Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-08-21
just a dash Of rain Sunday,

j guest of Jefferson Pratt.
Miss Mary Pratt of New York i
J visiting friends in town.
Richard Wires of Shelby, Alabama
is expected home this week.
X. @. Morton has the stills on fol
his new house on Weston Ave.
! The Van Ornam baby died suddenly
Monday morning of heart disease.
Mrs. Dudley of New York is visit
ing her daughter, Mrs. c. c. Written.
Mr.. Frank Chandler of Brooklyn is
guest at "Mari-Castle" this week.
The Abbott steam mill shut down
several days last week for repairs on
engine and shafting.
Methodist sociable will meet with
Mr.. Increase Chamberlain on Tuesday
the 26th.
Milo Torrey and wife of Malcom,
Iowa have been visiting friends in YER
mont the past week.
Lucius Webb, Jr., was in town this
week. He reports business booming
at Queen City Park hotel.
Hazen Sanford has begun work on
the foundations for a new house on
Highland Ave. for the Robinson estate
to be built at once.
The farmers of this and adjoining
towns will hold basket picnic at Bon
ny Brook Park, near Judge Bailey
Adams next Friday, Aug. 23d.
Business has increased so much at
Z. w. Hayward's shop as TO necessi-
tate a third chair. He and his men
wear the regular BARRIERS costume.
H.. II. Howard and A. j. Foster
are home for two weeks from the big
hotel which they have been at work |
upon in Norwich. The outside of the
is finished and the plastering is
now being done. The hotel is some
100 feet in length and three stories
nigh, with two towers, and win be
when completed one of the best in
county. Mr.. Howard has
,een the foreman.
While Frank Phillips ..babies, .
Iohn Boyce and Walter Dompier were
I work painting on X. j. Kimball's
arm, the staging on which they were
landing gave way and they fell to the
round, IA distance Of over % feet and
'ere badly shook up, but very fortu-
ately not seriously injured. 1t was !.
arrow escape from a fatal accident.
gorge Cowdry and John Fisk had
cen upon the platform only few
minutes before it fell. a
There is but one report from the !;
yer 100 persons who attended the Ma n
onal Encampment at Boston, that il i
as the greatest thing they ever saw. ),
here were more people present, more N
ithusiasm than ever witnessed in prev :,
us times. No abstract of the pro-
edlngs can do credit to gathering h,
which the great Boston dailies devoted h,
I'm eight TO ten pages ever day for a,
week and did not half report it at that. "
nose who did not go missed the great ii
thing ever seen in New England. 70
The large two story brick house ~
lich had been built about 80 wears. el'
shed and the large new barn on the IA
Adam Hobart place, owned by Rev. Pc
Gerry, about one mile from this vii =
e on the road to Randolph Center. an
re totally destroyed by fire early Le
esday morning. The fire was first IN,
covered by Mrs. Gerry about two cel
ock. She thought she heard some 'h'
IN the house and after arousing her no
band search was made. A smell of TOT
IKE was noticed, and the doors to coy
n basement which had been securely me
ened the night before were found to dec
open, and smoke was seen issuing
'etrom. The alarm was promptly sea
IN. The horse, wagons. and most So'
he furniture and his valuable pr i
library We're saved in very good Una
iition. The fire was set in a lum- nol
wagon, where it would 90 up ane
ugh the partition and reach the l nc
The wagon was saved in dam MO
condition with some burnt match. 70
1t. The barn had just been COM pan
ID and the carpenters chest oftools 'iir'
n away the evening before. Who s,'"
set the fire knew all about the em
/, and when il was completed. even roci
r. than the nearest neighbors. and m
entity had awaited its completion V'sie
re applying the match. The barn q z
over SiO00 aud wos ;,sanaa c. othe
}. There were over 30 tons of II.
e hay in il, besides the farming nero
/; the contents we,e insured for ne'',
!. The house was insured for 500. iahu
contents At 5000 Mr. Carr,. ,,,as, haps
over $1,000, besides his summers inns
and home that was dear to both s"ee
elf and wife. Until the first fire agah