Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-03-15

J. D. Denison, Esq, spent Friday il
Woodstock.
Miss May Cross was with friends il
Bethel over Sunday.
Miss Ada Burroughs visited at the home
of her uncle in South Royalton the first
OF the week.
Mrs. Ida NJ Ford has rented the tene.
ment vacated by George Walbridge, on
South Main street.
! George T.. Beard is rusticating in the
1 North Carolina pine woods, and Mrs
Beard is at Bethlehem, Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Churchill of Barre
arrived Saturday and were the guests -oi
4 Mr.. and Mrs. Il. Z. Fish.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Washburn are at
present in San Francisco, where they in
tend to remain until after Easter.
Mrs. L. S. Morian is in the fashionable
city of Boston this week, studying the lat
! est eccentricities in spring and summer
gowns.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIII Allen and little
daughter, Ruby,went Saturday to Canaan,
N. H., to visit Mr.. Aliens brother and
family.
Mrs. L. A. Gibbs, who has been staying
for few days with her sister, Mrs. Terry,
returned to White River Junction on Sat
urday.
At the annual reunion OF the Y. NJ. c.
A. of st. Johnsbury, Prof. A. l.. Hardy
was elected one of tue directors of the as
sociation.
Saturday, Mrs. Penn Strong, returning
to North Pomfret from a visit to Mrs Car
roll Granger, in Barre, stopped here over
one train.
Mrs. A. Z. Kendrick and Miss May re-
turned Friday from a shopping expedi-
ton TO Burlington and visit TO friends
in Winooski.
Miss Fannie Ross was called to Yer
gennes last week by the serious illness of
her sister, who has been in poor health
for some time.
w. H. Jackson, the evangelist, assisted
by Rev A. II. Webb of Moptpelier,is con
Quoting a series Of revival meetings in
Mortified and Gouldsville.
e. E. Spicer and wife drove to Brook
field on Friday and found the traVeling
such as to make them sigh for Darius
Green and his fly in maekipe."
An attractive pamphlet setting forth
the merits of Vermont maple sugar i6 be-
ing issued hy the sugar makers OF this and
other localities.
Ii is understood that the Rood Millinery
store will open this spring AT the "Corner
by the New York Millinery store.
Miss May Bradish, teacher of the End
intermediate department OF the graded
school, has gone to Somerville, Mass, to
be with her parents during the vacation.
c. H. Tewksbury has purchased Ram
bier bicycle hat weighs, all on, including
tool bag and tools, only % pounds, and
be haslthe agency for this popular wheel
here,
Hon, N. L. Boyden went to Boston the
Sth to settle the insurance on the Maple
wood so that the proprietor, Mr.. Thacher
Stone, will be able to rebuild as every one
hopes he will soon do.
G. w. Tatro, who followed his trade OF
carpenter in HARTFORD Conn.,, during tue
winter months, is now at home and has
secured work on the pretty cottage which
is being erected by Mrs. Reed on South
Main street.
Johnnie White went up to the reservoir
Sunday afternoon and caught some lively
grasshoppers, the first crop of the season.
We will wager that the Oldest inha bitants
never heard before of grasshoppers in
Vermont in March.
Saturday, Editor L. P. Thayer attended
a business meeting of the executive COM
mittee of tno Vermont Press association
in Bellows Falls. This meeting was for
InG PURPOSE Ol iildhinB III
the annual summer excursion OF the as
ISOLATION.
In the village, sleighs have been dis
carded and the wheels once more go
butt outside thel city limits, 1t is
still possible to find deep drifts. The
only vehicle really suitable for this time
of year is the aeroplane and that is not
yet on the market.
Miss Flora Bell. and Miss Maud Has
kins. with Mrs. Nathaniel Bond of Barre |
and two ladies from Burlington, are at
tending the millinery openings in Boston. |
On her return from that city, Miss Has !
kIns goes to Barre, where she has proved |
herself so successful milliner, for tae
spring and summer seasons.
A few days ago, Mr.. E.E. Spicer endeav |
ored to pour boiling water from the tea
kettle into another receptacle, but the
kettle slipped and the boiling water |
poured itself into Mr.. Spicer's rig bit slipper
with very injurious effects. He is now |
able to be about town but finds the Co |
lumbar cane presented by his son, quite
useful.
The excellent dinner given by the Kings |
Daughters was very we'll patronized, S35 |
being the amount of the receipts. II is /
never necessary to beat the hedges in |
West Randolph in order to find guests for |
a first class banquet, as the number of |
pubic Suppers ana dinners given tnlS /
winter sufficiently proves. The ladies
cleared about $40, which will lbe devoted /
to charitable work.
Several gallons of new maple syrup have
been bro't into the village, andsugar parties
are quite the order of the day and night.
Friday evening, very fine sugar-age not
observation-disclosures served on snow at the
Cong1 vestries to quite a large party.
from u to p. m, the ladies of
the Methodist church fed the hungry with
new sugar tWebster's best), rolls. pickles,
ioughnUts aud coffee, ana thereby added
% the funds in their treasury the sum
Il about go.
Hyde Park, Mass, had a great fight
over town officers his year, and especially
over the five Belectmen who manage the
Affairs of that town of over 10000 inhabi-
ANTS. The members OF the old board
we're all elected By good rnaiorities, ex-
,eptinE one, who was defeated b. George
Mics, VINO Ril be pleasantly remember
81 by our people as a summer visitor here.
His popularity was pretty strongly attest
"a to By the fact that he not only ran ahead