The Press., 1910-06-29
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Harry vinton of Holland visited friends in town recently

Harry Vinton of Holland visited friends in town recently.
 Mrs. l.. Miller and daughter, Lysle visited friends in Brookfeld last Vt elk
 Frank Weston of Hartford was . guest of his friend, Mir. Leland, the first of the week.
 T. Olin and Clifton Newell have finished work in the steam saw mill of F. J. Aldrioh in Staffordville. W. Richards and family attended the graduation exercises of Brim6eld academy at Brimfleld last Friday.
 Raymond o. Barrows is attending the Northfield student conference al one of the delegates from M A. O.
 Clarence vinton, recently of Hol land, who has partial paralysis. fl being cared for by Mrs. Hannah Hor' ton at her home.
 William Horsman has sold one oi his horses to Adelbert Needham and now has larger horse cn trial, with view to purUhasing
 David Miller of Prov idence, R l., with his friend, T. Case. of North Ashford, made 8 short visit among friends in town last week.
 Miss Florence L. Barrows is at the eastern student conference at Silver Bay, N. Y., being one of the fifty delegates from Smith college.
 Mrs. L M. Reed is gaining in strength since she has been able to get out of doors. and her many friends hope to see her able to ride out before long.
 Those who have ridden on the high way from Union to Stafford Springs for many years miss familiar land mark in the loss of the lofty hackma- tack or tamarack tree by the Kay house. The tree was struck by light ming in the last severe shower and had to be felled for safety.
 Here is an incident that illustrates how far and wide the influence of 8 good man may go: In the year 1913 there was born in Union a boy who grew up in it's healthful surrounding, and on whcss appreciative spirit the beauties of the natural scenery in that town and the strong characters of many If the people there made deep impression. This youth, whose name was Charlss Hammond, after com. pleting his course of education, finally settled in Monson as principal of the academy there, where his great life work was done. It so happened that there was living at Monson at that time a most excellent Christian woman by the name of Mrs. Phoebe Brown, l, who is known to the world principally through the beautiful hymn that she wrote, 1T love to steal awhile away from every cumbering care. .'' H. is not strange that such woman should have son filled with the missionary spirit which took him to China In the year 1S47 this missionary brought home with him from China three Chinese youths to be educated in this country, and took them to his moth CTS home in Monson, whe.e they boarded and were received by MT. Hammond into the academy there. He took great interest in these Chinese pupils, not on account of the novelty of having Chinese boys here at that early day, but because he fore- saw the great possibilities for good to China by giving them the best of our Christian education. The one of these three boys who afterwards be- came most noted was Yung Wing. who is still living and who has recently written very interesting autobiogra- pby. from which this sketch is taken. MT. Wing thus writes in his autobio- graphy of his connection with Monson academy and MT. Hammond: Mon son academy was at one time quite a noted preparatory school in New Eng. land, before high schools sprang into existence Young men from all parts of the country were found here, un- dergoing preparation for college. It was it's fortune at different periods of it's history to have had men of char acter and experience for its principals. The Rev. Charles Hammond was one of them. He was in every sense a self-made man. He was 8 graduate of Yale, enthusiastically fond of the classics and a great admirer of Eng. fish literature. He was a man of liberal views and broad sympathies He was we'll known in New England as an educator and as Q champion of temperance and New England virtues His high character gave the school a wide reputation, and it was never in more prosperous condition than when he was principal. He took a special interest in us, the three Chinese pupils-Wang Shing, Wong Foon and myself-not so much from the novelty of having Chinese in the school, as from his interest in China and the possible good that might come out of our education. In those primitive days board and lodging in the country were very reasonable We paid only $1 25 a week, but we had to take care of our own rooms and saw and split our wood, which we found capital exercise. We boarded with Mrs. Phoebe H. Brown, a woman of sur. passing strength tf religious and moral character, the authoress of the well-known hymn, T love to steal awhile away from every oumbering care 7" She went through the crucible of unprecedented adversities and trials in life and came out one of the rare shining lights that bsautify the New England sky. Rev. Charles Hammond was man of fine, cultivated taste,.