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    SILAS GRIFFITH IN MEMORIAM

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    ​Friday, July 31, 1903
    Southern Vermont Mirror

    Absorbed in his business, oppressed by its care,
    He was seized by disease, and sank from it there;
    And being possessed by an unyielding will,
    He sought his physicians—it baffled their
    The best of trained nurses lie sought to obtain,
    Yet, do what they would, their efforts were vain;
    His unyielding nature, that failure would spurn,
    In a far distant land would seek health’s return.
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    Hot Old Sport

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    ​Hon. S. L. Griffith of Danby, Vt., who is making a tour in the East., is evidently a fish and game leaguer. He has cabled that he has played and won at Monte Carlo and his latest is that he has bathed in the river Jordan and the Dead sea. Next we will hear that he has played a game of bric-a-brac with Edward V two eyes.
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    SENATOR GRIFFITH HAS FACILITIES FOR HATCHING 7,000,000 TROUT EGGS.

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    November 7, 1898.

    A Remarkable Industry Located In Danby When the Contemplated Plans Are Carried Out 15 Tons of Trout Per Year Can be Raised—Legislative Visitors.

    Lake Griffith, Mt. Tabor, Vt., Nov. 6.— In the virgin forest is not a place where one would naturally look for lawmakers out the ‘woods here are full of them to-day. Senator Griffith had invited a party of senators, representatives and friends to visit his fish hatcheries and spend Sunday at Lake Griffith about 1500 feet above the station at Mt. Tabor, where the party landed and they are here having one of the best times on record.
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    SILAS GRIFFITH FUNERAL ANNOUNCEMENT

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    ​GRIFFITH—At Palm Hill Ranch San Diego county, July 21st, 1901, Silas L. Griffith, a native of Vermont, aged 66.

    Friends are invited to attend the funeral services at Johnson & Connell’s chapel D and Seventh streets, at 2:30 o’clock p.m. today. Interment at Danby, Vermont.
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    GRIFFITH MILL BURNED DOWN

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    ​S. L. Griffith’s new mill, known as the Tarbell mill, was burned to the ground Tuesday afternoon, together with all the machinery, consisting of a 100 horsepower engine and boiler, a Chase sawmill complete, one self-feed saw, four Baxter-Whitney turning lathes, full set clapboard machinery, 150,000 feet clap-boards, large lot of turned chair stock and other sawed hard and soft wood lumber piled near and in the mill. Loss from $10,000 to $12,000. No insurance.