Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-05-21


Packard and family have moved to the
Herrick house on School street. Mr.. and
Mrs. A. j. Curtis, former tenants of the
Herrick place, are now living in the
Huntington house on School street.
Dr. and Mrs. F. c. Angel and Mrs. L.
A. Russlow attended the 32rd annual
meeting and Ladies' night of the White
River Medical association in White River
Junction Tuesday. At the post prandial
exercises, Mrs. Russlow responded to the
toast, "The Doctors Wife; the Oft Dis
appointed Woman" and DIR. Angel re-
sponded to "The Country Doctor; His
Trials and Pleasuers. for DIR. Russlow,
who was unable to be present.
George Ford, Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse II.
Blodgett, Mrs. A. p. Knights, Mrs. q. b.
Emery and Miss Susan Sargent attended
the quarterly meeting OF District S, /. o.
G. T., in Mortified Friday, and Alice
Knights gave a recitation at the evening
entertainment. The invitation OF VIII
Jamestown lodge to hold a basket picnic
| in that place July was accepted and ball
games and other sports will be arranged
| for the occasion. The next district meet
ing will be in Randolph during August.
The heads of the pupils in the graded
school are swelling one after another. not
from DER much learning or o'erweening
pride. but from an epidemic of mumps
that claims as victims Elsie Kilburn, Ell
sic Osgood, Margie Jerd, Adds Harper,
William Blanchard, George Wakefield,
Susie Blodgett, Fleda Martin and Arthur
Austin. Nearly all OF the pupils have
been thoroughly exposed to the disease,
which bids fair to have fine run this
spring. C. L. Kilburn's house is not
only quarantined for mumps but also for
scarlet fever with which his son, Walter,
is sick.
Charles L and j. Danforth Abbott,
who had not set foot on Vermont soil for
81 years, were in this village Saturday,
visiting Mrs. J. p. Cleveland, Mrs. Mary
Bass and her daughter, Mrs. w. II.
Nichols, old acquaintance in Braintree,
where the brothers lived as boys. They
are now farmers in northern Minnesota
about q hundred miles from St. Paul, j.
Danforth being located at Rolls and
Charles L. at Parker's Prairie. They
were called East by the serious illness Of
younger brother with paralysis at Phil
adelphia and were determined to see Yer
mont again before returning to Minneso-
ia, for which they started Sunday night.
Many acquaintance in this vicinity
will sympathize sincerely with Prof. and
Mrs. A. L. Hardy of Amherst, Mass, in
their great anxiety over the condition of
their eldest son, Robert, very promising
young man of 20, who has suffered
mental breakdown and is now in the
Northampton hospital for the insane. He
has been a very brilliant student, unusu-
ally advanced for his age, and is, it is be-
lieved, suffering from too close applica-
tion and over-work. Mrs. Hardy's
mother, Mrs. Laura Allis of Brookfield,
came from Amherst Tuesday. whiie.the
young mans parents are very despond-
ent, the hospital doctors encourage them
to hope for a favorable change that may,
however, be long time in coming.
Though quite few people were miss
ing from their usual haunts Friday morn
ing, and it didn't need a Sherlock
Holmes to connect their mysterious dis
appearances with the asbence of cast-off
suits and fishing tackle about the houses,
the resulting amounts of fish and fiction
were equally small. Fabian Dupuis has
the the best story to tell; for when he
was on his way to work at the foundry of
Osgood & Roundy early in the morning,
he saw big trout in the raceway and
pulled it out with his hands. 1t was
ing a pound and a half. Leonard Cou-
lumbe caught three-pound trout in the
Branch and j. w. Brown one IS inches
long. Louis Fillion, Jr., made good
catch with several fish weighing pound
and over, and William Blanchard hooked
an eel three and half feet long. Messrs.
F. A. Griswold and A. E. Dean came in
smiling at their success, with 80 trout
that tipped the scales at 10 pounds.
Memorial Exercises.
U. s. Grant post, G. A. R., has ar
ranged its program for the annual Memo
rial observance as follows:-Sunday aft
ernoon, Rev. w. s. Bradshaw will deliver
the Memorial sermon before the post,
Woman's Relief corps, Sons of Veterans
and the associate members of the post.
The service will be at 2 o'clock and the
public generally is cordially invited.
The Memorial day exercises Saturday
will be at the Center, where the process
sion will form in the morning at the
school yard with a drum corps, flower
bearers, school, Relief corps, associate
members, u. s. Grant post, all old SOL
diers and citizens. They will march to
the cemetery for the ritual service of the
post and decoration of the graves; then
reform and march to the church for din
ncr.
At / 30 p. M, the address of the day
will be given by Col. j. H. Lucia of
Montpelier, and other exercises will be
arranged.