Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-05-19

| Rutland the coming summer has beef
abandoned. There is now some donb
whether or not a tournament will b
held IN connection with the meeting
The intention was to make RUTLAND
the scene OF festivities this year, bu
this has been given up owing to tn
no-license vote this spring, which ha
| complicated the task OF raising the re
quired funds for the event. An effor
Is now being made TO hold the even
at Fair Haven. where the president o
the association resides.
c. \. Styles, a Cambridge mer
chant, has organized a circus an,
opened the season May 10 with a per
Torrance at Cambridge, drawing al
attendance of 900. He has so PEG
pie and 60 horses, most of the perform
ers having been engaged at Provi
dence, K. /. In addition to his per
formers and band Mr.. Stygles ha
numerous animals that form an at
tractiye menagerie. He has met witt
good success thus far and those who
have seen his performance pronounc'
IL first class attraction. He will toul
Vermont during the summer and ad
ditional features will be added from
time to time.
Mai. l.. G. Kingsley OF Rutland
received telegram May IA from Cor
oner Bottig OF Nyack, y. Y, giving ;
description OF the body found the day
before near Nyack on the Hudson
Major Kingsley at first thought thu
body might be that Of his son, Henry
who mysteTiously disappeared in New
York city last November. The de
scription, however. does not tally a
all with that Of Henry Kingsbury il
life. The body in question was found
hanging in a tree on Hook mountain
ii having been thrown over a preci
pice. There is a standing reward o
$4,000 offered by Hugh II. Baxter o.
New York, a cousin of Henry Kings
ley, for the recovery Of the body OF
information leading to the arrest o.
any person connected with the muir
der, ii one was committed.
The Rev. Hiram + Reynolds OF Bar
re, who is pastor of the Penteeosta
church there, has organized a new so
ciety in johnson, the members former
IN having been members of the Meth
odist Episcopal church at that place
The split evidently occurred with re
gard 10 the doctrine OF holiness, al
though the bishop acceded to the re
quest Of a majority OF the society a
conference and sent them a man who
preached their doctrine. 1t yet re
mains 10 be seen whether the Rev.L /
johnson, a local Methodist preacher
who has supplied the Methodist churcf
at johnson for two and one-half years
will become the pastor OF this new
flock He was a candidate for the gen
eral conference last month Not be
inc a member of the conference he wa'
technically a'laymann and run on tina
ticket, but was distaneed early in tht
race.
Mrs. Anna NJ. Fitch, wife Of Thomas
Fitca, the silver ;ongued orator, dice
recently in Los Angeles from an at
tack of typhoid fever. For severa
years Mr. and Mrs. Fitch were resi-
dents OF Prescott, but in late years they
have been living in the Hawaiian
Islands for the benefit OF Mrs. Fitch'i
health. Shoreham, Vermont, was bel
birthplace. She and Mr.. Fitch were
married In 1868. THE Song of the
Flume,n her earliest production II
verse. was highly commended by vii
liam Cullen Bryant. Bound Down,
published in 1870, and The Loves o.
Paul Fenly, published in 1882, were
among the novels which she wrote
one OF her later works was Better
DAYS, novel in which she and hel
husband shared the creation. II !;
said that she helped her husband write
his speeches and that he helped hel
write her poems.
4 jew hawker with tremendous
anose for peesness,n made his appear
ance on the street in North Troy one
night last week. and succeeded in lind
inc willing victims. His "bait' con-
sisted of the venerable trick of return.
inc to several of the first purchasers OF
his soap the money paid him, and
then the suckers almost upset each
other in their scramble TO buy IA cent
razors at 81 each. The sweet simplici'
IN with which they parted from theil
hard earned cash. and the sublime
faith that the hawker's indefinite IN
timation of giving them a big some
thing tor nothing, would be realized,
was truly pathetic. The hawker sue
ceeded in selling about GO Of his "con'
cave and convex ground and electri-
cally tempered razors. There were
.seyen wise men, threetold more
eager than the other sagacious citizens,
who invested in three raZors apiece.
Ladies' hair work. MRS. II. II. BEAN
1O5 Upham St., Melrose, Mass.