Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-12-12
Henry Blodgett Of Barre was In town
to visit Mr.. and Mrs. =. N. Ris-

/ Henry BlOdgett OF Barre was IN tOWu
Saturday to visit Mr.. and Mrs. E. n. Ris-
| ing
! Erastus Hebard, second, has been con-
| fined to the house for several days by q
severe attack Of sickness.
Mrs. M. M. Wilson, who was taken sick
in Bethel at Thanksgiving time, Is gradu-
ally improving in health but is not yet
able to return home.
Rev. H. j. Rhodes, a returned mission
airy from Japan, gives lecture, illustrated
with a stereopticon, IN the Christian
church Saturday night. He will also speak
in the church Sunday and Sunday even
The Ladies' Aid OF the Christian church
have just dispatched two Christmas barrels
to the Franklinton c0lored school in
North Carolina. few weeks previous,
the ladies sent two barrels Of clothing to
this same school.
A peculiar work has been commenced
in this village In behalf Of communicate
christianity by distributing broadcast q
small tract entitled is It Right?", the gist
OF which is contained in the last three
lines, which read ss follows: Reader
Don't pledge anything toward ne e. SOL sal
Offering as well as yours be freely given to
God"
Next Saturday, Mr.. F. B. Thomas has
hearing in Northfeld before the authori-
ties there for selling goods without IL
cense. Mr.. Thomas claims that the goods
were sold In the store and under the name
OF Miss Name HARDWOOD, who has been in
business in Northfeld for six years, and
who advertised the sale and paid all the
bills connected with It, Mr.. Thomas mere.
" displaying the goods for her. Some OF
thQ Nnrk h8o1d vv1oraho v1to aaW At IN nnr11-
plain OF him on the ground that he had
violated the state law by selling goods in
another town without b license. G. M.
Davis, Esq, the prosecuting lawyer, and
w. w. Holden, the grand juror, were down
from Northfield, Saturday, to collect evil
dence against Mr.. Thomas.
Friday night, Mann & Aliens order
team started out on an independent ex-
cursiOn with the idea, possibly, OF drum
ming up trade little in the vicinity OF
Rochester. Quite early in the tripa hitch
ing post managed to get in the way Of one
Of the wheels, but the damage was not so Sc
rious as to cause any delay whatever, and
the intelligent animal, who had given "ya-
hoos" the slip for once, continued his
journey at lively gait to the foot OF
Rochester mountain. There he tied him
self up for the night by running one Of
the wheels around OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
tree in an orchard and calmly awaited de-
velopments. In the morning he was
found by Mr.. VIII Hoisington and
brought back to the owners, who had spent
the greater part of the night in a wild
goose chase for their missing team.
1t gives US somewhat more than the us
ual amount of sorrow to chronicle the de-
mise OF that charming young lady, Miss
Betsy Thomas, whose engagement was an
nounced last week. Her angelic sweet
ness could not protect her from the rude
shocks to be experienced In this worka-
day world OF ours, and at length she col
lapsed under a particularly hard blow OF
fortune. Her lovely countenance will no
longer cause less favored individuals to be
filled with envy and all unrighteousness
when passing her favorite window; but,
despite the fact, that she was out and out
the prettiest girl in town, not single
unkind thing has been said against her.
Not syllable has been 90 much as breathed
to the effect that the Creator was not Alto
gethers responsible for her complexion;
that she bleached her hair; that she ate |
slate pencils to make her white; penciled |
her eyelashes; smiled to show her teeth, or |
did any Of the thousand and one other |
things that lovely woman Is sometimes
ing. Her fiance has the sympathy OF the |
general public, and 1t is gratifying to note
that he seems possessed 81 the usual mas
culine ability to bear up well under such |
an affection. 1t has probably dawned up |
on person OF his observation that the |
columns Of the census report in Randolph |
are already sufficiently overbalanced with |
out the importation OF any female wax
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