Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-05-26
NEWS In TOWNS ABOUT
barnard.

stock.
Rev. Il. o, Bennett and bride were in
town Thursday.
Mrs. Emma Wood of Bethel has been
visiting at o. C. Smiths.
Mrs. Emma, Crowell is with Mrs. W. Z.
Danforth for the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Tilson OF Randolph
were in town on business Saturday.
Mrs. Mary Blodgett of Mortified is Wis.,
iting her mother, Mrs. Laura Dalton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Stockwell of Clare
mont, N. H. ARE visiting at Chas. Badgers.
Business was resumed at the creamery
Monday morning with good patronage.
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith OF Boston have been
guests at the Silver Lake House the past
week.
Mrs. e. Waters and Miss Jennie
Cootey spent Saturday and Sunday in
Gaysville.
George Deyette has been doing insur-
ance business in town and vicinity the
past week.
John A. Moore, with Bradlaugh, visited
friends in Bethel, Randolph, Tunbridge
and Royalton last week.
Remember the Memorial exercises at the
town hall Monday, May 80. Everybody
is cordially Invited to be present.
will the soldiers bear in mind the invi-
tation to be present at the Memorial ex-
ercises In the Universalist church next
Sunday at p. m.
Chas. Thayer and family OF Stamford,
Conn, arrived in town last week and will
spend the summer on their farm in the
west part of the town.
The subject for the Y. P. C. u. Sunday
evening will be ssThe Nations Heroes
Leader, Gertrude Wilson. A cordial invi-
tation Is extended to all.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. r. Carter OF Berlin,
Mass, have been spending the past week
with friends in town. Mrs. Carter was
daughter OF the late Willard Croweli.
]. g. Emery OF Woodstock, a former SUI
perintendent OF Maplewood farm, showed
in Barnard a fine nine days. old Brad
laugh from a Quechee Lambert mare. This
colt would be credit to any stock farm
Ia the county.
Old relics are being unearthed In Barn
ard OF late. Among them is brass can
dlestick which was dug up by Geo. Evans.
it has been buried no one can tell nor who
was the owner of 1t. II. o. French is the
possessor OF it now.
Will Clifford, superintendent OF j. Fos-
ter Rhodes Maplewood stock farm, Wood
stock, was in town last week with Lady
FELTON,. a Ben Franklin breeding mare,
owned by Mr.. Rhodes, and ten days old
Bradlaugh colt. Lady FELTON, has now
four Bradlaughs, two OF which have taken
premiums at Windsor county fairs.
A few weeks ago our Barnard corre-
spondent for the Standard told us fish
story, said fish being taken from Silver
lake, and In size being somewhat smaller
than a whale. We now have a fish story
that may equal the preceding one. A few
days ago parties from the Park caught
sight OF large fish steering directly for
the shore. Mr.. Fish seemed very inde-
pendent, lifting his head from the water
as 1t sailed along, and its head looked as
large as that OF good sized dog. Wheth-
er 1t landed or not is not yet known.
/ was reading few days ago about
company being formed to induce men of
moderate means from large towns and
cities to come to Vermont and settle upon
our abandoned farms. This seems to be
silly, foolish idea, and almost fraudulent
on its face, to persuade families who, by
hard work and close economy, have laid
by a little, to spend that little in trying
to live on a worn -out and abandoned place
that has already starved out everybody
who has tried 1t. There is no state in the
Union but what has plenty of Just such
farms and Vermont is no exception. How
often we have known OF men starting in
with great expectations, because they have
bought hundred acres for two OF three
hundred dollars, and plan for great crops,
who have been bitterly disappointed ana
almost cursed the day they made the at
tempt. A man who expects to succeed on
dairy farm with farrow COWS, or win
money in races with no-couDt horses, just
because they are cheap, is sure to fail. Get
the best, either in farms, horses, cattle or
sheep. Whoever buys farm for q 900 or
"a mn will IN the land ig nrndngf and
he runs in debt for 1t, pay easier and
quicker than on cheap one that barely
supports living.
TRUE GENTILITY.
Dr. Isaac Danfortb formerly owned the
farms Of Benjamin F. Chamberlin and
Michael Reagan, constituting one large
and very productive estate. Perhaps there
was no other so good in Barnard. He was
q good, practical farmer and skiilful ply
stefan. His practice was large and at no
time, day or night, did he hesitate to an
swer a call from high or low, rich or poor.
Many time in early days did he go, in
winter time with snow deep, no roads and
nothing but marked trees for guide, on
snowshoes in the middle of the night to
Bridgewater Hollow visiting sick patients
who were too poor TO ever pay him cent.
notwithstanding he always was dude in
dress and always wore ruff I'd shirt, yet
beneath II beat as warm heart for the
poor and needy as ever lived in Barnard.
He was a gentleman throughout and for
courtesy and frue politeness was not ex-
celled. He never failed to raise his hat and
extend a cordial greeting to whomsoever
he met This was so habitual that in his lat
ter years, when he became almost totally
blind, he used to take daily walks on the
fat beside the road north ofthe house and
could tell when he met team and never
failed to greet them with good morning
or good evening.
One fine day he was taking his usual
walk when he met COW which one of the
men was driving home. The doctor could
realize that something was passing and
gracefully raised his hat, bowed and said
"good morning." The hired man told him
that he bowed to and saluted a COW. DR..
Danforth, without a moments hesitation
said, swell, sir, il did ! have lost moth
ing by it,"
All OF US might profit by this speech.