Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-09-02
Randolph.
GEORGIA WHITE. Local Editor.


GEORGIA WHITE. Local Editor.
Good Roads.
When through the air we at with ease
And travel where our fancy please,
Twill be delightful
To have no wandering little gust
Stir up cloud Of binding dust,
chokingly frightful.
In their construction all Of air,
The highways" viii be smooth and fair,
Il stands to reason;
And always spite Of snow or Hood
Perfectly free Of drift or mud
In every season.
With roads as limfless as space,
As hmitess will be our pace,
And quite correctly;
For can make the best Of time
Without single hill to climb,
And go directly.
When through the air we ait with ease
And travel where our fancy please,
Twill be delightful;
But should we ever be thrown Out"
That would, We know, without a doubt
Be something frghiful
Master Earl Hutehins OF Barre is visit
ing his cousin, Harold Church.
Mrs. CyIena Hall of Bethel is spending
the week with Mrs. Roswell Holbrook.
James Mussey returned to Cambridge,
Mass, yesterday after two weeks at J. J.
Stimets'.
Miss Norma Anderson Of New York, a
guest at the Wiswall cottage, went away
yesterday.
Mrs. Clara Avery has Joined camping
party at Lake Champlain near Rouses
Point, N. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. <. Bass had a whist
party Of 16 last night in honor of their
guests, DR.. and Mrs. g. A. Wheeler OF
Boston.
Mrs. E. N. Rising returned Friday
morning from Salt Lake city, where she
had been attending the National G. A. R.
encampment in her official capacity as
president of the Vermont Woman's Relief
corps. Monday Mrs. Rising went to
Montpelier and spent the next day with
the corps in Cabot.
Miss Marjorie Wheeler OF White River
Junction, who has many acquaintances
in Randolph, is to teach this year in
Reading, Mass, succeeding her elder sis
ter, Miss Lucille, who has taught there
the last two years and is now to become
a member of the faculty of the Spring
field Mass. high school The youngest
sister, Mary, will enter the Wheaton
school at South Hadley, Mass, to prepare
for Mount Holyoke college, from whicb
Miss Marjorie was graduated in June.
Rev. H. E. Hinkley Of Weston, Mass,
has written that he " i'll accept call to the
Federated Baptist and Methodist churches
of this village and the remaining farmali-
ties will be speedily accomplished. Mr.
Hinkley is q Baptist clergyman and since
his graduation from college has preached
a short time in Maine and held pastorates
in Brewster, Everetr and Weston, Mass.
He has been five years in his present
charge, which has had remarkable in
crease in membership largely through
his personal efforts. He is spoken of as a
man of executive ability with the faculty
OF putting others to work as well as
doing things himself. he has a wife and
two children.
The circular conference held with the
Braintree Hill Cong'l church Tuesday
sas an unqualified success, the people
being anxious for "the view and lesson
from the hill top" All were present and
took the parts assigned them in the pro-
gram with the exception of George B. J.
Hall, who could not attend on account of
sickness in his family but who sent his
paper on Sunday school work and it was
read by another. The churches in the
conference circle were for the most part
we'll represented, and the PEOPLE of Brain
tree Hill did themselves much credit in
entertaining. Some Of those who have
been in the custom of attending the cir
cular conference said this was one of the
best.
@. A. Chedel is having concrete dAm
built for the Champlain Realty company
at the McCollom pond in the Pine Tree
nursery tract on Park street hill. The
dam is to be Of concrete, 200 feet long,
and is being constructed under the direc-
tion of Albert Dustin Of Bethel. The OBJ
ject is to use this pond, which covers an
acre, to irrigate the nursery in dry sea-
sons, and it might be possible in winter to
cut from it q supply of pure spring water
ice, which would be avsilAble for pur-
poses for which the river ice has been
condemned, namely: for cooling the
tongues of feverish patients and the
punch at social functions. At present
the dainty cup of pink fruit juice looks
less inviting when one considers how
many microbes are disporting themselves
in its contents like bathers at the sea-
shore; while, in the case of the sick, one
hesitates to add to his internal zoo by
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