Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-07-27

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candy table, and about sixty people, in
! GLIDING many from out of town, were pres
ent, despite the frequent showers.
Rev. j. ]. Lewis has been requested to
| repeat his illustrated lecture sThe Passion
Play here again, and will if sufficient
tickets are guaranteed. More than bali
| the required number were secured in for
ty minutes, and as the lecturer has be-
come very popular here, there is but little
doubt that the lecture will be repeated,
there being many here who failed TO be
present at its first presentation, and Others
who wish to hear it agaiR.-Ludlow Trib-
une.
The long talked OF Hook and Ladder
company was organized Friday night, at
the Hose rooms. Twenty four volunteer
members were enrolled and the following
officers were elected: A. j. Huse, foreman;
A. s. Bean, clerk; VIM. Mcintosh, treas
I.urer; Frank Sault, LIST assistant; Frank
| Copeland, I'd assistant; committee on by
laws, VIM. Mcintosh, N. w. McCollon
and A. s. Bean. The next meeting, at
which full attendance is desired, will be
| held Thursday evening, Aug. Sd.
Two neatly bound copies of the consti-
tuition and bylaws of the Republican club
| of the city and OF the Republican COM
mittee of the county of New York, with
list OF the officers, committees and mem
bers, have been received at this office.
John Sabine Smith, prominent Repub-
lican in New York, is president of both
the club and the committee. Mr.Smith was
| born at the Center and is one OF the many
Randolph boys who have won for them
selves honorable positions in their
adopted States.
The West Randolph friends Of Mr.. Har-
! ~ L. Sault, who last year so acceptably
! performed the duties of local reporter for
| The HERALD AND NEWS, viii read with IN
| terest the following clipping, taken from
the Oakoale items in the West Boylston
! Mass. Enterprise of July Goth: "A very
quiet wedding ceremony was performed
/ last Friday evening, the 14th, the contract
/ ing parties being Harry L. Sault OF West
Randolph, VT. and Miss Ida S. Summers
of Lynn, Mass. The ceremony was per-
| formed by Rev. r. Gordon MacKay al his
| residence on Prospect St., West Boylston,
| and reception was given the young peo-
| pie, at the home OF an uncle OF the groom,
Geo. Sault, on North Main ST., by friends
and acquaintance OF this place, Worcester
and West Boylston. Mr.. and Mrs. Sault
| were the recipients Of numerous and cost
/ ly presents. The groom, who has been
| here but short time, has won many
| friends who regret his removal from
town. MIR. Sault has entered the employ
Of Houghton q Richards, steel and iron
dealers OF Boston, and has his home at
Maiden, Mass.
Frank Rogers, who was employed many
years in the carriage shop of w. w. Bean
and five wears ago went to Brattleboro,
where he has worked ever since at his old
trade and at carpentering, attempted 10
commit suicide Monday, the nth. He
tried first to tear his throat open with his
thumb nail and then, about a. M, with
silver fork At breakfast time, he was
given a slice of toast by his attendants and
with the case knife accompanying it, ne
made third attempt to open his throat.
Each time he only cut through the skin a
little, but he was SO violent that it was
thought best to send him to the Brattle-
boro Retreat, and in a short time he be-
gan to improve. His parents have been
visiting here lately, and letter has been
received from Rogers himself, stating
that he is once more clothed in his right
mind and is sleeping better than he has
for years before. II was case OF delirium
tremens. Rogers had been drinking for
some time, and for the last two weeks
quite heavily. He had but Just commence
ed to try the MorrelI liquor cure, and the
Morrell company have offered TO take him
and cure him, after he leaves the asylum,
whether dollar is ever received for il or
not
II $50 tickets are subscribed for
in advance by the people OF this village
and its vicinity, Rev j. J. Lewis will de
liver, in Dubois q Gays hall, four finely
illustrated lectures on the following sub
jects: .The World Renowned Passion
Play OF Oberammergau," as witnessed by
Mr.. Lewis, August 10, 1890; "The Pilgrims
OF Holland, with Glimpses of Life in the
Netherlands" "Venice, the Bride of the
| Adriatic,p city without a horse and
without wheel; and "Side Trip through
the Canadian Rockies, the Wonderland of
| America this last being new lecture.
These lectures will be given Friday even
ings, August is, 25 and Sept. /, 8, and the
prices OF the course tickets will be: unre-
served, 81 90; reserved, 81 5,and single adj
mission, 35c. Nearly 100 brilliant views,
made expressly for Mr.. Lewis by Levy OF
Paris and Black OF Boston, will illustrate
each lecture Mr.. Lewis has many times
/ appeared before the public in this and
| other States and has everywhere won most
favorable mention. The Bellows Falls
| Times, in speaking of the lecture on the
Passion Play OF 0berammergau. given at
Charlestown, ~ H., July 10, says: 'sThere
is poverty OF description in words, to
those who saw the views and heard theel-
oquent and impressive lecture. Its beau
1 ty and pathos as a whole is nothing short
OF miraculous, and the wonderful efficien-
cy of the operator in the presentation OF
the 100 or more views added much to the
pleasure of the audience. All other lee
as the Miracle Play, which is not spe-
cialty but simply one of several wonder
| fully instructive lectures which-carry the
audience, as il by magic, to the scenes rep
resented" 1t would seem as though, in
intellectual West Randolph alone, more
than $50 persons anxious TO listen TO a few
good lectures could be found.
On July Dist, Mr.. Erastus Hebard
reached the 9Srd milestone in his journey
through life, and in the evening thirty or
more of his friends rendered him a little
reception at the home of his son-in- law,
e. NJ. Howard. After the heartiest of
congratulations and good wishes had been
given and received, Rev. W. n. Roberts,
| in behalf OF the company, presented Mr..
Hebard with beautiful gold headed cane
as token of respect and esteem, and
spoke OF the many changes which he man
whose natal day occurred in the year
1900 had lived to see. When Mr.. Hebard
reached the age OF six, people were speak
+, ing in wonder of Robert Fulton and his
steamboat, and the boy of six has lived
to see steam cars and steam ships moving
wit h ~ hat WOuid have seemed then HE