Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-05-27
Randolph.
eEoRaIA VIII. LoeaI EdltOI


GEORGIA WHITE, Local Editor.
Hope.
Come ehisel me now a figure of hop,,
Quite out Of the stock design
Of lovely maid with anchor and rope
And raiment in classical line.
Mould me the gardeners form instead,
In oyeralls arrayed
And bent above some promising bed
With rake and hoe aad spade.
For pedestal have a vegetable patch.
thing both q 10y and grief,
And the neighbor's hens coming over to
scratch
viii DO for has-relief.
For, though with government seeds he cope
with bugs afo I and a'wing,
In the gardners heart springs undaunted
And does ii every spring.
F. L. Howe of Northfeld was in town
Tuesday.
J. c. sherburne went TO st. Johnsbury
on business Tuesday.
Mrs. L. A. Segar of Roxbury is visit
ing her sister, Mrs. S. s. whitcomb.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. H. Miller are at their
farm in Pomfret for few days.
Mrs. Mary Mann is passing a week in
North Pomfret with her niece. Mrs. P.
W. Strong, and family.
Mrs. A. n. Angel was in Barre Tues
day to see her sister, Mrs. Joseph Howes,
who is very i'll with heart disease.
DIR. E. A. Bishop announces the COM
pleted list OF the faulty for Montpelier
seminary another year, and Miss Mabel
c. Hamilton is named as teacher of elocu-
tion and physical culture.
Fern Rebekah lodge held a practice
meeting Tuesday evening before Mrs. r..
l. Richmond OF Rutland, grand warden
Of the State assembly. A social period
followed the work and ice cream and cake
were served.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hudson Bailey, their
daughters, Ella, Alta and Mrs. Finn
Parmenter, the latter's husband and
child, reached town Tuesday from South
Pasadena, Cal, to which place they re-
moved four years ago. They were warm
ly greeted by a crowd of relatives and
friends and are to remain in Vermont un-
til September.
Young Gotch wrestled Bob SomervilIe
at Hardwick Tuesday night. Somerville
would only wrestle an hour on account OF
his coming match with Tremblay There
was no fall for either during the hour
and at Gotch's request they went on for
ten minutes more, without either gaining
a fall. Goich will challenge the winner
of the Somerville-Tremblay match at
Barre tomorrow night.
At the joint meeting of the Vermont
and New Hampshire Dental societies in
Weirs, n. H., last week, DR.. w. s. Curtis
gave an exceedingly interesting illustra-
tion Of the application OF hypnotism to
fnl A
der hypnotic spell by W. II. Towne of
Boston and apparently experienced no
pain while her teeth were being filed by
Or. Curtis. The test was called thor
oughly successful.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. II. Gladding were
called to East Montpelier Sunday by the
distressing news that Mrs. Gladding's
sister, Mrs. Austin TempletoD, had com
mitted suicide in moment of insanity
due to the encouragement and despond-
ency OF Iong-eontinued i'll health. The
desperate deed was done at O'Clock Sat
urdsy afternoon. when Mrs. TempIeton
took bottle of carbolic acid from pan
try shelf, and drank its contents while
her husband was in the next room.
She died within a very short time,
never regaining consciousness. and
scarcely seeming to suffer any pain from
the effects of the powerful poison. Mr..
Templeton is one OF the most prosperous
farmers of East Montpelier and Mrs.
Templeton was a woman highly respected
in the community in which she lived.
The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon.
The board of school directors has re-
elected for another year all the teachers OF
the high and graded schools-Prin. f. @.
Ham; Miss Ethel NJ. Park and Miss Olive
II. Moulton. assistants in the high
school; Miss Jennie A Stewart, grammar
grade; Miss Jennie B. Godfrey. third in
termediate; Miss Elizabeth NJ. Holden,
second intermediate; Miss Bertha M.
Manney, first intermediate; Misss Emma
L. Moses, third primary; Miss Eleanor Z.
Farrand, second primary; Miss r. Ade-
line Gray, first primary; Miss Minnie
Barbour, music; Mrs. Ella <. johnson,
drawing. On account of the enlarged
courses of the study and the extra work
required to keep the high school on the
approved list of the New England College
Entrance Certificate board, tho directors
have decided to give Principal Ham three
assistants and the new member Of the fac
ulty will be a male teacher. In order to
provide the third class room which will
be needed, il is proposed to remove the
lavatories to the basement of the high
school building, which will leave sufi-
cient space for a class room on the FIRST
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