Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-04-02


date the postofiice, which is TO be moved
+ to it. Groceries and dry goods viii be the
I lines carried.
The Methodist society held a very enjoy
I able social at the parsonage Friday even
4 ing Refreshments OF sandwiches, salad
cake and coffee were served, and those
4 present were entertained with q short musi-
cal program. Vocal solos were rendered
/ by Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Leeds and Miss
Leltie Bailey, and a piano duet was given
/ by Miss Hazel Fairbanks and Miss Edith
Rainey. The receipts amounted TO ~.
4 Between fifty and sixty people, members
Of the Woman Relief corps ana the Bap-
/ inst society, met al the Baptist parsonage
+ Tuesday evening and gave Rev. and Mrs.
Brown T.. Smith a complete surprise.
/ Music was furnished for entertainment,
and refreshments OF cake and coffee were
served. A loaded table Of packages and
several envelopes containing money were
left, at the close of a very pleasant evening
The contract for the switch board and
accessories OF the Randolph Telephone
exchange, together with portion OF
the telephones required, has been awarded
to the Electric Gas Lighting company OF
Boston, a firm which manufactures all
the apparatus needed. The poles for
the new line are expected here in the
mence Immediately.
The last entertainment of the course will
be Friday evening, Apr. 18th, given by the
Springer French Novelty company. Its
nature will be similar to that of the Marc
entertainment which failed us, and for
which thisAis substituted. The company
includes Prof. Bennett Springer, magl-
clan; Archie Leon French, imitator, ven
triloquist and dialect story-teller; koom-
IA swami, Oriental magician; and plan
list.
Hon. V. /. Spear OF the State Board OF
Cattle Commissioners, has been in Chester
and Brattleboro lately TO look after a few
cases of CHAMBERS that have developed in
that section, and also to adjust matters in
connection with a thorough disinfecting
after the foot and mouth disease. A rigid
cleaning up calls sometimes for what looks
to the owners thereof like a wanton de-
struction of property in the way OF hay,
etc.
United States Deputy Marshal Luke
Parish went to Cabot Monday to arrest
Mrs. Emma A. Collins OF that place for
violating the postal laws in sending
prohibited matter through the nails
He took the woman TO st. Johnsbury for
a hearing before the United States, COM
missioner, Harry Blodgett, who bound
her over in the sum OF 300 to the May
term OF district court at Windsor. Mr.
Parish reached home yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. +. Bowman are now oc-
cupying the rooms in the house OF Will
liam Bass vacated by Mrs. lamar ANGEL
They moved from the house on Park street
recently sold by Mrs. Emily Sault to Al
fred Webster, who will take possession OF
it about the first of May. Mr.. Webster's
farm is TO be carried on by his son, Clarence,
sA.. a.
Richardson, the man who has run the
evaporation at his sugar works for several
seasons.
Henry L. Wills, aged IS years, died
Monday morning at the home OF his
daughter, Mrs. George lane, on the Drury
farm, from grip complicated by other
troubles. He had been for eight years
resident of Brookfield and only three
weeks before his death came down to his
daughters, where he was taken critically
in almost Immediately. He left a wife.
two daughters, Mrs. George Lane OF this
place and Mrs. Horace Lane Of Bethel
'Lympus, and son, Edward l.. Wills OF
Brookfield. The funeral was held at Mr..
George Lanes yesterday afternoon at
o'clock. Rev. Mr.. Ahercrombie OF Brook
field officiating, and the burial was al
Randolph Center by the side OF the first
wife OF deceased.
f. w. Tewksbury & Co. have received
this season only forty pounds OF cake
sugar and not more than a hundred
gallons OF syrup. V. i. Spear OF the Sugar
Market states that the maple product
throughout the state is only . per cent
of the usual quantity and Of a very in
ferior quality. The managers al the
market have a large number OF orders in
and have had to notify their customers
that the quality cannot be maintained
this year. Instead of eanceling their
orders, however, the purchasers express a
TO take what they can get.
The market had counted on doing
business Of thirty or forty thousand dol
lars this year, but on account Of the moor
season will be closed about the first ~
May and remain so until another snring
There seems to be an impression abroad
that the pigmy smokers on our streets
are encouraged in the pernicious habit
they are forming by gifts Of Cigarettes
ana cigars from those who cannot plead |
heir tenaer years as an excuse for not
knowing what they are doing. The dis
pensers Of tobacco no doubt eniov the !
absurd spectacle OF the little cbaps
blowing clouds Of smoke from their IT,
with a ridiculous ASSUMPTION ~ ,rari,, 1
airs, and are either too near slvhted ~
see beyond the fun Of the passing hour ar /
too careless 70 bestOw a thought on the
future o. the boys whose dwarfed bodies f
and clouded intellects are the piice 81
theiT momentary amusement. There
IS proverb TO the effect that il makes a
difference whose OK is gored. and Il also
makes a olnerenee whose boy Is smoking
m the amount of pleasure grown ueonle
derive from the exhibition.
(other items on 7th page.
To Mothers in This Town.
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