Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-04-16

20 friends to his home that evening and
receiving their congratulations and good
wishes. Four tables of whist furnished
entertainment and during the evening re-
freshments of sandwiches, cake and coffee
were served. The weight of four-score
years rests lightly on the shoulders oi
Mr.. Booth, who bears himself with an ac-
tivity exceeding that OF much younger
men and enters with still youthful zest
into the interests and pleasures of life.
sd. II. Morse of Randolph" says the
Northfieid News, "has purchased off. A.
Joslyn of Mortified a registe red Ayrshire
bull calf. Mr.. Morse as president of the
Vermont Dairymen's association has had
an opportunity to make a study Of the
| different breeds of dairy cattle and has Sc
lected the Ayrshire as his pet breed. The
dam of this calf is very fine COW weigh
ing 1900 pounds and is a perfect Ayrshire
| type. In the month of June, 1907, she
gave an average OF SO pounds of milk a
day, ON grass alone, or 1890 pounds in
the month. She will be nine years old in
October and has taken first prize at the
Northfield fair every year, winning s35 In
ALL"
Ray Orlando Slayton and Miss Versa
Zeola. only daughter of Dennis Il. Cassi-
dy, we're married last Thursday evening
at the home of the brides father on Pearl
street by Rev. w. S. Bradshaw, pastor of
the Baptist church. Relatives and few
friends formed the wedding party and
among the guests was the brides grand
mother, Mrs. NJ. T. Perry Of Enosburg
Falls. The bride, who was unattended,
wore becoming suit of brown. An in
formal reception with refreshments fol-
lowed the service. The groom, who
came from stowe. has been employed in
Randolph since last July, and the young
couple will continue to live here.
The three sons of Peter Rockwell were
fooling with gun Friday night when
the piece went of and the bullet ploughed
across the right wrist of Leo and then
glanced across his chest, piercing, lueki-
ly, only the lspels of his coat. The ten
dons OF the right fingers were barred and
those governing the action OF the thumb
were torn out for three or four inches.
The accident happened at about 9 o'clock
in the evening hut IL was not until the
next morning that the boy was brought
down 20 the Office of DIR. r. c. Angel to
have the wound dressed. IT was then too
late TO set the tendons of the thumb so
that fall action would be restored to
that member.
The Herald's sketch OF Nathaniel Gil
bert, captured by the Indians at the burn
ing of Royalton and sold by them into
the British army, was reprinted in the
last issue of the Morrisville News and
Citizen. which says 1.-THE article is of
considerable local interest, as the subject
of the sketch, Nathaniel Gilbert, was
grandfsf of our townsman, william
ha 4
ants in this town, including Mrs. Harri-
son Dodge and Mrs. w. w. Delano of
this village. A valuable relic of the Indi-
an massacre, referred to in the article, is
now in the possession of Mrs. Edith
Dodge Davis. II is pewter platter,
which was hid in the house at the time of
the capture OF Nathaniel
The secate animal attached to the ex.
press wagon has heretofore never deigned
to take more notice OF whistling, snort
ing, putting locomotives than a slight
sbiver now and then at some unusually
startling noise, and, though always un-
hitched at the station, has virtuously re-
Trained from moving out of its tracks
Tuesday afternoon, however, the horse
lost control OF its superb nerve when the
air brakes parted suddenly under the
mail train with an explosion that sug-
gested a volcanic eruptioa, and was suffi
cient excuse for jump that brought the
express wagon into violent collision
with a nearby electric light pole. A
broken whiffietree and the swapping OF a
strap or two comprised the damage.
Phoenix lodge, r. and A. NJ, held its
annual meeting Tuesday afternoon and
elected these officers for the ensuing year:
WorshipfuI master, ID. ID. Howe; senior
warden, J. J. Stimets; junior warden, c.
/. Boyden; treasurer, A. q. Osgood; sec-
retary, Lucius Webb; senior deacon, A.
NJ. Vaughan; junior deacon, L. q. Ers-
kline; senior steward, b. A. Durkee.
junior steward, Z. S. Conant; chaplain;
J. NJ. Atwood; marshal, A. J.-Huse; ty-
Ter. s. S. Whitcomb. The installation
will take place at the next regular meet
ing. J. r. Cleveland, whose health COM
pels him to retire from the Office of treas
urer, has served the lodge in that respop-
sible position 40 years and 3 months and
has been a most faithful custodian of its
funds.
Rev. DIR. A. L. Cooper ended Sunday
an eight months pastorate of the Metho-
dist church in this village, undertaken
last August upon the departure OF the
conference appointee, Rev. X NJ. Fowler.
TO hinsey, Ala-, TO accept the principal-
ship of Mallalieu seminary. DIR. Cooper,
in his great love and devotion to the
church, has served without salary all this
time on the understanding that the in
debtedness of the society should be Ii
quidated by the end of the conference
year and, thanks to his zeal and labor,
sufficient funds have been raised and
pledged to accomplish that result. The
venerable pastor of S4 has been fully
equal to every demand of church work,
which calls for no little power of endur-
ance, and in his sermons he has preached
with power the faith once delivered to
the saints.
The fire alarm sounded Tuesday after
noon for prairie fire in the lower part of
the cemetery set by sparks from a passing
locomotive. The flames spread over the
whole of the new section of the cemetery,
crawied up the hill towards the Brigham
creamery and worked under the fence in
to an adjoining field OF z. A. Shattuck.
The fire company, in rushing to the hose
house for their apparatus, saw consider
able of a smudge up the track, and, TAX
ing that to be the confiagration they were