Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-04-21

40 ofer ~ TO- -frtsa s-7rosling rifls
The whiie-tipped pussy willows lean
The fields their winter wraps each day
unioose and give backward throw,
Nnmlnuiul that the uloK cIaents ah1W
Their tattered robes u yellow hay.
And nature, d a saving mind.
Ia weather has a bargain sale
mess Of snow, some rain, some tail
Leftover lots she seems 20 nnd.
In boxes on the Windows stools.
Tomato plants 10 warming rays
Are getting ready for the days
When man shall seize his garden tools,
Possessed. Is spite q doubtful skies;
OF vegetables % raise crop
Like those On pictures seen atop
The packages u seeds he buys.
w. W. sprague was nome from Spring
field, Mass, over Sunday.
Miss Lula Allen is teaching this spring
in Roxbury, beginning Monday.
Miss Ida Flint began teaching Monday
in district school three miles from the
village of Essex Junction.
L. S. Grant Post, g. A. r., has accepted
an invitation TO visit Bixby Post in South
Royalton Saturday evening.
Mrs. David Bosworth and infant son
took their departure Monday for Bristol
after a stay OF ten days with Mrs. Bos-
worth's parents, Judge and Mrs. VIM. II.
Nichols.
The Woman's Relief corps is invited to
a social Tuesday afternoon, April %, to be
given by Mrs. F. {. Terry at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. George L. Hutchinson,
on Weston street.
B. f. Kicker shipped Monday IS hogs,
125 calves and IL cattle, loading here 10
hogs and Is calves. -Four and fourth and
four and a half cents pound were paid
q 81 l. 4 n five cents
for the calves.
The Cooperative creamery paid p l-2
cents net a on or q, 500 pounds OF but
ter fat during he month OF March, made
g. g25 pounds OF butter and paid patrons
s7,522. The Brigham creamery paid y
cents net a pound for butter fat m the
same month.
Miss Winnifred Mann, who was taken
sick twelve weeks ago With rheumatic
fever in South Barre, where she was teach
ing, came home Friday, accompanied by
her mother, Mrs. Ida Mann, and her Sis
ter, Beatrice. She stood the journey NICE
~ and is gaining steadily.
Prin. r. f. Prichard was in White River
Junction Friday evening % attend the
banquet at the Junction House OF the
Schoolmasters' club Of Vermont, before
whose members Judge ". p. Stafford OF
St. Johnsbury delivered his address on
1.-The Making Of Vermont
Harry A. Eaton, with two partners, II.
3. Barton and II NJ. Nash, has opened a
six store in Boston at % Temple Place.
Mr.. Eaton has been engaged IN the SIX
business in both New York and Boston
1 for several years and brings training ana
experience to the conduct OF the new es-
Enlistment
Chester Hood met with an accident Sat
J. 4afth his fat her. %.
/ p. Hood. In the woods on Clarence Web.
steris place. A tree in falling lodged on a
/ limb Of another and as he chopped the
obstruction away Chester Hood threw his
az and started to spring back out OF reach
I OF the descending trunk. large stone
/ lust behind him tripped him up ana nc
1 fell over backwards, the palm OF ms lei'
hand striking the sharp blade OF the AK;
which cut a cash that required several
stitches 10 close.
About 5 O'Clock Sunday afternoon Mrs
A. j. Russlow and Miss Lura Montgomery
4 took one OF Mr.. Russlow's teams that nae
lust come into the stable from trip out
and drove onto the Playground Tor III
tie ride. As they were about halt way
down the South Main street hill on tneu
return, a strap to the holdback broke, let-
ting the wagon onto the horse ana ln'
startled animal broke into a run. lhere
Was a train on the track just ahead; Il was
impossible 10 turn down Weston street
and the wards on either side OF the roao
we're more or less obstructed, so theS
onickly decided to rein the horse into the
vacant lot between Charles Blodgett's and
the depot yard. A gap IN the fence iel
them through but in the dash down lh'
rough bank the carriage overturned
tbrSyyipg the occupants ON ths ploughed
ground The wheels passed over MIS-
Montgomery right limb, breaking nc
bones but inficting some painful bruises
| while Mrs Russlow escaped with no Wors'
conseouences than severe fright and
general shaking-up. The horse gallopin
around, came up again TO the fence, Nhlci
| il leaped like deer and ran INTO tne NvN
TON House yard, dragging the carriage De
tween two large tile flower stands' Wnlci
| damned the hubs practically the eAteh
Of the damage the vehicle sustained.
The funeral OF the late Leroy j. Sargent
"a hich was held at the home on Elm stree
Saturday afternoon. was attended Dy 90
MS comrades in L. s. Grant Post, Il. A. X.
members OF the Woman's Relief corps an'
a large number OF friends and acqualnt
ances The officiating clergyman was va
Rev. Fraser Metzger, pastor OF lnS mis- III,
tian church. and at the close OF the serN
ice the Grand Army Post had It's impres
sive ritual for the burial OF the dead. wv
solos ale Was My Comrade' ana some
time We'll Understand were sweet,
and expressiyely sung by Miss Grac
hanson. The bearers were four veterans ram
Capt. J. E, Eldredge, - II oa Thsrs we, wer
Eaton and NJ. B. kumrill. lheIe . W.
present AT the funeral from out OF town
SISTER of the deceased, Mrs. NJ; b: Wrigh
~ WaItham, Mass, Mrs. NJ. r. Aarrlng
ton ~ Northfieid, Miss Sarah G. Haven 9
Milford. Mass, and John Sharpe OF betn
Ell. The flowers were eNqulste anu ~
sister. Mrs. Wright, and brother, Peai
Sorgant of Waltham, a sickle OF PINK
from Mr.. and Mrs. II. Nj. Totman ana ~ !
/ Burneil. callas and smilax from the ke
lief Corps, a tribute from the z. =. soc ,I5o
Of the Christian church oo R9son u F Se
lilies from Mr.. and Mrs. +. I. Lilhe an
many other floral tokens Of friendship