Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-11-26

Mr.. and Mrs. John Angel OF Rochester
are at air. John Hobart's.
A.. j. Foster has taken possession OF the
Gage slaughter house and IS TO carry on
that business hereafter.
Harry o. Cole and Miss Jennie s. Web
ster, both of Braintree, were married yes
terday. the 25th, by Hon. James Hutchin-
son, justice of the peace.
L. p. Thayer and family and Mrs. A. A.
Smith are dining to-day at White River
junction with Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard
Wheeler.
The members of Professor Elmore's
dancing class are arranging for a private
school to be held in the Grange hall and
to commence early in December.
The dramatic reader, Miss Ethelynd
Gould. has been in Saratoga county, New
York, the last ten days and has been
greeted by fine audiences. AT Corintn
nearly three hundred were present. and at
Saratoga Springs she appeared for the
Good TemplaTs with the best of success.
Monday she was at Ticonderoga under the
auspices OF the Methodist society, and
Tuesday she read at Baptist concert.
To morrow, she is to be in Middlebury OF
this state, to fill an engagement with the
lecture course committee OF the baptist
church, and Saturday VIII speak a, foresV
Dale for the W. e. 7. u, During Decem'
Der she will give recitals in Brandon,
Salisbury and Rutland, appearing at each
of these places under the auspices OF the
Good Templars. About the middle OF
next month, she is to give free recital to
the inmates OF the House OF Correction at
Rutland. Miss Gould returns TO Saratoga
county New York, the middle OF Janu-
airy to fill two weeks engagement.
Rev. Myron Reed, who belongs in this
vicinity and is now a popular preacher
in the city Of Denver, referred in pub
lished sermon recently to an old English
reader By LiHdley Murray, that had been
used by the speakers father, comparing II
TO modern dilapidated school books IN
the following terms:-"By the way, TINS
old English reader, printed in 1921, hss
not loose or torn leaf ~ II. II has
been carried by relays OF school children
TO Vermont district school, been IN sun
and rain and snow, been thumbed by I'M
geis that had husked corn and sprOuted
potatoes. Ii has had the rough lingering
of chapped hands. The old book has
been moved by wagon from Brookheid,
VT to Essex county, New York, then 10
ST. Lawrence county, and then by stage
and steamboat to the Fox River IN Wis
consin, afterwards to the east bank OF the
great river, and now il is here in Denver.
Ii is il every way as good booS as when
my father began to read in IL. take up
this book and contrast II with school
reader Indl mas bttu II uubhAHA iaN5
vice in a Denver ward school or city di'
rectory not year old. Great is our prog
ress in the manufacture of school books"
The University OF Vermont Glee, Banjo
and Mandolin clubs, OF which John Chase
and Robert Morton are members, will
give an entertainment in this place the
18th OF December. These clubs made
good impression at their former appear
ance here and according to the following
from the Malone Farmer, they continue
to sustain their enviable reputation
1.-The u. V. NJ. Glee, Banjo ana Mandolin
clubs captured and captivated Malone,
and thereafter had everything their own
way. The opera house was filled with as
fine an audience as was ever brought to-
gether in this village, and 1t was as APP
preciative as it was representative in charA
acter. Only program OF decided merit
could have been satisfactory. The audi
ence was not only satisfied but charmed
and compelled the clubs to respond fire.
quently TO hearty encores. To say that
the work of both the Banjo and Msndo-
lin clubs was entirely satisfactory begRars
the question. Ii was superb, the soft,
sweet strains of the latter, and rounder,
fuller notes of the former, catching the
ear with delightful effect. II is surprising
how any college, where young men are
being graduated and sent out every year,
can Keep up such fine organizations.