Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-05-18


But when he starts with patent rod
To capture trout as big as cod.
Then doth be fan from gracei
For not o word said ads. OF books
About the signs along the brooks
To warn him from the place
Miss Aura Hunt OF st. Albans spent
Sunday with Miss Floy Sturtevant.
The Chautauqua circle will meet with
Mrs. Lemuel Richmond next Monday
evening.
Miss Avis Hills Of stowe was recently
the guest OF Mrs. q. A. Hills and Mrs.
Hale Flint.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Tracy and son,
Charles, went to South Hero Wednesday to
occupy their cottage on the island until
fall.
The Cooperative creamery paid 305 cents
net for 2g. 1850 pounds of butter fat, made
3i.2O0 pounds OF butter and paid patrons
1902.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. II. Ingalls, drove to
Northfield Sunday TO see their sister-in-
law. Mrs. Wesley ingalls,, who was Ill
with appendicitis.
As ID. II. Morse was lifting heavy stone
Saturday night, it slipped and fell on his
right foot, crushing the instep and re-
ducing Mr.. Morse TO crutches.
e. r. Evans has purchased of the E. F.
Emerson company the lot between the
residence which he is building on Pros
pect street and the house that the COM
pany erected last year.
NJ. c. RowelI shipped from this station
Monday II calves and is hogs, paying Al
and a cents a pound for both. Messrs.
Hatch & Ricker's shipment from here was
| IS hogs and ? calves, 3 cents pound being
the price paid.
| Forty thousand trout fry were received
here yesterday in two consignments from
the government hatchery in st. Johns
| bury. 1000 for w. II. Dubois, which were
placed in Mud pond in Braintree, and 20
boo for j. w. Untiedt OF Brookfield.
The 10Th annual meeting of the Orange
County conference OF Congl churches, to
which Randolph, Brookfield, Braintree
and Chelsea belong, is to be held in STRAIT
/ ford. May 81 and June !, with the Rev. k.
| II. Abercrombie of Brooktield as moder-
ator.
Mr.. and Mrs. X. II. Cham berlain re-
turned yesterday morning from Bridge
port. Conn, and after a short stay at his
farm Mr.. Chamberlain, who has been
studying the construction and running of
automobiles for several months, expects to
90 back to Bridgeport to operate private
car.
w. c. Emerson, of the E. f. Emerson
company, was seized Saturday evening
with sharp attack Of appendicitis, from
which be so far rallied that yesterday he
was able to take the journey to Burling-
ton, where he expects to be operated upon
tomorrow. HIS sister, Miss Maud Emer-
son, has gwen up her position in Boston
and came home last night to be in the Of
fee OF the Emerson company's mill
through the summer.
An entertainment Of the lecture course
order is to be given IN Dubois Gays
hall Friday evening, May 20. by Edward
III. Frye a monologist of the White Enter
tainment bureau of Boston, who will app
pear in his famous impersonation OF
David Harum. Mr.. Frye, who has trav-
eled extensively through the United States
and Canada, everywhere successfully
amusing his audiences, will come here un-
der the auspices OF the ladies Of the NJ. +.
church.
Charles +. Woodward, who had been
constantly falling in health for the last
two years with cancer of the stomach and
heart trouble, entered into rest al II
o'clock yesterday morning at his home in
Braintret. having reached the age of 70
years. He left a wife and six children,
Mrs. A. j. Boyee of this village, Mrs. Levi
Wilder Of Middlesex, Or. John Woodward
OF OXFORD, Mass, Mrs. John b. Hutchin-
son and Miss liza Woodward OF Braintree
aEd Mrs. Chester Dana Of Waitstield.
w AlNtf T. hanger OF AiUnAEtIltEs kAhlc
superintendent OF education, has made ar
rangements to hold a series OF teachers
meetings in Orange county in charge Of
County Examiner Comstock of Chelsea. I
The second OF these meetings viii be in
Randolph next Wednesday and will be in
the nature of an informal conference, with
ten to fifteen-minute talks or papers by
teachers and school officers. Superinten-
dent Ranger, County Examiner Comstock +
and Principal T., q. Ham will take part in l
the program with other educators. 1t 4
promises to be profitable meeting and all 4
the teachers in town should be in attend
ance.
As one Of j. v. Newton's teams was
work ing on the south side OF Dubois a 4
Gays block Tuesday afternoon, the horse
happened to move over the old gasolene .
tank, whose rotten plank covering gave
way and let the animal down into a
bEieked-up place feet by 3 feet and
inches, in the bottom of which were the
pipes coming out of big copper tank ca
Dabie OF holding five barrels Of gasolene.
In the small space the horse could only sit
up with its head sticking out Of the
ground and Just able 70 move its forelegs a
little An army Of men collected in no
time and with derrick and pulleys at
tempted to lift the poor beast out OF the
hole. but finally had to dig from the rail-
road side Of the tank to the brick wall,
remove that and then BY hltchlug pulley
to freight car and connecting il TO ropes
around the horses body they managed,
sitter two hours 81 hard work. 70 drag the
exhausted animal through the opening
which they had made. Vigorous rubbing
restored the horse so that in a few min
utes it could stand up and walk OF to the
barn as though nothing unusual had oc
CURED. Except for a few scratches Ii was
uBiniured and, according to its owner.
whinnied 70 be taken out to work the next
morning. Since electric lights have been
installed, the tank Is of no further use in
furnishing gas light, and the hole has
been filed with earth, making the road on
that side Of the block perfectly safe again.