Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-09-24
Randolph.
GEORGIA WHITE, Local Editor.
Au.pieIous Moment.


Twas . time of parching drouth
With the streams and springs so low
That 10 mo:sten the rivers mouth
Was too much for the trickling now.
Loudly all bewailed the dust
Ger the suffocafing town,
And In weather signs lost trust
As green pastures turned to brown.
Prayer meeting night came round,
And the parson then was fain
To relieve the thirsting ground
By fmploring abundant rain.
But the good mans wife looked straight
At the sky so clear and bright:
And her practical sense said wait b
TIL a cloud appears In sight.
Mrs. A. B. Manchester went to South
Royalton last Thursday and was with rel
atives there over Sunday.
Rev. W. s. Smitbers, superintendent
of the Montpelier Methodist district,
preached Sunday evening for the FEEDER
ated churches.
Miss Cora Hayes, who for the last five
years has been living in Springfield,
Mass, is enjoying q period Of rest and
recreation at the farm Of F. b. Thomas.
Miss May Cross OF Springfield, Mass,
arrived Tuesday from the White noun
tains to spend the last week of her va
cation with her mother, Mrs. Asenath
Cross.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. w. Wilcox of Water
Vile, Me. former residents of Randolph,
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. E. A.
Thomas. Mrs. Wilcox and Mrs. Thomas
are sisters.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Hatch of New
York have been having . two weeks'
outing with Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Fisher
on the Soper farm and with their relatives
in the village.
Mrs. M. King and daughter, Sadie, OF
xaland Pond were recent visitors at the
home Of smother daughter OF Mrs. King,
Mrs. Albert Dales. who accompanied
them to Windsor last Thursday.
A. L. Currier has moved here from
Bethel and is temporarily occupying the
Spaulding house on School street but
will soon take possession of the J. NJ.
Holman house beyond The Manchester.
Miss June Fassett was in Rochester
yesterday to attend the funeral OF her
uncle, George Austin, OF Brandon, and
from Rochester will 60 to Brandon to
engage in millinery business this fall.
Mrs. Peter O'Connell is very sick with
typhoid fever and is under the care of q
trained nurse from Burlington, who re-
lieved Mrs. Jerry OConnell of her
previously close attendance on the pa
tient.
]. NJ. Booth of Bethel Gilead, who has
work at the Edison feed store, is to occupy
the tenement in the Dubois q Gay block.
vacated by Miss Ada Burroughs, and will
take possession Of it the nrst of the com
ing month.
Mas Katherine Denison. who went to
Nashua, n. H., with the expectation OF
taking . course in kindergarten work,
has entered the Fitchbufg (Mass.) Nor
NAL school for general training in the
teaching profession.
Mrs. J. II. Williams and her sister,
Mrs. q NJ. Ayers of Montpelier, Who ar
rived here the 18th. we're with Mrs.
Fanny Lewis in Royslton from Friday to
Montpelier the next day.
Miss Myrtle Rowell, stenographer for
the Missouri Lumber company, has late
ly been transferred from the office Al
| Grandin, Mo-. to Clarks, Caldwell Parish,
La, where another branch OF this COM
| panv's extensive business is located.
Judge Wendell P. Stafford of the su-
preme court of the District of Columbia,
who delivered the address Tuesday at the
dedication of the Aldrich library in his
native town of Barre, was the guest yes
terday Of Chief Judge and Mrs. J. W.
Rowell.
Mrs. Maggie Chaussey and two chill
dren, Harold and Belle, have come from
Montreal for an indefinite sojourn with
their aunt, Miss Margaret Ripley. An
other niece, Miss Kate Ripley, has been
here lately but goes back to her work
in Boston today.
| Mrs. George B. Emery is having Sc
we're run OF scarlet fever, and her eldel
son, Roy, has now succumbed to the
disease. The younger child is supposed
to have had it first in SO light form a.
| to escape detection but, nevertheless, to
be a source of contagion.
Cleon d. Lord, son Of Mrs. Ella NJ
Phillips, is gaming as rapidly as could
be expected at the Mary Fletcher hospital
Burlington, to which he went the 29th o.
August to be treated for hip trouble
caused by a hurt. He has still to veal
three weights of 20 pounds each on hii
leg.
Miss Mary c. Tewksbury went Mon
day to Rutland to begin her second year,
work as teacher in the city high school
She was accompanied by her mother