Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-05-12
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with the uplifting mOttc1 ENcelsior,
on its front page. He announced it as &
"live Vermont newspaper of today" and
its price, $500; "if paid strictly in ad
vance, S1.50,n and positively no devia
tion from those terms"
In its issue OF May 10, just "a years age
tomorrow, it contained some interesting
facts regarding the weather Of that sea
son. For instance the Chelsea correspon.
dent wrote Winter still fingers in the
lap Of spring. The weather is cold and
very unpropitious, so much so that farm
ers are beginning to doubt their having
an opportunity to do the springs work.
Snow is still deep and the travelling ex-
ceediDgly bad on the high lands. In
some localities the sugar season is yet in
full blast and farmers are supplying the
families with the products of the sugar
! orchards
Edgar Marsh OF Braintree took the lead
in sugar making that year, when the yield
/ from his 125 trees was, by actual weight,
I 700 pounds, or five and three-fourths
pounds to tree. A Plymouth man, Cy-
rus johnson by name, made 2O44 pounds
from 600 trees, which had given him 25iS
I pounds the year before.
"ApriI,' the paper states, twas some
what remarkable on account of the near
approach to uniformity of all its meteor.
illogical phenomena, the temperature in
creasing steadily with the season and the
atmospheric pressure diminishing with
the approach OF summer. At the begin
ming OF the month, the snow was about
two and half feet deep on the highlands
and in the woods and much Of it yet re-
mains on the ground. The only impor-
tant storm was on the Sd, 4th and 5th
when a foot of snow fell, equivalent to an
inc b and a half OF water. A bright solar
halo was seen about IL O'Clock in the
forenoon of the 5th, and auroras were
visible on the evenings of the 18th and
23rd. Bluebirds came the 5th, song
sparrows the 9Th, aquatic thrushes the
23rd. cerulean warblers and blackbirds
the 27th.n
One year before 1s75-the Billings
stage made its regular run from Wood
stock to Bethel and return, April 30th, on
runners.
Frequent showers had started the snow
banks on the hills around Randolph in
May, 1876, and three particularly hard
showers the Sth had caused the branch to
rise almost as high as in the great freshet
OF 1869. No damage, however, was done
Terrible storms were reported from the
West, nevertheless, with much injury to
property and loss OF life.
Let no one, unacquainted With its edi-
tor, imagine that the Green Mountain
Herald could talk of nothing but the
weat her Not so; for in scare head half
a column long lines OF big black type
read: -" Narrow escape from a terrible ac-
cident on the Central Vermont railroad.
Whole train of cars ran of a bridge be-
tween Bethel and Randolph. Fortunate
ly no one was killed.u Then came this
narrowing tragedy :--"As the morning
freight train was coming up from Bethel
today, heavily loaded with new spring
and summer goods for C. F. Harris, 1t
ran of the bridge just above Bethel viii
lage, but fortunately did not leave the
track and continued on its way to Ran
dolph."
An item in the local columns reports
"business hourishing at the Mansion
House under the new proprietor, e. z.
Hall. Good board and pleasant rooms
make it attractive"
Miss A. NJ. Whitcomb successor to
Mrs. Addison e. Kendrickl advertised
millinery opening Of spring and summer
hats. s. F.. Storrs, new druggist In
town, asked for patronage and c. ID. San
born, a master stairbuilder, pictured his
superior work by means OF cut and di-
rected those in want OF stairs to his place
OF business in the Kinney block south OF
the depot. q. J. Blodgett offered a big
reduction in groceries, boots, shoes,
crockery, glassware, ETC., after May LIST,
when he proposed to sell for cash only. |
II. II. Fullam & Co. were merchant
tailors, and a local item notes that Pres /
ident Grant sat down on the Democratic |
in Congress as easily as !
though he had Fullam & Co. make his +
clothes"
Parties we're encouraged to attend the .
centennial in Philadelphia by the assur-
ance that they would find the Green
Mountain Herald on file ia Rowell's
Newspaper Exhibition building.
Henry Soper had just begun to build
his house on New street (RandOlph .
ayenue) and the Herald reported that
street as "nearly filled up with buildings,
there being scarcely a vacant lot on II.
Under news in general is this item:-
90 Harriet Beecher Stowe and husband are
back from Florida" II would be inter
esting to know IL the husband" were
checked through with the rest of Har-
ret's impedimenta, and why be was more
mentioned than her grip
sack.
Rev. c. &. Laod and His Daughter.
"Tbe members and friends of the
Cong'l church at Red Oak, Ia, learning
hat Wednesday, April q, MAS the birth
day anniversary of their pastor, Rev.
George f. Ladd, planned and executed
very happy surprise on him that even
ing" says the Red Oak Express. GAN
to him, they trooped into bis
home in strong numbers, laden with
baskets and bundles OF refreshments.
The evening was very enioyably spent
and one of its features was the presenta-
ton OF a fine, big study chair to Mr..
Lsdd."
The same paper halls as RED Oaks
child poet" Mr.. Ladd's daughter, Caro-
Ign, who was a remarkably bright and at
tractive little damsel when her father was
Congil pastor In Randolph. The Express
publishes two poems OF the young genius
and gives them this preiace:-
"The following verses we're written by
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