Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-02-05
WATERBURY,.

Miss Agnes McGrath closed sue
cessful term of school at DuXbury
Corners Friday afternoon ana was
presented with a picture by her pu-
pills. Miss McGrath is now taking
Miss Amy Griffth's place in the telc-
phone office.-The Aquinas club is
planning another whist party-Thc
honorary members of the Hypatia club
will entertain the active members in
the chapel of the Congregational
Church Friday evening
Mrs. Henry Edwards Gied Thursday eve
ming at six o'clock of typhoid fever, hav-
ling been taken i'll soon after the death
Of her husband from the same disease
about the middle of December. Mrs. Ed
wards was Miss Harriet Billings and
came here from Providence, 4. l., four
years ago. having been married to Mr..
Edwards two years ago She is survived
| by young child and two sisters, Mol
lie, who has been here with her, and
Annie Of Saskatchewan.
Mrs. w. II. Il. Perry returned yester-
day noon from Rigand, =. @. whore she
has been the guest of her son, Robert,
and of Mr.. and Mrs Charles Perry.-B. r.
Demeritt and Roy w Demeritt are at
timore, Md.-Miss Edith Eastman has
gone to spend some time with her aunt in
Boston
Seldom has the community been SO
shocked as it was to hear yesterday morn
ing that Mrs Helen Eddy Somervile. who
was apparently as we'll as usual Tuesday
afternoon. had died during the night
Mrs Somervlle while at work in the
evening felt dizzy and called for help
Roomers came and summoned her daugh
ter. who was across the street. Medica
assistance was called and Mrs. Somer
VILE was conscious about an hour She
had the stroke Of apopleXy ABOUT eigh
Io'clock and was gone at two in the morn
ing. Helen Melissa Eddy was born IL
Waterbury May 81. 1864, the daughter o
Sanford and Melissa Ayers Eddy Sh'
was educated in the public schools. at thu
Green Mountain Seminary at Waterbury
Center and later developed her natura
artistic bent by study and work in tn
art department at Boston of the New
England Conservatory. on November &c
1855, she was married al her home OF
Little river to Nathan II. Somervillc o
this town. The ceremony as performed
in the same room in which she was born
, Mr. and Mrs. Somervlle began housekeep
ling on the large Somerville farm in DuX
bury. now owned by the state. Her
they resided until Mr. Somervlle's deaf
began to fail and soon after his deaf
, January 30 1899 she made her home wit
her own parents. Mrs. Somerville had
, NATURALLY keen wit and tact, which mad
, her "A favorite in all social circles. Sh
was a member of the ttas club, of tn
Perian club, OF Marquis de LafaYett
, Chapter, d. A. r., of Montpelier. of NJ
- Mansfield Lodge, No. 4j6, n e. o. P. G
Emerald Rebekah Lodge No. %. an
Queen Esther Chapter. No. l. o. T.. 5. ]
- all of these she had held many offices
having been for seven years secretary Q
Emerald Rcbekah Lodge and later film
the more important chairs. Her acquaint
anceship was large and the sorrow occa
: stoned by her death Is widely felt. She
survived by one daughter Miss OLIVE +
Somerville, and one sister, Mrs. Fred I
Atkins, both of this place. The funerf
will be held at her late home Saturda
:. morning at ten O'Clock, the Rev. w. J
Boicourt officiating Burial will be in III
, Eddy family lot in Stowe.--BeCause Of tt
:. death of Mrs Somerville the social affair
to be given by the Hypatia club Frlda
evening are indefinitely postponed.