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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-12-27
Daughters of Vermont.

The Boston association of Daugh-
tiers OF Vermont held business meet
ing, followed by largely attended re-
ception at the Nendome, Thursday
afternoon. In the absence OF The
president, Mrs. Oliver Croker Ste
vens, who is in Europe, the vice presi-
dent, Mrs. Albert +. Pillsbury, pre-
sided.
Proposed amendments TO the con-
stitution were discussed and letters OF
acceptance were read from the follow
ing honorary members elected at the
last meeting: Mrs. Mary wilkins.
Mrs. Julia &. II. Dorr of Rutland,
Mrs. Horace Fairbanks of st. Johns
bury, Mrs. ). Gregory Smith of st.
Adams and Mrs. Redfield Proctor of
Proctor. Mrs. Benjamin Sanford
was admitted TO regular membership.
A letter was read from Gov. and Mrs.
Woodbury., accepting the invitation
of the society TO attend the annual re-
ception March 4th. This will be an
evening affair and will fittinglv COM
memorate the day the Green Noun
tain state was admitted to the Union.
At the reception, Mrs. Roger VOL
colt was the guest of honor and re-
ceived with Mrs. Pillsbury. The la
dies who served at the refreshment ia
bleS were Mrs. n. II. Houghton, Mrs.
Philip Warner, Misses Louise Albee
and Ellen Cushman, and the ushers
were Misses Grace Reed, Elizabeth
Phelps Edwards and Miss Althea
Phelps.
Among the guests were Mrs. III. ID.
Hyde, Mrs. stephen Crosby, Mrs. Jo-
siah Preston. Jr.. Mrs. Alfred Hemen-
way, Misses Lula and Ida Niles. Mrs.
Fred Warren, Mrs. John Andrews.
Mrs. Richard Arnold, Mrs. Henry
Nj. Upham. Grace LeBarron. Mrs. b.
Z. Cole, Mrs. George 5. Hall, Miss
Cushman, Mrs. John Reber and Miss
White.
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Democrat oil Democrats.

Aaron Randall of st. Adams died
recently, aged So He was a man
well known for his eccentricities as
well as for his good deeds. He was a
doctor, both of man and beast. and
did great amount of good in his
way.
Several years ago he had his coffin
made, ready TO be used at his death.
and paid for it in gold. He. also
made arrangements about his burial.
selected his bearers, a man to dig his
grave and bury him, and left in the
hands of friend silver dollars to nav
the bearers 81 each, SO to the one who
dug his grave, 81 TO the man who
hauled his body to the cemetery. and
he also paid the man who took charge
Of his burial.
lie left special request that no
prayers or preaching be allowed over
his remains. He was buried in the
suit of clothes in which he was twice
married and which he had had So
years, only wearing them three times
twice at his weddings and once at
the funeral of his son-in-law.
lie was Democrat in politics. He
had his coffin made of pine that grew
on Democrats land and was sawed
at a mill owned by Democrat. and
he selected Democrats to do all that
was done finally to lay him at rest.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-12-27

The agency OF the Equitable Life
and Standard Accident Insurance
Co, Burlington, VT, w. ii. 5. Whit
comb, Mgr, paid policy holders last
week S8,29l.94.
w. S. Streeter is free man. lie
has been tried twice on the charge Of
grand larceny in the first degree for
| his connection with the Northwestern
Guaranty Loan company, the jury at
Minneapolis disagreeing both times.
Streeter is the former ~. Johnsbury
man who induced many people in Cal
edonia county to invest in the North
western company.
The schooner yacht, Gitana, has
been purchased by Percival w. Glenn
ent of Rutland. The Gitana is proba-
bly, one of the best known yachts in
the country and has reputation as a
cruiser second to none. Her cruises
to the West Indies and the Mediter-
ranean, under command of Capt. Ed
ward Sherlock, when the late Commo-
dore VIM. +. Weld of the Eastern
Yacht club was alive, have become
memorable ones. The Gitana is now
at Lawley's, Boston, and il is UNDER
stood will be fitted at once fora SOUTH
ern cruise with Capt b. A. Higgins
of Provincetown, a deep-sea skipper
and navigator, in command. Capt.
Higgins is a brother of A. w. Hig-
gins Of Rutland
Lyndonville people are discussing
the action Of the insurance companies
in charging per cent on all policies
taken out on the new business blocks
built on the burned district, including
the temporary buildings that have
lately been erected, because Of the frail
condition of their fire facilities The
people fail TO understand why the in
surance rates should be so much high
er on these small buildings than they
were on the large business blocks be-
fore the fire aud some of the business |
men have decided TO go without in
surance rather than pay such high |
rates. The insurance men claim that |
this advance in rates is always custo-
mary wherever large fire has taken
place and that during the erection OF
business blocks around these tempo
rary buildings their risks are greatly
so that they are COM
PEELED to ask higher rates in order to
protect their interests.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-12-27

