Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-10-11
WEST CORNWALL.

Improvement In the weather is pleas
ing to all
Mr. and Mrs. l.. c. Drolette and Mrs.
Eta Hurd recently visited Mr.. and Mrs.
N. Merrill of Weybridge.
MIR. and Mrs. L. Dewitt visited MIR.
and Mrs. j. DeLeeun on Sunday last.
G. T. Dimmick was in Middlebury a
few days early in the week.
Mrs. l.. C. Drolette and Mrs. Carroll
Morse attended the missionary meeting
in Middlebury on Tuesday afternoon.
Apple picking is now in order. Apples
better than the price, SO the wise ones
say.
Mrs. K. L. Taylor has recently visited
relatives in Middlebury.
Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Lowell entertained
on Sunday last Mr.. and Mrs. Will
Simonds and his daughter. Gertrude, of
Middlebury and Messrs. Cook and
Ogilvie of Proctor.
James Baldwin and wife went to Bran
don on Tuesday to attend the funeral of
his niece Mrs. Flora Baldwin LOOMS.
Mrs. E. d. Twitchell has returned to
her home in Middlebury assisting in
caring for Mrs Sheldon.
Miss L. ]. Fuller was in Burlington on
Wednesday.
The funeral of Mrs. Martha L. Sheldon
was held on Saturday afternoon. She
was a daughter of Jonathan and Lydia
Perry, who died several years ago. Her
husband, Harvey Sheldon, who was u
soldier in the civil war, has been dead
for number of years. She was born
October /. 1922, and passed from this life
October Sd. Her life has been lived in
this town and she left many friends
beside her immediate family. She is
survived by son, Frank, whose home ia
in Shoreham and daughter, Mrs. NJ. E.
Twitchell, with whom she has lived for
nearly two years past and five grand
children also an aged sister. Mrs. Evelyn
Stevens of Springfield. While she had
reached four score years she did not
seem old to her friends as she enjoyed
life and all that tends to make a pleasant
one. the companionship Of her friends
and music and flowers of which she was
very fond and they always were in her
own home to add to its attractiveness
and by loving hands were placed all
about her speaking their language of
beauty, of kind thought and love. For
several years she had been member of
the Baptist church and a former pastor,
Rev. A. T. Howard, now of Whiting,
officiated. making comforting remarks
and reading two beautiful selections
"Mother" and REST" Rev. Samuel
Rose read scripture and offered prayer.
Mrs James Wing and Mrs. Henry James
sang two selections, with Mrs. Porter as
accoinpanist. Mr.. A. j. Blackmer had
charge and the bearers were II. E.
Sanford, w. H. Bingham. G. T. Dim
mock and L. Dewitt, Interment in
Evergreen cemetery. From out of town
were John Carr and wife of Addison,
Fred McAuley and family of Weybridge,
Mrs. DeWolf and grandson of Shoreham,
Rollo Keller and wife, c. Muzzey and
wife of Whiting and l.. Richards of
Middlebury and II. NJ. Perry and wife of
Brandon. For nearly a year Mrs.
Sheldon had been confined to her bed
most of the time suffering from dis
ease that baflled the ministrations of
skill and loving care from her daughter
had given her every attention and the
loss of "mother" means much to her as
they have been close companions always
and the sympathy of her friends and
neighbors is hers. During the latter
part of Mrs. Sheldon's illness her suffer
ing was hard to bear yet her patience
and resignation were equal to the crucial
test and she passed on full of faith in a
better home and greater happiness be-
yond.
We shall reach the summer land,
Some sweet day by and by;
We shall press the golden strand,
Some sweet day.
o, the loved ones watching there
By the tree of life so fair
Till we come, their joy to share,
Some sweet day. by and by.
o, these parting scenes will end by and by
We shall gather friend with friend,
When the mists and clouds have flown.
Some sweet day, some sweet day"