Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-02-28

| Ash Wednesday service with sermon in
st. Johns church at 1880 in the evening.
| Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Martin OF Haver-
hill, Mass, were recently the guests OF
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Gabrielle.
The Kings Daughters will meet with
| Mrs. George l.. Spear, Wednesday after
noon, March 9th, at three o'clock.
Miss Maud Fennel, the guest OF Mr..
and Mrs. VIM. Kenney, returned Friday
to her home at Lake George, N. Y.
Allen Flint and wife have moved from
Braintree to one of j. H. Lamson's houses
near the track. Mr.. Flint is employed in
the screen mill.
Lenten services will be held in st.
Johns church every Wednesday evening
at 1880. The first service will be held
Wednesday evening OF this week, which
is Ash Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. Osgood Snow have re-
turned from Amesbury, Mass, where they
spent five weeks in order that Mrs. Snow
might be treated at the hospital She is
at present much improved in health and
it is hoped that the improvement may
be permanent.
| Yesterday, Ash Wednesday, began the
! fol- y days OF Lent, which do not include
the intervening Sundays. Although the
season plainly connects itself with our
( Lords fast at the temptation (pretigured
| by the forty days. fast OF Moses and Eli
| jah) it was not at once extended to forty
days, hut was observed in very early times
by fast OF forty hours, beginning on
Good Friday. The present period has,
however, been in use for many ages, and
all over the Christian world.
Electric lights are constantly growing
cheaper, so they tell us, and If we only
hpld off lpnn nprhqng gOma 9nfpr-
prising company will offer to pay the VIII
iage O respectable sum for the privilege OF
putting in plant. 1t is to be hoped, how
ever, that the corporation in that event
will be in no rash haste to accept the offer;
for by delaying ten or dozen years long.
err that company or some other might pos
sibly be induced to throw still more
tempting bait. Almost every cross road
hamlet in the state either has electric
lights already or is making strenuous ef-
forts to obtain them, and soon our pro.
gressive village will be the only one in
Vermont, where necessity makes it GUS
tomary for people paying evening calls to
carry lanterns.
Mardi Gras LITERALLY fat Tuesday, is
festival held on the Tuesday immediately
preceding Ash "Wednesday. IL is most
extensively celebrated in Rome and Paris,
but the only celebration in the United
States worth mentioning, is the one at
New Orleans, where since the war the OBJ
servance has been carried out with much
pomp and circumstance. The entire day
is given up to gayety, and in the evening
occurs the great street pageant, in which
are displayed elaborate tableaux, placed
on moving platforms, brilliantly illumi-
mated and constructed at great expense
and with artistic elegance, but the whole
thing probably could hardly hold rush
light to the Business Carnival in West
Randolph, especially in the matter OF
brilliant illumination. In England, the
day has also been called Shrove, or Pan
cake, Tuesday because it was formerly the
custom for the people to confess their sins,
one by one, to the parish priest, after
which they dined on pancakes, and the
occasion became one of merriment. The
amount OF hilarity generated by such a
diet would, no doubt, depend upon the
general excellence OF the pancake: for it
Is hard to conceive of anything less likely
to excite feelings OF mirth and jollity than
tough constipated- looking flapjack.
The following notice, clipped froQf the
Plymouth IN. H. Record will be pleas
ant reading for the many friends OF the
young inventor, in West Randolph: "Lonis
A. Atwood, son Of j. w. Atwood, manager
OF the Plymouth Veneer company, has in
Veuteu anu lndut IL tloutl Vi SHoW piuW
to be used both on side walks and roads
The model shows great deal of ingenuity
and thought. and If the pillow in actual
operation demonstrates the practicabiiity
OF the ideas embodied ia the model, it will
be great improvement on the snow pillow
now in use and will make something more
than trail for people to walk in. The
description OF the pillow is in Mr.. Louis
Atwood's own words and gives an idea OF
its way Of working. The pillow has wings
with levers to work them for the purpose
of making wide or narrow path The
sides are concave SO as tn lift and roll the
snow over, making it much easier for the
horses TO draw; it will also force itself in
to the snow without any extra weight. |
BY simply pressing lever with the foot
and turning the horses aside, it can be |
made to pillow the snow all on one side or |
on the other or on both, as desired. The |
seat is on runners so that the weight OF |
the driver will tend to keep the pillow GO
ing straight. The pole for the horses is
also fastened to the same. An additional
model, can be made by having lever that
will raise the pillow on its runners four to |
six inches so the machine can be used for
road work 1t will take but one pair of |
horses and one man to. run the plow."
In Zadock Thompson's Gazetteer OF ver-
mont, published at Montpelier in 1924, is
to be found sketch of the town of Ran
dolph, interesting to those OF its present
who are not familiar with its
history "befo de wah " In this sketch it
says, ga company of twenty persons
was formed at Hanover, N. H., then called
Dresden, in May, ITS, for the purpose Of
buying this township, known to them by
the name Of Middlesex. AT the first meet
ing OF this company, Hon. Joseph Marsh
was chosen moderator and agent to prefer
a petition to the legislature, Capt. Aaron
Storrs was clerk, and Capt. Abel Marsh
was to ascertain whether there were any
claimants 10 the land in New York or else
where. The settlement was commenced
three or four years before the town was
AS near as can be ascertaned
William Evans and family, Edward Ev-
ans, John Parks and Experience Davis
were the first persons who wintered in
The township. Zadock Steele was taken
from Randolph and carried into captivity
by the Indians on the 18th Of October,
1850, the day after the burning of Royal
ton. Randolph Parmelee was the first
child born in this township. The town
was organized March 81, 1888, and Jehiel
Woodward was the first town clerk. The
most remarkable revival Of religion com
here in February, 1922, and it
was very general throughout the town.
About so were added tothe Congregations
al church and great many united with
The other societies. The place has gener-
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