Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-07-02

vsys accessible by the power boat, are
being picked IN fast and made into cosy
Robinson Crusoe retreats. Just recently
there has been completed new $4,000
yacht club house right on the lake 'front.',
whose membership includes about AL the
boatmen and people OF activity IN TINS
and other towns along the lake. IL -
fine structure. filling . weil-denned neeo-
A fen-mile trip down the lake ana re-
turn by launch, on rs beautiful DAY eno
evening - that of Saturday, could not fai
to inspire one % the charming scene un-
rolled. Col. Emery, my host and guide,
nointed ont all points of interest and
took me ashore where the boundary line
comes down to the lake. This line 10 not
altogether imaginary. A government
Joint commission went oser II last year,
cut Q path five rods wide through the
woods to define il and reset the original
iron posts that serve ss markers all along
the northern boundary. The location OF
these posts was not changed materially,
but they now stand upright with base
of solid cement three feet wide to keep
them from being kicked around by frav-
eIlers or carried on as souvenirs. IL II
not generally known that orr northern
state and national border does not follow
Q straight line, but zigzags, deyiating in
some places four or i've Lsiles from the
s5tb parallel. This results from follow
ing the first faulty SURVEY. IL the line
we're to be rectified there would be consid-
erable transfers of territory between DD-
Gle Sam and John Bull. Most OF the
town of Richford, for instance, would go
to Canada.
Orange county people will like 10 bear
how ..Curt'i Emery IL making IL up here.
Let II be set down that be Is "ail to the
good.' You hear about IL from everyone
you meet on the street. He IL not only
proving q competent and efficient coiiec-
tor OF customs, with its great responsible
titles, but himself and family have been
welcomed and fully appreciated socially.
The coionel's urbanity OF manner and
pleasing personality have won him
friends here, as they do everywhere, and
his energy and activity make him recog-
nized as Q man of force and character.
The colonel In an enthusiastic boatman
and navigator. II was due largely to his
initiative and effort that funds were
raised for the yacht club house, and he
directed its construction He was chosen
president Of the Y. NJ. I. C. club, the
leading mems social organization, this
year. He has an elegant home, lately
purchased, and hing TO disturb that
>fIcnt tnAk 44akEe uAt Dtal1-
ing face Q true reflector Of his mind
Mrs. Emery's health ie much improved
over last year.
The local newspaper, the Express and
Standard, has the happy faculty Of rum
ming itself while the editor IL away,
which IL much OF the time. Brother Hill
dreth side-steps carking care and bies
him to Florida in " inter, to Canada in
the summer, and to willoughby and
Memphremagog between times. His
business seems thoroughly adjusted to
this program. Quite likely the rest OF us
could pattern to some extent without 30
much loss as we imagine, and with q big
gain in comfort, IL we only thought 60.
Some day well be dead, and all the fun
lost, for who ever saw q picture of q he
angel with quill over his ear or scissors
in bis hand. And the paper will be
printed on Just the same after we're gone.
I worshipped Sunday, but not in
church. ] worshipped in Gods temple
outside. We took q fifty-mile auto run
from Newport to Lake Willoughby, and
then across to Derby Line and back to
the starting point. II was most delight
full. To begin with, we never punctured
tire nor lost q minute by accident on
the way This was conducive TO q spirit
of contentment with God and man. We
could appreciate the beauties about us
with no distrscting emotion. Our route
lay by Derby Center and up the Clyde
river several miles, past numerous ponds
that would be called watering places in
dry Orange or Windsor counties, through
Charleston and over the divide TO the
most charming bit of blue water thst
Vermont knows. wiiIoughby has wide
repure. and justly. II lies in q cup
shaped valley, which ii almost complete
iy ills to the foot OF high hills and steep
precipices that surround II. A road fol-
lows down one side only, with barely
room tn pass under the frowning noun
tains. The whole scene has Q touch of
grandeur and majesty that csptivates the
bebolder. See Willoughby, tben-see IL
again. ! mean to.
We passed out through Brownington,
noting the old stone schoolhouse built
years ago by its master, named Twilight,
who must have worked later than that
several years to erect IL, ss he did. ct spare
time from school hours. A very billy road
brought US to Derby. which has without
doubt the finest highways Of any town in
Vermont. The fye-mile strip between
the Center and Derby Line il Q real bouIe-
ward, and We covered 1t about as fast ss
the law allows. Derby Line, on the Yer
mont side, Rock River and sfanstead. p.
O., are virtually one and the same town.
with nice buildings and homes. The
river gives splendid water power here.
and manufacture hourishes. Some of the
factories lie right across the line, and
l wonderd II the raw materials passing
from one room to another always paid
duty. At stanstead there is Q large Cath
Ole college, also Methodist college. well
patronized by students from both sides Of
the line.
On our way back to Newport, we ran
through Beebe Plain and saw the cele-
DRAFTED postoffice with . boundary line
post in front OF II. There are two post
omces In the same building, one labelled
Beebe Plain, w.t." the other, ..Beebe
Plain, p. g." II 9 resident ON the Yer
mont side should mail drop letter there
TO his next-door neighbor on the Cauadi-
an SIDE, It would have to go around by
Newport, Sherbrooke and Montreal b.
fore It reached the postofiice few feet
away, ready for delivery. It's all very