Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-08-25


L. Flint, with her son and two daughters
has been for few weeks at the Drur
farm, where Mr.. Flint, whose business
in Chicago, and his daughter, Mary, ar
spending the summer with Mr.. Flint
mother, Mrs. Mary Drury.
Rev. Willis r. Sparhawk is in Randolph
again after a residence OF two years and
half in California, where he has lately beel
preaching at Villa Park. He left Sal
Francisco the first OF August and went {,
Portland and Seattle, then to Victoria il
British Columbia, where he took the boa
to Vancouver. AT the latter place he re
sumed railroad travelling to Winnipeg and
Fort William, and then by boat agar
journeyed TO Buffalo and overland home
He win stay in Vermont until the first o
November, when he expects to return 4
California, where the climate is bette
suited to his health. Sunday, Mr.. spar
hawk was in Putney and preached to hi
former parishioners in the Congl churcl
Of that place.
Prof Ira ID. Shaw OF New York, a for
mer principal OF the Randolph High school
and Mrs. Shaw are the guests this week o
DR.. and Mrs. Il. 0. Blanchard. Prof
Shaw, who has just completed at Colum.
bia college the course for the degree o.
doctor OF philosophy, has for the last
three years been paying special attention
TO the training OF children whose abnor.
NAL tendencies render them incapable OF
deriving any benefit from the ordinary
methods of instruction. He has been SC
successful in the development OF some ex-
tremely difficult cases that he has pur-
chased place at White Plains, n. ", and
is TO open this fall a private school for
pupils whose pedagogical treatment must
be along unusual lines.
DR.. and Mrs. J. P. Clifford are to sail
from New York Thursday, Septem Der s, on
the steamer Republic OF the White Star
line for their three months absence
abroad. They will land at Liverpool. pass
through London, Oxford, Chester and
other English towns on their itinerary,
which takes them into Holland to visit
famous cities of the Dutch republic, like
Antwerp, Amsterdam and The Hague, on
their way TO Vienna. At the latter place
they viii spend two months, which the
doctor Will devote TO special work at the
krankenhaus, the largest hospital in
Europe, with accommodations for 1000
patients. Leaving Vienna, they will
journey into Italy, stopping, among other
places, at Florence, Rome and Naples, and
then sail for New York, one month OF the
three being used in travel to and from
Vienna.
The old soldiers and others who
attended the national encampment OF the
Grand Army in Boston last week had a
season OF unalloyed pleasure up to the
moment OF starting for home, when they
took tumble from the heights OF Joy to
the depths of woe. There were 100000
excursionists In Boston, each with a
ticket that had to be stamped before he
could leave the city, and when the time Of
departure drew near, a stampede to the
stamping place straightway began. Men,
women and children lined up In front Of
the office with the precious strips OF card
board in their hands and waited for hours
to receive attention from the hustIing
railroad clerks. Women tainted from ex-
haustion and were carried away in ambu-
lance wagons, and the line promptly
closed up without any orders from any
body. One man stood four hours and
then fell out to recuperate and the next
day stood four hours more before he could
get his case attended to. A Randolph
veteran started in at half past nine in the
morning to take his chances at the end OF
a line that would reach, he said, from
Salisbury's mill to the depot, and at IL
O'Clock had his ticket stamped. As he
was leaving for his train, he stepped out
to take look at the waiting line, in which
he had been standing for an hour and q
half, and declares that, without any
stretching, Il would reach from the top Of
the South Main street hill to the covered
bridge. Once on board their trains, the
excursionists naturally made the stamp
ing feature theme of conversation, from
whose general tenor il could be gathered
that different ticket arrangements would
be in vogue before they went on another
excursion