Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-03-24

Cornelius Reagan is in poor health.

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Mrs. Ella wheelock is added to the list
OF sick ones.
Elmer Whitcomb of Boston is among
the late arrivals in town.
Mrs. A. Q. Miller returned to her home
in Brockton, Mass, Friday.
Students of the Whitcomb High school
returned to their work Mond ay.
Gertrude and Stanley Putnam are doing
quite little sugaring this season.
Mrs. 8. W. Tilson OF Randolph has been
caring for her aunt, Mrs. NJ. Stone.
Madge Abbott of East Barnard has been
visiting at Rev. @. A. Emery's the past
week.
Mrs. Viola Aldrich OF Fitch burg, Mass,
is the guest OF her mother, Mrs. Laura
Dalton.
Mrs. Stephen Hoar was called to St. Al
bans last week by the serious illness OF
her sister.
Miss Alma Pike has bee u caring for her
sister, Mrs. Chas. ShurtIeif, during her
brief illness.
Mr.. and MIS-. F. ID. Burke were the
guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. =. c. Cady of
Bethel part OF last week.
Mrs. o. c. Burke, who has been staying
at the Silver Lake House, returned to her
home in Woodstock Saturday.
EFF. Abbott, who has been spending
the winter with his son, Rolliu, IN Dor
chester, Mass, returned home Monday OF
last week.
Mrs. Elmer Abbott has returned from
Prosper, where she has been spending the
winter with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Samuel Gilbert.
The topic for the Y. P. c. u. meeting
next Sunday will be "The Golden Age:
Has 1t Come ~ The leader will be Mrs.
M. A. Eastman.
Mrs. Mary Stone, who had been i'll OF
pneumonia, died Sunday morning, March
goth. Funeral services were helo at her
late home on Tuesday.
Mrs. Charles Shurtleff died March 18th
after an illness of only three days. The
funeral service was conducted by Rev. +.
ID. Handy OF Woodstock.
The sugar season is bringing in the
usual number of visitors to the place.
People must return TO Barnard for the an
nnal ''sweetening" II for no other purpose.
Miss Leona Adams is home from God
dard seminary for short vacation. She |
has been chosen one OF the esssyists OF the |
senior class for the June commencement. |
Through our Standard correspondent |
at the "noith end" we are informed of l.. |
ID. Reagan's abse MT mindedness OF late, a |
fact by which we are not in the least sur
prised.
Rev. G. A. Emery held quarterly meet
ing in Gaysvile and Eethel 'Lympus last /
Sunday, and Rev. L. N. Moody of Gays
willie preached in the Methodist church
here. He did not go to East Barnard be-
cause of the deep snow.
One OF the most exciting murder trials
ever held in New England is now going on
in Boston, in which Tbomss M. Bran is be-
ing tried for the killing of Capt.C. |. Nash
of the barkentine Herbert Fuller, July,
1896. Intense interest is taken in the case
and hundreds OF people walk about the
courthouse for hours with the hopes OF
getting inside but with no possibility OF
doing so. Taken from the Boston Globe
is an account of the detailing OF a squad OF
six patrolmen tor duty in the courtroom
until the case is ended-every man a six
footer of magnificent physique and pic
ture Of health. These men were selected
by Supe rintendent Eldredge from the
many hundreds OF Boston policemen on
account OF their excellent gsperal appear
ance, and among this six is Cornelius 7.
Reagan, Barnard boy. He Is a son Of
M ichael Reagan, one OF the most success
full farmers in town. "Curl" was always
one OF the best when boy, and to be no.
ticed as one of the best patrolmen in Bos-
ton gives feeling OF pride to all Barnard
people as we'll as to his own family. He
Is brother OF Margaret T. Reagan, one OF
the most popular school teachers In Yer
mont. who attended the Inauguration of
President Mckinley at the expense OF the
Boston Globe.
Barnard receives from the state almost
six hundred dollars every year, this sum
being the amount of the re- distributed
i've cent highway tax az portioned accord
ing to the road mileage. This sum is to
be expended on the main thoroughfare
through town and in addition to the usu
ii expenditure on the same road. The
arge towns are making a vigorous COM
plant that II is not done in the small
owns. The complainers say that in trav- .
cling through the state we fail to find any ,,
and judge the sum goes into
,he general highway fund. The state road [
urge the towns to lay out
his amount in permanent road as far as
t will go this year and continue the next,
10 that in time great improvement will {
De noticed on the main travelled road,
proving to strangers that the town has !
complied with the law. Our main road is
rom Bethel line to Pomfre line, and over '
I the mail stage passes twice every day.
The principal part of 1t should be laid out I
rom Bethel line TO Barnard village as this .
would come under the observation OF the
lundreds OF summer visitors who annually |
AXE in the beauties of Silver lake and its {
A neglect OF this road will !,
certainly be noticed and furnish argument
o the opposers OF the law, who may cause q
is repeal, which we should all deplore. n
since the pre- sent law has been in opera u
ion, il all the mileage fund had been ex. i
,ended in extra work on this stage route,
IS the law requires. 1t would have amount e
d to abont three thousand dollars, and in v
tead of what we have there would b. 4
rand thoroughfare OF which the town
mig ht well be proud.
Mount Hunger in Barnard is, at the
resent time, attracting the attention OF
in regard to its height. for no ]
cry authentic account of this mountain 1
as ever appeared in the history OF Ver- !
lont. There Is nothing strange about u
his omission, for to the very summit are 81
farms with warm, rich land |.
$50 feet above the level. This same land .
Iopes west to GaysviIle, north to Bethel Z,
nd east to Barnard village and is free 4
rom rocks and stones, being cultivated Il
5 easily as any in town, which is perhaps 2
be reason that it is not named among tue =
fountains OF the state. TIE way-up, tip L
ID place on Mount II niger is the farm OF II
ardine Cowdery, which has as nj e, b
arm, early land as there is in district No. :
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