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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-12-27
KNOWLEDGE

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ter than others and enjoy life more, with
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adapting the worlds best products TO
the needs of physical being, will attest
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remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
IN the form most acceptable and pleas
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dispeiling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
It has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys Liver and Bowels without weak.
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in so cent bottles, but it is man
ufAetured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only; whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
ard being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-12-27
willard Held for the Grand Jury.

f. A. Willard, Jr., the former treas
urer of the Wilmington Savings
bank, who, it appears, has been in
Des Moines, Ia, for several weeks
past, returned home to Wilmington.
Dec. l4th. He came voluntarily.
learning that there were threats of
criminal proceedings against him on
charges of embezzlement from the
bank, growing out of the report of
the auditors last summer that they
had found discrepancy of some
=, 900 in his accounts. He had pre-
viously written his friends that he
would come if they really wanted
him, and he still declares, as he has
always done, that he has never taken
dollar wrongfully and that the
whole showing against him will sift
out to be one of errors of bookkeep-
ing. An associated press despatch
from Wilmington states that an Off
Ger was preparing to go after him if
ne hadn't come voluntarily. Willard
was arraigned before Justice G. II.
Parmalee at Wilmington, Saturday.
waived examination and was held in
1000 bail, which f. +. Wheeler fur
nished for appearance at the county
court. He will return to Des Moines.
to resume the business he has estab-
lished there and await the action of
The grand jury, when he will be ready
10 respond.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-12-27
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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-12-27

Mr.. Ira P. Wetmore, a prominent real
estate agent OF San Angelo, Texas, has used
S1nam9erialns collie Cholera and Diarrhea
Remedy in his family for several wears a.
occasion required, and always with per
feet success. He says: 81 find it a perfect
cure for our baby when troubled with coll
&c or oysentery. ] now feel that my ont
NJ Is not complete without bottle Of this
remedy at home or on trip away from
nome" For sale by E.E.Evans & Co., ana
NJ. ]. Sargent & Son.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-12-27

A. Brilliant of Winooski received a
message from Paris, France, recently
stating that his brother had died there
and had left the enormous sum OF
70, oCO, 600 francs to be divided among
the four brothers that survive the de-
ceased.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-07-06
NEW HAVEN.
',che Last of Earth-The Weeks Happen
ines IN Brief

',che Last of Earth-The Weeks Happen
ines IN Brief
Mrs. John Gunderman passed away into
the country from which no traveller returns
on Saturday morning, the 23d, after brief
illness of few days, leaving husband and
seven children (three others had passed on
before), father, a mother, "A brother and a
sister to mourn her loss. The deceased was
a daughter OF Henry and Mary Oakley and
had always resided in New Haven. She was
81 years old at the time Of her death. Friends
and neighbors did all they could to aid the
bereft and grief stricken family. But he!
ooud not bring mother back to the little
ones. The funeral service was held at the
Houck school house at ten O'Clock Sunday
morning. Sermon 10y Elder Wiles. Friends
covered the coffin with flowers and she was
laid to rest in the New Haven cemetery
Lew Wolford is building a new granary and
also putting down drive we'll with a wind
mill attachment. THE New Haven
Sunday school convention will meet at the
Wallace school house on the second Sunday
in July (the sth) There will be short dis
courses by Sunday school workers, papers
and recitations, interspersed with singing
and music. Bat one program came to the
publishing committee, so each school should
some prepared to do its part. Miss Rose
Bollinger, who has been at Lansing the past
few months, is making an extended visit at
her sisters, Mrs. John McMabb Mr..
and Mrs. J Ohm McNabb spent Sunday with a
brother of the latter an Nestaburg.-
%. RasOr intends to start on the road as an
agent for Scattergood of Ithaca on Monday
of this week.-Clarence Stead, our ex-
teacher, called on district No. g. also a few
of his friends. donald b. McLaren has
sent TO Chicago orphans home and adopted
q little girl OF seven. BEss
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-07-06
An Alligator's Revenge for Cruelty

