The Press., 1912-01-24
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U. J. Bundy has sold his farm ana property at Tray Hollow, and moved with hIs family to Oswego, N. Y.
 A petition has been circulated and signed by friends of J. P. Herlihy, and presented to Gov. Foss, asking for the appointment of associate judge of the Palmer district court. It is rumored that another Monson man also has lines out for the same ap- pointment.
 Mrs. Mary G. Boden. 95, widow of Martin Sedgwick and the oldest resi- dent in town, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Edward Cushman, on Main street last Friday night, Jan. 12, at 9 80 o'clock Mrs Sedgwick was born in Palmer Nov. 8, 1916 and lived there till her marriage to Mir. Ssdgwick, March 20, 1889, when she moved to Belchertown. where she spent the greater part of her life. Since the death of her husband she has made her home with Mrs. Oush- man, where she has received the most devoted care and attention and been surrounded with every comfort pos sible, She leaves one son, Homer G. of Athol, and three daughters, Mrs. James A. Jones of Athol, Mrs. Ed. ward D. Cushman and Mrs. Ruins Fay of Monson. The funeral, which was private, was held Monday a. m. at II o'clock at the home of Edward D Cushmau, Rev. G. A. Andrews officiating, and the burial took place in South Belchertown in the family lot.
 To those who in former years knew him, the passing of Wm. H, Hold ridge, aged 79, at his home on East hill will bring the thought of an honest, upright man. always active and busy until compelled by i'll health and invalidism to lay aside the duties and cares so willingly borne. For nearly 20 years his life has been one of great suffering and increasing help lessness, but although shut in from the outside world and its activities in which for so long he had been inter etted and bearing much physical pain, he has been patient, gentle and un complaining through all his affiic' tions. William Henry Holdridge wal born in Williamstown January go 1884, and spent hisachool days there
 his mother at that time keeping [ small inn at the east portal of thu
 Hoosao tunnel, which was especially patronized at that day by traveler
 going over the mountain. When 1'
 years old he went to Saratoga Springs
 N. Y, to learn the painters trade
 coming to Monson three years later t
 complete it, and with the exception
 of about four years, when he live' in Palmer, Wales and Springfield, h had spent the last 60 years as resi- dent of Monson. When in Springfiel
 he worked for awhile in the B. & A
 car shops painting and finishing car and also helped paint the engine, "Ol Gray lcck, (which ran between Spring
 field and Boston in the old wood burn
 ing days Many in this vicinity re member that old engine, it being wha they called an t'inside worker" familiar type of that day. In 1s5'
 he married Miss Charlotte Parker o Brimfield, who, with three sons. Will bur H., George L. and Orillus P. o Monson, survive him, the only daugh
 ter having died when very young When the civil war broke out he wa , very anxious to go, but was unable , pass the physical examination on ac , count of a slight lameness, caused b } fall received several years previou . while painting the North Monso
 mill. He, with the late Erasmu Gates, were at work near the top (
 the building, when the staging gay
 way and both fell to the rocks bslow seriously injured, MT, Gates breakin
 both legs near the ankle and MT. HoI
 dridge one, beside receiving othe
 SC were injuries. From the effects (
 this fall neither MT. Gates or Mi . Holdridge ever fully recovered MT
 Holdridge. was @ fine workman an . there. are at present many samples his work in the best houses of tn l. town. AS long as the old finn of Mel rick. 6 Fay were in business he nearl always locked after their building doing all that was required in his lir . of work. He was a member of tt Methodist church for many years, an
 when a mem bsr of the same church 1
 Wales he was also superintendent (
 the Sunday school. Besides his in
 mediate family 8 sister, Mrs. Mil Burbank of Warren, and brothei
 George F. of Brimfield, survive M
 Holdridge, and there are also fiN grandchildren and one great.grant
 child. Owing to the illness of h
 widow, who for SO many years hi
 been his faithful and constant attend ant. the funeral was Saturday afte noon at1. 80 at the home. Rev. ". Mcdonnell lof the Methodist ohurc conducted the service. The burii i was in the Mo-. cemetery.