St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-05-13
LyndOnViIIe
Death of David M. S1sby An Old
Business Man-Mumps Among
The Agricultural Boys

shock of paralysis. He was the son
of Lewis Silsby, a blacksmith at
Lunenburg, where he was born Dec.
5, 1916. He worked with his father
for a few years, and came to Lyndon
vile in 1875 and built livery stable
on Main street, where the Houghton
house now stands. Early in the SOS
he built stable on the site of the
burned Walker Hotel on the corner
Of Main and Depot streets. This was
burned in the comfiagration of 1894
and rebuilt Here he continued in
! business until this site was bought
for the Cobleigh Library in 1905, and
| the stable moved to its present To-
cation on Elm street. Last August
| falling health compelled him to give
up business, and he sold his farm on
Bemis Hill to A. A. Trip, and his
stable to G. w. Thompson. Mr.. Silsby
was a man of great integrity and
sterling character. He had held
many town and public Offices of
\ trust, as constable, collector, lister,
and overseer of the poor. For 80
| years he had been deputy sheriff and
was most successful in that Office,
/ never failing to get the man he was
after and never carrying gun.
In 1884 he married Mrs. Lottie
l
son. Lewis. They have always lived
in their Main street house until the
past winter, which they spent in
Brooklyn, where he purchased
/ house in the Flatbush section. Mr..
! Silsby also leaves four brothers, w.
NJ, of Littleton, N. H.; Mitchell, of
Lunenburg; Elmer, of st. Johnsbury,
and Jerome, of New York, and two
sisters, Mrs. Parker, of Lunenburg,
and Mrs. Frank Warren of Woods
vile, N. H. The funeral services
held on Friday afternoon, conducted
! by the Rev. James Hutchinson
were largely attended and there was
a profusion of floral offerings. All
the business places were closed dur
ing the funeral. Interment was at
Lyndon Center.
There are several cases of mumps
among the Agricultural boys in the
| dormitOry, a number of them quite
severe.
The teachers in Lyndon town dis
trict were pleasantly entertained at
! the Library, Saturday afternoon by
Mrs. Vail, Mrs. John B. Chase and
| Miss Gertrude Newton, who is to
have charge of the Lyndon Garden
class this summer. Gardening in
connection with rural school work
was quite thoroughly discussed. Re
freshments were served and all the
teachers seemed to thoroughly enjoy
the afternoon.
The last meeting of the Music Cir
! Gle for the year was held last Thurs
day evening with Miss Irene Slim
son at Mrs. T.. l.. Wells. The sub
ject of the meeting was "Children's
Music" and Miss Stimson gave an
! excellent paper on the subject. Musi-
cal selections were given by Mrs.
l.. T. Huntley, Miss Sybil Barber, and
others. A leader for the circle dur
| ing the coming year has not yet
| been chosen and a special meeting is
to be called later for this purpose.
A son was born last Friday to
Mr.. and Mrs. Lambert Smith, who
have moved into the tenement
in the Weber house recently
vacated by Clarence Batchelder.
Among recent purchasers of auto
mobiles are Charles Fisher, Charles
Hale, Albert and Everett Ruggles.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. M. Silsby of Lit
| Teton, N H. stopped at H. L. Park
er's last Friday, being called here
by the death of his brother, David
| M. Silsby. Another brother, Mitchell
of Lunenburg, while on his way to
the funeral, received word that his
wife had dropped dead, while about
her work in the kitchen. Mrs. Silsby
had a valvular heart trouble, which
was the cause of this sad fatality.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Brown have
moved from the Gleason house on
South street to the home of Mr..
Browns father, near Bean Pond.
Mrs. Lula Eggleston has sold her
farm, just above Sherburne Lang's
place, to G.. A. Gendron of Newport,
who owns the Graves place adjoin-
ing and will add this land to it. The
buildings are so out of repair they
will probably be torn down.
Edgar L. Cole has sold to his SON
in-law, John B. Cable the two-tene-
ment house on Charles street, known
as the Harvey house. Mr.. Cole will
return to his former home in Grove
ton, N. H. The tenement he vacates
has been rented to Thomas Somers
of Newport.
Elmer B. Bailey of Burlington was
in town last week on business con-
nected with the Home Insurance
company, for which he is special
agent.
Burt U. Wells of West Danville,
former resident here was in town last
week on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Bemis and
daughter, of Portland, Me. have been
| in town recently. Mr.. Bemis was
here on a business trip, and Mrs.
Bemis, who is remembered as Miss
Addie Hubbard, remained for few
days to visit friends and relatives.
Mrs. William Lavely and daugh-
ter, Miss Maud Lavely, spent most of
last week in Boston.
Sherburne Campbell is confined at
home with a severe case of the
mumps.
Mrs. Foster of Newport is stopping
with her son, Grover Foster, for few
days.
H. M. Cole has sold his farm near
the Mt. Hunger schoolhouse to a Mr..
CasweIl.
A quiet wedding took place at St.
Elizabeth's rectory Saturday morn
ing, May 2, when the Rev. G. L.
Pontbriand united in marriage Miss
Marie Antonette La Point and Fred
Wheelock Peasley, both of this place.