Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1888-12-13
WEST RANDOLPH.
a. J. Curtis is building new barn.

week.
Mrs. Newcomb of Bethel is visiting
in town.
Frank Griswold of Barre was in town
| Monday.
Elias Wheeler has moved here from
Barnard.
t Mrs. Geo. Dumas was in Montpelier
over Sunday.
Salisbury Bros. have been connected
with the telephone.
Maud 1hayer Of Newport is in attend
ance at the Graded School.
Birney Pratt has been on the sick list,
threatened with rheumatic fever.
n. j. Whitehill was called to Ryegate
last week by the death of his brother.
Rev. Mr.. Morse supplied the pulpit at
the Christian church very acceptably
last Sunday.
| u. S. Grant Post has secured Col. l..
X. Fuller to deliver the address next
Memorial Day.
Regular meeting of u. 5. Grant Post
next Saturday evening. Inspection. Let
every member be present.
Arthur Pratt has registered for the
graduating course in the Bryant ana
Stratton Business College, Buffalo, MY.
We are glad to see Martin Washburne
again in town after years soiourn in
Alaska. He is looking and feeling first
class.
S. II. Brooks has purchased the two
large lots between l.. g. 1ilson's and ID.
c. Woodlands and will build nice house
thereon next year.
II. b, Wall, brother of VIM. b. Wall
of this place, was elected, Tuesday,
mayor of Keene. n. H., although 1t is Il
republican city. The Wall boys are all
popular and all "get there"
News was received from Narrows,
Florida, last Friday, of the safe arrival
at that place of III. Il. Clifford and fam
lily. All were well at that time and their |
daughter, Miss Nettie, met them there,
so the report that she was dead could |
not have been true.
The concert by the Louise Baldwin
Powers Co. Friday night was well at
tended, although not as many from
out of town were present as at the Mu-
Slii NonNtibs u SdNt SNhNidl ShNislaN-
ton, some parts being better than last
year and some most inferior.
When Mr.. Wulf Fries sent in his solos
for the programme he was not aware
that they were to be performed here, and
felt deeply grieved that he selected the
same ones he gave here one year ago,
but learned his error too late to have
them changed, as he brought no other
piano Accomplishments.
There was a big contest at the Glass
Blowers last week voting for the belle
of the village. When the vote was
counted Miss Alice Edison, the popular
operator had decided MAORI
ty, with Myrtle Walbridge and Alice
Hastings next. f, III. Joslyn was voted
the handsomest gentleman present.
The 35th annual communication of
Phoenix Lodge, No. Is f. and \. NJ. will
be held in Masonic hall Tuesday, Dec.
IS, at =. NJ. All members are request
ed to be present. In the evening, COM
at o'clock, the officers will be
and an address delivered by the
NJ. w. Grand Master, Alfred A. Hall of
ST. Adams. All are cordially invited. ,
Corporal Tanner lectured in Rutland
one year ago. The committee write :
Corporal Tanner drew the largest au-
iience of the season, the opera house
being packed to its utmost capacity. He {
gave us a r0using good lecture with 4
good clear, hearty ring to it. The au-
Hence was held spcllbound for one hour !
and fifty minutes. although about seven
hundred people claimed it was not one
lalf as long as that The Rutland peo- a
pie were so delighted with the Corporal
hat he is recalled this season and speaks
Igan in Rutland the evening previous to
MS coming lecture in West Randolph. !.
lhe committee has hundreds of tcsti-
nOnials but rs the one from Rutland is a
specimen of all it Is deemed unnecessary !;
o use space in quoting more. Remem- J!
Der, Thursday evening, Dec. 20th. Adj
mission % cents with no extra charge i,
or reserved seats. Secure your seats =
It Bass or you will probably have to
tand
The fourth entertainment in the Citi- +
ems Lecture Course will be Corporal
tanners celebrated lecture ON ''Soid Ter
.ife-Grave and Gay" on Thursday 4
vening, Dee. Goth. Admission - cents. o
md no extra charge for reserved seats,
i Bass. Corporal Tanner participated =.
n che Peninsula campaign, and the bat !,
les of Williamsburg. Fair Oaks. the =
iege of \ orktown, the seven days fight
letore Richmond, at Malvern Hill. ut al
Narrenton, Bristow Station and Ma a
iassas junction. At the second battle of
iull Run, during "A terrific Smelling from
he enemy, a fragment from "A bursting oi
hell completely severed the Corporal : !.
light leg at the ankle, and shattered the y
eft so badly as to make amputaton nee
ssary. Carried from the field, he lost oi
Consciousness. and on recovering found b.
hat the surgeon had amputafed both t.
egs four inches below the knees. The
'orporal's comrades were forced to leave -
i'm at farm house, where the rebels |
Don made him prisoner. Paroled af- ~
81 ten days, he was taken TO Fairfax ~
seminary Hospital. Then commenced VI
is long struggle for lite, but good
constitution and a determination to live q
onquered. After treatment in the hos Sc
ital aud recuperation at his old home h,