Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-01-28
Thursday, Jan.28, 1892
WEST RANDOLPH.

A. j. Kelley has had an attack of the
grip.
Mrs. Walter Carpenter was quite ill last
week.
George Spear was home from Maine over
Sunday.
Miss Maria Beedle has been very sick
for several weeks.
w. FL. Dubois is nearly over the grip
but is still very weak.
Dr. Morris was called to Roxbury Mon
day to attend critical case.
w. E. Williams got over the grip and
back into his market last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Bass have nearly
recovered fr0m their recent illness.
The grip is abating considerably here in
the village but is spreading rapidly on the
hills and among the farmers.
Mrs. j. j. Pratt and daug liter Bertha
were in town last week TO attend the fu-
neral of her father, Kingsley Jones.
There will be an extra meeting of the
Grange Saturday eve Jan. 30th, at o'clock
sharp. A full attendance is requested.
w. r. Davis and wife who live in the
Goodrich house are happy over a big
bouncing boy that was born Tuesday
morning.
A. H. Beedle and family had an unpleas-
ant experience with the prevailing distem-
per last week, from which they have not
yet fully recovered.
Mrs. M. J.Lamson was very i'll last week
and her daughter, Mrs. S. V. Holman OF
Boston, was called here to care for her.
She is better at last accounts.
Mrs. Mary Hutchins, one Of the Oldest
and most respected Center Street ladies, |
died last week and was buried Friday. She
had for many years been a faithful and |
consistent member of the Christian church. |
The entire HERALD force was under the |
influence of the grip last week and we
would have been in a sad plight had not
Harry Sault of Burlington and Mrs. Il. j.
Blodgett, former employees, kindly volun-
teered to help us get the paper out.
Some of the young ladies OF the High
School took advantage of the privileges of
leap year and last Friday evening sixteen
couples met at the Red Lion Inn and en-
joyed bountiful supper, which all pro-
nounced credit to Mine Host Battles.
The Chinaman who has held forth at the
Gabrielle laundry took sudden leave last
week, leaving lots of wood, provisions,
ETC., behind. Either some one has been
trying to blackmail him or he is one who
has incurred the enmity of the Highbind-
ers, notorious Chinese secret society.
Mr.. Spencer ster-father Of f. o. Hubbard
who has been sick so long at the residence
past midnight. A brief service was held j
at the house and the body taken on the
afternoon train to Meriden, Conn.,, where
he has lived. He died of malaria or blood
poison.
II is with great sorrow that we announce 2
the death Saturday morning of Celia Mar
tin, only daughter of Willard and Matte |
Martin She had such a sweet and win
ming way that all who came to know her +
were naturally drawn toward, and became
interested in her. Her bereaved parents a
have the sympathy of the entire communi-
ty in their great loss.
We should hardly think that the best !
newspaper in the State could afford to
waste so much valuable space, in correct
ing typographical errors in the local col L
1mns OF this paper, as the Argus did last
week especially when it allows its typos to h
30 terribly mangle names in its West Ran
iolph Watehings nearly every week. !,
prominent democrat told us the other day !.
hat he should give the reporter no more
tens as they never appeared right; that
t was not Mr.. Nuts fault as he knew he s.
lad the names right. We think there n
must be a verse in the Argus Bible that a
peaks about performing surgical opera c
ions on other peoples optics when there
re brush heaps in ones own eyes. cl
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