Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1906-02-22

vas Patriot sm's incarnation.
To-day was born the one who gave
Us independent station,
And on the twelfth he who the slave
Made free and saved the nation.
And as the circling months come back,
The twelfth and twenty -second
within the country's almanac
Are Saints DAYS always refhpAsl
Thy holidays may have no mirth,
OF time thou may be eharf, tt.t
Have blessed thee February.
Miss Abbie Avery has been in Rich
mond since Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest 5. Tracy gave
pleasant whist party Of four tables tues
day evening.
The Rebekahs have decided to hold their
whist party this evening instead OF 70
morrow evening.
Charles Church OF White River Junction
spent sunday with his mother ana sister
at the Church farm.
Miss Anna Eastman OF ropsham began
/ Monday to take the course OF training ior
nurse at the sanatorinm.
4 Rev Fraser Metzger was in Bellows
Fails Tuesday and Wednesday attending
/ a Christian Endeavor conference.
Mrs. Fred Fisher returned to Barre
+ Tuesday after spending few days Win
/ her sister law, Mrs. Alice Flsher'
4 Barney shapiro, the itinerant yender OF
dry goods in the towns about, Is III Win
pneumonia at his home in the Mansion
/ house.
f The Cooperative creamery paid 20
cents net pound for 23,9OO pounds OF
butter fat, made 27,500 pounds OF butter
aud paid patrons s6333.5O last month.
Miss Nettie Moody OF Lebanon, n. H.,
who had been called 10 Waterbury by the
. ! ufn a RpV l1r. A.
l.. Cooper's over one train Monday.
John UdalI was home from Pike, n. H.,
the 18th TO meet his parents, Mr.. and Mrs;
II. l.. Udall, who drove from Strahord
saturday and remained in town lew
days.
Tho Randolph. Braintree and Brookheld
Fish and Game Protective league VIII noiu
its annual meeting in Grange hall at last
Braintree Saturday, Feb. "A, at lO O'Clock
In the morning,
Mrs. NJ. G. Rowell and son, Richard
spent Sunday IN burlington MIN s,iass sa,ss
Bertha. who is being treated at the , 9PaI-
hawk sanitarium and begins 10 snow
some little improvement in health.
Mrs. Hattie NJ. Dean Rogers OF Lille
vile organizer OF the international sum
shine society. is staying this week Win
Mrs. Roswell Holbrook, at whose nome
any one interested in the work can see
her.
The dedication of the new Dartmouth
hall Saturday gave the coliege Z mol w
thar Fred Copeland improved Tor Nisi
nome. Charles Che5el OF the medical de-
! nartment Of Dartmouth was also IN town
I over sunday.
l. n. Johnson was one OF the Norwich
university alumni at the banquet OF the
Boston association in that city last night
: He will be joined today by Mrs. Johnson
and they will remain IN Boston until tht
last OF the week.
The Randolph Telephone exchange has
. recently installed phones at Mrs. Emma
7 prake's on Elm street, ID. A. Spooner
: and w. j. Dukett's on Weston street
r Fugene Wardner's on School street ano
the office Of the Buck Printing company
in Dubois a Gays block.
AD. Ladus has felled a maple tre'
I lately that averaged feet and inches OF
, the stump and had been tapped WIN
. one inch augur when II was Two lee
D through. It must have been 100 or ~
I wears old and had TO be brought out OF lh'
: woods like snow roller.
committee of the trustees OF the Ran
{ doInh Normal school met the state super
q intsndent OF education, Hon. Mason ;
! stone Of Montpelier, at the Inn trldal
I evening to discuss the present conultlol
and future prospects OF the ms 'itution tl'l.
.
z den and ]. b. Adams of the Center, Hon
w n. Dubois, Hon. V. !. Spear and j.
Mead OF this village.
4. continuation of the hearing hefor
!. the Judge of probate, Hon. Wm. II
Nichols, on petition in favor OF W. a
: Jones. administrator of the estate OF M
A father, Silas b. Jones, late OF luh hprlage
!, was held Monday and established the lac
u that s12OO belonging to the estate are =
= the hands Of a daughter OF the deceased
Mrs Orson Whitney, and her husband 0
Tnnhridge. with whom Mr.. Jones spen
the last Years OF bis life. This money
claimed by the Whitneys under contrael
issued, according to their stalenlehs, ~; =
>. tba deceased, and the hearing, haNlh
4 ssta ablisbed their possession oil the sun
a Is now closed for a settlement OF th
"a matter by suit or by some more amloapi
n method OF agreement.
) The Demeritt a. Palmer Packing com
le many of Waterbury, which contemplate
ID locating canning factory IN hanooip
the coming season, has sent Woru lna
members Of the firm will be IN town 500
IN make arrangements wi6h farmers T.
es corn acreage and to look up other detan
Iy ~ the enterprise. The exact date OF the
y coming has not been fixed yet, as they al
lie somewhat behind with their work, on a'
T. count OF being absent looking up machln
ck cry for the proposed plant mere. ~. -
re for this factory will be interested TO kno
that Secretary McKeene OF the Maine sta
- board Of agriculture, who has been speai
iny in Vermont the past week, says that
40 per ton the yield per acre will amoui
10 s41 or more, and the crop IS prohtab
one AT that figure. Maine Is the parent
The corn-canning industry.
Can't. Charles Mason Fuller, former
Of the United States navy, gave an ente
n tanning as well as instructive lecture
ire Panama canal Friday evening
DUBOIS q Gays hall. His stereoptic'
II views were Of the finest, embracing ma
and pictures Of the isthmus and CAD
" and showing the latest stages OF the st
. peudous undertaking. The nrst Il ml
ID the great ditch were completed by
Q1 French company, which commenced vi
w the easiest end OF the proposition M orc
~. to have some achievement on when
II. base future requests for loans. As I
canal is to be 40 miles in length, tncludi
dn three miles Of extension into the oeea
liz 10 the six fathom line, the United sta
has still considerable shoyellng 70 90
some difficult feats OF engineering
accomplish. There viii be plenty