Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-08-09
Local News.
Guildhall.

UulluHdlIs
As John Moore with Miss Isabel
Russell were returning fro m the S. S.
PICNIC at Beede's grove on Thursday
last, by some means the covered car
rage in which they were riding was
overturned, slightly injuring Miss
Russell, and considerably damaging
the carriage.
Geo. Poole recently received severe
cut on his hand while peeling hemlock
bark, stroke with an ak delivered
with the right hand badly decorating
the thumb and index fingers on the
left hand.
Pic-nics are much in vogue in this
place just at the present time. A
very enjoyable meeting of this
kind which we should have mentioned
in our last number, was successfully
engineered by the school girls of the
village district week before last. AS
usual the table groaned under the
weight of many delicacies, the products
of the skill OF the young misses of the
village, among whom we will mention
Misses Maggie Poole, Clara Joy Cora
Meacham, Annie futile, Mary Hub
bard and others. A similar gathering
was had by the Misses on the N. II.
side of the river on Tuesday of last
week which we are informed was a
very decided success, and on Thurs
day of this week the Congregational
Sunday School held a basket picnic
at Beede's grove which was we'll at
tended and passed of very pleasantly.
The neglect of the managers of the
w. NJ N. H. r. r. to furnish some
kind of station buildings at this place
subjects them to the severest criticisms
of the public, and is, we believe a
source OF direct pecuniary loss to the
company. During the iuclemencv of
the weather of the last winter the pub
lic, having business with the compa-
nv, endured the inconvenience of the
station without murmuring, for the
reason that they supposed that the
company had not had sufficient time
to enable them to complete the neces-
sary buildings at the stations but
since the warm weather came an abun-
dance of time has been had to do what
the managers considered necessary for
the comfort and convenience of their
patrons in this section, yet nothing
has been done toward providing shell
ter for passengers who might wish to
come here TO take the trains. The
growlings Of the travelling public have
been deep if not loud. In this feeling
of disapprobation we most heartily
sympathize. 1t is shame for any
railroad or other company or corpora
ton to so neglect the comfort of the
patrons from whom they must expect
and receive their comfort and support
and that policy on the part of this
road which refuses reasonable out.
lay at this place for the purpose of en-
HANGING the comfort and convenience OF
its patrons, in this vicinity, can but
be injurious to the true interests OF
the railroad in the future. 1t is not
expected nor wished that expensive
buildings should be selected here, but
the place certainly demands some kind
of shelter for persons awaiting the
trains. Our observation has been that
the number of passengers to and from
tins station since the road has beer
in operation, would fully warrant the
erection by the company, of al
least comfortable waiting room, but
the summer has thus far passed and
as yet there is no sign of such an in
tention on the part of the company
The territory which sends its business
to this point, embraces not only the
wider portion of the town of North
cumberland in Coos County, N. II. blu
the towns of Guildhall, CRANKY Maid
stone and Brunswick in Essex Count,
and as the trains make but very short
stops here, and during the winter ar,
quite irregular, we can but advise the
people of those towns to refrain from
coming here to take the trains during
that season of the year unless some
kind of a depot is furnished before
that time, for they may expect t.
await the trains Upon an uusheltered
platform or endure the chagrin of see
ing it pass by leaving them entirely
before they can reach it from the near
est available shelter.