Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-04-23

I, The infant son OF w. A. Jones died Sci
urday, having lived only ten days. Tt
baby girl, his twin sister, is left to the bt
reaved parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. c. Whittier. who ha
been passing a vacation OF ..1reu Me-
with Mrs. Whitten's mother IL 5 amsprt
Conn, reached nome Monday evening.
Miss Lizzie Adams of South Il, ). .lto
occupied her old place as q. ga..is 1T tt
Cong'i church last Sunday mornius hu
is not yet strong enough, s'ter h.r ,ull
sickness, to perform that duly regn arla
4 G. H. Learned OF Boston, va ;, was "a lie
to Franklin Falls, N. H., by tue DAGGER
Gus sickness OF his two-s.ar-oll soi
stopped here over Sunday on his way bac
to the city to see his father, G. E. Learned
Hon. VIM. B. Stickney OF Ludlow, on
OF the gentleman now prominently befor
the public as possible repuhi'.sn ch4li
date for governor, was here s .tufuay I,
zee Mr.. A. b. Cnshman on business .n.l
tiers.
j. E. Briggs, president Of the lnterna
tional North and South American Trars
portation and Express comLaus, "-si
headquarters at Rochester, ". Y, va
here last week to visit his sis..r.. IA Ia "
Mrs. c. M. Howard.
Rev. EIihu Snow, pastor OF the Metho
dist church in White River .L.eli, Il
writes as follows:-"The lecture, "Iis'
Sketches, or Scenes from Both Sides,n ~.
listened to on the evening OF Decerhe'
9TH by g0odly number Of our -, >.
For more than an hour, the lecturer held
the closest attention OF the auaASncc
s'Life Sketches" is vivid picture { I -es
life, elegantly illustrated and deliveieu III
a mastery manner. Any lecture coil..
mittee or society, wishing q 6rst-ciass
lecture, will do well TO secure Mr.. 49,.
row.
Mr.. j. w. Hale is still shaving with d
razor which he bought in 1873 whe. ~
was "a years younger than Ls a. NOV, alu
he sharpens 1t on strop that he eur-
chased ia 1895. Whether or not r0ls razor
has "Wade and Butcher on IL ~ y,
and Wade and Butcher on the blade" ii
has va led through good ...i :. i-..r.
and has cut good swath over some three
square rods OF cuticle, leavi, =. !.
eat stubble. 1t has often been in hot
water but still does a good ~. /. ..As
seen uncounted cakes OF soap d so,v
and some GA feet in length of beaid ....
fallen before its glittering blade.
M. s. Stone OF Montpelier, state super
intendent OF schools, has requested the
public school teachers OF the STATE to pre-
pare for the afternoon preceding Memoir
al day, exercises that shall tenn to stIuu-
late in the pupils love OF libe. ., du.
patriotism, and serve to remind them vi
the great service rendered bv the Cnior
troops in the War Of the Reosliion. III
order that hereafter, in some threatening
emergency, there may still be found IL
this sturdy commonwealth, worthy de-
scendants VI the Vermont Volunteers, who
shall be willing and anxious to serve their
country in other ways than by holding
lucrative government Offices, the last Leg
passed an act especially provid-
ing for exercises commemorative of the
history OF the nation during the war.
A new candidate for governor has been
placed in the field in the person OF Mr.. L.
P. Thayer, whom the Montpelier Argus
most cordially endorses as gentleman on
whom all factions could unite with no |
OF seif-respect, and who, with.
out being a representative farmer, is as
much friend Of the farmer as the indi-
7idual now busily engaged in gathering |
zap from his naples in Derby" Harris
Weekly makes haste to endorse the en- +
,orsement as follows 1.-THE Argus OF this
week nominates Brer. Thayer for govern.
,r, which same the state press should cor
tally second. A journalist and bus ness
nan OF uncommon ability and an all
ound gentleman and good fellow, who
an object? Hooray for Thayer!" The
amily over Sunday, and was observed to
tcognize most OF his neighbors and to
xniDit no very marked symptoms-of
humps.
The Randolph Graded and High school
loses its years work Friday, June 9Th,
md the closing exercises will commence
|unday evening, May 3lst, with the bacca-
aureate sermon, which the Rev. Homer
White has been invited to deliver before
he members OF the graduating class. The
lass day exercises will probably take
lace Tuesday evening, and the gradu-
ton proper either Thursday evening or
friday afternoon. For the latter occasion
/ Is hoped that the services OF President
luck ham OF the University OF Vermont
an be secured as orator. Friday evening
nd banquet, which the executive com
nittee ale planning TO make more than
yer enjoyable affair. 1t Is thought that
erhaps instead Of reception this year
be hour preceding the banquet will be
evoted to class reunions so that scat
3red alumni may renew their class asso.
iatlons and compare wrinkles and gray
air with their former chums.
The Springfield Reporter, in its Felch-
lille items, Informed an anxious public
lst week that Mr.. Ned Sawyer OF that
lace was working up his woodpile. Now
pine captious critics might think such an
EN- unimportant, but no doubt the in
abitants OF Felchville take lively inter-
st in that voodpile and pass many hap
v hour leaning on the dooryard fence
nd watching Mr.. Ned Sawyer industri
usly saw wood, and the FEST OF the world
,els kindly disposd toward the provident
awyer, whose occupation is precisely the
,me as that in which the rest OF US are
lore unostentatiously employed. Now,
i this village, several prominent wood
lies are to be seen in the yards OF lead.
10 citizens, but a list OF their owners
ould reveal the damaging fact that there
nothing OF the sawyer about either their
ames or their natures. We should be more
ian glad, however, to immortalize the
ames of those enterpiising people who |
low consideration for the neat appear
ace OF the village by raking up their
ont and rear yards, and by bestowing a {
amount OF attention upon the ;
rect in front Of their residences.
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