St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-07-24
(From an occasional correspondent.)

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Mrs. U. T. Davis.
(From an occasional correspondent
George Latham, former resident Of
the village. is visiting at Albert Jenkins
Mr.. Latham now resides with his
daughter in Watertown, Mass.
States Attorney Guy w. Hill was in
the village on legal business Saturday
afternoon. He expressed himself as well
pleased at the way the law is oeing
enforced by local officials.
Doctors held consultation on the
case of Alonzo Farmer, Saturday. Mr..
Farmer is slowly on the gain, and it is
confidently expected that if nothing new
sets in he will get about again.
Mrs. DR.. Colby is caring for Alonzo
Farmer.
William Brockway met with very
painful accident while at work in Oar
iings dressing mill, Friday He had the
end of finger cut off in buzz planer.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. R. Harvey have re-
turned from their visit at Lancaster,
where they have been visiting Mr..
Harvey's brother.
Mr.. and Mrs. William H. Jeffrey are
visiting at Miles Pond for a few days.
General Sheriden Council Jr. o. U. A.
NJ, installed officers Monday evening.
The pew holders of the Methodist
church had a meeting Friday evening
and voted to remove the old pews and
replace them with opera chairs. This
will be great Improvement in the
appearance of the church and one that
as a matter OF comfort will be greatly
appreciated by the congregation. The
society will continue to hold the Sunday
morning service in Algonquin Hall, while
the repairs are being made.
In Justice Jeffrey's court the past week
Carl Russ and Fred Finn, both of St.
Johnsbury, plead guilty to intoxication
and were fined the usual So and costs,
to something over SIS in
each case; Thomas Edney ofKirby, plead
not guilty, and the case was continued
to later date for trial; a civil case of
Webster & Howard VS. Albert H. Kit
redge on a note, was settled out of
court.
Mrs. Phoebe Quimby Cfst. Johnsbury,
who has been caring for her sister Mrs.
B. F. Humphrey, returned home Satur-
day.
Guy Frasier will in few days move
his family to Island Pond.
Scott Stafford, who is working in St.
Johnsbury, spent Sunday with his family
here.
Mrs. Stephen Hunter of Springfield,
Mass, is visiting friends in this village.
The host of friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
Bion F. Humphrey, extend to them
their sympathy on the death of their
infant son BERTHE.
Master Erlon Eggleston, who has been
quite i'll, is much improved.
The hay makers report the last week
one of the best in many years and the
crop quite up to the usual amount.
Death of Mr.. Brown.
The Angel of Death has visited the
village with such unusual frequency of
late as to have almost ceased to be a
stranger. Each visit, however, has
made a fresh vacancy in our midst and
added new grief to those we already
bore.
With noiseless tread death comes to man;
No plea, no prayer, delivers him;
From amidst busy lifes unfinished plan
With sudden hand it sewers him.
And, ready or not ready, no delay,
For to his Judges bar he must away.
And thus it came upon William Freder-
ck Brown. The Death Angel found him
ready to meet the summons. Mr.. Brown
was born July 1S, 1S45, at Phillipstown,
Massachusetts, he was educated in the
public schools; and in 1878 was united
IN marriage to Lizzie Mary Whitney.
To their union three sons were born:
William H., Dexter W., and Waldo Ernest.
twenty two years ago Mr.. Brown came
to East Burke and during all these years
mas been regarded as a good man and
an ideal citizen. A distinguished writer
once said, Each one must act his part,
and receive his portion of honor and
shame. And it matters not whether we
abor in the departments of agriculture,
peed our influences in political circles,
'r exert our energies in scientific re.
searches, we do well to bear in mind that
he brightest rewards and the highest
pleasures which mortals know is a con.
ciousness OF duty performed, and that
he noblest encomium is the approval of
'ur own conscience. Whether it is ours
@ command or to obey; to walk in the
'ilded halls and marble palaces ofwealth,
" to dwell in an humble cottage, we
mould ever be ready to lend an ear to
hat still, small voice which says. Let
our light shine and let not that light be
darkness. And to us who knew him
his quotation seems to exactly fit his
lie, modest, generous, kindly, with a
leep sense of his duty to his fellow men
FREQ Brown ever did that which
eemed to him right. The tenderness,
ne sweetness, the devotion which
haracterized his relations to wife and
hildren will always remain a sacred
to the survivors of his
amily.
How long and anxious has been our
waiting that followed that attack early
asst spring, how, with alterations of
ope and despair, we waited while the
avs lapsed INTO weeks and the weeks
rev into months, cherishing the hope
nat IN the supreme contest of his life the
utcome yet might be in his favor. Our
oCpe was IN vain, for the great Giver of
le ana death had decreed the end, and
when the final summons came for him
cease struggling and join the mighty
osts that had preceded him, he calmly
assoc away, supported and sustained
y that lofty courage which comes with
consciousness hnf III =