Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-10-09
WEST RANDOLPH.


list last week but is better.
The Randolph National Bank has put in
a new Boynton furnace.
George Hoyt has the frame oil the ROD
inson house up and covered.
Rev. Mr.. wilkins of Bethel was IN town
Friday and made US pleasant CAL.
A. S. Hunter of Windsor was IN Town
last week, the guest of L. A. Shattuck.
Augustus King was severely injured
Thursday by being kicked by morse
Mrs. M. A. Smith and daughter, Harriet
have gone TO Boston to spend the winter.
Large numbers attended the opening OF
the LEGISLATURE last Wednesday ana lhurs
day.
Mrs. John Gorham is soon to go to Bos.
ton to join her husband VINO Is at WorA
there.
John Mcbride is at home. He has been
travelling this summer with one OF the
large circus,s in the west.
Carson Chase and wife of Detroit, Mich:
have been visiting friends, the guest VI
Mrs. Chase on Weston street.
A q. Wheeler and A. II. Beedle are
talking of going to Ft. Payne. Ala, on the
excursion that leaves Boston, Oct. lsth.
ouite large number attended the
Worlds Fair at Tunbridge and report a
fine exhibition and big crowd OF people,
RI. Kimball was one of the committee
appointed to notify Gov. Page OF his eiec-
ton and escort him to the bar OF 1he House
last week.
Chas. G. Dubois was in Montpelier last
week helping his father in the treasurer $
office. He was offered the clerkshlp by
Treas. Field.
Rev. Mr.. Atwell of Bellows Falls held
services in st. Johns church laaC auhdty.
II is hoped he will be here again the hfst
of November.
Mrs. Alice Barnes and daughter visited
at her fathers last week accompanied Dy
Miss Blanche Kelton of the Union House
at Montpelier.
West Randolph can boast of several eX-
pert chess players, among others are MI
and Mrs. John Hobart, A. H. Neiuauih'
Mrs. r. +. Evans, II. M. Dutur, etc.
Mrs. e. o. Blanchard has been very sue
cessful in her exhibits at the fairs this
fall. She took the sweepstakes ana ~ az
Bethel, 1922 at Woodstock and $3.50 at
Tunbridge.
We regret to say that the West Randolph
Lecture Association has decided not to
give any course this season. 1t is TO be
hoped some one will have enterprise
enough to start short course OF four en-
tertainments at least.
DR.. Edmund Weston Of Washington, d.
I C., is in town visiting his many friends.
The older residents remember hlm as
eNed," son of Judge Weston ana was
formerly dentist in what is now the
Bailey & Currier block.
The bank of Alma, Kansas has failed
through the speculations OF us president
aud il is reported that some 5000 OF good
Randolph money has gone where the
"woodbine twineth," enough TO have
bought ten good farms.
The work on c. c. Whitten's new house
on Highland Avenue is progressing last
under the direction of Robt. Parker and a
/ LARGE force of skilled workmen. IL prom
ises to be one OF the most unique and
handsome houses in town when complet-
ed
The u. S. Screen Co. are pushed with or
/ ders and are running long days in tying
/ to keen in sight of them This is the re-
suit OF combined push and good work.
/ Their patent sleds are one of the things
they make that are bound to sell.
( Success to the boys.
The Newburyport, Mass, Saturday
/ Night OF Sept 10Th contained long arti-
/ Gle concerning Miss Amy Bradford, form
erly Of this place and daughter of George
/ Bradford, who is winning fame as an elo-
cutionary reader The paper speaks very
highly OF her ability as a reader
Mary A. Howard, daughter of c. NJ.
/ Howard of this village, who has been for
several years one of the best teachers in
I town. has gone to Greenfield, Mass. and
/ taken a position in the Graded School of
/ that city. The situation came to her I'M
solicited. True merit cannot be hid.
d. II. Cooling, formerly of Boston and a
practical candy and confectionery manu-
| facturer was in town last week looking
over the situation with a view of locating
| here He can make as fine candy as we
ever tasted, is thorough gentleman and
will be valuable acquisition to the place
| if he concludes to locate here.
| The trustees have had Church street
I graded and put in good shape as per the
| recommendations of civil engineer, Saw
age who laid out the State Fair grounds at
/ White River Junction and it ID to be hop
/ ed that the many persons, especially chill
dren, who have occasion to pass through
that street can do so without travelling in
mud or water hereafter.
We had a pleasant call last week from l..
| Fred Foster of Boston, well known as the
/ cowboy pistol shot and one of the best
/ pistol shots in America. He is son of
/ Deacon Foster of the Park Street church
OF Boston and has been the guest of The
! Maplewood at Randolph Center the past
week. His shooting abilities are really
wonderful and he is very pleasant gem
1 tleman to meet.
/ The Randolph Company was organized
under the general state law Friday even
I ing. 1t now consists of p members and
owns several acres of land at Highgate,
which is the finest place on the lake for
/ camping purposes. The officers are as
/ follows: Pres, Hon. James Hutchinson;
/ Clerk G. L. Martin; Directors, DR.. II. H.
1 Mcintyre, F. L. Dubois, A. +. Bass, julius
1 Lamson, S. NJ. Flint.
Rev. Andrew d. Merkel, former rector
/ of ST. Johns church here and Grace
church at Randolph died suddenly at Dig-
4 by, Nova Scotia, Sept. %, 1890. He was a
prominent member of Mt. Zion comman-
/ derry. Gamalial Washburne Lodge of Per-
1 lection, and Mt. Calvary Council p of ].
of Montpelier, Delta Chapter and Burling
4 ton Conservatory of Burlington In Mch.
/ 1855 Mr.. MerSel suffered a stroke of apo
4 plexy at the office of J. r. Curran at Mont
4 pelier and has since had several more, the
+ results Of which caused his death.
/ s. H. Brooks has his handsome house on
/ South Main street completed and moved
/ into il last week. 1t is the most stylish and
modern Queen Anne structures in town.
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