Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-06-02
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B. f. Hill and wife, former residents
have been spending several days in town
The stores in the village were closed
Memorial Day from to p. m.
Mrs. Geo. Read has applied for a di-
vorce, alleging as cause for the same that
George has failed TO support her
Fred Arnold has been elected secretary
of the Windsor County Rating Board.
Myron Whitaker has bought a resi-
dence at Stockbridge Common and will
soon move there.
c. c. Buchanan has closed his connee-
tion with the shoe shop as day engineer
and George Smith of Lisbon, n. H., is
now filling that place.
| Mrs. Willard Brooks is spending several
| days at Woodstock and vicinity.
Conductor Frank Flint has been taking
a vacation and visited friends in Bethel
last Saturday.
Miss Myrtle Mansfield of Bristol has
been visiting F. L. Martin, her cousin.
Miss Fanny Fisher spent several DAYS
last week at White River junction and
Hanover.
John Rogers is at Randolph Centre at
work in the foundry there.
Geo. Marsh is earring potatoes for the
city market, paying from 20 to % cents a
bushel.
e. S. Jackson has been spending sever
al days with his son, E. II. jackson OF st.
Adams.
Miss Jennie Kendall has closed for this
season her engagement in a millinery
shop at Waitsfield and is at home.
Ernest Whitney,an employe in the shoe
shop, has been boarding with Mrs. Whit
ney and has run up bill OF about so
there. Last week he concluded that the
cheapest way to pay the bill would be to
eight out" and accordingly dropped him.
self and goods out OF the window and left
for parts unknown. Not content with
damaging Mrs. Whitney this way, after
he was ont of the state he had the con-
temptible meaDness to write to a fellow
ledger urging him TO adopt the same
course ana JOIN him.
The voters in school district No. II are
getting deeper and deeper into an intri-
cate and impenetrable jungle OF votes, res
ignations, refusals to act, etc. The third
special meeting since March last was held
last week for the purpose OF filling vacan-
cies. Cornelius Cutler resigned as treas
urer and Bingham Caswell was elected in
his place. Now it is said that Cutler does
not recognize the authority of Caswell
and refuses 10 deliver him anything, but
Caswell mas possession OF the public mon
ey.
The village school closes next week for
the summer vacation.
The lecture by Prof Perkins of the u. |
V. NJ, which was to have been last Wed. !
evening, was postponed one day on ac-
count Of the lateness Of the evening &C. |
upon which Prof. Barber |
came, it being nearly two hours late. His |
lecture Thursday evening upon birds |
and Their Habits" was exceedingly in |
teresting.
The shoe shop is considerably behind on /
its orders and is now running extra time !
endeavoring to catch up. There is also a /
shortage in workers.
II cents for eggs, IS cents for the best /
dairy butter in 20 and 30 ID. tubs.
F. NJ. WHITcoSfB & Co.
Nelson Chapman caught two-pound |
trout in Camp Brook last week.
Mrs. c. c Pierce OF salem, Mass, is at
her summer home at the north end of the
village.
5. T.Coy Of Bellows Falls and his grand
laughter. Miss Anna Williams, have been
spending several days in town, the guests
Of A. j. Davis.
100 pounds Of cut nails, 2Os to COS, for
,l.1o. g. II. UPPER & Co.
Miss Alice Edison, telegraph operator at
White River Junction, is enjoying a two
weeks vacation at the home Of her moth
II, hrs. L. Il. Edison.
Sixteen-inch disk wheel harrow for SIS.
G. II. UPPER q Co.
Henry {. Durham and wife returned
rom Texas last week. There is some at
raction in old Vermont after all.
There wEs large number of men at
work on the new iron bridge last Sunday,
he section men from Bethel and Royalton
ND Randolph being pressed into the work
n addition to the regular bridge gang
The iron stringers for the three ties were
'laced in position, which practically COM
'letes the bridge.
Miss Jessie Chadwick, who has been
pending the winter in Winchendon,
lass, is at home.
Wanted.-A good active clerk at Foods.
The Burlington Glee Club has been en-
aged 10 furnish music at the graduation
Exercises Of the Whitcomb High Scnool
week from next Friday, which in itself
viii be great treat, to say nothing about
he high order of the literary exercises. 1t
Ias been concluded to charge small ad- {
mission fee to go toward defraying he ex-
'enses Of the OCCASION.
The vest chains sold by r. s. Adams are
he best ever offered in this town for the
money. He wishes you to cali and see
hem. and viii be pleased to show them.
At its meeting last Friday evening Geo.
v. Hooker Camp. Sons of Veterans. 80
/. received two new members. The Post ]
eports itself 20 be in very hourishing
onoition.