The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-05-05
NEWBURY.
Friday Morning, May 5, 1929.

OF Mrs Gunnell IdIller, william IL
Atkinson.
The scribe omitted a most interest
ing item last week, and that was the
arrival of little Miss Florence Elsye
Sophia Human, only daughter of Mr.
and Mrs Harry Human. This most
welcome addition to a family of four
lusty boys was more than cordially
received, and may we be allowed to
express our best wishes in the words
of our late lamented friend Rip Van
Wrinkle, "May she live long and pros
per-"
The marriage of Miss Grace Bay
ley Wallace and Mr. William Lloyd
Laing took place Saturday morning,
Apr. 20, at the home of the bride, the
officiating clergyman being the Rev.
Henry S Ives. Only the immediate
friends of the happy pair were pres
ent. Mr. and Mrs Laing left on the
afternoon train amid shower of
confetti for a short wedding trip,
and on their return home will be
most gladly welcomed by their many
friends who feel that Newbury should
be congratulated in having this
worthy couple make this the place
for their residence. Mr. Laing is
Scotchman (Which our minister's wife
says is credit to him, and by the
way she is Scotch, too), having been
born in Kirkcaldy,' Scotland, and
came to this country at the age OF
five and his long affiliations with
Americans have made him a first
class man in every sense of the word.
Miss Wallace, who is SO we'll and
favorably known that comment re-
garding her is unnecessary, most OF
her life having been spent with u.s.
her record speaks louder than that
of our pen. Mr. Laing has already
made many improvements on the
home place, which was for many
years the home of Mrs Wallace, the
brides mother, having taken away
the fence, and identifying the spaci-
trious and energetic man, with an
artistic temperament and if his life
is spared, this old home, with its
quaint gables and piazzas, which com
mands views of the White and Fran
coma mountains on one side and
on the other an old fashioned garden,
with Mount Pulaski in the back
ground, makes this home an ideal
one. Yes, no wedding for many a
year has met with such universal ap-
proval as that of the wedding of Mr.
and Mrs William Lloyd Laing. We
congratulate them.
Hon. Edwina and Mrs Bayley of
Lexington, Mass. and Mr. and Mrs
Charles H Deming of Montpelier
were in town the last of the week.
guests at the Laing-Wallace wedding.
William H. Atkinson.
The current bears us all along. 1t
stays not for the purposes and hopes
of anyone. In day, and even an
hour a man is as though he had
never been.
Well knowing that the fact is not
so, he yet feels while living. that he
is immortal on the earth. His con-
scious existence so overwhelms him
that he cannot realize that he ever
will be no part of life or conscious
ness. This delusion, like many other
phantoms of life, was broken in the
death of William H Atkinson, and
the many friends who gathered at his
HOIi1c lHuIo quay dl IClllO W Poy AiiAi
the last tribute of respect were con-
fronted with the fact that they too
were mortal.
The subject of this sketch was born
Oct. 10, 1888, the eldest son of Joseph
and Charlotte Atkinson. He was
educated in the public schools and
Newbury Seminary, and before reach
ing mans estate. he had offered his
services and his life to our nation in
order that this government should
not perish, serving in the 18th Yer
mont regiment Company H. On re-
turning from the war he settled
down to the peaceful pursuits of ag-
riculture and on Jan. IL, 1865 was
united in marriage to Ella, daughter
of A Hazen and Marie Lang Hibbard
of Bath, N. H. An ideal home was
established, in which three daugh-
tiers came. who proved joy and
comfort to their parents and who re-
paid them for their watchful care,
their education and the environment
of Christian home with flial love.
All are living, Charlotte, now Mrs
Frank Gunnell of Harworth, N. j.;
Misses Frances and Anna of Newbury.
Mr. Atkinson was a modest, rather
a retiring man, who loved his home
and his occupation, that of a farmer.
His home was beautiful for location,
situated on a bluff which overlooked
his broad acres of meadow land, with
the Connecticut in the distance.
Truly his lines were cast in pleasant
places. Since the death of his wife,
which occurred Nov. Is, 1918, his
home has been presided over by his
two daughters. who have done every
thing in their power to make his de-
clining years happy. This modest
man would shrink from an eulogy, or
havink his virtues extalled, his life
was his eulogy, for nearly century
the name of Atkinson has been as
ISOLATED with the annals of our town.
it is a synonym of good deeds. 1t is
true that which is said of the dead
is a matter of entire indifference to
them. They are beyond censure or
praise. But the memory of the good
men do in their lives should be
sacredly preserved by the living, and
for the 1ivinU An the pIeaSinp as