An alligator story which beats the
record comes from Early county Some
negroes were at work i'm turpentine
farm near Damascus cleaning the trash
and straw away from the boxes prepar-
atory to burning off the woods, when
they came across an alligator who had
crawled out during the last warm spell
to put on his new spring suit, but who
was Knocked back into state of dor
nancy by the recent cold snap.
The old fellow was lying there stiff,
hard, motionless, and crusty, and the
negroes decided that they would make
an end of him by burning him up; so
they dipped turpentine out of the boxes
and covered him over entirely with
that inllammable substance, and then
heaped pine straw on top of him and
then poured more turpentine on that.
When the fire began to blaze his alli-
gatorship suddenly awcke from dreams
Of icebergs and boar frosts into what he
supposed was the land Of the perennial
summer where the bad gators go.
Nevertheless instinct was stronger than
intellect and Old Crusty decided that
even though he were in hell, he would
split for pond. He splitted, and
through the pine woods he went leav-
ing long streak of fire. His rapid
flight 30 the pond gave hirn the appear
ance of a gorgeous meteor floating
away, leaving behind it tail of flame.
A minute later (the trail Of fire was a
mile long) the gator was rolling over
and under in the cooling waters of
cypress pond, but the woods were burn
ing up. The festive darkies, who
minute before were waiting and watch
ing in unfeigned glee to see. the gator
burn, were now busy fighting fire.
After long while they succeeded in
putting it out, but ten crops of boxes
had been destroyed.-Atla'1ta CoaStitu-
tom
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-07-06
The Land Of Dams.

The lady was extremely Indignant
when she came into the bird store with
a parrot i'll a cage.
Here, she said angrily, Il want you
to take this vile bird back"
whats the matter with it," asked the
dealer.
at swears."
Il beg your pardon, he said politely,
"but you must he mistaken"
But | know better" she insisted.
@Don't know swearing when hear itp"
81 hope not. madam
That's all right, she retorted. give
got a husband"
But the bird does not swear"
"And | say il does. 1t ends nearly ev-
cry word with damn and | won't have
it,"
The dealers face brighted.
as that alp" he asked.
Tsn't that enough?"
Surely, madam" he explained, "you
forget ! told you the bird was raised in
Holland. detroit Free Press.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-07-06
MIDDLETON

Notes from the South-Personal and
Other Mention.
Miss Grace Everest is spending a short
cline visiting friends about New Haven
sCenter.-Mrs. VIM. Everest, of New
Haven, is visiting her son. f.. F. Everest, of
this place. Miss Rose Naldrett Mrs F..
a. isham, Mrs. Glenn Naldrett, and Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. Daily of this place has gone to
Crystal outing ID. L. Hunter, of North
Shade was in town Monday. MIR. Curtis
was in town Monday looking after the in
terest of the GRATIoT COUNTY JoURNAL.
"a. s. Phillips has hired out to B. Frank
Sweet, of Carson City, to sell drugs.
ii. S. Phillips and j. T. Swigart have Just
FINISHED taking the census OF Fulton town
ship.-The Y. p S. G. f., of this place.
gave an ice cream social last Saturday even
ing and had a good time. Gross receipts
were S63'. Salisbury was
chosen as delegate for the y. p. S. G. h., of
Middleton, TO attend the National conven-
lion at Cleveland Ohio.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-07-06
The Biblical Locust.

you have read about John the Bap-
tist living on locusts and wild honey s"
said Mr. Wiley of Lewiston, who is re-
ceRtly home from Central America
We'll here's locust and he produced
from his pocket a-well a locust II
doesn't hop or jump, and had no SEM
blance of life, because indeed ii was
nothing but a great pod looking like a
huge cranberry-bean pod fully five
inches long and almost as big around as
a banana. 1t had "A deep, mahogany
colored skin of hard consistency. 81
have eaten bushels of them" said Mr..
Wiley. They grow on srees as big as
ems and fall to the grognd when ripe.
Split them open and they contain yell
low substance looking like mustard.
Mixed with water it makes il very deli
cious and nourishing drink that will
sustain life for long time. One of
these pods will make quart of the
drink and everybody uses them They
may not be the locus,s of John the Bap-
list. but | understand that the tree
grows in that land Of the bible. "-Let0-
tstoa Journal
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-07-06
DANGER OF EMBARRASSING.
the Young Man was Induced to Abandon
the business.

