Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-07-23


When any bills especially hard to wres-
tie with come up in the state senate this
fall, they should be referred to q special
committee consisting of Senator George
w. Flagg of Braintree. He'll down them
under old-time collar-and-elbow rules,
declares the st. Johnsbury Republican.
Saturday evening will be Housekeepers'
night at the grange with roll call an
swered by humorous quotations or anec-
dotes; papers by Mrs. d. Fl. Morse. Mrs.
w. W. Jones and Mrs. 2. L. Hills; a song
by Miss Lettie Bailey; q recitation by
Miss Carrie Manchester, and light re-
freshments served by competent house
keepers.
| Mr.. and Mrs s. S. Whitcomb have
been entertaining Mrs Whitcomb's SIS
| ter, Mrs. L. A. Segar of Burlington, who
came home with them from the family re-
union, held with their brother, H. Z.
Thatcher, at Mortified Falls the 10Th.
A nephew and his wife, Mr.. and Mrs.
Daniel Sands, were at Mr.. Whitcomb's
Friday, stopping here on their return
from Mortified to Lewiston, Me.
Miss May Brndish of Medford, Mass,
arrived last Thursday and left Saturday
with DR.. and Mrs. F. A. Eaton for
Greensboro, where they are to spend two
weeks at the Fitch cottage with Mr.. and
Mrs. John Buck of Boston. Mrs. Buck
was formerly Miss Mary Strange and
frequent visitor in Randolph. Miss
Bradish and her mother had been in Bel
lows Falls with the family of the latter's
son, Fred t. Bradish, and after a longer
stay there, Mrs. Bradish will go to Lyn-
donville for awhile and come to this place
sometime in August
| Helen, the five-year-oin daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Morse, possessed
herself of a few matches Friday and
quietly retired to bedroom for period
of secluded and undisturbed enjoyment.
The matches scratched beautifully and SOL
itude was full of charm until some cloth
ing hanging nearby caught fire. Then a
| considerably frightened young lady stole
out of the room, carefully shutting the
door after her, and thong htfully refrained
from exciting her family and inviting
her own punishment by telling of what
had occurred. A strong smell of smoke,
however, gave the alarm, and brisk lit
tie confiagration was devouring garments
and eating the mopboards W hen the room
was at last entered. No great damage
was done.
Doris, the seyen-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. L. G. Kent, was playing
last Thursday afternoon with some other
children under the trees opposite the
home on Howard street, when the idea
was conceived of amusing themselves
with paper and matches. In the midst
of the fun, the flames caught the short
skirts of Doris in the back and, as she
ran towards the house, were famed into
blaze by the breeze. Her mother heard
har ri ario
saw her coming almost enveloped in fire.
She caught the child, wrapped her in a
| rug and rolled her about until the flames
were smothered, but not before the back
| and limbs of the little girl were SO badly
| burned that skin-grafting process will
need to precede her ultimate recovery.
Had the mother not been near at hand or
had she lost her presence of mind for a
moment, nothing could have saved Doris
from dreadful fate.
The Mountain View Golf club has been
organized for the season at Caspian lake,
, Greens boro, with Rev. G.. W. Morrow as
chairman of the greens committee. The
clubhouse has been doubled in size and
now has 12-foot veranda ON two sides,
while kitchen and lavatories are among
the improvements designed to make it
convenient place to entertain guests at
afternoon teas. Golf matches with st.
Johnsbury, Barre and Montpelier players
are in prospect, and tennis court near
the club house is an added attraction.
The Wheeler cottage has been undergoing
extensive repairs and additions that are
nearly completed. Prof. and Mrs. A. L.
Hardy and three sons of Amherst, Mass,
are occupying their cottage at the lake,
and Mrs. Laura Cushman of Claremont,
N. H., is spending six weeks at the
Whitehiu cottage. Howard Chidley has
been a guest at the Morrow cottage but
went recently to his home in Canada.
The Burlington Clipper of L. P. Thayer
makes this editorial comment on what if
calls the Randolph idea:-"Church union
is comparatively modern and an evidence
of liberal tendencies in religious thought.
The latest movement in Vermont toward
united effort in Christian fellowship is in
Randolph, where the Baptist and Meth
odist societies have lately federated. 1t
is hoped that this union will be continu-
Gus and that in other parts where individ-
ual churches are weak, the Randolph idea
will be adopted, as it means better and
stronger work for the church and for the
community. Two years ago the Congre-
gational and Christian churches united as
an experiment and after one year of trial
the two societies became one. The sue
cess of this movement proved to be so
pronounced, both in an increased attend
ance and in an enlarged activity in Chris
tian work that church unionism became
exceedingly popular in Randolph and, no
doubt, this was the cause of the other
two societies coming together for worship
and church work"
The merry-go-round of R. r. Cough OF
Boston, that delighted the people OF Ran
dolph with its repertoire of classical mu-
sic during a ten days stand on Weston
street, encountered vigorous protest in
Barre from five property owners abiding
within close range of the selected site OF
the joyous machine. The five presumed
to call the tuneful whirligig nuisance
and to petition the city fathers not to IL
cense it on that ground. Their sensitive
ears would be distressed by the endless
repetition of obnoxious airs which might
become so familiar they could whistle
them in their dreams, providing the thing
didn't keep them awake all night. Their