Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-08-27

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the following officers elected for the com
ing year;-President, Burns l.. Osgood o
Gaysville; vice president, Harry S. Clarl
OF Randolph; secretary and treasurer, Mrs
Hattie ID. Burbank of Chelsea; superin.
tendent Of junior work, Mrs. G. A. Laird
OF Royalton; lookout committee, Miss
Jessie Spaulding and Miss Julia Miller oil
Bethel and r. II. Bacon of Chelsea. The
| constitution was amended so as to arrange
for one meeting of the Golden Rule union
/ in year, but no place for the next meet
ing was definitely decided upon.
The Orange County Eagle.
A copy of the Orange County Eagle.
published in West Randolph by p. Henry
! Wiley and bearing the date Of March Is,
1873, has some way escaped destruction on
pantry shelves and been brought to light
by II. E. Sharpe, who advertised in it for
90 cords Of hemlock bark to be used at his
tannery.
1t is a seven column, four-page paper,
and its modest price was $50 a year if
paid in advance, and 9 if subscriptions
fell into arrears. Among the business
cards is found that of A. j. Curtis, teacher
of dancing; n. l.. Boyden, states attorney
for Orange county; DIR. E. Huntington,
dentist in the Bradish block; Dubois q
Gay, bankers and brokers, and 9. Il. A b.
bolt, manufacturer OF doors, sash and
blinds.
The village school report is published in
this issue, and the teacher of the higher
department, Laura G. Kimball gives the
names Of her pupils who were neither abb
sent nor tardy, and In this list OF old time
boys and girls, dignified citizens of this
and other towns, will find themselves thus
hOnorably enrolled. As for instance
Alice Smith and BERTHE Hastings were
among those not absent, and Nellie Ford,
Gertie Jones, Jennie and Emma Smith,
Katie Howard, Emma Seymour, Byron
Goodwin, BERTHE Hastings, Leonard Wheel
er and Herbert Salisbury had not been
tardy. In the intermediate grade-Miss
Frances II. Graves, teacher-the non-tardy
were Charlie Briggs, Lucius Fowler,
Bertha Wires, Gertie Tracy and Mabel
Smith. The number of children in the
district then between and 10 was 14s.
The principal advertisement in this pa
per Of March 10 proclaims in big black
type a great stock of 'Christmas and New
Years goods for the holidays in great va
riety, but neglects to state whether it is
the past or coming Christmas and New
Years trade il is catering to.
There are two columns Of local news
covering a coed deal OF territory and |
ranging from a fire in Tunbridge to one
in Corinth. A man in the employ of D. /
Iarbell q Co. at East Granville was run |
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track in that village on the morning Of 4
publication day, but the utmost the hus-
thing force of the Eagle was able to learn OF /
the occurrence was that the victim was
deaf and a resident Of Northfeld- name
not given.
Another item states that the council
,alled TO dismiss Rev. William Sewall
rom the Congl church at Norwich, who
vas compelled to resign on account of
,hurch difficulties OF a trivial character
the minister having committed the indis-
retion Of playing blindman's buff recon-
nended the church not to accept his res
gnation and administered this sharp re-
,uke:-"A church occupying the position
4 the church in Norwich, without a sin
lie rival Of any denomination, with his
DRY full Of sacred associations, with a pos
ible future before it of incalculable use
illness, ought not to waste its good things
o its own hurt, nor spend in mutual
trife the energies and resources which
-ere given for mutual edifcation and the
dvancement of the cause Rev. DR.. w.
|. Lord Of Montpelier presided over the
ouncil.
There is, too, a report of a musical enter
"The Haymakers,' given by
he West Randolph Musical association,
hose members, the paper says, "hRve not
ossibly attained perfection, yet, what is
early equivalent, they give satisfaction"
his cantata was given IN the Cong yes
" two evenings to large audiences,
whose appreciation was manifested in
quiet displays Of cordial APP
lause.n Quiet applause must have been
cry inspiring. In the cast of characters,
larry, the farmers daughter, was Miss
lice Chadwick; Anna, Miss Lucy NJ.
inney; farmer, f. J. McWain; William,
rst assistant, f. B. Salisbury; John, Sec
nd assistant, A. II. Beedle; Snipkins, a
Dung man from the city unused TO rural .
fairs, DR.. NJ. l.. Scott; dairy maid, Miss
NINA Jones; and chorus OF laborers by {
he company. "This cast" declares the Z
port, "wss an exceedingly fortunate one,
I'd the program one of excellent flavor.
'eston's olio OF oddities and many other
Drtions Of the cantata, not forgetting the !
Snipkins, were fine in effect
Id execution. Miss Scott presided at the
ano in her usual accomplished manner
Id was assisted at intervals by Master
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