Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-03-11

Mrs. +. l.. Herrlck was IN Town las
week.
Miss Polly Russell of Northdeld is il
town.
Clark Fletcher returned to his work in
Brooklyn Saturday.
Charlotte Shepard is to work for Mrs. n
%. Rice at the Flats.
Mike Flynn, Calvin Ellis and Mr. Ford
are sick with pneumonia.
Rev. r. c. Downey preached the first OF
q series of Lenten services last sunday.
L.. Bean has moved his family and
household goods here from Springfield.
KiIes stockwell OF Bethel, representing
the National Life Insurance Co., was In
town Saturday.
Miss Annie Jacobs ha7 returned to her
home at Bruce Mills, having finished work
for DR.. Fletcher.
Eugene Flint IS soon to move from the
Bean house into the south tenement IN
Mrs. Warmers block.
Murray Simon Is of Boston is spending
his two weeks vacation with his grand
father, AFRO Simonds.
Our seed offer is taking first-rate. See
The sample at YOUR local postoilice nd you
Will want the 25c. package.
Miss Kate Smith has finished work at
the Columbian I'd is boarding with Mrs.
IL. p. Bean for the present. Miss Teresa
HartWell takes her place at the hotel.
I ne social meetings of the whist club
have been discontinued on account OF
the death OF two of its members, Mrs. DR..
+. G. Fletcher and Miss Leah NanDeusen
The ladies of the universslist society
Will hold their fsir this week Saturday
evening at tie town hall. The entertain
ment will consist OF laughable farce and
musical selections. An oyster supper VIII
be served after the entertainment. Much
work mas been put into it TO make IL
worthy Of your patronage
Linnie Ellis, aged 30, died at Freedom
HIPS, where she has boarded for the last
few years. The cause OF her death was he
grip. The funeral was from the house on
Monday, Rev. NJ II. Wright officiating.
Those present from out OF town were Mrs.
II C. Farnsworth and Miss Helen OF Brain
tree, Mrs. j. X. Burnham, Barre, Mr. and
Mrs. AFRO Boyce, East Roxbury, Charles
Woodward and daughter, Anna, OF Brain.
tree. Cut flowers from relatives and a
wreath from friends in town were tokens
of respect the bearers were II p .Worces
ter, Fred Roys, Homer NanDcusen and
Charles Mann.
The community was shocked and sad.
dened by the death a week ago OF Leah,
the only child of Alice and Homer Van
Deusen. For about two weeks she had
been sick with tonsiiitis but no fears had
Just before her death, which resulted from
membraneous Group. She was a bright,
loveable child of IA years. the pride OF low
ing parents and a tavorite with young and
old alike. TIE funeral was from the Cong'l
church, Rev. NJ. IA Wright officiating. Her
Sunday school teacher, MIR. Lee Wiley,
conducted the services. Toe floral offer
ings were numerous and beautiful, and as
far as known were from the following
friends: Roses, Ed it'll Alien Of Barre, car
nations, friends in Barre; hyacinths and
Gala, Mr.. and Mrs :. ID Alien OF Barre;
callas, Leon Roys; wreath Mrs Fred
Roys wreath and smiax, e. +, society of
which she was a member; pillow with the
word "Leah", from schooimates and other
friends; carnations from Ada Nichols ana
the A. 5, l. of which she was member.
Her schoOlmates acted as pail bearers
Those present from out OF town we Mrs.
Susan Way, her grandmother and Mr..
and Mrs. ). ID. Allen of Barre, Mr.. and
Mrs. W L.Hebard OF Randolph, John and
Mary Gleason OF Warren, Milo Bucklin
and wife, Frank Suaw and wife and ). "
VanDeusen OF Warren, L. LaVanney and
wife of East RoNbury and Chas. Bragg
and wife OF Norlhiieid The interment
was in the village cemetery.
For the past b zee weeks had Mrs Dr.
Fletcher been seriously III with grip in the
typhoid form and for the past two anX-
ious friends had aternated between hope
and grave fears that the life they held S
precious was in danger, but still but few
could bring themselves to believe that one
so young and cultured and so well beloved
would be taken from the home she graCet
so well. but on Sunday, Feb, rs, as the day
drew to a close, her life went out, congcs-
ton OF the brain having resulted from the
form OF grip from which she suffa Tered
Mertie Wilson Fletcher was "A years OF
age. When mere child she resided in
this town with her parents, but soon re-
moved TO Mortified, wneTe, IN the graded
school at that place, her education was OH
tanned. From here her mother, Mrs. l..
a. Wilson, moved to Exeter, NH, for the
purpose Of giving her children still better
educational privileges. In that place Mrs.
Fletcher was a student in the Robinson
Female seminary, graduating from both
the classical and normal departments with
honor She was also a graduate from the
Sauveur college OF languages. She was
student for seven years in a school OF art
in the same town and her home was
adorned with beautiful specimens of her
work. Gifted by nature with a voice of
rare sweetness, hiCh had received care.
ful culture from some of the best vocal
teachers in Boston, she was a welcome ad :
dition to every social circle. Especially
has the Universal.st society reason 20 re-
member with gratitude her efforts to as.
sist their weak sOciety, more especially as
she was a most thorough EpscOpalian
ana a communlcanL OF st. Mary ChurCn
in Mortified. In the absence of tue church
of her choice she earnestly labored for
others. The funeral was from the house.
Rev. J. g. Sutherland, rector Of ST. Mary's
church in Mortified, assisted by Rev. T..
G. Downey, pastor of the UniversaIist
church in R0X bury and Mortified, offici-
sting. A pillow Of flowers from friends
in town, with the word "Mertier and
another from the summit Whist club, of
which she was president, with the letters
''S.W. C., >" together with quantities of cut
flowers and smiiaX completed the floral Of
feriugs Those chosen TO perform the sad
duties of bearers we're from the whist
club, and were q. A. Tilden, will Carpen-
ter, Frank Kennedy ana Homer VanDeu-
sen. NJ. +. Chase had the funeral in
charge. Those present from out of town
were DR.. kletcher's parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Charles Fletcher Of Fl. jackson, \. Y,
Clark Fletcher. Brooklyn, n. ", Miss Lu-
IA Fletcher, Helena, n. Y, Mrs. p. NJ. Ca
rev, Eliensburg, y. Y. Mrs. J. f. Hill and
Mrs George, ST Adams, Miss Ella Keller,
Burlington, Charles Bragg and wife,
Arthur Parsons and wife, Misses Lula
Wiley, Lota Tarbell, Eva Harvey Of
Mnrf hfiaid