Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-05-07
NEWS IN TOWNS ABOUT
GAYsvILLE

cAYsvILLE
Miss Maud Mason has returned to Bos-
ton.
Mark Furman of Barnard was in town
Monday.
Mrs. Ladue of Bridgewater was in town
Thursday.
M. L. Wyman, Jr., was in Woodstock
a day recently.
Rev. F. Wilson Day is visiting his
mother in Maine.
Mrs. Plunkett has been to pay q visit
to friends in town.
in Bethel Saturday.
E. G. Hagar and Sina Lowry were in
Montpelier last week.
w. Reed of West Lebanon, N. H., was
at viii Reeds last week.
Mr.. McKenny went to his home in
Dorchester, Mass, Monday night.
The dynamo at the power plant was
started for the first time Sunday.
A. w. Ballard went to Woodstock
Monday, where he has employment.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Chamberlin were at
w. H. Edmunds' in Bethel Saturday.
Mrs. B. w. Roberts was with her pa
rents in Bethel Monday and Tuesday.
DR.. and Mrs. La Voice of Rutland are
expected to be in town for few days.
Rev. Joel Whitney OF Royalton will
preach at the Congl church next Sunday.
Mrs. Harriet Knowlton celebrated her
s5th birthday anniversary Monday, May
A.
Miss Mabel Curtice came the first of
the week to work for Mrs. A. w. Cham
berlin.
Misses Susie Stafford and Julia Luce
were at home from Bethel Saturday and
Sunday.
F. H. Ketchum of Randolph has been
working several days at the electric pow
er plant.
H. C. Allen and Alonzo Keyes were in
Burlington last week to attend the state
convention.
Mrs. G. B. Taggart and Miss Harriette
Taggart Of Royalton were with friends in
town Monday and Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Swinyer and little
Miss Annie were visitors at George
Smiths in Royalton Sunday.
r.
the Richardson farm, is on a visit to his
former home in New York.
Stanley, little son of Mr.. and Mrs. Eu-
gene Chamberlin, cut his hand quite bad
ly on a saw the latter part of last week.
Mr.. Howard, who has been in town to
set up the water wheels at the electric
power plant, returned to his home in
Orange, Mass, Monday.
Mrs. Jennie Boutwell, returned Thurs
day from two weeks visit in Wood
stock and Bridgewster. She will stay for
the present with her mother, Mrs. Caro-
line Ballard, who has not been feeling SO
well for several days.
At the recent annual meeting OF the
Brooklyn Society of Vermonters, George
E. Miner was reelected president and
Herbert K Twitcbell of go Broadway,
n. V, was reelected secretary. Mr.. Min
er's address is % Broad street, New York
city, and he would be pleased to Obtain
the addresses of any vermonters residing
in that place who are not already men,
bers of the society. Gaysville people are
always glad to hear OF Mr.. Miners sue
cess, as he owns a summer home here and
with his family spends some time here
each year.
"Susarins orr in Brooklyn.
The following is from the New York
Times of April 2e:-
"If Brooklyn is not hillside of Yer
mont it was as near like it last night as
the Society of vermonters could make it
for their sugaring-off, the first festival of
the kind ever held anywhere near this
town. At the entrance of the assembly's
big dining room stood two small trees,
and between them the sap kettle for the
maple syrup, with the fire blazing under
meath. Within the room the Vermonters
assembled, few hundred strong. Some
of them actually hailed from that small
state, but more were like Col. Elijah Ken
nedy, president of the New England soci-
ETY., who wears the Vermont badge, as he
SAYS, because he was born in Connecticut,
educated in Wisconsin, and has lived
most of his life in California.
CONTRARY to expectations, the YER
monters assembled on camp chairs. The
proper caper at sugaring-off is to empty
the sap buckets, reverse them and use
them as seats, but the authorities