. II. d. Holtou Of Brattleboro made
a grand speech Of wide scope and
value. About $50 members Of local
boards from different towns were
present
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-12-23

-x>.-u lpKeT
b.. tIIl.0Ul.u gIrt MhHaei
Ii door n.rth cts mer1o.n ho1se as.f
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-12-23
SOUTH VERNON.

Visitors for Christmas are numer-
Gus.
All of the schools except that in
district No. close for Christmas
week.
Rev. T. NJ. Blanchard will speak at
IL a. m Sunday and there will be
services as usual at 1880 p. m.
Mrs. c. p. Buffum has gone TO
Readsboro and Wilmington to visit
her father and sister.
Prof William Shipman, his son.
Bert and wife of Boston, and Edwin
Lee of Gardner. Mass. are Christmas
guests at Z. o. Lees.
A pleasant donation party was held
at the home of Rev. L NJ. Blanchard
Tuesday evening. Music and a So
cial hour were much enjoyed by al.
Services at the Adventist Chris
tian church: Sunday school. noon;
prayer meeting. l p. m; preaching by
the pastor. Elder L NJ. Blanchard.
$3.50: Loyal Workers. s. Thursday
evening prayer meeting, 1880.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-28

child sick, almost dying, in the hut Of
an unknown miner In the foothills :?
This is California, where men don't for
give that sort of thing"
She was silent, and then said: Yes,
let's go to Hangtown and be married. 4"
Was your first marriage perfectly
legal? Have you got the marriage GER
tificate?"
She rose, dragged out the bundle she
had brought with her, and from it
drew a long dirty envelope which she
handed to him.
He opened it and found the certih-
cate. 1t was accurate in every detail.
His eye ran over the ages and names of
the contracting parties-Lucy Fraser,
Is, to Jacob Shackleton, "a, at st. Louis.
Twisting the paper in his hands he
sat moodily eying the fire. The second
marriage was the only way he could
think of by which he could lend sem
blance of right to the impossible posi-
ton in which his generous action had
placed him. Divorce, in that remote
locality and at that early day of laws,
half administered and chaotic, was i'm
possible, and even had it been easily
obtained he shrank from dragging into
publicity the piteous story of how the
woman he loved had been sold to him.
That a marriage with Jake Shackle-
toms wife was legal offense he knew,
but with one of those strange WITNESSES
of character which mark mankind, he
felt that the reading Of the marriage
service over Lucy and himself would in
some way sanctify what could never be
a lawful tie.
In a spasm Of rage and disgust he
held out the paper to the flames, when
Lucy, with smothered cry sprang for
ward and seized it. 1t was the first
violent action into which he had ever
seen her betrayed. He looked in sur
prise into her flushed and alarmed face
"Why not? Why not destroy every
thing that could connect you with such
a past?" he said. almost angrily.
She hesitated, smoothing out the
paper with trembling hands. Then she
said falteringly:
'T don't now-but-but-he was her
father" indicating the sleeping baby.
"I was married to him all right"
He understood the instinct that made
her wish to keep the paper as a record
of her child's legitimacy, and made no
further comment.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-28

The next morning at dawn he started
for his long walk into Hangtown, TAX
ing with him all the dust he had accu-
mulated since Fletchers departure. He
was absent till the afternoon of the
following day, when he reappeared
leading a small pack mule, laden with
supplies, among which were several ar
ticles of dress for Lucy and the baby,
so that they might make a fitting ap-
pearance when they rode into camp for
the wedding. Lucy was overjoyed at
her finery, and arrayed in 1t looked so
pretty and so girlish that Moreau, for
the first time since the scene by the
creek, took her in his arms and kissed
her. 1t was the kiss Of the bridegroom
and the master
The next morning when she woke the
cabin was curiously dark. Going 10 the
door to open 1t. she found it resisted,
and went to the window. The world
was wrapped in a binding fall of snow.
When Moreau came in for breakfast, he
reported a blizzard outside. The cold
was intense, the wind high, and the
snow so fine and so torn by the gale
that 1t was like a mist of whiteness en-
veloping the cabin. Already 1t was
piled high about the walls and had to
be shoveled from the door to permit Of
its opening. Fortunately they had col
lected a large amount of fire wood
which was piled in the brush shed In
which the man lived. During the morn
ing Moreau took the animals from their
shelter and stabbed them in his. There
was fodder for them and a bed of
leaves, and the heat of the chimney
warmed the fragile hut.
All day the storm ragged, and in the
evening, as he and Lucy sat before the
fire, they could hear the turmoil of the
tempest outside, moaning through the
ranks OF the sentinel pines. They were
silent, listening to this shouting Of the
unloosed elements, and feeling an in
describably sweet sense of home and
shelter in their rugged cabin and each
others society.
The storm was one of those unex-
pected blizzards which sometimes visit
the Sierras in the early winter. With
brief intervals Of sunshine, the snow
fell off and on for nearly a month.
Moreau had to exercise almost super
human effort to keep the cabin from be-
ing buried, and, as it was, the drifts
nearly covered the window. It was i'm
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-28
Twisting the Papers in
His Hands. He Sat
Moodily Eyeing
the Fire.

possible to travel any distance, as the
snow was Of a fine, feathery texture
which did not pack tight, and into
which the wanderer sank to the arm
pits. Fortunately the last trip into
HanGtown had stocked the cabin well
with provisions. No cares menaced it's
inmates, who, warm and happy in the
vast snow-buried solitudes of the
mountains, led an enchanted existence.
forgetting and forgotten by the world.
When the storm ended the miner at
tempted to get into the settlements
with the mule But the beast, ex-
hausted by the insufficient food, as the
best part of the fodder had to be given
to the COW, fell by the way, dying in
one of the drifts. This seemed to sever
their last link with the world. Nature
had drawn an unbroken circle of lone
liness around them. Under its spell
they were drawn closer together till
their lives merged-the primitive man
and woman living for and by love in
the primitive wilderness.
So the enchanted winter passed. The
man, at intervals, making his way into
the settlements for food and the few
articles of clothing that they needed. 1t
was terrible winter, nearly as fierce
as that of '46 but between the storms
Moreau fitfully worked the stream, OBJ
tanning enough dust to pay for their
provisions. The outside world seemed
to fade from their lives, which were
bounded by the walls of the cabin.
Here, in the long fire-lit evenings, Mo-
reau read to Lucy, taught her from his
few books, strove to develop the mind
that misfortune had almost crushed.
She responded to his teachings with the
quickness of love. Without much men
tai ability she improved because she
lived only for what he desired. She
smoothed the roughness of her speech
and studied to correct her grammati-
cal errors. She made him set her little
tasks such as child studies, and in the
evenings he watched her with surrepti-
tious amusement, as she conied over
her spelling, or traced letters in her
copy-boo She was passionately desir-
GUS of being worthy of him, and of
leaving her old chrysalis behind her
when she issued from the cabin.
This was not to be until the early
spring. 1t was nearly six months from
the time the emigrant wagon had
stopped at his door, that Moreau, hav-
ing accumulated enough dust to buy
another mule and another outht--took
Lucy and the child into Hangtown for
the marriage. This ceremony, about
which in the beginning she had been
somewhat apathetic, she now earnestly