Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-07-20
A ball Friday night is in contemplation

day.
A party of nine picnicked at Brsintre'
Branch, Friday.
A daughter was born July LIST to Mr.
and Mrs. VIM. o. Snow.
Louis Atwood is spending his vacation
in the village of Waitstield.
Miss Nellie Wyman is spending a part
of her vacation in st. Adams.
Miss Maud Haskins has finished heI
work in Barre and is now at home.
Mr.. Arthur Stone officiated in the Epis-
copal church at Hanover, \. H., last sun
| day.
Miss Mabel Smith joins the campers at
Caspian Lake, Greensboro, sometime this
week.
| Sunday, the sacrament OF baptism was
administered in s.. Johns church to SIX
persons.
Miss Belle Butler, student OF the John
son Normal school, visited Miss Alice Ho-
! bart last week.
F. B. Thomas, DR.. G. P. Morris and
Harold Thompson are whipping the trout
streams OF Milton.
Strawberries and cream are now only
| pleasant memories, but blueberries are
/ found in the market.
| The Silver Cross Circle of the King
Daug hcers will meet with Mrs. Draper on
Tuesday, July 18th, at 4. p. m.
| Mrs. Sherwin Flint of Burlington has
been spending several days with her par
ents, MIR. and Mrs. John Prince.
Mrs. j. A. X. Corwin and daughter,
Miss Flora, of Chelsea were guests at the
home of Rev. II. N. Roberts during the
w. c. T. Y. convention.
Another shower OF new paint. This
time it visited the residence oil Mrs. Hast
/ ings on Summer street and that OF Ernest
| Fish on Prospect avenue.
The c. f. society and ladies of the
Christian church will have sale and sup
per about the middle OF August. The ex-
act date will be given later.
W. j. Lamb, honey dealer OF Somer-
vile, Mass, with his wife, arrived the
18th. Mr.. and Mrs. Lamb are at present
with her brother, MIR. Chas Vinton.
| A five-year- boy of this place, who
was very favorably impressed with the
exercises of the Fourth, has suggested
naming his baby sister "Torpedo."
! Miss Mabel Guynan OF the Herald staff
Northampton, Mass, and Miss Sarah
Griswold of Brattleboro were the guests OF
Mrs. Frank Griswold during last week.
Allan and Leon Eddy, the young sons
! OF Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Eddy, visited their
grandmother in Williston and a number
of small cousins in Essex and Underhill
| the past week.
Rev. II. A. Spencer, who is connected
With the financial management of the
| Vermont Methodist Seminary at Montpe-
lier, visited this place-a former pastoral
charge-the 18th.
Miss Alice X. Colburn, at one time a
member of the HERALD composing staff
/ hnf " n has hapn for a. Qf l.
cord, n. H., was the guest of Mrs. Geo.
Temple, Thursday.
Miss Fannie G.. Ross is taking a week s
vacation at her home in Vergennes, and
A. +. Brough of Winooski is performing
the duties OF telegraph operator at the
station, during her absence.
DR.. +. p. Stimson, now Of Tiverton, h.
l., lately met with quite an accident. His
horse ran away, ana the doctor, who was
thrown from he carriage, reports himself
as"laid up with broken leg"
The library books which were sent away
some time ago to be rebound have at last
been received from the bindery in Mont
pelier and are being numbered and placed
upon the shelves as rapidly as possible.
Friday, j. A. Gardner OF st. Paul, Mimi,
Joined his wife and small daughter, who
have been spending some time in West
Randolph, and Monday, the entire family
started on trip to Montpelier, Marsh
field and Woodsville.
Mr.. and Mrs. ID. Mackenzie of New
London, Conn, were at w. b. Wallis over
Sunday. Mr.. Mackenzie is superintend-
ent Of the New London division of the
Central Vermont railroad and also OF
the New London boats.
There was a special meeting of U. S.
Grant Post q. A. r., Saturday evening,
~. ~
previously resigned his position as com
mander, Geo.W. Flagg OF Braintree was
elected to serve in his stead.
July 10, the commissioner Of pensions
sent out preliminary papers for the APP
pointment of surgeons ON the boards of
pension examiners in Vermont. Those
for West Randolph are Drs. c. l.. Stew
art, V. {. Goodrich of Brooktield and ID.
w. Clough of Bethel.
Quite an article on Caspian Lake and its
camps appeared in one OF the exchanges
last week, and this description of that
pleasant resort, where so many West Ran
dolph people take their summers outing,
was given: every season the natural
beauties and attractions of the lake and
its shores become more widely noted and
admired, and this year brings season Wis
itors from several different States. The
cottages built in former seasons and their
SurrOu0Ol0BS nave DtSH improved ana
made more attractive and two new ones
have been built this year. The cottages
above the village on the west shore now
come in order as follows: Brush & Cur
tbs, o. B. Hall, Hardwick: A. G. a. j. ID.
Wheeler, West Randolph; Walter Pierce,
B. p. White and Albert George, East Call
ais; N j. Whitehill and Salisbury Broth
ers, West Randolph; w. Ii. Laird, White
River Junction; b. {. Chase, Hardwick; n. |
Kinney, Craftsbury. Two of these cot
tages, those of Messrs. Laird and Chase. |
have been erected this season, and that If /
the Messrs. Wheeler has been largely add !
ed to and improved. All except the two
first named form little village by them
selves in the thick cedar forests on the |
shore, and for excellence of location and |
it is perfection perfected I
The lake is well filled with fish, and good /
Ones are now taken every day; and as long
as the present condition can be maintain I
ed and the trout protected in the close
season, Caspian Lake will increase in no.
-oriety as the very best public trout wa
er in Vermont, if not in New England"