Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-02-20

E. A. Thomas went to New York Tues
day to make selections for his dry goods
store from the spring offerings of the
city markets.
| Miss Blonde Seymour 10 home for q
two weeks respite from her duties as
stenographer in the Office Of ex-Gov. G. s.
Page at Hyde Park.
Rev. E. c. Kinney missionary Of the
| American Sunday School union, went to
Burlington Monday, and Mrs. Kinney
| left for Rutland. They are expected back
| for another weeks work at least in this
vicinity.
N. w. McCollom has begun harvesting
the pure water ice crop from his pond on
Park street bill and is cutting cakes IA
inches thick. He intends to have for use
the coming season double the amount put
up last year.
William Burke, who has been carrying
on the George H. Slack farm for year
past, will take charge of the Sanford
farm the first of March and will be sue
ceeded on the Slack farm by William
Slater of Williamstown.
| w. H. Gladding was in Burlington
Tuesday to attend meeting of the Uni
yersalist association, of which he is presi-
dent, and to assist in making arrange
ments for the convention to be held in
st. Adams during August.
Mrs. II. 7. Holman has been spending
this week in Waterbury, where she was
joined by Mr.. Holman Tuesday night for
the birthday anniversary yesterday OF
Mrs. Holman's aged twin aunts, Mrs. Bet
sey Gleason and Mrs. Phoebe Thompson.
Forty-eight members of the Snowshoe
club had royal banquet at the Randolph
House, Randolph Center, Monday night,
and after little exercise on the "shoes"
| in the interest of good digestion, Ye-
turned to the hotel for pleasant evening
of singing and dancing.
Y The Cooperative creamery paid 321s
cents pound in January for %, 007 pounds
OF butter fat and made 25.012 pounds of
butter, for which was received sS063. %.
The cost of making including the reserve
was .036 per pound; the surplus, 1856
per cent, and the amount paid patrons,
$7152.2S.
While chopping for Charles Martin in
! the Riford brook neighborhood last
Thursday, Leon Stokes struck his foot
with the ak, infiicting cash that called
for surgical attention. Eugene, son OF
william Eddy, living in the same neigh
borhood, had his head badly hurt the
other day in iog-rolling accident.
G. A. Blodgett has decided to relieve
Randolph's distress for a public hack
and is ready to answer calls for a convey
ance at any time. Now If some enter
prising chauffeur will run public auto
, to the Center every hour or two during
the summer season, strangers within our
gates will be more favorahly impressed
with our transportation facilities than
, heretofore, and the pleasure of home PEG.
pie will be increased.
; Three capricious youngsters, who prob
: ably didn't understand that they were in
a fair way to wreck the entire local light
t ing system and endanger lives, INDUCED
in the pastime of breaking the window
in the stepping down" station on lowe
Central street. They were caught ant
taken before Justice III. w. Vail, wher
P an effort was made to make them under
stand the nature of their offense. Th
: case is still hanging over them.
Washington,s birthday will lend colo
to the exercises at the grange Saturday
Feb. %, for which event the following
e program has been arranged Piano duet
!. quotations from Roosevelt in response t
d the roll call; singing, "America; ?
G .Washington, Citizen, Soldier an,
J, reading, Miss Annie Messer; essay
t abraham Lincoln,'' Mrs. L. A. Russ
e low; selection by the choir. All member
of the grange are expected to appear il
costume of rye clden time.''
4 The committee on summer resorts from
g the Randolph Board of Trade has decide,
to issue an edition of 5000 folders suita
e BILE for mailing, giving cuts of the differ
: ent houses in Randolph that are open t.
: summer travel, and information in re
T gard to the town with terms for enter
tainment at the different places. An
person who wishes to have cut of hi
house appear OH this folder should Sc
some member of this committee at one
and make arrangements. The committe
> is composed of v. 1. Spear, B. A. Man
. chester and William Hebard.
i Our lamentable race-suicide statistic
a continue to provoke sympathetic CON
10 ment, the last bit of coincidence comin
from the Enosburg Standard in the TO
lowing form 1.-THE village of Randolph
II with all modern improvements, such a
! sewers, good light and water system
Z splendid library, the best of school.
4 roads in the pink of condition and as lo'
N a tax rate as any town in the state, Gel
# tainly stands as an ideal of country vi
n lage ana presents all those Things cOnOt
Give to health and happiness, the builc
2 ing of homes and the rearing of familie,
When we realize that in such a villag,
which is but typical of others in til
II state, the native stock is dying out, tn
q question may well be asked: Where wi
i it end?"
IL Attic meeting of the State Beard {
lie Agriculture, held last Thursday in Bra
1t tleboro, State Forester A. NJ. Vaugha
r showed the possibilities of forestry i
the state. He said that a large part {
the so-called abandoned farms ought ne'
er to have been farms at all as nature il
tended them for woodland and that til
best thing that could be done was to a
IS low them to go back to woodland and I
5: assist them if they needed help. III
ID main topic was the financial return frol
the planting of the white pine, which
not only the fastest growing tree but
the most valuable and will grow on eve
TO the poorest soil. He quoted statistics I
Of show the much greater financial retur
y from the planting OF white pine as con
v pared with putting money in saving