Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-05-24


Miss Edith Abbott was at home from
Sharon over Sunday.
Mrs. Carrie Coleman has joined the
ranks of the cyclers.
Gilman Moulton went back to New
York City on Saturday.
Mrs. Joanna Bickford has gone to visit
friends in South Newbury.
Mrs. Lyman Welch and son arrived
from G&hnd Rapids, Mich, Friday.
DR.. VIM. Mayo and Editor f. n. Whit
ney were here from Northfeld the 18th.
Mrs. A. E. Reed of Springfield is visit
ing her parents, DIR. and Mrs. S. n. Gould.
+. j. Blodgett is reported by an ex-
change to be building house in Lyndon
vile.
OR. Greene from Glen Cove, r. L., has
been paying a visit to friends in this viii
lage.
A large number Of 1898 counterfeit half
dollars were recently passed at Platts-
burgh.
The work of scrapng, grading and
cleaning the streets OF the village COM
menced Monday morning.
Messrs. f. L. Soper and Hobart Peck
were in Charlestown. n. H., last week,
placing a monument in the cemetery
there.
Miss Carrie c. Moulton of Washington,
ID. c., who has spent several seasons in
West Randolph is at Woodstock, o., for
the summer.
New catalogues for the graded school,
containing the courses of study for the
different grades, are being issued from
the job printing Office Of W. ). >. Buck.
A large and attentive audience assem-
90 ffaE Roll Rfugr Macs Nav NTH To
listen to lecture by DR.. George Dutton,
now of Chicago but formerly OF Randolph,
on "The Natural Method OF Healing"
The Harper's Ferry Jubilee singers
give an entertainment at the Christian
church this Thursday evening, The
company has a fine reputation both at
home and abroad and will, without
doubt, give an excellent concert
Earl Powers has a record for punctuali-
ty nearly equal TO that of the heroic mod
els. set up for youthful imitation His
home is about four miles from this viii
lage and for the last ten years he has at
tended school here without being once
tardy.
To day, j. w Gabrielle joins the pill
grimage Of Mount Sinai Temple Mobiles
of the Mystic Shrine, TO the oasis OF st.
Johnsbury. The pilgrimage is conducted
by the most illustrious potentate; and the
Traditional banquet viii be held this
evening.
Dr.. W s. Curtis is actively engaged ia
extracting fish from the placid waters OF
Caspian Lake, where, according TO all re-
ports, they are landed as easily and with
as much dispatch as the most obstinate
OF double clamped back teeth. The doc
tor WAS accompanied by Mr.. I'D. Mitchell.
John Boyce and wife have moved from
Mrs. Juliette Chadwick's to the upper
part OF the Lamson house on South
Pleasant street. and the tenement va
Gated by them is occupied by Ed. Hatch
and family. Mr.. and Mrs. Clinton Olaf.
lin have left Rochester and are living in
the Gabrielle house on Weston street.
The Peoples. or Free Silver, party COM
mittee of which DIR. w. 5. Curtis IS
the member from Orange county, has
issued the following call for
mass convention: "Let us assemble to.
gether in mass convention, all who are
opposed to corrupting schemes OF the
Demo- Republican plutoeracy, at Capitol
Hall, Montpelier, Tuesday, June 26, A. ID.
1891 at 10 a. m, TO formulate State plat
form on which every reformer can stand;
to place in nomination candidates for
congress for each district. and to transact
any other business proper to c,me before
the meeting"
Thursday evening, a very delightful
entertainment was given in Dubois n
Gays hall by Misses Ethelynd Gould and
Elsie Powers, elocutionists, assisted by
| Miss Carrie Hautier, soprano, and the
Ideal Male Quartette. First on the pro-
gram was the Physical Culture exer-
else, according to the Emerson system,
which was smoothly and rhythmically
executed by Miss Gould and Miss Powers,
attired in the graceful Greek costume.
| Miss Gould captured the audience by her
\ rendering of that humorous sketch, "a
Sisterly Scheme, y and deepened the good
/ impression by her other selections, nota-
| bly, the difficult one-Poe's poem of "The
| Bells, wv hich enabled her to show the bell
like quality OF her flexible voice. Miss
Powers proved herself possessed of good
dramatic ability by her recital OF "Nydia,
the Blind Girl" a scene arranged by her
from Bulwer Lytton's famous story Pom
4 peii:n and in her rendering of "Mr.
Travers' First Hunt" she showed herself
to be in touch with the humorous as well
| as the tragic side of life. Her manner is
easy and unaffected, and her voice is dis
tinguished by its clearness and good
range and compass. Both young ladies
! show the excellent training that they have
received at the Emerson College of Ora
tory, which has over 500 students ENROLL
ed and whose teachers are in constant de-
| manu-. Inc system useu ~ TINS cohese
I seeks to develop the mind, making the
gestures and the expression of the face
unstudied and unconscious on the part of
the speaker, whose attention is wholly
occupied in presenting the thought of the
selection to the audience in the best and
clearest manner. Miss Haufier, whose
sweet soprano and distinct enunciation
make her singing doubly enjoyable, won
/ enthusiastic applause by the solos, Elect
1 ing DAYS" and LOOK out upon the Stars y
and her encores Thou Seemest to Me a
| Flower ana "Daisy BELIEF were very
well chosen and finely rendered; while
the Ideal Male Quartette received many
compliments for the selections, "Merrily
Goes Our Bark" and "Mrs Winslow's
soothing Syrup" which they sang. es-
pecially the latter, with much feeling
4 Though not large, the audience was Sc
lect and very appreciative Of the efforts of
the 1fHaraut r,1rforuaere