Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-02-06

The Re0 Lion Inn Will serve supper
February 7th, the night OF the Firemeni
ball, to those who do not care to picnic.
Miss Abbie Clark now has rooms in thu
upper part OF the Kellogg house on Ran
dofph avenue, where she will receive pu
pills in music and painting.
A little eight-year- girl, on hearing
remark the other day that sounded
! strange to her, asked il the speaker wer'
not lrifle cracked upstairs.
Mr.. F. Arthur Walsh, who has beer
spending some months at w. E. Lamson g
has returned with his mother to thei
home in Dorchester, Mass, from where h,
hopes to sail for Jamaica in few days.
Two manufacturers from away have beer
here, looking the place over with view
to opening chair shop in the screen mill
They employ about tweDty-eight hands
and expressed themselves as highly de-
lighted, both with the mill and the vii
lage.
About thirty from this lodge OF Coco
Templars took straw ride to Bethel last
Tuesday evening to visit the Good Tenn.
plar lodge OF that place. A fine literary
program was furnished by the Bethe
guests were treated to an excellent oyster
supper. A very enjoyable season Is re-
ported.
n The February number Of the sportsman's
magazine, Recreation, contains an illus
trated article on Caspian Lake, Green's
boro, and thrilling account of the cap
ture last summer Of that eight and hall
pound trout by B. H. Sanborn of Boston
the author of the article, and DR.. w. s.
Curtis. The fight lasted, according to the
writer, five hours and a half.
The ladies OF the Book club are request
ed to meet With Mrs. K. o. Blanchard
Saturday afternoon, February 9Th, ct 2:3C
O'Clock, to appoint committee to select
books for the coming year, and to decide
upon the time and place for the sale OF the
old books; also to transact any business
that shall come before the club. All la
dies interested are invited to be present.
The supply OF tickets for the Firemen's
ball is not by any means exhausted, and
those desiring to purchase can still accom-
plish their object by visiting Bass book
store. 1t ought not to be necessary to inn
perfume the people of Randolph to con-
tribute to the support of a fire company
when they are continually deriving direct
advantage from the very existence Of such
an organization.
Saturday morning, there was hearing
of the case of the State against l.. G.. Til
son under the statute for disturbing the
peace by beating his wife. j. d. Denison,
Esq, was the prosecuting attorney, and
the evidence was such that the defendant
was bound over in 300 bonds to appear
at the grand jury term of the Orange Coun-
ty court next June. His sister, Mrs. Hen
ry Newton, furnished bail.
Charles G.. Dull Bots, cashier OF the Ran.
dolph National bank, has been In Rut-
land two days this week, attending the
trio company. Mr., Dubois is director
in that company in the interest OF the
Western Electric company OF New York,
with which he was formerly connected,
and he has, during the year, been several
times to Rutland on business for that
company. During the absence of the CASH
Ter, the business at the bank was trans
acted by the president, Hon. VIM. H. Du-
Bots.
At the last village meeting, II was voted
to instruct the trustees to lay aside $500 to
be used in sanding the sidewalks during
icy weather. The "fathers," in compli-
ance with this action ON the part OF the
village, stored away sufficient quantity
of sand, and during the past week found
occasion to use 1t for the first time. Their
efforts, however, did not seem to be appre-
ciated, as the sand was removed from the
walks in front of the stores almost as
soon as it had been scattered. In viewof
the fact that the village would be liable
for damages should any one be injured by
falling ON the icy paths, the trustees re-
quest that the sand be left upon the side
walks until all danger is past.
Saturday, DR.. w. s. Curtis, Prof N. J.
M ~ ~
w. Morrow visited the fish hatchery at
Roxbury and were much interested in all
they saw, and especially pleased with the
work of the new attendant, Mr.. KEYS,
who seemed to understand his business
thoroughly. Thereare now ], 400, 600 eggs in
the hatchery, 81 per cent of which the at
tendant feels confident of saving. The
hatchery at Greensboro, in which these
gentlemen are interested, is now in oper-
alton but only 70 per cent of the eggs are
Matched there. No information was vol
unteered and one felt delicate about ask
ing whether or no refreshments were
served at the Roxbury hatchery to this
particular fish commission.
One of those rare occasions, the celebra-
ton Of the ninetieth birthday Of an indi-
yidual, was observed in Northtield, Mon
day, when Mrs. Eliza Soper passed that
milestone in ripe and useful life Four
Mrs. Il. w. Howe OF Mortified,
Henry G. and Z. l.. Soper Of Randolph and
Will V. Soper OF South Royalton, were
present. Four generations Of the family
were well represented Mrs. Soper lives
alone from choice and enjoys excellent
health. She was the youngest daughter
of Nathaniel and Betsey Wall, whose FAM
lily consisted of twelve children, all of
whom reached maturity. Mrs. Soper's
father enlisted in February, 1873, at Lynn,
Mass, in the company commanded by
Captain Nathan Sargent, and served as a
soldier Of the Revolutionary war until
December 1, 1881.
Saturday evening, a very handsomely
bound Bible was presented to U. S. Grant
Post, G. A. r., by ladies, who, though not
belonging to the Relief Corps, vet take an
interest in the Grand Army Organization.
Previous to this, 1t seems, the Post has
had the use of Bible belonging to Hon.
J. P. Cleveland, Jr., and containing the
records of his family, and in returning
thanks for the gift, Mr.. A. A. Smith ex-
pressed his qualification that Comrade
Cleveland's Bible was about to be restored
70 him, and also his regret that the gen.
,leman had 80 long been deprived OF its
use. Thereupon Mr.. Cleveland rose and
offered to bet the company tidy sum that
ust as many and just as good Bibles could
be found in his house as in Comrade
Smiths. This moved Captain Eldredge
10 remark that he had never seen any-
hing in either gentleman to lead him to
suspect that they had such a volume in
heir Libraries, or were aware OF the fact il
hey had. After this sally, Comrades