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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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    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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    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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    S.L. GRIFFITH FUNERAL VERY LARGE ATTENDANCE AT SERVICES

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    IN OUR OWN STATE.
    S. L. GRIFFITH’S FUNERAL AT DANBY.
    Very Large Attendance at Services.
    MANY UNABLE TO GET INTO THE CHURCH.
    [Special to the Herald.]

    DANBY, Aug 4.—The funeral of Silas L. Griffith of Danby, who died Tuesday, July 21, at San Diego, Cal., was held at the Congregational church here this afternoon at 2 o’clock. The church could not begin to hold those who wished to attend the funeral.
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    MISS ELEANOR W. TIEL

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    ​John B. Stearns has returned from Philadelphia, to which city he accompanied the body of Miss Eleanor W. Tiel, sister of Mrs. Katherine Griffith of Danby, who died Tuesday.
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    IN APPRECIATION OF REVEREND WILLIAM A. MCINTIRE

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    Joyce Kilmers poem, “Trees,” and a bronze marker was then placed before a beautiful young tree planted on the lawn last spring. The inscription reads. “In appreciation of the 25 years of the pastorate of Rev. William A. McIntire. A bouquet of flowers was presented to the pastor’s wife and at the close of the exercises members of the congregation went to the “Cascades” where they ate dinner together.