Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-04-14
WilllamstoWn Home News.

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Mrs.Dan Bean who is very low with
a cancer, is gradually declining.
| n. r. Farnham says he owns COW
that yields IA Of a pound Of butter
from Ii of gallon OF milk. Pretty
greasy milk that, Newell.
Henry Brashaw at the west part Of
the town got himself two dollar over
coat but it was too warm for him and
he has gone to Rutland to cool off.
Quite a good business is done at
Smiths meat market and the amount
sold last Friday and Saturday footed
up s52.35.
ii. A. Thurlow made his last BUSH
ness "trip through here last week. He
is genial fellow but we didn't sample
his cigars though.
! Surface water was very high last Sun
day and gained a strong hold in the
highways in several places, and the
section men were busy all day turning
the water off the track, and in places
the rails were immersed to consider
able extent.
l.. D.Gale says be has quite guam
tity Of those ''Ha.binger' potatoes
from G. w. p. Gerard Of Carbon,
Aroostook County, Me-, the famous
potato growing land of New England.
Jim Cram reports that David Kin
uey sawed with common buck-saw
p running cords of limb wood for
him il 80 hours, with the help of one
man ten hours. A very good record,
we think.
O. S. Walker was thrown from his
carriage on his return home from this
village last Monday evening. The
horse was frightened by the racket Of
barrel in the wagon. DIR. Watson was
summoned but no serious injuries
were received.
Mrs. NJ. d. Flint is quite i'll with
pleurisy; Mrs. Chester Flint's gain is
very slow Mrs. q. NJ. Carpenter is
quite feeble at this writing Finaudo
Davenport was out of doors last Satur-
day for the first time in two months
and all that keeps Mrs. Davenport up
is her fortitude. They have both been
feeble all winter.
Last Wednesday week the "Ladies'
Society" of the NJ. +. church met in
the vestry for social and to finish the
work on very nice quilt which they
had presented the pastors wife as a tok-
en- of their esteem. The quilt is a beau
tiful article containing 976 pieces Of the
pattern known as ''crazy work"of silk
and velvet deliberately embroidered |
with silk, in an almost innumerabIe
variety ofstitches.
1t was an entirely new experience in
the life of little fve-year-old girl Of
our village. She had never witnessed
a wedding end had not an inkling of
The coming marriage-the first in the
of her sisters, until tine
Eve of the event. After the conclusion
# the ceremony, and TIE congratula-
DRY hand-shaking, the officiating min
ster took the little Miss on his lap and
lsked her what she thought of the af-
air. She will, doubtless, hardly ever
n her life take a "cheaper" view Of
than she did then, as she Ie-
lied, 81 think it lisa pity silly per-
!"
Some one recalls a remark Of the
witty wife of one of our farmers of
ONE years ago. 1t may be worth re-
eating for a principle it contains, that
as much wider application than
imply to the case in hand. One of
he products of her husbands farm
1as honey, and this housewife strong |
= suspected its power to attract the /.
overs of ''loaves and fishes" TO her
ONE, as visitors. They who knew
er, could easily imagine the smile on
er lips aud the fire in her black eyes,
5 she divulged this governing princi-
lie of conduct, viz ''If people come
D see me, they get honey. If they
ONE to get honey they see me !"