An elderly man and young man
were sitting on the ycranda conyersing.
Yes" said the young man, Il am 90
ng into Understanding | am con-
need that there is no business in the
World in which there is more money to
G made. ! have figured on it, and
mink know what ! can do. Why.
ook at the way they increase. In four
u five years i"
MY friend" said the old man, 81
ave had experience in the business. Be
warned; do not embark in it. You
snow not what YOU do"
What" said the young man; shave
you tried ii and failedp"
Il mean to tell you that ! tried it and
ave it up" answered the other II got
.en hens, intending 10 get rich, as YOU
propose doing. | installed them in "A
'oop and awaited returns. But before
hey had laid an egg happened to pick
up a pencil and bit of paper and do
some calculating. At "A low estimate
'aw that each Of my hens could raise
three broods the first summer. Allow
ing for one bad egg in each sitting,
there would be twelve chicks TO each
BROOD. Calling half of them pullets.
this would give six to each brood, or Is
90 each hen for the season, or $50 for
Jhe entire flock. Adding my original
ten, | would have 100 hens at the end of
the first summer. Figuring at the same
ratio, ! saw that | would have 1910 at
The end of the second summer. | was
encouraged, and went on to find that
would have 6S, $50 when the third sum-
mer closed. | sharpened my pencil.
and bent over my paper with feverish
interest. The fourth summer | discOV-
cred, would leave me with 1903. 2lO
likely hens. When the autumn leaves
of the fifth dying summer should swirl
about me | would have n $50 900 caSi-
,ers. Another year of joys and sorrows
my siXth-wOuld find me surrounded
by 40, 45S, $40 live and enterprising
hens. Once again, when the seventh
summer should fade into glorious au-
tumn, | found that matter of 3, 93S.-
III, $50 distinct hens and rooster or
two would be with me in the galinace-
Gus flesh. The inspiring figures for the
eighth year have forgotten, as, like
wise, | have those of the ninth | only
know found that at the end of ten
years / would have more prime hens
than there was space for on the surface
of the globe, counting the arctic re-
gions, and supposing roosts across all
rivers and twenty fowls in each tree. |
was dumfounded But / did not hest
tate. saw what | owed to the human
race. ! seized an axe and hurried to
the coop. My boy, | loved those hens.
but loved humanity more; and led
them to the block like Spartan, and
off their heads. | breathed
more freely when it was all over and
the horrible vision was gone of the
whole earth four feet deep in hens, and
and every blessed one of them cackling.
Young man, do not 90 into the chicken
business; it leads to awful things"
The young man started up. 81 won't.
| did not realize what | was doing
Hdrper'S Hagazine.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-07-06
Love of Jewelry.

The rise of the sentiment of equality
has debarred gentlemen in western Eu-
rope from a general use of ornament
and has induced them even TO declare
the wearing of jewelry by man vul-
gar pretension; but whenever they dare,
that is, whenever usage justiiies the
practice say, when wearing orders or
at fancy-dress ball-they exult in their
bedizenment as much as ever. Make it
etiquette for an officer TO beiewel his
sword hit and see.
We venture TO say that, if opinion al
lowed it. the gentlemen Of to-day would
initiate Count Esterhazy, and would be
visible at every crossing in Bond street
or on the boulevards, from the flashes of
their jewelry, hundreds of yards away.
Kings are SO visible on every state oc-
casion, and kings wives, who wear
what their lords wish worn Indeed,
subdued as the jewelry of men has now
become, they are still, even as regards
their own apparel, important buyers.
Birmingham would he half paralyed,
and the great jewel distributors would
feel poorer if men gave up wearing
watch-chains. gold backs to their watch
es, gold studs, gold sleeve-links and
gold rings-the latter three times as
massive as those worn by the other sex
Besides, though the women wear the
jewels, it is the men who pay for them,
and though they pay in part from readi-
ness to please their wives or iiancees it
is also to please themselves through the
indulgence of their eyes. -SpectdtOr,
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-07-06
INTENDED for last week. 7
NORTH SHADE.

