Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-06
Two Hosiery Specials.
|OAKVlLLE HAPPENINGS

Seymour Smith, of the firm of Sey- mour & Son, whose health had been failing for the last. three weeks, died yesterday afternoon about half past one at his late home on Main street. . He was in his ninetieth year and the cause of death, as specified by the at- tending physician, was merely infrm- ities of old age. MT Smith was born at South Springfield, Vt, March 20, 1915, but most of his early life was spent at Uxbridge, Mass. Here, at the age of twenty, he was employed at the Capron Woolen mills and about three years later married Miss Eliza beth B. Wood of that town. Tn 1S4O MT Smith accepted the position of superintendent of the cotton mills at Rogersonville, Mass. This high trust placed with a man of his age Che was then only 25) is an evidence that he showed extraordinary business tall ents. About ten years later MT Smith moved his family Gheir marriage was blessed with three children) to Wor- cester, and there started in the man ufactslre of light hardware with Dan iel BOxtOn. A few years later he transferred his business to Sharon, this state, and it is from there MT Smith and family came to reside at Oakville, in 1867. He bought the Wheeler & Wilson property in the up- per part of this village and there con- tinued this kind of manufacturing. Some years later his son was taken in partnership and the firm assumed the name of The Seymour Smith & Son Hardware company, which 1t has retained up to the present day. MT Smith later became a large property owner in this village. During the last ten years of his life, the deceased was confined to his home with paralysis of the limbs and was able to go about the house only in a wheel chair. Though thus confined he enjoyed very good health until a few weeks ago. and for many years had the satis- faction of seeing the business he had established here successfully conduct ed by his son and grandson. The deceased leaves three children Will liam H. Smith, Mrs c. A. Hotchkiss and Mrs Leslie Warner; seven grand children, Mrs Morton Edwards, E. s. Hotchkiss, Mrs William Hunt, Miss Susan E. Warner, w. R., Miss Ella R., and George H. Smith; also a num- Der of great grandchildren and other relatives All those above mentioned are of this village except Mrs Hotch- kiss and son of Bridgeport, and Mrs Edwards of Watertown. The funeral services will be held at his late resi- dence on Main street Thursday at 2:3O D. m. He will be buried on Friday in Prospect Hill cemetery, Uxbridge, Mass, near the rasting place of his wife, who died at Oakville in 1884. The factory will be closed until Fri day.
 T. Devine and Miss Adelaide Mis- sell spent Labor day in New York.
 A French father from Lafayette college at Hartford, off1ciated at the Catholic church last Sunday in the absence of the Rev M. J. Traynor, who is visiting the worlds fair.
 A ball game was played on the To- cal grounds yesterday forenoon be- tween married and single men of this village, in which the former won by one run The score was II 10.
 The Newton Heights school reopen ed to-day for the fall term.
 Miss Mary Mulv1lle, who has been resident of this village for several years, has gone back to Danbury to live.
 This village was almost deserted Sunday and Labor day, so many hay ing gone to spend the holidays out of town. This Is especially true of yes terday.