Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-12-19

Leon Flint, an employe at the Co-opera-
tive creamery, caught his right hand Sat-
urday between the belt and moving
wheel of the machinery, experiencing
fair substitute for the Masonic grip be-
fore he succeeded in releasing his bruised
but unbroken digits.
The Cooperative creamery paid 20
cents net pound for 1889 pounds of
butter fat during November and made
Fl, 4O2 pounds of butter, for which the
sum of SO, 271.75 was received The cost
of making, including the reserve, was
0. Al; the surplus was Is per cent, and pa
irons we're paid IS, 1892. 90.
A club OF about rs girls, to be known as
Bethany Girls, has been organized in
Bethany church on a belief in Jesus
Christ and desire to follow his teach
ings, to which end Thursday evening of
each week is devoted to Bible study.
The officers OF the association are:-Presi-
dent, Miss Lena Kilburn; vice president,
Miss Majorie Chedel; secretary, Miss Luz
cile Grant, treasurer, Miss Florence How
ard; chairman of the devotional commit
tee, Miss Jessie Chedel; chairman of the
social committee, Miss Ruth Roundy.' A
boys club in Bethany church will soon
be organized on similar lines, and also
children's club.
The Christian Brotherhood of Bethany
church had an oyster supper in the Par
ish house Monday night, and after the
season of gustation listened with obvious
signs of merriment to the "reminiscences
of that old man eloquent, e. w. Tewks-
bury, who set out in life to be successor
to Horace Greeley, Charles A. Dana and
other great newspaper lights, but early
pied his career and turned his attention
to eggs and other staple groceries more
easily and profitabIy handled than type.
A citizen who has evidently striven in
vain to pierce the shades of night enough
/ to discover by the face of the village time
piece how far past curfew hour he might
1 be wandering, makes this. pertinent in
1 quiry:-"Could not the village fathers
afford an electric light of at least 16 can
dlepower over the town clock so that the
wayfaring man can have no excuse for be-
/ ing out at disgraceful? hour" What is
/. needed is new town clock with illumin-
ated faces placed in the turret of the de-
pot where it will be centrally located.
/ President Dana II. Morse of this place,
Clerk j. ii. Winch and Directors q. r.
Andrews and F. A. Joslyn of Northfield
were in Montpelier Friday in the interests
of the, Dog River Valley Fair association.
( President Morse and Superintendent
Joslyn were on the fair grounds, Satur-
day, inspecting the buildings, fences and
other property, and it is expected that
some changes will be made. A hearing
in the suit of w. w. Holden VS.. Dog Riv-
er Valley Fair association will be heard
December 21, before Justice Kent of
Mortified.
The first issue of the Hettinger County
Herald makes its appearance at New Eng
land. n. D., this week under the local ed
itorship of Martin Connolly, who has the
assistance OF that experienced printer,
George E. Ryder, foreman of the Dickin-
sen IN. d. Press, in the mechanical de-
partment of the venture. The plant for
the new paper has been installed in his
toric stone schoolhouse built of petrified
wood and belonging to Z. c. Mead. The
building stands on the bank of the Cam
non Ball river and is curious and inter
esting structure.
mems Bible class has been organized
in the Baptist church on the Baraca plan
of brotherhood and Bible study and now
has membership of IS men. DIR. F. G..
Angel is president of the organization
III. b. Bell, secretary and treasurer, and
the pastor, Rev. w. s. Bradshaw. teacher.
A red button with white center is the
badge of the class, in whose scheme of
work very gratifying interest is taken.
Friday night the ladies of the church gave
a banquet in the chapel to the brother
hood and its guests, serving delicious
repast to party of 80. Following the
feast came postprandial remarks from va
rious ones and addresses on adult class
work by Rev. E. NJ. Fuller of Burlington,
general secretary of the Vermont Sunday
the American Sunday School union.
News has been received of the sudden
death of Mrs. Sarah Catherine Sessions,
who was found dead in her bed at Reno,
New, the morning of Dec. Z. She had
been sick several months but was not
considered in a serious condition and had
seemed no worse on retiring the night be-
fore. The deceased was the wife of
County Commissioner j. o. Sessions, a
nephew of Luke Parish and Mrs. A. b.
Manchester of Randolph, and a promi-
nent ranchman of Reno. Mrs. Sessions
was born in Tonawanda, n. Y, 5S years
ago, but for 81 years had been one of the
leading ladies of Reno, active in church
and charitable work until failing health
compelled her to take more passive in
terest in affairs. Besides her husband.
Mrs. Sessions left daughter, Mrs. A. NJ
Smith, who went TO arouse her mother
the morning of the 18th and found her
dead.
i AT a meeting of the Northfield grange
! Dec. IA, the condition of the farmers in
Northfield was compared with the happier
estate of Randolph and Waterbury agri
culturists in relation to the sweet corn in
dustry. 1t was stated that Randolph
farmers received 80 per ton for sweet
corn, while Mortified producers were
granted only 80. As further aggrava-
ton, $3.50 per ton was paid for pumpkins
in Randolph and Waterbury, while
Northfield pumpkins only brought IS a
ton. To the inquiry as to the cause of
this thusness, the Mortified farmers
reached the following conclusion: =" We
are not organized, and most of the farm
ers in town who raise corn and pumpkins
are not grangers. whereas in Randolph