Windy Work-Views on County Politics.
Last Sunday afternoon cyclone passed
-, he Naldrett's neighborhood, unroofing
r,tas IN. 'rett's house, injuring his fathers
- I'D orr. 7rd and doing other serious
damages of whit / have not yet learned the
particulars.- Harrlng and wife
called on your correspondent last Sunday
evening on their way home from the Sunday
school convention held at Middleton on
Saturday and Sunday which was credit to
all concerned 1t is no disparagment to any
TO sey that county clerk Kress' paper Satur-
day afternoon was applauded and appreciat-
sd by all present. Mr.. Harring's paper
"How to Hold aud Interest Older Glasses"
was equally we'll received Sunday afternoon.
As the political pots have been hung on
-she crane, and il beginning to simmer, by
your premise viii give you the views of
some Of North -, !, republicans; and L can
best DO it by stating substantially CONVEX
nation that took place few weeks since. In
speaking of our present county officers, the
6rst speaker said the success the prosecuting
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-07-06

'lorny aud the sheriff had had in punishin.
pense. if nothing more, entitled them T.
ralomination. The second speaker. Will,
SO admitted it all, said they were no NOR,
Untitled to denomination for eflicien'
ryices than the county clerk. The same wa
United in reference to the register OF deed
90 d, finally, if there was anyone of tn,
county officers not entitled 10 renominatio,
ihsy had not heard of it. | believe Cratic
e unity has done worse and may do il agai,
han To renominate the entire ticket by acla
nation something that never was done anC
never will be. PIONEER.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-07-06
ARCADIA CENTER.

Where did we 90 the fourth? to Ithaca Of
curse. Everybody went there. Farm
ers are busy haying about here.--Mrs
ave been visiting relatives in this place
The returned to their home in Clinton county
Wednesday. Wallace Osborn and wife
visited Will Godfry and wife Sunday
Charles Sherlpp and family have friends
from Milwaukee visiting them.-Edgar
brewer visited his sister over Sunday.-
Fnere is not much going on in our quoi
little burg. -School closed at the Davis
and the Ely schools last Friday with Il
picnic. Bert Daymore is the father of q
boy.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-07-06
SOUTH WEST ARCADIA.

Haying and Road Work the Order
School and Other Matters.
Yes, Trixy, McGinty read those hints and
is following them very closely. is
ripenIng very fast.-Since the road
warrants have been distributed, the path
masters have taken an interest in improving
the roads in this vicinity -Haying has
begun.-Henry Haymon gave dance in
his barn last Tuesday evening; there were
not very many out but those who were there
reported very enjoyable time.=Last
Friday Mr.. Brosemly, the teacher of the
Davis school, gave picnic in Mr.. Hutchi-
sons woods for the beniht of the scholars
and patrons of the school. Mr.. Brosemly
returned to his home in Carson to attend the
summer normal at that place. II is earnestly
hoped that he may return to our school
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-07-06
ITHACA
False Serious Accidents-Person
al Mention.

False Report-Serious Accldents-Person
al Mention.
Some evil minded person started the report
at North Star that Ithaca had several cases
of the small pox. 1t is needless to deny the
charge. Bert the eldest son of Ellis
Fuller, fell and broke his arm last week.
Last Thursday noon the seven-year-
old son Of John Strouse who lives four miles
east of town undertook TO drive one of the
horses out of the lane. He got too close to
the horse and was kicked in the head. The
frontal and right temporal bones were
crushed IN. DR.. Montfort dressed the wound.
rem owing pieces of bone "a we'll as some of
& he brain substance. Will Perkins. of
Alma, is the new member of the laundry
tirm, Will is tiptop young man and under
stands the trade.-E. Ii. Ashley was
was somewhat injured the other day by his
horse running away. -Ithaca has a lady
bicycle rider who wears that sensible bicycle
costume, the divided skirt No, her appear
ance has evoked no commentaries. f
IL. Osgood. of Chicago better known to a
few in Gratot county as Gussie Bennett,
left for home last Thursday Judge
Everden spent Sunday at Crystal Lake..
Have you seen the fat woman? il the quest
ton nowadays. She weighs only 72s pounds
and Was too heavy and too big to get into a
passenger car.-Moses l.. PendeIl, of
New Haven, an old pioneer of that town
ship died July 20. THE south part of the
county suffered from an incipient cyclone on
Sunday of last week.