News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-09-06
MORRISVILLE


ing to MIR. and Mrs. William Stephen.
Wilfred Boucher went Thursday t.
Montpelier to resume his school work.
Mrs. c. l.. Brown went to Montrea
Tuesday morning for few days visit.
Miss Emily Best went Saturday te
Waterville, where she has employment.
Mrs. Lizzie Gle aud daughter, Miss
Alice Gle, left Saturday evening for Chi
cago.
Clarence and Frank Pitman, OF Cam
bridge were guests last week of friends ip
town.
Lyman Woodwork of Richford, a for
mer resident, has been visiting relatives
in town the past week.
Mrs. Gertrude Hamlet OF Montpelier
came last week for stay at the home oil
Mr.. and Mrs. E. G. Foss.
Miss Bertha Terrill and Mrs. Lucy
Grant, who have passed the summer at
Princes Point, Yarmouth, Me-, returned
last week.
Mrs. H. @. Allen. Mrs. L. B. Allen,
Master John Teid Allen OF st. Adams
and Mrs. G. B. Greene of Morris vile
were visitors here recently.
George w. Cree died at his home in
Lyndonville last Saturday. Mr.. Cree
was well-known in this section, having
for years been identified the management
of the St. ]. and L. c. railroad as assist
ant superintendent.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. W. Spaulding of
Montpelier are guests at the home of
Mrs. Spauldng's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
A. A. Niles. Mr. Spaulding is taking his
annual vacation from his duties In the
employ of the New England Telephone
Co.
Mr.. and Mrs, Fred Bemis and Mr. and
Mrs. L. r. Bemis of North Abingdon,
Mass. are guests in town this week,
making the trip by automobile. The
former couple are guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
E. c. Page, and the latter with Mrs. l..
R. Bemis' father and sister, D. ". Dur
gin and Miss Bertha Durgin. They were
accompanied here by Miss Durgin, who
visited at North Abingdon, while on
vacation from her duties in the Citizens
Telephone office.
Death of Mrs. H. j. Edmunds
Mrs. Homer ]. Edmunds died at her
home on Congress Sunday afternoon at
four o'clock, folio wing long period of
! i'll health. She had only been confined to
her bed since three weeks ago last Fri
dav, but had failed quite rapidly since
spring. A year ago last March Mrs. Ed.
munds received treatment at the Mary
Fletcher hospital and her health was
improved for time but she was obliged
to 60 to Burlington again last fall for
treatment, but her condition had not i'm
proved from that time Death was due
to pernicious anemia.
Edith Marguerite Hartwell was born
in Freleighsburg, P. O., Nov. %, 1867,
one of two children of George and Mar
guerite Freeman Hartwell. She spent
her childhood days in Montpelier aud in
early life moved to Lowell, VT. Her edu-
cation was obtained in the public schools
of Lowell and at Peoples Academy.
After completing her school days, she
was very successful teacher and taught
80 terms in Morristown, Lowell and
Troy. On Sept 8, 1894, she was united
in marriage to Mr. Edmunds and their
married life with the exception of short
residence in Lowell and Hardwick has
been spent in this place. She is survived
by her husband and two daughters.
Thelma and Faith; a sister, Mrs. E. F.
Clark of West6eld, who has been at the
Edmunds home since last Friday. STEP
father, c. R. Durivage and an adopted
brother, M. c. Durivage of Lowell.
The funeral was held Tuesday after
noon at one o'clock from the home, Rev.
w. T. Best of the Methodist Episcopal
church officiating, with interment in
Pleasant View cemetery. The bearers
were Nd. c. Durivage, E. F. Clark, G. E.
Smith and T. B. Ellis. The services were
largely attended and the floral tribute
was unusually large and besides MANY
offerings from friends and neighbors, in
cluded many beautiful set pieces from the
various social organizations and the
Methodist church. The different organ
izations were well represented, ]. M.
Warner w. r. c. and the Camp Fire
Girle attending in body.
Mrs. Edmunds was a woman of fine
intellect and although she had been in
poor health for a mum Der of years, had
always taken an active interest in the
sociallife of the community. She will be
greatly missed, not only in the home,
but in the various societies, where she
was always a willing worker as long as
her health would permit. She was
member of the Methodist church, and of
the Delta Alpha class, Lamoille Lodge N
Z. O. p, Lamoille Grange. w X. c. and