Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-12-24

r. A. Davis Of Bethel was guest At j.
r. Tupper's Saturday.
Frank Kennedy was in Rutland and
Burlington last week
Charles Angel Of Randolph was In
town Friday and Saturday.
J. r. Topper and P. c. Tinkham were
in Bethel =. day LAST week.
Miss Helen Campbell is at home from
Wellesley college for two weeks.
Miss Blanche Andrews has gone to
AthoI, Mass. here she has position.
Rev. Herbert whitney is At home for
few days visiting relatives and friends.
Artesnus Townsend is at bone from
Harvard college for the holiday vacation.
Miss Bessie wisseI hss gone to her
home in Warren for the remainder Of the
winter.
Miss Helen McCray il to take Miss
Aclisa Guernsey's place IS librarian IN the
town library.
o. r. Barnard, principal Of the graded
school, left here saturday to spend two
weeks at bis home.
Mrs. Alice Joy, who has been at Henry
Wings for a few weeks, has gone to
Bridport to visit friends.
Miss Florence Skinner, the grammar
school teacher, is spending the holiday
vacation at her home in Richford.
There will be Christmas tree Thurs
day evening, the z4h, to which all are in
vited, in the Congl church At 1880.
C. j. Bush and son, Ralph, Of Lowell,
Mass, arrived here Friday and will take
possession OF the farm recently purchased
OF George Mosher Jan. 1.
II. a. Eaton post viii give its 21st an
nual ball in q. A. R. hall New Years
eve. Chandler Music Hall orchestra Of
Randolph win furnish the music.
On Sunday, the 9th, in the Cong'i
church, q New Years sermon VIII be.
preached BY the pastor. Come and close
your year Of Sundays in true and happy
way BY being in Gods house and thank
full for His mercies.
The remains OF Eber Angel, q former
resident Of this town, who died in Tun-
bridge Dec. II, were brought here for
burial Saturday. accompanied by his son,
: John Angel, Of Randolph He was 81
years Of age.
At the UniversaIist church Sunday
evening, Dec. p. there win be q Christ
. mas service consisting OF readings by
T Mrs. Emily Chanee. special music BY the
4 choir and brief address by the pastor,
Rev. Mary T. Whitney. The public Is
cordially invited. Services will begin at
7:30.
The grammar room Of our school held
closing exercises Friday evening, the
1sst inst. Under the charge Of Miss
Skinner, the teacher, lengthy program
was we'll carried out, the young people
z thoroughly enjoying their parts and the
lChristmas tree that brought the exercises
= to q close. There Was large and hearty
audience Of weliwishers and all went
!, hons happy.
John G. Miles, aged IS years, died last
Thursday morning, after long illness Of
diabetes and heart complications. He il
= survived BY . widow and two sons and
two daughters. The funeral was held al
= bis late home Saturday afternoon, Rev.
II. W. Watson officiating. Friends from
away to attend the funeral were Mr.. and
= Mrs. William Baldwin Of whiting, Mr..
7 aud Mrs. Edward LaFlam OF Greenfield
/ Mass, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Rowe oi
= Brandon and several friends from Forest
is dale.
: The Late Or. c. w. Emerson.
3, The following extract is taken from 81
n obituary notice OF the tate DR.. @. w. EN-
= erson, d summer resident OF Rochester "a
published in the Boston Post Dec. 81
Il Charles Wesley Emerson, who died
Il suddenly at Mills, Mass, last Monday
le was q son Of Thomas and Mary F. (Hew,
it'll Emerson. He died on bis birthday
4 for be was born on Nov. 30, 1887, in
ID Pittsheld, Vt. He came from the sam.
st stock as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wendell
Phillips and Phillips Brooks, their com
~ mon ancestry going back to one Thoma.
i. Emerson, who was Of q family knightet
i by Henry VIII, and who emigrated from
n England to settle in Ipswich, Mass. IL
. 1888, to become the pre- genitor OF fam
I. GUS race.
= His boyhood was passed amid the pic
turesque scenery Of his native state, ant
his early education was much better thar
= boys Of his day commonly received. Hi
paternal grandfather Was a man OF unus
, ual attainments in history and in th,
~ scriptures. His maternal candidates
q was q Methodist minister. His fathe
~ was man whose taste, culture ane
= strong intellectual power Developed il
!, the youth habit OF independent think
y ing and original research which marked
g = his life and contributed to his success.
After leaving the public schools, he wa
- under the instruction OF his father ii
A4%AA1&af
studies. He completed a course OF theo
logical study under the Rev. DR.. Tyler o
al Vermont, preaching his first sermon a
the age of IS.
"a He was afterward ordained to the min
istry by the Association Of Congregation
al Ministers in Windham county, Vt. q
the age of 81. His first passionate Of tire
Is. years was in Halifax, VI. He was thel
settled for four years in Brookfield, VT.
=. and afterward preached for three year il
Northfeld. VT.
= Subsequently he was installed pastor q
the First Parish IN Fitchburg, Mass, anl
- for nearly five years was there the popu
Tar preacher to q large and fiourishinl
- congregation. He afterward graduates
. and took the degree Of M. d. from tn
n. University Of Pennsylvania, and ais
- passed through two departments Of Bo.
=. ton university, law and oratory.
- DR.. Emerson was q power in the minis