Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-02-23
AVERAGE CIRCULATION PER WEEK
IN 1892 : 3,948.
West Randolph Locals.

Mrs. :. E. Briggs visited in Hartford
recently.
Hon. J. w. Hobart and wife were here
from st Adams Thursday
Remember that February oath is the
date of the Beedle concert.
Mrs. Joseph Ramo died Thursday night
at the home of her son-in-law, Joseph A.
Wells.
Mrs. A. B. Baldwin and son from Green
field, Mass, have been visiting Selva Hol-
man.
Miss Lena Spaulding, who is at home on
a short vacation, spent Sunday, the 18th,
with her sister, in Barre.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll H. Granger OF Bar
re arrived the 18th and spent the past week
with their many friends here.
Friday, Feb. 18th, was the worlds w. G.
T. U. day, and in many places it was
observed with appropriate exercises.
No one should fail to hear Beedle's or
chestra Friday evening. This concert
promises to be the greatest musical treat
of the season.
The stock train now leaves this station
about an hour earlier than formerly,
ana those sending stock to market will do
well to keep this fact in mind.
G. Il. Sprout of Boston, superintendent
bian Fair Excursion Co., was in town Sat
urday looking for some one to take the
agency for Orange County.
At the competitive speaking in the
| Grammar School Friday afternoon, Genie
! Weeks ranked first, Fred Bass, second, and
Lou Dupuis received honorable mention.
| Rev. Seward Robson, Mrs. w. T.. hanson
and Mrs. W. b. Wall acted as judges.
The exercises reflected great credit on
both teacher and pupils.
Denison investors have received news
that the attempt to put the land company
| into the hands OF a receiver has failed.
The old board Of directors, with B. j. Der
by, a former postmaster of Burlington, as
president, has been reelected. A similar
result was obtained at the annual meeting
of the Cotton Manufacturing Co., and
those interested in appointing receiver
were turned out.
Eleven years ago M. e. Chadwick sold
his horse and, having no further use for
them, laid away in box the sponge, : urry-
combs, etc, and there they remained UNI
touched until the other day when, having
bought another horse, he thought that he
would use the sponge but, on taking 1t
/ from the box, he found that it had turned
to stone. "Here," as the negro preacher
said, sis chance TO splain."
An act of great importance, passed by
the late legislature, appears to have escap-
ed general public attention. Suitable fire
escapes must be provided in hotels OF more
| than two stories in height, in public halls
or places of amusement of more than one
story in height, and in all buildings more
than two stories in height where help is
employed. The owner, keeper or lessee
who does not comply with the provisions
OF this act by May LIST is liable to fine of
not less than S25 nor more than S400.
An old copy OF the Essex County Herald
came to hand the other day, containing
the following complimentary notice OF
Randolph boy:
"Rev. George o. Howe, the pastor of the
NJ. Il. church, distributed a lot of hand
some and appropriate New Years cards
among his friends early the present week,
and all who received them will hope that
the good wishes SO pleasantly extended
may be abuDdantly showered upon him
and his wife. The Herald certainly hopes
sou
The Montpelier Argus has the following
item in its West Randolph correspond
ence: "Elmer Ford, the young man who
was arrested down near Bellows Falls last
week for stealing a team at South Royal
ton and taking with him another mans
wife and was lodged in Woodstock Jail,
was wellknown in West Randolph, hav
ing formerly lived in town. The woman
who went with him was formerly a Miss
Palmer of Randolph and is remembered as
not over brilliant young person. Ford
is the fellow to whom some of the West
Randolph boys administered a coat OF tar
and feathers about year ago."
The New York Press of Feb. IS contain
ed an account OF a fire in an apartment
house below Delmonico's. In this article
it was represented that Mr.. and Mrs. G.
II. Bass, who occupied a double fiat facing
Broadway, were carried down ladders, |
from the third floor, by the firemen. Their |
escape by way Of the stairs was cut off, |
and they stood at the windows until lad |
ders we're raised to them. This building |
and the one next to it were occupied by |
seventy people all of whom escaped though |
at first 1t was thought that some of them
must perish.
We have never seen such a genuine
Western blizzard in Vermont as we were |
treated to on Sunday night and Monday. |
About four inches OF light snow fell and,
with wind blowing at the rate OF so miles
an hour, the way it flew and was piled in I
to drifts was caution. As we go to press,
it is showing hard, and it only needs
wind to make still worse blockade.
Strange as it may seem, the storm and
wind were worse south than at the north
The trains from the north were but a lit
tie late, while those from the south were
from three to five hours late, the delay
being on the MASSACHUSETTS, and New
roads. The storm was still
worse in New York and in the Middle
States; for more snow fell in those places.
Last Thursday evening at the High
School room the Senior Exercise took
place, and the following interesting pro-
gram was rendered:
Instrumental Music, Bertha Hayward.
Art of Conversation" Edith Abbott.
'Attila," Loren Mosher.
Monuments of Antiquity"
Cora Kennedy. 4
Comparison of Whittier and Tennyson,"
Jennie Wadleigh.
song, Louise Chase.
wonders of the New World
WHY'S Hodges.
Ella Cushman
'Chance," Ernest Lewis.
Literature IN the Home"
Bertha Hayward.
song, Loren Mosher.
Vermont Heroes" George Mason.
Early Customs of New England"
Harriet Lewis.