Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-04-11


undisturbed beneath the sod
Thoagh the clouds s,ill snow arc fiaging
And the earth by frost il bound,
Up the baseball clubs are spFingihg
Thick as spat,cr all around,
yoyously the ear salutng,
sounds the bail talk moderns speak,
And which schools arc substituting
Fvr the far less pazzling Greek.
Mrs. W. W. Morton is in Boston this
week, going Monday.
Braintree schools will begin the spring
term Monday, April p.
George Gladding OF Laconia, n. H.,
was among the arrivals yesterday.
Merton Smith OF Brookfield is a new
clerk in the grocery store OF w. w.
Morton.
Mrs. Leet Blodgett and son of West
Lebanon, n. H., were here last week on
a visit that ended Saturday.
VIM. ". Packard OF Dorchester, Mass,
Is spending few days with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. +. ii. Packard.
Miss Bernice McCollom left yesterday
to pursue her studies at Mount Holyoke
college through the spring term.
Walter Fiske, who has been working
lately in the railroad yard at White River
Junction, was with his father, j. d. Fiske,
over Sunday.
Miss Lotta A. Flint, for the last few
years in the rhresher Silk store in Boston,
has come back to Randolph to clerk in
the dry goods store OF a. q. Nicholson.
Mrs. Junius Barttro OF Springfield
stopped over Monday night with Mr.. and
Mrs. Z. j. Rockwell ON her way to Bur-
! lington for treatment at the Fanny Allen
hospital.
| Miss Lena Ellison arrived last Thursday
fa
from the effects OF close and arduous
employment in store during the last
year or two.
At the meeting Saturday evening, the
Grange will initiate class of 80, one OF
! the largest in the history of the order. On
account of business, the meeting will open
at 1880 sharp, and candidates should be at
the hall at s.
1 The Grange Dramatic company, that
presented VALLEY Farm" not long ago,
was invited to a sugar party at George T..
Flint's last Thursday night and treated
4 to a superior article in the line OF new
maple syrup.
| Z. O. Godfrey was arrested Saturday and
arraigned Monday before Justice Ii. W.
\ Mcintyre on the charge of intoxication.
He was found guilty and was sentenced to
/ 80 days in Chelsea Jail, to which he was
conveyed by ID. ID. Howe.
A daughter. Mildred Katheryne, weigh
ing 10 pounds, was born Friday, March
30, to MIR. and Mrs. Arthur Potter, who
have been spending the winter at j. G..
| Austin, Jr's., on Fish hill. Nh. Potter
left Monday for Massena, n. Y.
NJ. w. Campbell has severed three
years connection with the Cooperative
creamery and has entered the employ of
John c. Hubert in the latter's barber
shop. Cassius Button and Gerald Stevens
are now working at the creamery.
Miss Myrtle Roweli, who has been pur-
suing her study OF stenography at the
Hickok school in Boston, is now filling q
position at the DIR. Paine sanatorium in
West Newton, Mass, while continuing
her course at the school in the evening
classes.
Mrs. B. F. Bowman started Monday
night for Berlin, n. d., where one sou,
Frank. is station agent and her youngest
son, Bsteman, is telegraph operator. She
will also go to Ipswich, s. D., to see her
daughters and will be away about three
months.
The plays, which are to be presented
during the coming season at the Chandler
Music hall and which have been under
construction for several months by
Frederick Leeds, are "Mark heim,"
dramatlzation of Robert Louis Steven
sons story, and ''A Nocturne," which is
adapted from George Egerton's story OF
that name. Both plays will be given the
same night. The date for these presenta-
tions is not yet decided upon.
FL. Avery, overseer OF the poor for the
town of Bristol, was here Monday and
Tuesday to look after the family OF John
E. Hurlbut, deserted by the husband and
father and left to the public charge. As
Bristol is the legal residence OF Hurlbut,
the overseer tried to persuade the wife and
children to go back with him but was
obliged to depart without them, cha
grined to learn that even charges OF
! other towns cannot be cajoled away from
Randolph.
j. M. Comstock of Chelsea, statistician
of the Congregational churches in the
state, has compiled his returns for 1906
and reports a total mem bership in the
213 churches of 22,092, or gain OF 2I7
from the preceding year. OF the addi-
tlops, 1852 came when the Christian church
of this place was merged into the Cong
church, and the merger added to those
received by letter. The number OF
churches and the total membership is al
high water mark in the history OF Con-
gregationalsm in Vermont
Capt. B. f. Bowman is negotiating with
! the Central Vermont Railway company
for the management of the roads excur'
sion parties to the jamestown exposition
In the event of satisfactory agreement
which appears very probable, he will e
to Jamestown soon to look the ground al
over, make arrangements as to route ant
hotel accommodations and find out exact
ly the condition of things and the diff
cultes likely to be encountered by thu
ordinary traveller. His report will be o.
interest to the many Vermonters wh'
have the jamestown trip in prospect
The captain is an experienced excursion
Z manager and was highly commended TO
the way in which he handled the Centra
Vermont's business at the time OF tn
Buffalo exposition.
r Monday seven inches OF snow fell ant
Tuesday night came another consignment
I OF ten inches that turned the world into
fairyland OF loveiness as it clung to tn
I bare limbs of the trees, weighed down tn
: branches of the evergreens and beautiiiet
every bush and twig. Camera fiends wer
: out early, Ohing and Ahing In artist
!, ecstasy as they leveled Kodaks at tn
: landscape and waded over trackles
= country to catch the various effects. Nor
prosaic souls gazed at 1.-THE beautiful
/. with calm approval and prophesied an
other good run OF sap. Already Tn
naples in this section have yielded suga
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