The Press., 1911-09-06
Monsoon.

Fairfield, Me-, and Is moving his
family there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman o. Flynt an
nounoe the engagement of their daugh-
ter, Ruth, to John Marshall of New
York, N. Y.
The Worcester County Gas company
are moving their equipment store from
the Monsoon house block to the north
store in the Heimann g. Lichten block
on Main street.
Hector Aldrich, who has been
Dangerously i'll at the Springfield hos
pital. following an operation for APP
pendioitis, is much improved, and on
the road to recovery.
The Kings Daughters picnic will
be held on Thursday afternoon. Sept
7th, ct the home of Mrs Fl. M Smith,
Stafford road. A most cordial invi-
tation Is extended to all the members
and their husbands. If stormy, to
be held the next pleasant day.
Workmen are excavating at the
Ricketts, g. Shaw mill on Main street
for an addition that is soon to be
made. The dynamo for the lighting
plant will be moved into the new
room, and the place now occupied by
the dynamo will be used as an ex-
tension to the oarbonizing dryer.
Mrs. Josephine. Marsh, 60, died at
her home on State street suddenly
Monday evening, Aug. %, at 11.3O.
Mrs. Marsh had been indisposed for
the past two weeks by a nervous
trouble, but her condition was not at
all serious. Her condition be came
alarming late Monday night, and
call was sent for her physician. The
change, the doctor stated, was caused
by an apoplt ctio shock, the fleet of
which caused her death Mrs Marsh,
who was born in Bethel, Me-. came
to Monson 16 years ago, and she had
since made her home here. She was
a regular attendant at the Universal
ist church. She leaves one brother,
Hira Smith Of Bethel, Me-, and q
granddaughter, Miss Anna Marsh of
Monson, with whom she lived. The
funeral was held Thursday afternoon
at 2 O'Clock at the home. Rev. Abram
Oonklin of the Universalist church
conducted the services The body
was taken to Barre for burial.
The descendants of Asa Davis of
Stafford, Ct , held their 18th annual
reunion at Forest lake Wednesday.
The gathering was somewhat inform
al, but "a of the family enjoyed a
social time and picnic together. The
executive committee chosen for the
coming year was George F. Bell of
CRANKY, Everett l.. Davis and Mrs.
Laura Flood of Springfield. An in
teresting feature of the occasion was
the presence of Mrs. Grace Dean and
Mrs Hester Davis, twin sisters, from
Wilmington, Vt, who had not met
with the family for 80 years. They
resembled each other so closely that
no one could distinguish between
them. Others present were Mr.. and
Mrs. Elmer Davis, Mr.. and Mrs. l..
e. Pease. Mrs. Everett Davis, Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Cooley, Lester and Free
nor Cooley of Springfield, o O. Davis
of williamsburg, MIR. and Mrs. Or
Vile Hum and Mrs Hattie Davis of
Somers, OF , Mr.. and Mrs. George f.
Bell of CRANKY, Mrs. W s. CLARK,
Ruth and Donald CLARK of Northamp-
ton, Mrs. Leila Sturtevant, Ralph and
Ruth Sturtevant of Worcester, Mabel
Fitch of Wilmington, Vt.
In the death of Samuel Closson,
which occurred Monday, Aug. %, the
town loses a quaint and lovable char
acter, and mich genuine regret will
be felt for his loss. Mr.. blossom was
an idealist and fought for his ideals
with a good natured pertinaoy. He
wanted good roads, good schools and
clean citizenship. Hs was an upright
man, without malice, controlled by
the best of motives. Those of MS who
have had a chance TO meet the de-
ceased intimately and to realize the
fearless simplicity of his man
hood will have no doubt that the
town Is the poorer in the less of an
of the best in citizenship.
While his influence was not widely
felt, no man can live a life along the
lines which controlled the life of Mr..
Olosson without adding to the sum
total of the best in human endeayor.
He was a veteran of the late civil war,
and we can imagine him facing the
enemy with the same courage that he
displayed in facing the opposition In
the annual town meeting, where he
was a familiar figure fer many years.
He was a contributor to the public
prints, and his COMMUNICATIONS had a
concise spiciness that made them very
readable, even when the ideas ad.
Vanced did no. meet with general en-
1orsement. Mr. Closson was born in |
Blue Hill, Me-, April 90, 1912. He
was educated in the public schools of
that town and the seminary at Bucks |
port, Me. At the OF ening of the
war, when 10 years of age, he enlist
ID from his home town, and after |
being in the military service for a
little over year he was honorably |
discharged on account of disability. |
He returned to Blue Hill, where he
earned the tone cutting trade. A
lew years later he secured a position
1T his trade in Fall River, and was
in that city to Miss Jennie
Watson. He moved from there to
Stony Greek, OF to take charge of
The stone cutters at the Beatty stone
works Of that place. He came to
Monsoon 80 years ago to work for the
Flynt Granite company and had since