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Show 'passing of miss m. catherine sm1ths0n Was a Resident of Milford for Fifty Years Dies in Portland, Oregon Miss M. Cathrine Smithson passed away Friday, July 11, at the home of her sister Mrs. B. E. Palmer in Portland, Port-land, Oregon. Mass Smithson had been a resident of Milford for about fifty years, and came here with her father and mother, moth-er, sisters and brothers, when there was nothing hardly to mark Milford as a city. The old smelter and the ' Williams House were the only buildings build-ings in evidence worth while, and the home the Smdthsons built after they reached here. That building was torn down and they then erected the building build-ing now owned by Ed. Peterson. Miss Smlithson was a pioneer, not alone in helping to build up and improve im-prove Milford, but a pioneer and leader lead-er to help bless and improve mankind. She was always in hearty accord wsh every civic enterprise and improvement improve-ment and helped out financially and morally. Her daily prayers were for the good of all mankind, and she always al-ways trusted in a higher power to adjust ad-just and remedy all seeming obstacles. When called upon in sickness or trouble, she went miles and miles in all kinds of weather and surmounted any and every obstacle to reach the one in need of her help and assistance. The old saying "to live in hearts we leave behind, is not to die," is very true of Catherine Smithson. She will ever live in the memory of Milford's people. The erection of a monument is superfluous: her memory will last. Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, ripen-ing, the swelling of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. j Many hundreds of people will read this with tears but also with a thought and expression that it was a blessing to them to have known her and to have been with her. Her deeds still live with such renown as time will ne'er decry. |