Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-04-30

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day evening with Mrs. Laura Mead.
G. j. Prince started Monday for Boston
and Mrs. Prince went to Lebanon, N. HI.
to make q short visit to her brother.
4 Services are to be held this summer by
Rev. Seward Robson at the Branch church
beginning next Sunday afternoon at 2:3(
o'clock.
Captain and Mrs. j. E. Eldredge went
Tuesday to Roxbury to attend the funeral
OF the formers cousin, the late Mrs
Nichols.
VIM. H. Kenney has moved his house
hold effects from the upper part of the
Morton block to q tenement in the Alton
Hubbard house.
Mrs. E. E. Brooks went Monday to Bur-
lington to be present at the wedding OF
her sister, Miss Julia Ross, who was mar
ried yesterday to Mr.. F. w. Thomas Of
that city.
Mrs. Homer White was called suddenly
to Enoaburgh Falls last Saturday by the
critical condition Of her aunt, an aged la
dy, who fell down the front stairs at her
home and sustained serious injuries.
Mr.. Charles Nutting OF Chicopee, Mass,
arrived Friday on q business trip. Mrs.
DR.. Noyes and daughter, Annie, who have
been passing the winter in Chicopee with
Mr.. and Mrs. Nutting, expect to return to
Randolph for the summer in the course of
two or three weeks.
The frost coming out of the ground with
rush made the travelling something aw-
ful for few days but 1t also allowed the
water to leach away rapidly, and short
ened the mud season considerably. The
roads are now in very fair condition for
the spring Of the year.
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portorial duty on the staff Of the Rutland
Herald for some time, is to spend
the month OF May and part OF June in
Randolph, assisting his brother in-law,
J. F. Hobart, at the station. The middle
OF June, Mr.. Carleton goes to- the White
Mountains, taking his old position in
Wentworth Hall.
The second session OF the Victory Good
Templars' Union, which was held In Beth
Ell, Friday, was attended by large num-
Der of Templars from this place, including
A. A. Smith, DIR. and Mrs. s. N. Gould, A. |
Mrs. Will Fairbanks, Mrs. Il.
Il. Fish, Mrs. w. A. Scott, Carlos Pratt,
Ira Williams, L. McAllister, Mr.. and Mrs.
Levi Needham, Mrs. Pearsons, Miss Ger
trude Pearsons and Miss Lucy Robinson.
Sunday afternoon, Rev. G. w. Morrow,
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special sermon before the Odd Fellows in
honor OF the nth anniversary of the
'ounding of the order. The Odd Fellows,
Rebekahs and members of the Encamp-
nent were out in force. Over the preach
RS head were the three links, the peculiar
ign of the order, and within them were
he words, Friendship, Love, Truth. The
ddress was on the subject OF "Living for
)thers," and dealt largely with the his
DRY of Odd Fellowship, its work and mis-
ion.
The lecture given by Rev. G. w. Nor
ow Friday evening for the benefit OF the
lew town library, drew an audience suf-
ciently large to make the gross receipts
I the receipts, $25, goes to the increase of I
he library fund, and the other half to {
be orator, who defrays the necessary ex- /
enses. Mr. Willard Gay, with commend
BILE public spirit, gave the use OF Dubois |
, Gays hall free Of charge, thereby great I
: increasing the net profits OF the enter /
linment. The speaker was happily in {
reduced by Professor N. j. Whitehill,
Tho, in the course OF his rema ks,sketched
riehy the history Of the library move
lent in Randolph. The lecture, entitled
as characterized by profusion of hum d
rous anecdotes that kept the listeners in 9
crested and amused, and served to en-
hasize the different phases Of life.
Governor Woodbury. has issued a procla- g
alton appointing tomorrow, May LIST, 81
Arbor Day, and he recommends that b
pom that day the public schools have Il
llf holiday to afford teachers and pupils
opportunity appropriately to beautify II
e school grounds. The school grounds d
this village hardly need any attention d
that nature; for the practice of plant 81
z class trees would have long since ia
rned that plot of ground into dark,
m forest, had not two-thirds of the num- Of
r fortunately died. There are places tt
the village, however, that sadly need In
9 beautifying effect produced by hand tt
me shade trees, notably the three cor fC
red plot at the end OF the Smith block
d the piece OF land in Brooklyn to which m
Q ladies of the w. G. T. u. are anxious to I'll
tain the title and convert the arid waste til
to neat and pretty Memorial park. So de
they have been frustrated ia their at
npts,the owners apparently finding great re
ficulty in making up their minds to tn
1T with such beautiful piece of prop be
", though in what its value consists, ba
Is hard for those who gaze upon its unf tv
,htliness to imagine. A little grading, al
title grass seed and tree or SO are all
1t would be required to transform the la
It named plot into something more In he
rmony with the velvety lawns that are dr.
be seen on every side. Now that the tn
DIV Is of, and houses and grounds are
ing put 10 apple-pie order, the desolate OF
pearance Of these places strikes the OBJ as
mn q ntlv ne